Lunch & Learn Seminar Series
The Lunch & Learn Seminar Series is a bimonthly series from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at Northeastern University, focusing on convergent research, bringing together Northeastern colleagues and collaborators to think big/bold, explore ideas that build cooperation and foster transformative innovation within CEE and across disciplines beyond CEE.
This series will provide a forum to bring together leaders, engineers, and researchers with diverse background from academia, industry, nonprofit, and government to:
- Promote convergence and its application to engineering, science, technologies, and products
- Explore across-disciplinary/subdisciplinary collaboration and foster transformative innovation
- Share successful stories and lessons learned from convergent research
- Build a culture of team-working and a convergent research environment
- Nurture future global convergence leaders in engineering and science
The Lunch & Learn Seminar Series is hosted by Professor Yang Zhang, department Associate Chair for Research. Please contact ya.zhang@northeastern.edu with questions about the series.
Spring 2024 Semester
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| April 11, 2024 | David Cash EPA New England Regional Administrator |
Thriving in a Just and Green Economy (Video) |
Fall 2023 Semester
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| October 19, 2023 | Gerald Mills University College Dublin |
Urban Climate Science: Status, Challenges, and Prospects |
Spring 2023 Semester
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| May 12, 2023 | Dan Cox Oregon State University |
Prototype-Scale Laboratory Tests of Wave Damping by Mangroves and Implication to the Design of Nature-based Solutions |
Fall 2022 Semester
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| December 5, 2022 | Alexander Baklanov World Meteorological Organization |
Seamless Prediction: From Earth Systems to Integrated Urban Hydrometeorology, Climate and Environment Systems |
| November 7, 2022 | Paul Miller | Navigating Regulatory Authority Under the Federal Clean Air Act as Air Pollution Science Evolves |
| September 19, 2022 | Sandra Hoover, Edward Ionata, Ronald Myric Jr, Brian Sullivan Tetra Tech |
Interdisciplinary Analysis and Decision-Making for Complex Infrastructure Projects |
Spring 2022 Semester
Date |
Speaker(s) |
Title |
| April 14, 2022 | Steven Smith | History (and Future} of the Atmosphere: Emissions Data, Modeling, and Uncertainty |
Fall 2021 Semester
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| November 17, 2021 | Sara Wylie Northeastern University |
Engineering Environmental Data Justice: From citizen science to community data |
| September 30, 2021 | Bill Roache & Mike McArdle VHB |
Building a Sustainable, Resilient and Equitable Future |
Spring 2021 Semester
Date |
Speaker(s) |
Title |
| May 7, 2021 | Kiran Alapaty US EPA |
Urban-scale Measurements and Modeling Fate & Transport of PFAS Across Media (Video) |
| March 26, 2021 | Ming Wang, COE Distinguished ProfessorSalar Shahini, StreetScan & Streetlogix |
Revolutionizing Smart City Infrastructure Management using Al and GIS From a Research Project to Startup (Video) |
| February 12, 2021 | Matthew J. Alvarado, AER |
Smoke, Satellites, and Storage Bins: AER’s Research in Air Quality and Greenhouse Gases (Video) |
Fall 2020 Semester
Date |
Speaker(s) |
Title |
| November 12, 2020 | Auroop Ganguly, CEE ProfessorEvan Kodra, risQ |
Convergent academic research to socially motivated startup: The case of Northeastern-spinout risQ (Video) |