Great Inventions That Changed the World - Webinar

March 27, 2013

AIChE

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On Thursday, March 28th, join the VLS for a free webinar to learn about the great inventions that changed the world! Professor James Wei (full bio here) will be discussing great inventions, their inventors, and how they impacted our history and daily lives. Dr. Wei is Professor of Chemical Engineering Emeritus and Dean Emeritus at Princeton in the School of Engineering and Applied Science. He has published numerous research papers on catalysis, reaction engineering, chemical kinetics, and zeolites. Dr. Wei has also authored and co-authored several books, including one on this very topic. You can find it here. Join us using your computer or smartphone at 9pm EDT for the keynote presentation. Young professionals, please join us one hour earlier for a special meeting. Join the meeting here. There will be opportunity to ask questions after the presentation. Hope to see you there!

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Was this meeting recorded for ondemand viewing?

Hi James. Most of AIChE's VLS events are recorded and viewable on demand. I don't yet see the most recent in the archive, but I'll look into when/whether it's going to be made available and will get back to you. In the meantime, here's where other past events are archived for viewing: http://ow.ly/jF06b

James, Here's the link for the archived/on-demand version of James Wei's talk. (His talk starts several minutes into the recording.) http://ow.ly/jHBeQ

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