2009
SEVERAL RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITIONS AVAILABLE
Our group is seeking exceptional candidates as Ph.D. students in Chemical Engineering.
The projects study aqueous electrolyte solutions near solid surfaces or within narrow pores. Practical applications range from preventing environmental nuclear-waste contamination, to designing super-hydrophobic surfaces and/or nano-fluidic devices.
Nationally-competitive salaries are offered.
Send your resume, name and email address of three references, and statement of interest at astriolo@ou.edu
AS taught a short course titled 'Porous Materials, properties and Applications' at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand (August 3rd-7th, 2009).
Wonderful experience, as you can tell :
!!! ARRA !!!
The National Science Foundation will provide financial support for the project 'Hydrophobicity-Induced Wall Slip Effects on Turbolence', a 2-year collaborative effort between AS and Dimitrios Papavassiliou. This is great news: now let's get to work!
Deepthi Konatham has been the # 2 biggest consumer of CPU time on Sooner (one of the super-computers available to us at OSCER): she used over 1.6 million core hours!
Naga Rajesh Tummala has been the # 1 biggest consumer of CPU time on Topdawg (one of the super-computers available to us at OSCER): he used over 1.5 million core hours over the last 3 years!
Congratulations guys, now show us the papers!
Peter Luo won the American Society for Mathematics National Championship: Congrats!
Foundations of Molecular Modeling and Simulation (FOMMS) 2009:
The Organizers will sponsor AS to partecipate to the 'Simulation in Education' workshop: Thanks!
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The National Science Foundation will provide financial support for the project 'Understanding the Interactions between Carbon Nanotubes and Cellular Membranes', a collaborative effort between AS, Daniel Resasco, and Ulli Nollert. This is great news: now let's get to work!
Yes, it was long. 26.2 miles to be exact!
GOOD NEWS FROM CALIFORNIA:
AS nailed the Big Sur International Marathon (3 hours and 40 minutes despite strong unfavourable winds), and sailed to deliver talks at Stanford University and at the Molecular Foundry at LBNL: great way to end April!
Dimitrios Argyris has been awarded the 2009 Robberson Research Grant:
Congratulations Dimitrios!
We are grateful to the OU Graduate College and to Guy Patton, President of the OU Foundation, for this prestigious recognition.
AS has been invited to deliver a talk titled 'Aqueous Solutions on Silica Substrates: Structure and Dynamics from Simulations', at the 17th Symposium on Thermophysical Properties, Boulder, CO, June 21st-26th, 2009:
We thank the Organizers for this great oppourtunity!
2008
NERSC awarded our group 50,000 computational hours for ' Intelligent Simulation Assisted Catalyst Design ', 100,000 computational hours for 'Enhancing the Heat-Transfer Properties of Working Fluids via the Intercalation of Graphene Sheets', and 200,000 computational hours for ' Aqueous Electrolyte Solutions at Solid-Liquid Interfaces ' to be used in 2009. Thanks NERSC!
AS kicked asphalt at the Philadelphia Marathon, November 23rd, 2008: 3 hours and 33 minutes, PR!
The whole group (Shi Liu, Deepthi Konatham, Dimitrios Argyris, Naga Rajesh Tummala, Brian Morrow, and yes, even AS) presented at the Annual AICHE Meeting, in Philadelphia! 6 total presentations: we conquered!
Alberto Striolo has been elected as one of the new CoMSEF Liaison Directors: thanks for your support AIChE CoMSEF members!
Brian Morrow and Naga Rajesh Tummala received one travel fellowship each from the Graduate College at the University of Oklahoma. These fellowships will allow them to present their most recent work at the upcoming AIChE Annual Meeting in Philadelphia: congratulations guys, and thanks OU Foundation!
Deepthi Konatham's paper 'Molecular Design of Stable Graphene-Nanosheet Dispersions' has been accepted for publication in Nano Letters: congratulations Deepthi!
Our research on osteoarthritis remediation is now supported by the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology (OCAST) through a three-year grant !
Dimitrios Argyris and Naga Rajesh Tummala's art was chosen as cover for the Journal of Physical Chemistry C:
nice job guys!
Suwimol Wongsakulphasatch, coming from the group of Dr. Robin Curtis at the University of Manchester, UK, spent 3 months with our group. Suwimol is an expert in light scattering techniques: she taught us a lot. Thanks, and good luck on your future studies!
Group lunch, June 2008. Left to right: Shi Liu, Dimitrios, Rajesh, Suwimol, AS, Massimo, Deepthi.
Not in the picture: Brian, on a Florida trip (don't forget to come back!)
2007
Our research on graphene sheets is now supported by the ACS Petroleum Research Fund through a Type-G grant.
Camille Gutig graduates with a Masters in Chemical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma. Thanks Camille, congratulations, and good luck on your future adventures!