Warren Distinguished Lecture Series
The Warren Distinguished Lecture Series is made possible by a generous, renewing gift by Alice Warren Gaarden in 1961. Since 1989, we have been bringing in accomplished researchers and speakers from around the world to share their work with students, faculty, and friends of CEGE. Please join us for these lectures!
- Join us in person in the George J. Schroepfer Conference Theater, 210 Civil Engineering Building, Fridays at 10:10 a.m., unless otherwise noted. Coffee and refreshments served.
- Join us via Zoom. Registration is required. Link information will be sent when you register.
- Recordings are available on the CEGE YouTube channel, Warren Lecture Series playlist , where you can also search past lectures.
Upcoming Events
Mar 15 Roman Y Makhnenko, Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Mar 22 Joseph Vantassel, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech
Mar 29 Elowyn Yager, Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Idaho
Apr 5 Kyle Doudrick, Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences, University of Notre Dame
Apr 12 Tim Strathmann, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Colorado School of Mines
Apr 19 Henry Liu, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan
Apr 26 Dimitrios Lignos, Resilient Steel Structures Laboratory, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne (Switzerland)
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Past Warren Lectures
Replacing the Dale Street Bridge over I-94
Friday, April 7, 2023, 10:10 a.m.
a Warren Distinguished Lecture with Matthew J. Christensen, P.E., Vice President of the Surface Transportation Division, TKDA
Matthew Christensen will discuss the replacement of the Dale Street bridge over I-94 in St. Paul and working with citizens from the historic Rondo neighborhood on the project.
Net-Zero Cement Industry by 2050? Potential Pathways Forward
Friday, March 31, 2023, 10:10 a.m.
Recording not available
a Warren Distinguished Lecture with Claire White, Princeton University
White provides an overview of the main approaches being pursued to reach a net zero cement industry by 2050 and will touch upon the various opportunities and challenges of these cement decarbonization approaches and technologies. White also presents her group’s recent research on alternative cements.
Formation of Elevated Temperatures in Municipal Solid Waste Landfills: These are not your typical Smokey hill tops or mountains!
Friday, March 24, 2023, 10:10 a.m.
a Warren Distinguished Lecture with Joel Ducoste, Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, North Carolina State University
Research has been performed to help quantify the contributing factors that may lead to the formation of elevated temperature landfills (ETLFs). In this presentation, Ducoste discusses a numerical model that was used to predict heat generation, transport, and accumulation from biological and chemical reactions that occur in landfills.
Biofilm Based Bioremediation of Persistent Organic Pollutants in Sediment and Stormwater
Friday, March 17, 2023, 10:10 a.m.
a Warren Distinguished Lecture with Birthe V. Kjellerup, Civil and Environmental Engineering & Bioengineering, University of Maryland
Kjellerup’s research group has developed a novel approach to address PCB contamination. They co-localize PCB-degrading microbes onto surfaces of sorptive particles as biofilms, which can be used as a delivery system. This approach can also be modified for treatment of contaminated stormwater and wastewater effluent prior to discharge. The effect of stormwater containing PCBs on sediment quality was evaluated for multiple locations in Baltimore Harbor. Sediment core samples were evaluated and compared to historical PCB concentrations. Kjellerup discusses these experiments along with current strategies for bioremediation of PCBs in stormwater retention cells and in sediment.
Plastics, Particles and Additives: An abrasive relationship
Friday, March 3, 2023, 10:10 a.m.
a Warren Distinguished Lecture with Mark R. Wiesner, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University
Wiesner reviews some recent work examining the release of nanomaterials from plastic composites, methods for evaluating plastic abrasion, calculations of non-nano additive release and possible consequences of plastic fragmentation for human health and the environment.
The Role of Turbulent Coherent Structures on the Evolving Seabed
Friday, Feb. 24, 2023, 10:10 a.m.
a Warren Distinguished Lecture with Tian-Jian Hsu, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Delaware
Dr. Tian-Jian Hsu (Tom) is currently Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Delaware (UD) and the Director of the Center for Applied Coastal Research. In this presentation he discusses his research and preliminary results in the area of estuarine and coastal modeling.
Scholarly Publishing: Owning your work, sharing your work, and funder mandates
Friday, Feb. 17, 2023, 10:10 a.m.
a Warren Distinguished Lecture with Allison Langham-Putrow and Nancy Sims, University of Minnesota Libraries
Allison Langham-Putrow and Nancy Sims from the University of Minnesota Library discuss issues of publishing research, including open access, funder mandates, reuse of material, and even ChatGPT.
Beyond Diversity: Reimagining the Work of Inclusive STEM
Friday, Dec. 16, 2022, 10:10 a.m.
Mary A. Armstrong
Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies
Lafayette College
ABSTRACT: Everybody knows that diversity matters: it opens opportunities for all, improves teams and outcomes, and serves our highest values. And everybody knows that diversity (however it is defined) is difficult to achieve. If good intentions got good results, inclusivity issues would be a thing of the past. But instead, we often feel “stuck” and/or frustrated with well-meaning but less-than-effective efforts. In this talk, Mary Armstrong shares a three-part schema for thinking about diversity in STEM fields that offers a precise and sophisticated model of “inclusivity work.” This model clarifies differences across types of inclusivity approaches, analyzing the distinguishing characteristics of kinds of diversity work, and examining the strengths and weaknesses of each type. Armstrong concludes with a discussion of how we can recalibrate our thinking around STEM diversity so as to approach inclusivity in new and potentially more effective ways.
BIO: Mary A. Armstrong is Charles A. Dana Professor of Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies and English at Lafayette College, where she also chairs the Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program. She earned her Ph.D. in English and Graduate Certification in Women's Studies from Duke University. Her research interests include equity and inclusivity in STEM fields, strategies for institutional transformation in higher education, and inclusive pedagogies. She has been PI on two National Science Foundation ADVANCE grants focused on strategies for institutional change to support underrepresented women in STEM, and she is Director of the Lafayette College Queer Archives Project.
Hybrid Physical and Digital Spaces for Enhanced Sustainability and Wellbeing
Friday, Dec. 9, 2022, 10:10 a.m.
Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
University of Minnesota
Hybrid Physical + Digital Spaces for Enhanced Sustainability and Wellbeing
a Warren Distinguished Lecture with
Sarah Billington
Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University
"A scientific approach to designing buildings for wellbeing"
see the full abstract
CO2 Removal from Air and Permanent Solid Storage
Friday, Nov. 18, 2022, 10:10 a.m.
"Carbon Mineralization for CO2 Removal from Air and Permanent Solid Storage"
with
Peter Kelemen
Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University