 Thank you, Steve. Thanks. Thanks again. I really should thank Steve to give me a chance to talk about the two topics That actually get me in an excited state. The first topic is my research and the second topic is the Department of Chemical Engineering What I'd like to do is just give you an overview of what's going on in the Department of Chemical Engineering There's actually a sea change in the department There's no better representation of that sea change than This a figure right here, which is our new building on a normal day in California I wouldn't have to Put this slide up there because you could see it quite clearly But actually it's a cloudy day and you're the curtains there is what we call building for up to this point That is the new chemical engineering and bio engineering building This is what it looked like. I have a actually a much more interesting slide later, which is a time-lapsed Video of the construction of that. This is this is the artist's depiction of what it was going to look like when we A couple of years ago. So this is a huge change for us It's a huge change for us not just in terms of individual PIs labs, but labs for teaching Conference rooms classrooms, etc And it is coupled with a very big change in our department both from the point of view of personnel that is to say we're growing and hiring and With those changes come a change in kind of our direction and focus So I'm going to talk a little bit about that and I'm going to do it with the right computer here So this is us right now 14 strong. This is in alphabetical order We are at this point five Untenured faculty, which is a large fraction for 14 and these people Almost to a person are all engaged in some kind of Aspect of materials research. I'm not going to try to cover all of them. I'm going to cover a select few But a couple of years ago now almost two and a half years ago We got together and said hey, we're entering this period of time. We're moving into a new building We've been given the authorization from the the powers that be meaning the dean to grow to somewhere around 18 We really need to plan this because we've gone from us what I would call a small Applied science department That was actually an outcropping of chemistry Where we were for years and years about eight faculty to now something that's 14 moving to 18 And so that's a very large change. And so we needed some plans. So we developed Kind of a different way of looking at ourselves. This is Something from our youngest faculty member who decided to throw us on this triangle because the three areas the three Topics if you will that cover our whole ability our intellectual breadth is biology physics and chemistry and we're somewhat scattered on this triangle in terms of What our abilities and skills are but we all focus on something called molecular engineering And I think this is something we rally around that we're interested in engineering at the molecular scale And all of us do that And we apply our different skills to that engineering and I talked about ours in the beginning What I do in my group is try to molecularly engineer fluids, but there's a variety of that So this is the way we used to think about ourselves This is more along the lines of characterizing ourselves with a skill set transport and soft materials You heard about that earlier catalysis and surface science and bioengineering we do and I think all good chemical engineering departments have an aspect of Biological engineering in their department. We still do even though there's a bioengineering department We'd actually do quite different things than the bioengineering department For example, we have bioenergy going on in our department, but you notice that this Characterization still leaves us scattered. We now characterize ourselves this way Which is the chemistry of life chemistry of energy and chemistry of environment? So when you go to topical descriptions of what we do you see it brought us together because all of us have Projects that are engaged with life energy in the environment. So chemistry of life what we're referring to as human health The creation of medicines materials for therapies, etc Energy is kind of obvious for this crowd environment for us means sustainability Sustainable green processes, etc Again, sorry It's it's amazing how I need to notify myself of everything and then I still am late. Okay So anyway, this is how we characterize ourselves now and it has brought us together From a department that in some sense is disparate in their skill set to something that is quite unified in terms of their topical areas The other way we think about ourselves is building bridges And I made this slide up a couple of years ago and was kind of amazed I decided to essentially put down all of the entities on campus in which we had collaborative research or collaborative Educational opportunities and it's quite remarkable school of engineering school of medicine slack H&S and the school of earth sciences all of us have Connections to them in terms of shared students co-advised students, etc Joint grants the largest connection actually is to the school of medicine more than half of our faculty are actually engaged in Creating new medicines creating new diagnostic tools, etc But the growth the fastest growing area, I would say is in the energy area But the energy Activities are actually spread through the school of engineering the school of earth sciences so the fastest growing is over here, but the one that is Essentially floating the boat right now is the our connections to the school of medicine We also have a five-year plan. It's about two two and a half years old This again was created in lieu of the fact that we were coming into a new building and had a growth plan So we wanted to develop this and this is a real nuts and bolts kind of five-year plan Not many motherhood statements here It's actually what we plan on doing to change the department and the department culture as we move into the new building And so one of the things some of you might have come to these These get-togethers with the EAP In previous years you've heard some of this we have a Essentially a chemical energy conversion center within the department its joint with slack It's called Suncat the director is Jens Norskopf our design here is to build this and grow Jens is a professor in chemical engineering and we're growing this as a joint project between slack and chemi and when I say grow it means higher faculty Essentially create graduate student communities with that are joined between slack and chemi And if you will mirror the kind of situation that Berkeley already has with between Lawrence Berkeley laboratories and their chemical engineering department We have been given the go-ahead to do at least three incremental hires in five years This has been modified a little bit because there are some new things which I'll mention But now when we talk about where we want to go We think in terms of building those bridges that I talked about a little bit earlier so we've written down a a bunch of areas where we think growth in chemical engineering is The future and and this is where we want to be we're again. We're still a best athlete department So we have broad searches and we hire the best athlete But if one of those athletes worse in this area, we're we're happy as a clam So this is in our five-year plan. The other thing is we are About half of our undergraduates come to us now and say they want to work in energy That is to say they want to do energy research over the time in which they're undergraduates and another half of those people are actually part of our co-term Prop Program, which is essentially a plus one year on our undergraduate program They do co-term masters in a variety of different departments on campus But again half of those people want to do something which focuses their research on energy So we now are increasing our energy options within the undergraduate program and we do that in a couple ways And I'll mention that our graduate program is actually extremely healthy We I would say we are the primary competition if you will with the the school that will not be mentioned which is MIT And they because they there's a large sucking sound of American graduate students into MIT because their parents want to go But we're we compete actually quite well with American graduate for American graduate students with MIT as you see our Return in 2012 Was 65% which is actually quite good We're a much smaller shop than MIT But nevertheless we compete with them very well and then the other part of this our fourth rung if you will of the five-year plan is New corporate relationships and invigorated alumni relationships, and we've actually hired an outreach administrator Full-time person called Sandra handy and Sandra handy is actually in the back And she organizes in a very efficient way Our outreach to companies as well as our website etc So she manages this in a way that has never been done before and is reaping tremendous benefits So let me talk a little bit about this what was a hole in the ground And now is that thing you can barely see through the car through the curtains over here I want to show you I won't just show you the artist depiction because if you squint you can see it I'll show you this This is pretty interesting. I've had this at receptions for chemical engineering This is what happens over a relatively short period of time a two-year period of time As you see we go from a hole in the ground To what's behind me And it's pretty interesting Because the last part is the fastest growing palm trees you've ever seen in your life They're coming there they go Fine so So what you have to understand is our excitement about this is we haven't been in the same building for 50 years as a department In fact, we live right now in four different buildings This is the first time in 50 years the Department of Chemical Engineering will all be in the same building and in world-class facilities So this is the motive some of the motivation for the changes that we're making probably the most exciting part of that Building for us is right here. This is the first floor on the first floor has no Pi labs on it, but it has this enormous section of teaching labs And this is fantastically interesting for us because our undergraduate program is growing for the reasons that I gave because most of them Want to do energy research and we now have state-of-the-art facilities to do teaching labs And we have a broad array of lab courses for the undergraduates that we're housing in here The other thing is this stadium seating Courseroom course classroom, which is great for us, but I wanted to emphasize the teaching laboratories So I said I want to walk a little bit through our five-year plan and tell you some highlights from it again I talked to you a little bit about Suncat Suncat is this bridge between Slack and Kemi that lives at the intersection between those It also lives on this thing called the energy spectrum if you've never heard Lynn or Speak about the energy spectrum that is the spectrum of activities Associated with energy on campus here It is and a lot of it is heavy on the policy side and we're all the way down here at the basic science side So the basic science side is less populated and that's where Suncat lives Suncat lives in the molecular engineering of Energy technologies so anything that involves molecular transformations that are associated with energy storage or energy use is where Suncat lives and and the focus there is on catalytic activity, but it can involve non catalytic processes as well and that's that's what Suncat is and So essentially it has associated with its synthesis character is in theory and application And there's a materials aspect obviously catalytic materials is part of this it fits in our chemistry of energy Theme and there's a number of major Activities major problems that are already being looked at syngas conversion battery Chemistries electrochemical and to ammonia synthesis reduction Etc. Why are we the people to do it? Well? We're the people to do it for a number of reasons first of all We're taking advantage of this world-class facility Slack which is sitting here and if you look at the comparison at Lbl and Berkeley there's 250 chemical science students They're supported by Lbl that number at Stanford has been very small until the last year and now we're up to about 30 Going up so we are taking advantage of a world-class facility now. It's having an impact at Stanford So that's one reason to do this the other reason to do it is that we have more than half of our faculty in chemical engineering That are involved in some kind of energy research As you see here, there's a whole spectrum photoelectro catalysis advanced synthesis Inorganic materials for solar conversion biological fuel cells plant biofuels Sustainable production and the theory for fuel cells is associated with it So we already had a whole host of our faculty involved in energy It was important to mine that in a very significant way Now things have happened since we have our five-year plan and I should mention those to you There's now an Institute for chemical biology, which is Chaitin Kosla Who's one of our faculty members is the director of and that's associated with Hiring faculty and focused on molecular engineering of drugs So the chemical engineering departments of course not just interested in the molecular engineering of energy But the molecular engineering of pharmaceuticals and that's particularly part of our chemistry of life And we now have an institute that's associated with that and associated faculty members So that's something that has happened and we're focusing on. There's also this makers commons. You might have heard about this Which is part of a materials initiative that's going on campus and Jens Norskof is a big mover and shaker in that So we're associated with that again The other thing that's happening is we're being thrown into that building and as a result we'll building ties with bioengineering Because we're now occupying in some sense the same space and we have shared Laboratories etc with bioengineering bioengineering grew up essentially external to chemical engineering. They've actually hired chemical engineers From other faculties and so we're developing further relationships with them as we move into the new building To do that, you know, they the university gives us this great building But they actually don't give us the equipment to go into it So we have a fundraising campaign called engineering our future fund and we're essentially bringing alums together to raise money to hire new faculty and to Essentially staff the building with technicians as well as develop put new equipment in those teaching labs The meat program is an outcropping of our new energy Essentially activity that's associated with Suncat. This is a professional development program So we have a graduate certificate that industrial people can take online It's a series of courses as you see here There are six courses you have to take four to get the certificate This has now been on the books for more than a year and we have quite a number of Industrial people that are signed up and taking these courses and it spans the range all the way from microbial bioenergy All the way to actually entrepreneurship in energy companies. So it's it's quite broad including heterogeneous catalysis Environment electrochemistry, etc. And this has been very successful for us and is a new certificate within the school of engineering It's actually we've brought back a number of lectures That are not Stanford faculty per se, but our lecturers alums that have a lot of industrial experience Howie Rosen and Ricardo Levy here to for example teach in our entrepreneurship section So this has been a rallying point if you will for alums as well within our department I will now mention Probably in a much poorer way than they could do it a number of research projects that are going on in the chemical engineering department Just to indicate the kind of breadth of materials research that's going on within our department You've already heard about the fracking stuff, which I talked about this morning The fuel cell obviously design is something that you all know about and is all has important materials applications One of the ideas is to operate in both fuel cell mode and storage mode So to have a single device which works in electrolysis mode and fuel cell mode So produce the H2 in one in the daylight, but then use it at night would be the idea Now that's a materials headache from a number of points of view You need a catalyst essentially on the H2 production side and you need a membrane Essentially that's permeable to both on both sides of the operation of this device And Kurt Frank who's sitting in the back works on one of the aspects of this which is novel polymer design for the membrane This is a polysulfone design for this hybrid device and Tom Haramio works on the catalyst side of things in this particular case we're looking for a catalyst for Hydrogen production and Earth earth abundant catalysts are cheap and the best way to go and in this case Malibu and sulfide turns out to be a good catalyst not the best catalyst But a very cheap excellent catalyst and he engineers this catalyst by creating steps it turns out steps and facets in these things are the most catalytically active and so he has Project in his group that looks at Malibu and sulfide nanoparticles It goes all the way from and I and Steve's standing next to me So he wants me to sit down it stay it goes all the way from solar cells that are developed Through ALD by Stacy bent to electronic skin. So here's sensitized Skin organic electronic skin, which has built within its sensors That can produce an electric current when this skin is touched and that's the work of jen and bow And then finally I would just wanted to say about our newest faculty member She's actually a biochemist by training but works on both life and energy So she makes plants that are more resistant to disease They produce their own antibiotic and she also does de-lignification for the use of biomass as As bioenergy, so she's on both sides of the life and energy And we're very very proud that we can have somebody who sits on both sides of that equation in our department Okay, so let me finish with this slide just to remind you what our three themes are and then it's brought us together Around life energy and environment. I'd be happy to answer any questions. Thank you. Thank you