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lectures at 3:30 pm Wednesday, April 16 Nanotechnology: Environmental Implications and Applications Pedro J. Alvarez, George R. Brown Professor and Chair, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rice University
Abstract: Wednesday, April 30 Wireless Sensor Networks: Global Scale Environmental Monitoring from Arctic to Zebras John A. Stankovic, BP America Professor, University of Virginia
Monday, May 5 The Role of Genome Science in Bioenergy, Carbon Cycling, and Environmental Remediation Michael L. Knotek, PhD, Knotek
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Pedro J. Alvarez is the George R. Brown Professor of Engineering at
Rice University. He previously taught at the University of Iowa, where
he also served as Associate Director for the Center for Biocatalysis
and Bioprocessing and as Honorary Consul for Nicaragua. Dr. Alvarez
received a B. Eng. degree in Civil Engineering from McGill University
and MS and Ph.D. degrees in Environmental Engineering from the University
of Michigan, and was a visiting professor at the Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology (EAWAG). His research interests are related to the applications
and implications of biological processes in natural and engineered
systems, including bioremediation and phytoremediation of sites contaminated
with hazardous wastes, and environmental nanotechnology. Dr. Alvarez
is a P.E., a Diplomate of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers
and a Fellow of ASCE. Honors include Past President of the Association
of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP), the cleanup
project of the year award from SERDP, the Button of the City of Valencia,
the Collegiate Excellence in Teaching Award from the University of
Iowa; the Alejo Zuloaga Medal from the Universidad de Carabobo, Venezuela;
a Career Award from the National Science Foundation; the Outstanding
Achievement Award in Environmental Engineering from the University
of Michigan; and shared with his students best paper awards from the
EPA/HSRC for Regions 7 and 8; the Water Environment Federation, and
the Battelle Bioremediation Symposium. Dr. Alvarez currently serves
on the editorial boards of Environmental Science and Technology, Biodegradation,
and the European Journal of Soil Biology. He is also an honorary professor
at Nankai University in China and adjunct professor at the Universidade
Federal de Santa Catarina in Florianopolis, Brazil, and UNAM in Mexico
City.
John A. Stankovic received his Ph.D. from Brown University in 1979
and then served on the faculty of University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
He came to UVa as BP America Professor and Chair of the Department
of Computer Science in 1997. Professor Stankovic is a Fellow of the
IEEE, a Fellow of the ACM, and he served on the Computing Research
Association Board of Directors for nine years. He received an IEEE
Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions and Leadership in Real-Time
Systems, and an Outstanding Scholar Award from the University of Massachusetts.
He was Co-Founder and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal
on Real-Time Systems, Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Parallel
and Distributed Computing, Associate Editor for ACM Transactions on
Wireless Sensor Networks, Associate Editor for ACM Transactions on
Embedded Systems, and Book Series Editor for Real-Time Systems.
Michael
Knotek has more than 40 years of experience in the conduct
and management of collaborative multidisciplinary national and international
research at DOE laboratories and user facilities. He has specialized
in managing transitions in scientific and technological communities
and institutions from the federal agency level through national laboratories,
facilities and programs. This work involved multiple DOE laboratories,
federal and state agencies, universities, and industrial partners in
establishing scientific goals, setting funding priorities, and guiding
major new investments. He has built strong working relationships throughout
the DOE research complex and with international R&D institutions
and industry. He has attracted world-renowned scientific talent to
DOE institutions and continues to serve as a resource to DOE, NSF,
and other agencies for developing, managing, and evaluating large research
projects and laboratory environments. From the late 1990s through the
present he has worked with industry, national laboratories, and others
to develop and apply the tools of science and technology and applied
them in numerous situations. Since the mid-1980s, Dr. Knotek has led
the creation or restructuring of major DOE scientific projects and
communities, including synchrotron radiation (1984), environmental
science (1989-94), fusion energy sciences (1996), Terascale advanced
scientific computing (1998-99), and Post-genomic biology (2000-present).
In his research career Dr. Knotek published over 100 articles on research
in solid state physics and materials science. 
