CURRICULUM VITA NAME: YORAM COHEN Date of Birth ...

December 19, 2008 

CURRICULUM VITA 

NAME: YORAM COHEN 

Date of Birth: September 4, 1952; Marital Status: Married; two children. 

PRESENT POSITIONS: 

- Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Henry Samueli School of Engineering 

and Applied Science, University of California, Los Angeles. 

- Director, Water Technology Research Center (2005-present) 

- Director, Center for Environmental Risk Reduction (1995- 2006) 

- Adjunct Professor, Zuckerberg Water Res. Institute, Ben-Gurion University (4/1/2008-present) 

- Participating Faculty Member, UCLA Interdepartmental Environmental Science 

and Engineering Program (1992-present) 

- Member, California NanoScience Institute (2007 – present) 

- Member, UCLA/NSF Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology (2008- ) 

EDUCATION: 

B.A.Sc., (Honor Standing) University of Toronto (1975); 

M.A.Sc., University of Toronto (1977); Ph.D., University of Delaware (1981) 

AWARDS, HONORS and RECOGNITIONS: 

• Ann C. Rosenfield Distinguished Community Partnership Prize (2008) 

• Distinguished Visiting Professor (2006), Victoria University (Australia) 

• AIChE/Env. Div., Lawrence K. Cecil Award in Environmental Chemical Engineering (2003) 

• Chair, AIChE Separations Division, 2008; 1 st and 2 nd Vice-Chair in 2007, 2006, respectively. 

• Chair, AIChE Env. Division (2002), 1 st and 2 nd Vice-Chair, 2002, 20001, respectively. 

• Member, Executive Committee, AIChE Environmental Division (2000-present) 

• Member, International Science Advisory Committee (2004-present), Water Research Center, 

Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) 

• Board member, North American Membrane Society (2005-2007) 

• Outstanding Research Paper, AIChE Separations Division, 1997 

• Del Amo Research Fellowship (1994-1995) 

• Lady Davis Fellow (Technion, Israel, 1986-87 and 1995) 

• Director, AIChE, Separations Division, 1998-2002 

• Member, Editorial Board: Journal of Hazardous Materials (1994-1998) 

• Associate Editor: J. Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology (1991 - 1994). 

• Member, Editorial Review Board: J. Air and Waste Management Assoc. (1987 - 1993). 

• Councilor: Southern California Society for Risk Analysis (1996-2002) 

• Member (1989-2002), NRC Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology. 

• Member, USEPA Science Advisory Board, 1987-1990. 

• Editorial Review Board: J. Toxicology and Industrial Health (1987 - 1990) 

• Councilor: International Society of Exposure Analysis (1991- 1994). 

• National Research Council of Canada Postgraduate Scholarship (1975-77) 

• McPherson Scholarship (1974-75); J. P. Bickell Award (1972-73; 1974-75) 

• J. Edgar -McAllister Award (1973-74); Kiwanis Award (1971-72) 

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Recognition for Community Service for the Protection of Publ ic Health: 

• County of Los Angeles Commendation, 2008 in recognition of dedicated service to Los 

Angeles County 

• State of California senate Certificate of Recognition for contributing to legislation to protect 

public health (April, 2008) 

• Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition (US) for service to the community (April 

2008) 

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE: 

-1991- present Professor - University of California, Los Angele 

2005- present Director, Water Technology Research Center 

2008-present 

Adjunct Professor, Zuckerberg Water Institute/Desert Research Institute, 

Ben-Gurion University (2008-present) 

10/2006 Visiting Professor – Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Spain) 

1995 – 2005 Director - Center for Environmental Risk Reduction 

11/06-12/06 Distinguished Visiting Professor, Victoria University (Australia) 

1987-1994 Director - UCLA/EPA National Center for Intermedia Transport Research 

1995-1996 Vice-Chair - Chemical Engineering Department, UCLA 

1996 - present Adjunct Visiting Professor - Universitat Rovira I Virgili, Catalunya, Spain 

1995- present Multimedia Envirosoft Corporation 

8/94-12/94 Visiting Professor - Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalunya, Spain 

1986-1990 Associate Professor - University of California, Los Angeles 

10/87-6/88 Visiting Associate Professor - Technion, Israel 

1981-1985 Assistant Professor - University of California Los Angeles 

1981-present 

Frequent service as advisor and consultant to industry 

on multimedia assessment and separation processes 

5/76-8/77 Research Associate, Department of Chemical Engineering, 

University of Toronto, Canada 

5/75-8/75 Emery Industries (Canada) Ltd., Toronto 

5/74-8/74 (Polyurethanes and catalytic hydrogenation) 

5/73-8/73 ECO-TEC Ltd., Toronto, Canada (Ion exchange) 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE: 

Period 

1981- 

present 

Teaching Experience 

University of California, Los Angeles: 

Undergraduate Courses 

Membrane science and technology, Separation Processes, Environmental 

Multimedia Assessment, Fluid Mechanics, Introduction to Chemical Engineering, 

Chemical Engineering Kinetics, Polymer Engineering, Polymer Chemistry, 

Thermodynamics, Mass Transfer, Computer Aided Process Design, 

Measurements laboratory. 

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Period 

1981- 

present 


Teaching Experience 

Graduate Courses (UCLA): Advanced Mass Transfer, Membrane Science and 

Technology, Environmental Transport Phenomena, Pollution Control, Advanced 

Chemical Reaction Engineering, Polymer Engineering , Non-Newtonian Fluid 

Mechanics, Macromolecular Dynamics, Rheology. 

3/98 Short Courses: (National Exposure Research laboratory, USEPA, RTP, NC) 

- Environmental Multimedia Analysis of Chemical Distribution 

5/1994 Instituto Technologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey: 

- Environmental Intermedia Transport and Multimedia Assessment. (Short course 

for Institute Faculty). 

710/1990 University of Barcelona: 

- Environmental Impact Analysis (Short course) 

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1994- 

2002 

Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona, Spain): 

Short Courses: 

- Environmental Intermedia Transport (10/1991) 

- Polymer Engineering (9/1994) 

- Introduction to Macromolecular Science (9/1995) 

- Environmental Risk Reduction (9/1996) 

- Environmental Transport Phenomena (9/1997 & 6/1998) 

- Environmental Analysis of Chemical Distribution (3/1998-4/1998) 

- Polymer Science Fundamentals (8/2002-9/2002) 

11/1994 Servei de Tecnologia Química, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona, Spain) 

- Short Course for Environmental Professionals: Environmental Impact 

Assessment. 

8/1991 California Toxic Substances Control Division (Burbank, California) 

- Multimedia Transport, Exposure, and Risk Analyses (short course for State 

regulators and scientists) 

1998 United States Environmental Protection agency, National Exposure Research 

Laboratory (Research Triangle Park, NC) 

- Integrated multimedia analysis (short course, 9/26/1998 

- Fundamentals of multimedia environmental transport, exposure and risk analyses 

(Sort course to upper management and senior scientists, 3/31/1998-4/3/1998) 

1987-88 Israel Institute of Technology (Technion): 

- Polymer Chemistry (Undergraduate course) 

- Macromolecular Dynamics (Graduate course)


TEACHING IMPROVEMENT ACTIVITIES 

• UCLA 

♦ Developed of new academic courses: membrane science and technology, environmental 

multimedia assessment; environmental transport phenomena, membrane science and 

technology, non-Newtonian fluid mechanics, pollution prevention, advanced mass transfer. 

♦ Introduced experimental RO desalination term project to the graduate mass transfer course 

and designed a new RO experiment for the undergraduate laboratory (2008). 

♦ Organized and Funded an Undergraduate Summer Research Internship Program in Risk 

Reduction at UCLA (Approximately 6 students each summer, 1996-1999) 

♦ Developed environmental multimedia assessment simulators (SMCM, 1989-1994; Mend- 

Tox, 1998-2003; several hundred individuals licenses, universities and USEPA) 

♦ Developed and implemented undergraduate process design project with environmental 

considerations (methanol production from municipal waste) (1986) 

♦ Contributed to the development of both the undergraduate Environmental Chemical 

Engineering and Biochemical Engineering Options (UCLA). 

♦ Faculty Mentor to UCLA undergraduate students participating in the Student Research 

Program (about 2 students per year, 1985- present) 

• University of Toronto (Teaching Assistant). Undergraduate Courses: Physical Chemistry, 

Applied Statistics, Fluid Mechanics (1975-1977). 

• University of Delaware (Teaching Assistant. Graduate Courses: Thermodynamics, Fluid 

Mechanics, Statistical Thermodynamics (1978-1980) 

• Trained USEPA and Cal EPA scientists in environmental multimedia analysis. 

• Worked with Faculty from ITESM (Mexico) to establish environmental impact analysis and 

pollution prevention courses. 

• Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Catalunya, Spain). Introduced graduate courses in environmental 

impact assessment and polymer science. 

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES: 

Polymer and Separations Science: 

Development of high performance RO and NF membranes; Polymeric and hybrid 

polymer/inorganic sorbents; Ceramic-supported polymer (CSP) membranes for pervaporation 

and ultrafiltration; Crystallization on nano-structured polymer surfaces; CFD modeling of 

membrane module operation and design; Surface nano-structuring with polymers (including 

atmospheric plasma-induced graft polymerization, silylation anchoring and controlled freeradical 

polymerization); Surface nano-structuring with polymers; Mega-array chemical sensors 

Water science and technology: 

Membrane desalination; High recovery brackish water desalination; Ultrafiltration for water 

treatment applications; Water production process modeling and optimization; Kinetics of 

precipitation softening and mineral scaling of RO membranes; Development and application of 

cognitive neural networks for water treatment and desalination process modeling and control; 

Dynamic optimization of membrane systems for water processing 

Environmental: 

Environmental multimedia & intermedia analysis of contaminant and nanoparticle transport and 

exposure pathways; Water and contaminant transport soil; Quantitative-structure property 

relations for environmental transport properties of nanoparticles and associated exposures. 

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PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES: 

• American Water Works Association (AWWA) 

• American Membrane Technology Association (AMTA) 

• American Institute of Chemical Engineers 

• American Chemical Society 

• Southern California Society for Risk Analysis 

• North American Membrane Society 

• Association of Environmental Engineering Professors 

EDITORIAL SERVICES 

• Associate Editor: J. Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology (1991 - 1994). 

• Associate Editor: J. Hazardous Materials (1996-2000) 

• Special Issue Editor: AIChE Symposium Series (1995) 

• Webmaster, AICHE Environmental Division (1999-present) 

• Special Issue Guest Editor: Intermedia Transport and Transformations of Chemical 

Pollutants, J. Hazardous Materials, (1994); Also Guest Editor, 1997. 

• Member: Editorial Rev.Board. J. Air Poll. Control Association & Waste Manag. (1987-1990) 

• Member, Editorial Review Board: J. Toxicology and Industrial Health (1987-1994) 

• Member, Editorial Review Board, J. Clean Products and Processes (1999-2001) 

REVIEWER: 

• Water Environment Research 

• J. Water Resources Research 

• Environmental Science and Technology 

• Water Environment Research 

• J. Membrane Science 

• Desalination 

• J. Soil Science Society of America 

• J. Environmental Engineering 

• J. Air & Waste Management Association 

• J. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 

• Environmental Progress 

• J. Environmental Quality 

• J. Toxicology and Industrial Health 

• J. Air Poll. Control & Hazardous Waste 

Management 

• J. Hazardous Materials 

• Environmental Science and Policy 

• J. Exposure Analysis & Env. Epidemiology 

• ASTM Special Publications 

• J. Chemical Information & Computer Sci. 

• Langmuir 

• J. Transport in Porous Media (1987-1994) 

• J. Fluid Engineering 

• Risk Analysis 

• Chemosphere 

• J. Atmospheric Science 

• J. Colloid & Interface Science 

• J. Heat Transfer 

• American Journal of Physiology 

• Canadian Journal of Chemical 

Engineering 

• J. Polymer Science (Part B. Polymer 

Physics & Part A. Polymer Chemistry) 

• J. Chemical Engineering Science 

• Chemical Engineering Communications 

• AIChE Journal 

• Industrial & Engineering Chemistry 

Research 

• J. Applied Polymer Science 

• J. Rheology 

• J. Phase Equilibria 

• Chemical Engineering Education 

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REVIEWER: RESEARCH INSTITUTION AND GOVERNMENT AGENCIES 

• Federal Agencies & National Institutions/Programs: 

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 

• National Science Foundation 

• USDA/CSREES, SBIR Program 

• U.S. Department of Energy; Oak Ridge National Laboratory 

(Health and Research Division) 

• United States Bureau of Reclamation (2003) 

• United States Department of Agriculture, SBIR (2002-2003) 

• National Science Foundation, SBIR Program (2000, 2003) 

• American Chemical Council 

• ACS Petroleum Research Fund (1990-present) 

• State Agencies & Academic Institutions: 

• California Air Resource Board 

• Department of Pesticide Regulations (2000, 2003) 

• California Environmental Protection agency 

• UC Center for Water and Wildland Resources 

• California Energy Commission (2003) 

• Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), (2002) 

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CONSULTING ACTIVITIES: 

• International 

• Tashtiyot Program in Materials, Chemistry and Energy (Israel; 2006) 

• Reviewer, International Membrane Science and Technology Conference in Sydney, 

Australia on November 10-14, 2003 

• Israel, Ministry of Science (2004) 

• Victoria University, Weribbee Water Research Center (2006) 

• National University of Singapore (research reviews; 2005-2006) 

• U.S. 

• TeckCominco Alaska: Red Dog Mine (Desalination of mine drainage water; 2007-present) 

• Calera (Cement production from demineralized RO concentrate; 2008) 

• Sweetwater (applications of fly ash in water treatment; 2006) 

• ITT Aqueous Water Equipment Technologies (Brackish water desalination, 2007) 

• Consultant to Congresswoman Jane Harman (DDT soil/groundwater contamination, 2002) 

• United States Environmental Protection Agency (1999-2003) 

• Consultant on environmental impact assessment (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Center for 

Chemical Technology, (1990- present). 

• Consultant to the Prince William Sound Regional Citizens’ Advisory Council (PWRCAC): 

- Alyeska Marine Terminal: (a) analysis of emissions and discharges (1999, 1997, 2002); 

(b) - Modeling the operation of the ballast water treatment facility (2003) 

- multimedia impact analysis of petroleum hydrocarbons in Port Valdez (1991-1992) 

• Consultant on urban environmental issues (Office of the Mayor, City of Los Angeles, 

Member Roundtable on Environmental Technology, 1995)


CONSULTING ACTIVITIES (Cont’d): 

• Special Master, appointed by the U.S. District Court to assess soil and groundwater 

contamination and assign liability (1992) involving two major oil companies. 

• Consultant on multimedia exposure & risk analysis (ENSR Consulting and Engineering, 

1989-1994) 

• Consultant on multimedia exposure and risk assessment (Motorola, 1993) 

• Consultant on rubber surface modification (Polymod Inc, 2003-2005) 

• Consultant on polymer-grafted chromatography resins (Phenomenex, Inc., 2001) 

• Consultant on membrane emulsification (American & Foreign Market Research, Inc., 1997) 

• Consultant on rapid blending and dissolving of polymers (Northrop Corporation, 1993) 

• Litigation Assistance: 

- Analysis of methyl bromide exposure (Rezac & Katofsky, 1994) 

- Infiltration of organic solvents in the soil vadose zone (Egerman, Brown & Rosen, 1993) 

- Analysis of soil contamination by metals and organics 

(Breidenbach, Swainston, Crispo & Way, 1993) 

- Soil contamination (J. H. Davis Law, 1983) 

- Analysis of failure of polymer fibers (J. Anton, 1988) 

- Soil and groundwater contamination in a commercial cleaning facility; appointed as Court 

Expert (Scullman and Davidoff, 1990). 

• Analysis of emissions and groundwater contamination and expert witness in connection with 

the Stringfellow Superfund Site (Latham and Watkins; Breidenbach Buckley Huchting Halm 

& Hamblet; McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen; Landels, Ripley & Diamond; State of 

California, 1990-1993) 

• VOC volatilization from soil and groundwater (AWD Technologies Inc., 1992) 

• Consultant, contaminant transport in the McColl Superfund Site (Geosyntec Consultants, 

1992) 

• Consultant on adsorption onto polymer resins (Rohom and Haas Company, 1985) 

• Consultant on capillary viscometry (Mobil R&D, 1985-1986) 

• Environmental multimedia modeling (Woodward-Clyde Consultants, 1985-1986) 

• Emissions from soil tar deposits (Rand Corporation, 1985-1988) 

• Hytech Chemical Company (1984) 

• Consultant, non-Newtonian suspension flow (International Remote Imaging Systems, (1982) 

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ADVISORY AND REVIEW COMMITTEES: 

United States Environmental Protection Agency: 

• Member, Program Review Committee and Special Scientific Advisor to Dr. Bernard 

Goldstein (Former Assistant Administrator of EPA ORD), January 1984, March 1985. 

• Member, EPA Science Advisory Board Subcommittee on the Integrated Environmental 

Management Program, 1986-1988. 

• Member, EPA/SAB Environmental Effects, Fate and Transport Committee, 1987-1989. 

• Member, EPA/SAB Research Strategies Committee, Subcommittee on Fate and Transport, 

1988. 

• Member, EPA/SAB Committee on the Evaluation of the Bioremediation project for the 

cleanup of the Alaskan Oil Spill, 1989. 

• Member, EPA/SAB Ecological Processes and Effects Committee, September 1987 - 1990. 

• Member, EPA/SAB Subcommittee on the Leachability issue, 1989 -1991 

• Member, EPA Alternative Fuels Research Strategy Committee, 1989. 

• Member, EPA/SAB Ecology and Welfare Subcommittee, EPA/SAB report "Reducing Risk: 

Setting Priorities and Strategies for Environmental Protection,” 1990. 

• Member, EPA/SAB Fate and Effects Subcommittee, Review of SPARC System, 1990-1991. 

• Member, Review Panel, USEPA, "Dioxin Peer Review Workshop: Estimating Exposure to 

Dioxin-Like Compounds,” September 10-11, 1992, Washington, D.C. 

• Member, EPA Review Committee on “Study of Hazardous Air Pollutants from Electric 

Utility Steam Generating Units,” 1995. 

• Member, EPA Utility Air Toxics Study: Review for Human Exposure Assessment 1995- 

1996). 

• Chair, EPA Peer-Review Committee, Drake Chemical Superfund Site Incinerator, EPA 

Region 3, January, 1997 - March, 1998. 

• Member, EPA Multi-pathway Exposure assessment for Incinerator Emissions, January 

1998-March, 1998. 

• Reviewer, EPA Hazardous Waste Identification Rule (HWIR) Proposal, December, 1998. 

• Reviewer, planned design for the NHEXAS database, USEPA/NERL, 2000. 

• Member, USEPA Board of Scientific Advisors Subcommittee Review of the National 

Exposure Research Laboratory, December 18-20, 2001. 

• EPA, Senior Scientist Promotion Committee, 2007. 

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ADVISORY AND REVIEW COMMITTEES (Cont’d): 

Other Federal and State Committees: 

• Member, President's Council on Environmental Quality panel on "Geochemical and 

Hydrologic processes and Their Protection,” September 24-25 1984, Washington D.C. 

• Advisor to the Governor [California] Task Force Subcommittee on Hazardous Waste 

Control, October 1985-December 1985. 

• Served on the Panel of Experts in the President's Council on Environmental Quality "Federal 

Hazardous Waste Research and Development Planning Conference,” October 28-30, 1985, 

Washington, D.C. 

• Member, Comparative Risk Project Social Welfare Subcommittee, State of California 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1992. 

• Member, NSF SBIR Review Committee, September 14-15 (2000), Arlington, VA. 

• Provided testimony before the California Senate Committee on Health and Human Services 

regarding Chromium (VI) contamination of groundwater, Burbank, CA (10/24/2000). 

• Expert Reviewer, California Department of Pesticides Regulation, proposed “regulations for 

Methyl Fumigation” (1999 & 2000). 

Other Federal and State Committees: 

• Member, DOE Environmental Management Science Program Review Committee, Chantily, 

Virginia, May 10-11 (2001) 

• Reviewer, Kenwood Avenue DDT-Contaminated Soil Removal Action (Congresswoman 

Jane Harman, 2002, Torrance, California) 

• Reviewer, United States Bureau of Reclamation, Internal Proposal Review Committee, 

September 2003. 

• Reviewer, California Department of Pesticides Regulation, “Proposed Regulation for the use 

of the Rice Herbicide, Propanil, December 2003-February 2004. 

Non-Profit and Educational Organizations: 

• Member, Science Advisory Committee, NCITR Workshop on "Intermedia Pollutant 

Transport: Modeling & Field Measurement,” August 22-25, 1988, Santa Monica, California. 

• Member, Science Advisory Committee, Hazardous Waste Research Center, Louisiana State 

University (September 1988 -1991). 

• Member of the Science Advisory Committee -- Hanford Dose Reconstruction Project 

(Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories), April 1990-March 1991. 

• Member, Advisory Committee of the California-Arizona Consortium - Labor Occupational 

Safety and Health (LOSH) Program, 1991-1997. 

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ADVISORY AND REVIEW COMMITTEES (Cont’d): 

Non-Profit and Educational Organizations (Cont’d): 

• Chair, Valdez air health study review (1992), Prince William Sound Regional Citizens’ 

Advisory Council (PWRCAC). 

• Advisor on emissions and implementation of pollution prevention strategies for the Tesoro 

Kenai Refinery (Trustees of Alaska, 1994) 

• External Reviewer (on behalf of the South Dakota Board of Regents) of the South Dakota 

State University Joint Ph.D. Program in Atmospheric, Environmental, and Water Resources, 

February 1994 - May 1994. 

• Advisor, pollution prevention proposal for the Alyeska Marine Loading Terminal (1998), 

Prince William Sound Regional Citizens’ Advisory Council (PWRCAC). 

• Member, National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements, Committee on Risk- 

Based Classification of Hazardous Waste, November 1993-2002. 

• Invited Participant, AEESP/NSF Workshop on the Evolution of Environmental Engineering 

as a Professional Discipline, August 9-10, 2002, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 

• Member, Desalination Research Innovative Partnership, 2000 - present. 

• Member, AIChE “Sustainability Forum” formation Committee, 2002. 

• Advisor on 40 CFR Part 63 - Proposed Rule on National Emission Standards for Hazardous 

Air Pollutants: Organic Liquids Distribution,” 2002, Prince William Sound Regional 

Citizens’ Advisory Council (PWRCAC). 

• Member, International Review Committee, Water Research Center, Israel Institute of 

Technology (June, 2004) 

• Werebbee Water Research Center (Melbourne, Australia, 2006) 

ORGANIZATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS AND SESSIONS 

AIChE Programming 

• Program Co-Chair, AIChE Environmental Division, AIChE Annual Meeting, 1997, Los 

Angeles, California. 

• Organizer and Chair, AIChE Annual Meeting, 1998, Miami, Florida. Topical Conference on 

Pollution Prevention and Environmental Risk Reduction. 

• Chair and Co-Organizer of the 2006 AIChE Topical Conference on “Water Resource 

Conservation: Purification, Protection, Reclamation and Reuse," AIChE Annual Meeting, 

November 12-17, 2006, San Francisco, California. 

• Program Chair, Environmental Division, AIChE Annual Meeting, 1998, Miami, FL. 

• Program Co-Chair, AIChE Environmental Division, AIChE Annual Meeting, 1999, Dallas, 

Texas. 

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ORGANIZATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS AND SESSIONS (CONT’D) 


AIChE Programming (Cont’d) 

• Program Chair, AIChE Environmental Division, 2000 Annual Meeting, November 11-16, 

2000, Los Angeles, California. 

• Member, Planning Committee, AIChE Critical Session “Toward a Sustainable Water Supply,” 

2003 AIChE Spring Meeting, New Orleans. 

• Member, AIChE Environmental Division Programming Committee, 2004 Annual Meeting. 

• AIChE Separations Division, Programming Chair for 2008 Spring Meeting (New Orleans) 

and 2008 Annual Meeting (Philadelphia). 

Organization of Scientific Meetings 

• Chair and organizer of the symposium on "Pollutants in a Multimedia Environment,” ACS 

National Meeting, November 1986, Anaheim, California. 

• Chair and organizer of the first NCITR workshop on "Pollutants Transport and Accumulation 

in a Multimedia Environment,” January 22-24, 1986, Los Angeles, California. 

• Member of the Education Conference Task committee for the "Fifth Conference on 

Environmental Education,” July 1986, Houghton Michigan, sponsored by the Association of 

Environmental Engineering Professors, the American Academy of Environmental Engineers, 

and the Michigan Technological University. 

• Organizer, Winter Meeting, Society of Rheology, Santa Monica, California, January 1987 

• Organizer, NSF/UCLA Engineering Research Center for Hazardous Substances Control 

Workshop on "Advanced Aqueous Separation Technologies for Hazardous Waste 

Minimization,” April 24-25, 1989, Santa- Monica, California. 

• Organizer, Workshop on Research Needs in Intermedia and Multimedia Transport and Fate 

of Pollutants, University of California, Los Angeles, 7-8 March, 1991. 

• Organizer, Symposium on "Surface and Interfacial Phenomena in Polymeric Systems,” 

AIChE Annual Meeting, November 17-22, 1991, Los Angeles, California. 

• Member of the Organizing Committee and Session Chair, "Workshop on Air Toxics,” Center 

for Clean Technology, UCLA, January (1993), Los Angeles, California. 

• Organizer and Chair of Symposium on, "Novel Sorption Resins for Pollution Prevention," 

AIChE Annual Meeting, November 13-18, 1994, San Francisco, California. 

• Organizer, “Annual Review and Open House,” UCLA Center of Environmental Risk 

Reduction, March 15-16, 1996, Los Angeles, California. 

• Co-Organizer and Host, “Specialty Workshop on USEPA’s Risk Management Program,” 

Southern California Society for Risk Analysis, December 14, 1996, UCLA. Los Angeles, 

California. 

• Co-organizer and host, 1997 Annual Meeting of the Southern California Society for Risk 

Analysis, May 15, 1997, Los Angeles, California. 

• Organizer and Host of the Cal EPA/UCLA Workshop on “California Emerging 

Environmental Scientific Issues,” June, 1997, UCLA, Los Angeles, California. 

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Organization of Scientific Meetings (Cont’d) 

• Organizer and Host, 3 rd Annual Open House and Review, UCLA/TSR&TP Center for 

Environmental Risk Reduction, March 12-13, 1998, UCLA, Los Angeles, California. 

• Organizer/Host, UCLA/CERR MTBE Workshop, February 28, 1998, Los Angeles, 

California. 

• Co-Organizer and host, 1998 Annual Meeting of the Southern California Society for Risk 

Analysis, May 14, 1998, UCLA, Los Angeles, California. 

• Member, International Advisory Committee, “Environmental Engineering and Management 

Conference,” Barcelona, Spain, 9/30/98-11/2/98. Organized by Wessex Institute of 

Technology (UK) and the University Politechnica de Catalunya (Spain). 

• Co-Organizer, Southern California Society for Risk Analysis, 1999 Annual Meeting Cohosted 

by the UCLA Center for Environmental Risk Reduction, May 27, 1999, UCLA, Los 

Angeles, California. 

• Member of the Organization Committee and Host, Southern California Society for Risk 

Analysis, 2000 Annual Meeting, March 16, 2000, UCLA, Los Angeles, California. 



• Member, Scientific Committee, An International Conference on Membrane Technology for 

Wastewater Reclamation and Reuse, September 9-13, 2001, Tel-Aviv, Israel. 



• Meeting Organizer and host, North American Membrane Society 2002 Annual Meeting, 

Long Beach, California, May 11-15 (2002). 

• Co-Organized the Desalination Symposium at the CA/NV AWWA Spring Meeting, 2006, 

Burlingame California, 

• Chair and Co-Organizer of the 2006 AIChE Topical Conference on “Water Resource 

Conservation: Purification, Protection, Reclamation and Reuse," AIChE Annual Meeting, 


• Organizer and host, First Western Workshop on Water Technology Research, UCLA, Los 

Angeles, September 29. 2006. 

• Co-Organizer and Co-host, Smart Water Systems Workshop, UCLA Water Technology 

Research Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, February 23, 2007. 

• Co-Chair and Co-organizer of the 2008 International Congress on Membranes, Honolulu, 

Hawaii, June 2008. Also Chair of the ICOM 2008 Fund Raising Committee. 

• Organizer and host, Water Technology transfer workshop, UCLA, February 20, 2009. 

• Co-Organizer AWWA CA/NV Section, University Forum Session, April 2009. 

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Organization and/or Chairing/Co-Chairing of Technical Sessions 

• Co-chairman, session on "Petroleum Rheology,” IX International Congress on Rheology, 

October 1984, Acapulco, Mexico. 

• Chair & organizer, session: "Multimedia Pollutant Transport Models," Academy of Sciences 

Symposium on "Multimedia Approaches to Pollution Control'" February 12-14, 1987. 

• Co-organizer and Co-Chair, session on "Waste Minimization Design Methodologies and 

Material Substitution,” AIChE Symposium on "Pollution Prevention for the 1990's: A 

Chemical Engineering Challenge," December 4-5, 1989, Washington, D.C. 

• Chair, session on "Exposure, Fate and Transport Modeling," Frontiers in Assessing Human 

Exposures to Environmental Toxicants, National Research Council, 16-17 May, 1990, 

Washington D.C. 

• Organizer/Chair, session on "Selective Ceramic Membranes," AIChE Annual Meeting, 

November 17-22, 1991, Los Angeles, California. 

• Organizer/Co-chair, session on "Fundamental Chemical and Physical Processes in the 

Atmosphere," AIChE Annual Meeting, November 17-22, 1991, Los Angeles, California. 

• Organizer/Chair, session on "Transport and Transformation Processes: Dispersion of 

Pollutants in the Multimedia Environment," AIChE Annual Meeting, November 1-6, 1992, 

Miami Beach, FL. 

• Chair, session on “Sources of Chemical Pollutants & their Fate within Lakes,” 6th 

International Conference on Conservation and Management of Lakes, October 23-27, 1995, 

Tsukuba, Japan. 

• Organizer/Chair, session on “Membranes for Pollution Prevention Applications,” AIChE 

Annual Meeting, 1997, Los Angeles, CA. 

• Co-Chair, “Environmental Applications of Membranes”, North American Membrane Society, 

1997 Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD 

• Organizer/Chair, session on “Membranes and Membrane Separation Processes for Pollution 

Prevention,” AIChE Annual Meeting, 1998, Miami, FL. 

• Session Chair, “Adsorption Processes in Environmental Application,” 2000 Annual Meeting, 

November 11-16, 2000, Los Angeles, California. 

• Session chair, “Novel Membranes and Membrane Processes for Recovery and Recycle,” 

2000 Annual Meeting, November 11-16, 2000, Los Angeles, California. 

• Session Chair, “Novel Adsorbents for Pollution Prevention,” Annual AIChE Meeting, 

November 4-9, 2001, Reno Hilton, Reno, NV. 

• Session Co-Chair, “Novel Membrane Processes for Recovery and Recycle I & II,” Annual 

AIChE Meeting, November 4-9, 2001, Reno Hilton, Reno, NV. 

• Session Co-Chair, “Biomimetic and Supported Liquid Membranes for Sensing and 

Environmental Separations,” Annual AIChE Meeting, November 3-8, 2002, Indianapolis, IN. 

• Session Co- Chair, “Novel Membranes and Membrane Processes for Recovery/Recycle,” 

Annual AIChE Meeting, November 3-8, 2002, Indianapolis, IN.

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Organization and/or Chairing/Co-Chairing of Technical Sessions 

• Session Co-Chair, “Catalytic and Biocatalytic Membrane Reactors”, Annual AIChE Meeting, 

November 16-21, 2003, San Francisco, CA. 

• Session Co-Chair, “Membrane Fouling and Characterization- I and II,” North American 

Membrane Society, 2004 Annual Meeting, June 26-30, 2004, Honolulu, Hawaii. 

• Session Chair, “Novel Membranes and Membrane Processes for Recovery/recycle,” Annual 

AIChE Meeting, October 30-November 4, 2005, Cincinnati, Ohio. 

• Session Co-Chair, “Adsorption in Desulfurization,” Annual AIChE Meeting, October 30- 

November 4, 2005, Cincinnati, Ohio. 

• Session Chair, “Computation and Modeling of Environmental Processes,” Annual AIChE 

Meeting, October 30-November 4, 2005, Cincinnati, Ohio. 

• Co-Organizer, “Practical Desalination Symposium,” Spring Meeting of the AWWA CA/NV 

Section, April 25-26, 2006, Burlingame, CA. 

• Session Chair, Advanced Computations for Environmental Applications. Sessions I & II, 

AIChE Annual Meeting, November 12-17, 2006, San Francisco, California. 

• Session Chair and organizer, Plenary Sessions I & II: Water Resource Conservation, 

Purification, Reclamation and Reuse, AIChE Annual Meeting, Nov. 12-17, 2006, SF, CA. 

• Session Co-Chair/Co-organizer, Monitoring and Mitigation of Fouling, 2007 Annual 

Meeting of the North American Membrane Society, May 12-16, 2007, Orlando, FL. 

• Session Co-Chair/Co-Organizer, Characterization and Prediction of Fouling, 2007 Annual 

Meeting of the North American Membrane Society, May 12-16, 2007, Orlando, FL. 

• Session Chair, Water Sustainability and Integrated Water Resource Management, AIChE 

Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, November 12 -17, 2007. 

• Co-Organizer, University Forum session on “RO Membrane Process Development and 

Novel Membranes Session”, in CA-NV AWWA Spring Conference, Hollywood, CA, April 

21-24, 2008. 

• Co-Organizer, University Forum session “RO Analysis and Modeling”, in CA-NV AWWA 

Spring Conference, Hollywood, CA, April 21-24, 2008. 

• Co-Organizer, “Desalination Workshop,” International Congress on Membranes and 

Membrane Processes (ICOM 2008), July 12, Honolulu, Hawaii 

• Organizer/Co-Chair of plenary sessions I, II and III, “100 Years of Separations Science, 

Technology and Education,” held at the Annual AIChE Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, 

November 17- 21, 2008. 

• Organizer/Co-Chair, session on “Desalination,” 2008 Annual AIChE Meeting, Philadelphia, 

PA, November 17-21, 2008. 

• Organizer/Co-Chair, session on “Water Desalination and Purification,” 2008 Annual AIChE 

Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, November 17-21, 2008. 

• Organizer/Co-Chair, session on “Novel Membranes and Processes for Water Treatment and 

Purification,” 2008 Annual AIChE Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, November 17-21, 2008.

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UNIVERSITY SERVICE: 

• Member, CBE Faculty Graduate Student Recruitment/Admissions Committee, 2008-2009 

• Member, CBE Faculty Recruitment Committee, 2007-2008 

• Substitute member, Merit Increase Committee (2008) 

• Member, Friedlander Seminar Series Committee (2008-2009) 

• Member, UCLA Council on Budget and Planning, 2004 – 2007 

• Chair of two UCLA Ad-Hoc promotion committees (2006) 

• UCLA representative to the UC-wide legislative Assembly (2004-2006). 

• Member, UCLA Committee on Committees, 2001-2004 

• Graduate Advisor, Chemical Engineering Department, UCLA (1988-1985; 2001-2003) 

• Webmaster, UCLA, Chemical Engineering, 1996-2002 

• Member, SEASNet Faculty Advisory Committee, 2000-present 

• Chair, six promotional Ad-Hoc Committees (1997-2003) 

• AIChE Student Chapter Advisor, Chemical Engineering Department, UCLA, 1996-1997. 

• Member, Executive Committee, UCLA Institute of the Environment, 1997-present. 

• Member, Proposal Committee, UCLA Institute of the Environment, 1995-1997. 

• Member, Executive Committee, Fogarty Center for UCLA/Mexico Studies, 1996-2000. 

• Faculty Sponsor, UCLA Student Research program (SRP), 1989-present. 

• Undergraduate Advisor, Chemical Engineering Department, UCLA, 1995-1996. 

• Vice-Chair: Chemical Engineering Department, UCLA, 1995-1996. 

• Member of the Executive Committee - University of California Toxic Substances Research 

and Teaching Program, 1990-1995. 

• Member, Advisory Board, California-Arizona Consortium - UCLA Labor Occupational 

Safety and Health (LOSH) Program, Center for Labor Research and Education, 1991 - 2001. 

• Member, UCLA Environmental Sci. and Eng. Interdepartmental Committee, 1994-1996. 

• Member, Steering Committee-UCLA Center for Clean Technology, 1990-1994. 

• Chair: Merit Increase Committee, Chemical Engineering Department, UCLA, 1994. 

• Member, Formation Committee: Undergraduate Environmental Chemical Engineering 

Option, Department, UCLA, 1992. 

• Member: Merit Increase Committee, Chemical Engineering Department, UCLA, 1989-1991. 

• Chair: Chemical Engineering Graduate Affairs Committee, April, UCLA, 1987-1989. 

• Chair: Chemical Engineering Accreditation Committee, UCLA, 1986-1987. 

• Chair: Chemical Engineering Undergraduate Committee, UCLA, 1986-1987. 

• Chemical Engineering Graduate Curriculum Committee, UCLA, 1982-1986. 

• Chemical Engineering Undergraduate Student Advisor, UCLA, 1984-1986 

• Chair: Chemical Engineering Seminars Committee, UCLA, 1981-1982, 1985-1986 

• Graduate Policy Committee, School of Engineering, UCLA, 1982-1985. 

• Graduate Admissions Officer, Chemical Engineering Department, UCLA, 1981-83. 

• Member, UCLA Student Residential Halls Adopt a Faculty Program (1989-1990) 

• Faculty Fellow, UCLA Student Residential Halls (1991-1992)


PATENTS: 

1. Cohen, Y., U.S. Patent: "High Yield Water-Soluble Polymer Silica Separation Resins,” 

Patent Number: 5,035,803, July, 30, 1991. 

2. Cohen, Y, “Ceramic-Supported Polymer Pervaporation Membrane,” U.S. Patent 6,440,309, 

August 27, 2002. 

3. Cohen, Y., “Method and System for Monitoring Reverse Osmosis Membranes,” Patent 

Pending, WO 2007/087578. Priority Date: January 24, 2006. (2007 International and patent 

filings in 6 non-PCT countries). UCLA Case No. 2006-408. 

4. Cohen Y. and G. Lewis, U.S-International Patent Pending, ”Atmospheric Pressure Plasma 

Induced Graft Polymerization,.” WO 2008/060522 (also filing in 8 non-PCT countries). 

PCT/US60/761,447 01/24/2006, PCT/US07/60999 01/24/2007, US07/023785., UCLA Case 

No. 2006-661. 

5. Cohen, Y., G. Lewis, M. Kim and N. Lin, U.S-International Patent Pending, “Fouling and 

Scaling Resistant Surface Nano-Structured Membranes”. UCLA Case No. 2008-736-1, 

Application 6/11/2008/ 61060715. 

6. Cohen, Y. and G. Lewis, U.S-International Patent Pending , “Highly Sensitive and Selective 

Nano-Structured Grafted Polymer Layers for Chemical Sensors,” UCLA Case No. 2008-744. 

7. Cohen, Y., A. Rahardianto, and B. McCool, U.S-International Patent Pending , “Method and 

System for High Recovery Water Desalting,” UCLA Case No. 2009-079 

8. Cohen, Y., Panagiotis Christofides and William Kaiser, “A Mini-Modular-Mobile (M3) 

Smart RO Desalination System”, UCLA Case No. 2009-354 (Submitted December 2008). 

SOFTWARE 

1. Cohen, Y., Spatial-Multimedia-Compartmental Model (SMCM), National Center for 

Intermedia Transport Research (NCITR), UCLA (1991), Educational/Research Software. 

2. Cohen, Y. and Van de Water, Intermedia Transfer Factor Predictor (ITFP), Software package 

developed for the California Protection Agency (CalEPA), California Air Resources Board, 

Sacramento, Research Division, ARB-R-97/637, NTIS No. PB98-102700INZ (1997). 

3. Cohen, Y. and R. Vohra, Fish Bioaccumulation Factor (FIBAF), Software developed for 

CalEPA as companion to the ITFP software package, NTIS No. PB98-102700INZ (1997) 

4. Cohen, Y., Multimedia Environmental Distribution of Toxics: Mend-Tox, Multimedia 

Envirosoft Corporation, Los Angeles, CA (1998). (commercial software). 

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BOOKS AND EDITORSHIPS 

1. Cohen, Y. (Editor), Pollutants in A Multimedia Environment, Plenum Press (1986). 

2. Allen, D., I. R. Kaplan and Y. Cohen (Editors), Intermedia Pollutant Transport: Modeling 

and Field Measurements, Plenum Press, (1989). 

3. Guest Editor, Special Issue of the J. Hazardous Waste and Hazardous Material on 

“Intermedia and Multimedia Transport,” (1994). 

4. Cohen, Y. and R. W. Peters, Novel Adsorbents and their Environmental Applications, AIChE 

Symposium Series, Volume 91, 1995, AIChE, New York, New York. 

5. Cohen, Y., Multimedia Environmental Assessment (EMMA), Electronic Book published by 

Multimedia Envirosoft, Los Angeles, 1997. 

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS AND BOOK CHAPTERS: 

1. Mackay, D., and Y. Cohen, "Comments on the Role of Organic Microlayers in Modifying 

Gas and Particulate Fluxes at Air-Water Interfaces,” J. Great Lakes Research, 1, supp. 1, 

111-112 (1976). 

2. Cohen, Y., W. Cocchio and D. Mackay, "Laboratory Study of Liquid Phase Controlled 

Volatilization Rates in the Presence of Wind-Waves,” Environmental Science & 

Technology, 12, 553-558 (1978). 

3. Metzner, A. B., Y. Cohen and C. Rangel-Nafaile, "Flows of Non-Newtonian 

Fluids: Generation of Spatial Concentration Gradients,” J. of Non-Newtonian Fluid 

Mechanics, 5, 449-469 (1979). 

4. Cohen, Y., D. Mackay and W. Y. Shiu, "Mass Transfer Rates Between Oil Slicks and 

Water,” Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, 58, 569-575 (1980). 

5. Cohen, Y. and S. I. Sandler, "The Viscosity and Thermal Conductivity of Simple Dense 

Gases,” Industrial Engineering Chemistry Fundamentals, 19, 186-188 (1980). 

6. Cohen, Y. and A. B. Metzner, "Wall Effects in Laminar Flow of Fluids Through Packed 

Beds,” AIChE. J., 27, 75 (1981). 

7. Cohen, Y. and A. B. Metzner, "Slip Phenomena in Polymeric Solutions Flowing Through 

Packed Beds,” AIChE Symposium Series, No. 212, 78, 77 (1982). 

8. Cohen, Y. and A. B. Metzner, "Adsorption Effects in the Flow of Polymer Solutions 

through Capillary Tubes,” Macromolecules, 15, 1425, (1982). 

9. Cohen Y., "Mass Transfer Across Sheared Wavy Interfaces,” International Journal of 

Heat and Mass Transfer, 26, 1289 (1983). 

10. Cohen, Y. and C. Chen-Niang, "The Flow of Microemulsions through Packed Beds and 

Capillary Tubes,” Chemical Engineering Communications, 28, 73 (1984). 

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JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS AND BOOK CHAPTERS (Cont'd): 

11. Cohen, Y., "Adsorption and Slip Effects in the Flow of Polymer Solutions and 

Microemulsions through Porous Media,” in "Advances in Rheology,” Volume 2, p. 299, 

Mena B., Garcia-Rejon and C. Rangel-Nafaile (eds), Universidad National Autonoma De 

Mexico (1984). 

12. Cohen, Y. and A. B. Metzner, "Apparent Slip Flow of Polymer Solutions,” J. Rheology, 29, 

67-102 (1985). 

13. Cohen, Y., "The Effect of Polymer Adsorption on Particle Settling in Polymer Solutions,” 

R & D Note, AIChE. J., 31, 695 (1985). 

14. Cohen, Y. and P. A. Ryan, "A Theoretical Analogy of Turbulent Mass Transfer Across 

Sheared Gas-Liquid Interfaces,” International Communications in Heat & Mass Transfer, 

12, 139-148 (1985). 

15. Cohen, Y., "A Comment on the Wall Effect in the Flow of Fluids through Packed Beds,” 

AIChE J., 31, 524 (1985). 

16. Cohen, Y. and P. A. Ryan, "Multimedia Modeling of Environmental Transport: 

Trichloroethylene Test Case,” Environmental science & Technology., 19, 412 (1985). 

17. Cohen, Y. and P. A. Ryan, "Multimedia Transport of Particle Bound Organics: 

Benzo(a)Pyrene Test Case,” Chemosphere, 15, 31-47 (1986). 

18. Cohen, Y., "Organic Pollutant Transport,” Environmental Science & Technology., 20, 538 

(1986). 

19. Cohen, Y., "Intermedia Transport Modeling in Multimedia Systems,” in Pollutants in a 

Multimedia Environment, Cohen, Y. (Editor), Plenum Press (1986). 

20. Cohen, Y. and R. Christ, "Hydrodynamic Adsorption of Macromolecules in Porous 

Media,” J. Reservoir Engineering SPE., p. 113-118, March (1986). 

21. Cohen, Y. and A. B. Metzner, "A Theory of Apparent Slip Flow of Polymer Solutions,” 

Rheologica Acta, 25, 28-35 (1986). 

22. Cohen, Y. and A. B. Metzner, "Diffusion of Macromolecules: A Constitutive Theory," 

Chemical Engineering Communications, 41, 73-99 (1986). 

23. Cohen, Y., "Modeling of Pollutant Transport and Accumulation in a Multimedia 

Environment,” in Geochemical and Hydrologic Processes and Their Protection, Draggan, 

S., J. J. Cohrssen, and R. E. Morrison (Eds), Praeger Publishing Company, New York 

(1987). 

24. Cohen, Y. and R. S. Parnas, "The Flow of Power-Law Fluids through a Channel Bounded 

by Porous Media,” Chemical Engineering Communications, 53, 3 (1987). 

25. Cohen, Y., "Models of Multimedia Pollutant Transport,” in Multimedia Approaches to 

Pollution Control, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C. (1987). 

26. Cohen, Y., H. Taghavi, and P. A. Ryan, "Contaminant Diffusion under Non-Isothermal 

Conditions in Nearly Dry Soils,” J. Environmental Quality, 17, 198 (1988).

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27. Cohen, Y., "The Hydrodynamic Thickness of Adsorbed Polymers in Steady Shear Flow,” 

Macromolecules, 21, 494 (1988). 

28. Cohen, Y. "Apparent Slip Flow of Polymer Solutions,” in Encyclopedia of Fluid 

Mechanics, Vol. 7, invited chapter, Chereminisinoff, N. P. (Ed), Gulf Publishing (1988). 

29. Parnas, R. S., M. Chaimberg, and V. Taepaisitphongse, and Y. Cohen, "The Adsorption of 

Polyvinylpyrrolidone and Polyethylene oxide onto Chemically Modified Silica," J. Colloid 

& Interface Science., 129, 441-449 (1989). 

30. Chaimberg, M., R. S. Parnas and Y. Cohen, "Graft Polymerization of Polyvinylpyrrolidone 

onto Silica," J. Applied Polymer Science, 37: 2921-2931 (1989). 

31. Parnas, R. S. and Y. Cohen, "Brownian Dynamics of Freely-Jointed Chains: Chain 

Conformation with Excluded Volume Effects,” J. Chemical Physics., 90, 6680-6690 

(1989). 

32. Cohen, Y., "Intermedia and Multimedia Concepts in Environmental Monitoring," in 

Intermedia Pollutant Transport: Modeling and Field Measurements, Allen, D. T., I. R. 

Kaplan and Y. Cohen (eds.), Plenum Press, (1989). 

33. Ryan, A. P. and Y. Cohen, "Chemical Transport in the Top Soil Zone -- The Role of 

Moisture and Temperature Gradients,” J. Hazardous Materials, 22, 283-304 (1989). 

34. Ryan, P. A. and Y. Cohen, "Multiphase Chemical Transport in Soils,” in Intermedia 

Pollutant Transport: Modeling and Field Measurements, D. T. Allen, I. R. Kaplan and Y. 

Cohen (eds.), Plenum Press, (1989). 

35. Cohen, Y. and P. A. Ryan, "Diffusion of Sorbed Solutes in Gas and Water Phases of Low- 

Moisture Soils,” J. Soil Science Society of America, 54, 341-346 (1990). 

36. Sakugawa, H., W-T. Tsai, I. R. Kaplan and Y. Cohen, "Factors Controlling the Photochemical 

Generation of Gaseous H 2 O 2 in the Los Angeles Atmosphere," Geophysical 

Research Letters, 17, 93 (1990). 

37. Sakugawa, H., W-T. Tsai, I. R. Kaplan and Y. Cohen, "Historic Trend of the Levels of 

Atmospheric H 2 O 2 During 1960s-1980s in Los Angeles," Geophysical Research Letters, 

17, 937-940 (1990). 

38. Sakugawa, H., W.-T Tsai, I. R. Kaplan and Y. Cohen," Atmospheric Hydrogen Peroxide," 

Environmental Science & Technology., (Feature Article), 24, 1442 (1990). 

39. Cohen, Y., W-T. Tsai, and S. Chetty, "Partitioning of Pollutants in the Multimedia 

Environment: The SMCM Software," CACHE News, No. 30, 18-26 (1990). 

40. Cohen, Y., W-T., Tsai , S. Chetty and G. J. Mayer, "Dynamic Partitioning of Organic 

Chemicals in Local Environments: A Multimedia Screening Level Modeling Approach," 

Environmental Science &Technology, 24, 1549 (1990). 

41. Cohen, Y., W. Tsai and S. Chetty, "A Course on Multimedia Environmental Transport, 

Exposure and Risk Assessment," Chemical Engineering Education, pages 212-219, Fall 

1990.



42. Onishi, Y., L. Shulyer and Y. Cohen, "Multimedia Modeling of Toxic Chemicals," in 

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Water Quality Modeling of Agricultural 

and Non-Point Sources, Part II, Donn G. DeCoursey (Editor), 479-509 (1990). Published 

by the United States Department of Agriculture, ARS-81. 

43. Tsai, W-T., Y. Cohen, H. Sakugawa and I. R. Kaplan, "Hydrogen Peroxide and Ozone 

Levels in Los Angeles: A Screening-Level Evaluation," Atmospheric Environment, 25, 67- 

78 (1991). 

44. Chaimberg, M. and Y. Cohen, "Kinetics of Free-Radical Polymerization: A Conservational 

Polymerization and Molecular Weight Distribution Model," Industrial and Engineering 

Chemistry Research, 28, 1152 (1990). 

45. Chaimberg, M. and Y. Cohen, "Silylation of Inorganic Oxide Supports," J. Colloid & 

Interface Science, 134, 576-579 (1990). 

46. Cohen, Y. and T. E. Browne, "Aqueous Phase Adsorption of Trichloroethylene and 

Chloroform by Polymeric Resins and Activated Carbon," Industrial and Engineering 

Chemistry Research, 29, 1338-1345 (1990). 

47. Parnas, R. S. and Y. Cohen, "The Response of a Terminally Anchored Polymer Chain to 

Simple Shear Flows," Macromolecules, 24, 4646-4656 (1991). 

48. Chaimberg, M. and Y. Cohen, "Free-Radical Graft Polymerization of Vinyl Pyrrolidone 

onto Silica," Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 30, 2534-2542 (1991). 

49. Ryan, P. A. and Y. Cohen, "One-Dimensional Immiscible Phase Transport of NAPL (Non- 

Aqueous Phase Liquids) Containing Sparingly Water Soluble Organics in the Unsaturated 

Soil Zone: A Front Tracking Model," Water Research, 27, 1487-1500 (1991). 

50. Tsai, W., Y. Cohen, H. Sakugawa and I. R. Kaplan, "Dynamic Partitioning of Semi- 

Volatile Organics in Gas/Particle/Water Phases During Rain Scavenging," Environmental 

Science & Technology, 25, 2012-2023 (1991). 

51. Cohen, Y. and D. T. Allen, "An Integrated Approach to Pollution Prevention Research," 

J. Hazardous Materials, 29, 237-253 (1992). 

52. Seigneur, S., A. Venkatram, D. Galya, P. Anderson, D. Liu, D. Foliart, R. von Burg, Y. 

Cohen, T. Permutt, and L. Levin, "Review of Mathematical Models for Health Risk 

Assessment. I. Overview," Environmental Software, 7, 3-7 (1992). 

53. Cohen, Y. and P. Eisenberg, "Poly(vinylpyrrolidone)-Grafted Silica Resin: A New 

Promising Material for SEC of Water Soluble Polymers," pp. 254-268, in Polyelectrolyte 

Gels: Properties, Preparation, and Applications, Harland, R. S. and R. K. Prud'homme, 

ACS Symposium Series 480, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC (1992). 

54. Browne, Tom, M. Chaimberg and Y. Cohen, "Graft Polymerization of Vinyl Acetate onto 

Silica," Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 44, 671-677 (1992). 

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55. Eisenberg, P., M. Chaimberg and Y. Cohen, "Permeability of Graft Polymerized 

Poly(vinylpyrrolidone)-Silica Resin in Packed Columns," J. Colloid and Interface Science, 

148, 580-586 (1992). 

56. Browne, T. and Y. Cohen, "Polymer-Grafted Silica: A Screening System for Polymeric 

Adsorption Resin Development," Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 32, 

716-725 (1993). 

57. Gusler, M. G., T. Browne and Y. Cohen, "Sorption of Organics from Aqueous Solution 

onto Polymeric Resins," Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 32, 2727-2735 

(1993). 

58. Castro, R. P., H. G. Monbouquette, and Y. Cohen and R. Castro, "The Permeability of 

Surface Modified Porous Silica Membranes," Journal Membrane Science, 84, 151-160 

(1993). 

59. Creelman, L. W., Pesinova, V., Cohen Y. and Winer, A. M., “Development of Intermedia 

Transfer Factors for Hexavalent Chromium,” Proc. Annual Meeting. Air & Waste 

Manag.Assoc., 86th, 93RA116A.03, 20pp. (1993). 

60. Cohen, Y. "Partitioning of Organic Pollutants in the Environment," pages 278-295, in 

Managing Hazardous Air Pollutants, Chow, W. and K. K. Connor (Eds.) Lewis Publishers, 

Ann Arbor, MI (1993). 

61. Tsai, W-T. and Y. Cohen, "Rain Scavenging of Toxic Air Pollutants: The Rain Scavenging 

Ratio and Research Needs," pages 494-501, in Managing Hazardous Air Pollutants, Chow, 

W. and K. K. Connor (Eds.) Lewis Publishers, Ann Arbor, MI (1993). 

62. Grifoll, J. and Y. Cohen, "Chemical Volatilization from the Soil Matrix: Transport 

Through the Air and Water Phases," J. Hazardous Materials, 37, 445-457 (1994). 

63. Cohen, Y. and R. E. Clay, "Multimedia Partitioning of Particle-Bound Organics," 

J. Hazardous Materials, 37, 507-526 (1994). 

64. Creelman. L. W., V. Pesinova, Y. Cohen Y. and A. M. Winer, "Intermedia Transfer 

Factors for Modeling the Environmental Impact from Industrial Sources," J. Hazardous 

Materials, 37, N1:15-25 (1994). 

65. Cohen, Y., "Intermedia Transport of Chemical Pollutants," (Editorial), J. Hazardous 

Materials, 37, R3, editorial (1994). 

66. Cohen, Y., "The Valdez Air Health Study," Risk Analysis, 14, 887-889 (1994). 

67. Cohen, Y. and R. B. Van de Water, "Environmental Distribution of Organics," 267-278, in 

Computer Techniques in Environmental Studies V. Vol. I: Pollution Modeling, P. Zannetti 

(Ed.), Computational Mechanics Publications, Southampton, UK (1994). 

68. Gusler, G. M. and Y. Cohen, "Swelling Equilibrium of Highly Crosslinked Polymeric 

Resins," Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 33, 2345-2357 (1994). 

69. Chaimberg, M. and Y. Cohen, "The Kinetics of Graft Polymerization onto Silica 

Substrates," AIChE Journal, 40, 294-311 (1994).



70. Parnas, R. S. and Y. Cohen, "A Terminally Anchored Polymer Chain in Laminar Shear 

Flow: Hydrodynamic Interactions," Rheologica Acta, 33, 485-505 (1994). 

71. Cohen, Y. and J. Klein, “Removal of Organics from Aqueous Systems,” in Novel 

Adsorbents and Their Environmental Applications, AIChE Symposium Series, 91, 72-78 

(1995). 

72. Stein, Eric, A. M. Winer and Y. Cohen, "Mercury in the Environment,” Critical Reviews 

in Environmental Science, 26, 1-43 (1995). 

73. Cohen, Y., "Volatile Organic Compounds in the Environment: A Multimedia Perspective," 

in Volatile Organic Compounds in the Environment, ASTM STP 1261, Wang, W., J. 

Schnoor and J. Doi (Eds.), American Society for Testing and Materials, pp. 7-32 (1996). 

74. Grifoll, J. and Y. Cohen, "Contaminant Migration in the Unsaturated Soil Zone: the Effect 

of Rainfall and Evapotranspiration," J. Contaminant Hydrology, 23, 185-211 (1996). 

75. Cohen, Y. and F. Giralt, "Strategies for Pollution Prevention: Waste Minimization and 

Source Reduction,” Afinidad: Revisita de Química Teórica y Aplicada, Afinidad LII, 462, 

80-92 (1996). 

76. Font, J., R. P. Castro and Y. Cohen, "On the Loss of Hydraulic Permeability in Ceramic 

Membranes," J. Colloid & Interface Science., 181, 347-350 (1996). 

77. Castro, R. P., H. G. Monbouquette and Y. Cohen, "Poly(vinyl pyrrolidone)-Silica 

Membranes for the Treatment of Oil-in-Water Emulsions,”" J. Membrane Science, 115, 

179-187 (1996). 

78. Faibish R., Menachem Elimelech and Y. Cohen, "Effect of Intraparticle Electrostatic 

Double Layer Interactions on Permeate Flux Decline in Crossflow Membrane Filtration of 

Colloidal Suspensions: An Experimental Investigation,” J. Colloid and Interface Science, 

204, 77-86 (1998). 

79. Cohen, Y. Polymeric Resins for VOC Removal from Aqueous Systems, in “Volatile 

Organic Compounds (VOC) Recovery Seminar,” EPA/625/R-99/005, ORD, EPA National 

Risk Management Research Laboratory, Sept 16-17, 1998. 

80. Cooter, E. J., Y. Cohen and J. B. Hill, “Application of hybrid compartmental model to the 

Neuse River Basin of North Carolina,” in Measurements of Toxics and Related Air 

Pollutants ‘98, Volume II, Air and Waste Management Association and USEPA, 

September 1-3, 1998, Cary North Carolina 

81. Cuesta, I., F. Giralt, X. Grau and Y. Cohen, “Air-Water Mass Transfer of Organics from 

Shallow Ponds Under Laminar Recirculation” International Journal of Heat and Mass 

Transfer., 42, 165-179 (1999). 

82. Creelman, L., A. Winer and Y. Cohen, "Chromium in the Environment,” D. E. Kimbrough, 

Y. Cohen, A. M. Winer, L. Creelman and C. Mabuni, Critical Reviews in Environmental 

Science and Technology, 29, 1-46 (1999). 

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83. Cooter, E., J. B. Hill and Y. Cohen, “Impact of secular precipitation changes on the 

deposition of benzo(a)pyrene to the Neuse River Basin of North Carolina,” American 

Meteorological Society, Proceedings of the 11 th Conference on Applied Climatology, 

January 10-15, 1999, Dallas, Texas. 

84. Jou, Jeng-Dung, W. Yoshida and Y. Cohen, "Pervaporation with Ceramic-Supported 

Polymer Membranes,” J. Membrane Science, 162, 269-284 (1999). 

85. Cohen, Y., R. Faibish and M. Rovira, Size Exclusion Chromatography with Graft 

Polymerized Silica Resins, in Surface Interactions in Size Exclusion Chromatography, E. 

Pefferkorn (Editor) Marcel Dekker, (1999) 

86. Grifoll, Y. and Y. Cohen, "Front Tracking Algorithm for Liquid Infiltration into Dry 

Soils,” Water Resources Research, 35, 2579-2585 (1999). 

87. Espinosa, G., D. Yaffe, Y. Cohen, A. Arenas and F. Giralt, “Neural Network Based 

Quantitative Structural Property Relations (QSPRs) for Predicting Boiling Points of 

Aliphatic Hydrocarbons , Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences, 

V40(N3):859-879 (2000). 

88. Cohen, Y., “The Air Toxics Problem,” in “Southern California Environmental Report 

card” 2000, R. Berk and A. M. Winer (Eds), Institute of the Environment, University of 

California, Los Angeles (2000). 

89. Castro, Robert P., H. G. Monbouquette, Y. Cohen, “Shear-induced permeability changes in 

a polymer grafted silica membrane,” J. Membrane Science, 179, 207-220 (2000). 

90. Faibish, Ron and Y. Cohen, “Fouling-Resistant Ceramic-Supported Polymer Membranes 

for Ultrafiltration of Oil-in-Water Microemulsions,” J. Membrane Science, 185, 129-143 

(2001). 

91. Cohen, Y., J. Glater, A. Tsao and R-W Lee, “Nanofiltration Membranes for Agricultural 

Drainage Water Reclamation,” in Proceedings of the International Conference on 

Membrane Technology for Wastewater Reclamation and Reuse, September 9-13, Tel-Aviv, 

Israel, 2001, Gideon Oron and Amos Bick (Editors), Published by Ben-Gurion University. 

92. Montserrat Rovira-Bru, F. Giralt and Y. Cohen, “Protein Adsorption onto Zirconia 

Modified with Terminally Grafted Poly(vinylpyrrolidone),” J. Colloid and Interface 

Science, 235, 70-79 (2001). 

93. Denise, Yaffe and Y. Cohen, “Neural Network Based Temperature-dependent Quantitative 

Structure Property Relations (QSPRs) for Predicting Vapor Pressure of Hydrocarbons,” J. 

Chemical Information.& Computer Science, 41, 463-477 (2001). 

94. Yaffe, D., Y. Cohen, J. Arey and A. J. Grosovsky, “Multimedia Analysis of PAHs and 

Nitro-PAH Daughter Products in the Los Angeles Basin,” Risk Analysis, 21, 275-294 

(2001). 

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95. Cohen, Y., W. Yoshida, V. Nguyen, N. Bei and J-D Jou, “Surface Modification of Oxide 

Surfaces by Graft Polymerization,” in Oxide Surfaces, J. A. Wingrave (editor), Marcel 

Dekker, New York (2001). 

96. Espinosa, Gabriela, Denise Yaffe, Alex Arenas, Yoram Cohen and Francesc Giralt, "A 

Fuzzy ARTMAP based Quantitative Structure-Property Relationships (QSPRs) for 

predicting Physical Properties of Organic Compounds,” Industrial and Engineering 

Chemistry, 40, 2757-2766 (2001). 

97. Yaffe, D., G, Espinosa, A. Arenas, F. Giralt and Y. Cohen, “A Fuzzy ARTMAP Based on 

Quantitative Structure-Property Relationships (QSPRs) for Predicting Aqueous Solubility 

of Organic Compounds,” J. Chemical Information.& Computer Sciences, 41,1177-1207 

(2001). 

98. Faibish, R. and Y. Cohen, “Fouling and Rejection Behavior of Ceramic and Polymer- 

Modified Ceramic Membranes for Ultrafiltration of Oil-in-Water Emulsions and 

Microemulsions,” Colloids and Interfaces, 191, 27-40 (2001). 

99. Yoshida, W, Castro, R. P., Jou, J. D. and Cohen, Y., “Multilayer alkoxysilane silylation 

of oxide surfaces,” Langmuir, 17, 5882-5888 (2001). 

100. Grifoll, J. i Y. Cohen, “Simulació numPrica de la migració de contaminants en la zona no 

saturada del sbl,” Dossiers Agraris, 7, 109-119 (2001). 

101. Cooter, E. J., and Y. Cohen, "Model Evaluation of Dry-Deposition to Vegetation for 

Volatile and Semi-Volatile Organic Compounds in a Multimedia Environment,” Water, 

Air, and Soil Pollution: Focus, 1, 285-294 (2001). 

102. Cohen, Y. and E. J. Cooter, "Multimedia Environmental Distribution of Toxics (Mend- 

Tox). I: Hybrid Compartmental-Spatial Modeling Framework," Practice Periodicals of 

Hazardous, Toxic and Radioactive Waste Management, 6, 70-86 (2002). 

103. Cohen, Y. and E. J. Cooter, "Multimedia Environmental Distribution of Toxics (Mend- 

Tox). II: Software Implementation and Case Studies," Practice Periodicals of Hazardous, 

Toxic and Radioactive Waste Management, 6, 87-101 (2002). 

104. Williams, M., Evangelista, R., and Cohen Y. (2002) "Non-thermal Process for Recovering 

Reverse Osmosis Concentrate: Process Chemistry and Kinetics" In Proceedings of the 

2002 AWWA Water Quality Technology Conference. Seattle, WA: AWWA 

105. Yaffe, D., Y. Cohen, G. Espinosa, A. Arenas and F. Giralt, "Fuzzy ARTMAP and Back- 

Propagation Neural Networks Based Quantitative-Structure-Property Relationships 

(QSPRs) for Octanol-Water Partition Coefficient of Organic Compounds,” J. Chemical 

Information.& Computer Sciences, 42, 162-183 (2002). 

106. Nguyen, V., W. Yoshida, J-D. Jou and Y. Cohen, "Kinetics of Free-Radical Graft 

Polymerization of 1-vinyl-2-pyrrolidone onto Silica," Journal of Polymer Science Part A: 

Polymer Chemistry, Volume 40, Number 1, 26-42 (2002). 

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107. Faibsih, R. S., W. H. Yoshida and Y. Cohen, "Contact Angle Study of Polymer Grafted 

Silicon Wafers,” J. Colloid and Interface Science, 256, 341-350 (2002). 

108. Grifoll, J., J. Ma. Gastó and Y. Cohen, “Efficient Estimation of Internodal Permeabilities 

for Numerical Simulation of Unsaturated Flows,” Water Resources Research, 38, 1326- 

1335 (2002). 

109. Yaffe, D., G, Espinosa, A. Arenas, F. Giralt and Y. Cohen, “Back Propagation and Fuzzy 

ARTMAP Neural Network Based Quantitative Structural Property Relations (QSPRs) for 

Prediction of Henry’s Laws of Organic Compounds,” J. Chemical Information & 

Computer Sciences, 43, 85-112 (2003). 

110. Nguyen, V., W. Yoshida, and Y. Cohen, "Graft Polymerization of Vinyl Acetate onto 

Silica,” J. Applied Polymer Science., 87, 300-310 (2003). 

111. Yoshida, H. W and Y. Cohen, “Ceramic Supported Polymer Membranes for Pervaporation 

of Binary Organic-Organic Mixtures,” J. Membrane Science, 213, 145-157 (2003). 

112. Lee, Ron-Wai, J. Glater and Y. Cohen, “Low Pressure RO Desalination of Agricultural 

Drainage Water,” Desalination, 155, 109-120, 2003 . 

113. Wayne, H, Y and Y. Cohen, “Topological AFM Characterization of Graft Polymerized 

Silica Membranes,” J. Membrane Science, 215, 249-264, 2003. 

114. Yoshida, W. and Y. Cohen, "Removal of Methyl Tert-butyl Ether from Water by 

Pervaporation using Ceramic-Supported Polymer Membranes," J. Membrane Sci., 229, 

27–32 (2004). 

115. Francesc Giralt, G. Espinosa, A. Arenas, J. Ferre-Gine, L. Amat, X. Gironés, R. Carbó- 

Dorca and Y. Cohen, “Prediction of Activity Coefficients of Diverse Organic Compounds 

in Water at Infinite Dilution with an Integrated SOM-fuzzy ARTMAP Neural System,” 

AIChE J., 50, 1315-1343 (2004). 

116. Wen-Yi Shih, K. Albrecht, J. Glater and Y. Cohen, “A Dual Probe Approach for 

Evaluation of Gypsum Crystallization in Response to Antiscalant Treatment,” 

Desalination, 169, 213-221 (2004). 

117. Gabelich, C. J., F. W. Gerringer, J. C. Franklin, J. Gao, Y. Cohen, and I. H. Suffet, 

Reverse Osmosis Pretreatment: Challenges With Conventional Treatment, p1-15, in 

Proceedings of the 2004 AWWA ACE Meeting, Orlando, Florida. 

118. Villaluenga, J. P.G. and Y. Cohen, “Numerical Model of Non-Isothermal Pervaporation 

in a Rectangular Channel,” J. Membrane Science, 260, 119-130 (2005). 

119. Shih, W-Y, A. Rahardianto, R-W. Lee and Y. Cohen "Morphometric Characterization 

of Calcium Sulfate Dihydrate (Gypsum) Scale on Reverse Osmosis Membranes," 

J. Membrane Science, 252, 253-263 (2005). 

120. Grifoll, J., J. M. Gastó and Y. Cohen, “Non-Isothermal Soil Water Transport and 

Evaporation,” Advances in Water Resources, 28, 1254-1266 (2005). 

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121. Katner A. and Y. Cohen, “Exposure Assessment Involving an Aerospace Facility With 

Limited Monitoring Data”, p 626-632, in Proceedings of Environmental Science and 

Technology (2005), Volume 1, Edited by William G. Lyon, Jihua Hong and Ramesh K. 

Reddy, American Science Press, New Orleans, USA. First International Conference on 

Environmental Science and Technology, held January 23-26, 2005 in New Orleans, 

Louisiana, USA; ISBN 0-9768853-4-4]. 

122. Shih, W-Y, J. Gao, A. Rahardianto, J. Glater, Y. Cohen and C. J. Gabelich, "Ranking of 

antiscalant performance for gypsum scale suppression in the presence of residual 

aluminum," Desalination, 196, 280–292 (2006). 

123. Anditya Rahardianto, Wen-Yi Shih, Ron-Wai Lee and Yoram Cohen, "Diagnostic 

characterization of gypsum scale formation and control in RO membrane desalination of 

brackish water," J. Membrane Science, 279, 655-668 (2006). 

124. Gabelich, C.J., J. C. Franklin, Y. Cohen and I. H. Suffet, “Reverse Osmosis Pretreatment: 

Challenges with Conventional Treatment,” Chapter in Membrane Treatment for Drinking 

Water & Reuse Applications: A Compendium of Peer-Reviewed Papers, K. J. Howe 

(Editor), American Water Works Association, Denver, CO (2006). 

125. Gabelich, C. J., T. I. Yun, M. D. Williams, T. Knoll, W. Pearce, U. Daniel, Y. Cohen, E. 

M. V. Hoek, M. R. Matsumoto, L. Sangines-Uriate, P. John, R. Scherzinger and A. A. 

Mofidi, “Applied Research for Large-Scale Desalting Applications: The Desalination 

Research and Innovation Partnership,” published chapter in Desalination of Seawater and 

Brackish Water”, William C. Lauer (Editor), Special publication of the American Water 

Works Association (2006). 

126. Rahardianto, A., J. Gao, C. J. Gabelich, M. D. Williams and Y. Cohen, “High recovery 

membrane desalting of low-salinity brackish water: Integration of accelerated precipitation 

softening with membrane RO,” J. Membrane Science, 289 (2007) 123–137. 

127. Katner, A. and Y. Cohen, “Improvement of Risk Assessments for Multicontaminant Sites 

in the Face of Critical Data Gaps,” Chapter in textbook Risk Assessment in Environmental 

Health, Editors: M. G. Robson, W. A. Toscano, G. Robson, ASPH ISBN: 0-7879-8319-5 

Hardcover 656 pages February 2007. 

128. Uchymiak, M., A. Rahardianto, E. Lyster, J. Glater, and Y., Cohen, “A Novel RO Ex-Situ 

Scale Observation Detector (EXSOD) for Mineral Scale Characterization and Early 

Detection,” J. Membrane Science, 291 (2007) 86–95. 

129. Lyster, E and Y. Cohen, “Numerical study of concentration polarization in a rectangular 

reverse osmosis membrane channel: Permeate flux variation and hydrodynamic end 

effects,” J. Membrane Science, 303, 140-153 (2007). 

130. Gabelich, C. J., M. D. Williams, A. Rahardianto, J. C. Franklin and Y. Cohen, “Highrecovery 

reverse osmosis desalination using intermediate chemical demineralization,“J. 

Membrane Science, 301, 131-141 (2007). 

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131. Lewis, G. T., V. Nguyen and Y. Cohen, Synthesis of Poly(4-vinylpyridine) by Reverse 

Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization, J. Polymer Sci.: Part A: Polymer Chemistry, 45, 

5748-5758 (2007). 

132. Lewis, G., G. Nowling, R. H. Hicks and Y. Cohen, "Inorganic Surface Nanostructuring by 

Atmospheric Pressure Plasma-Induced Graft Polymerization.” Langmuir, 23, 10756-10764 

(2007). 

133. McFall, C., P. D. Christofides, Y. Cohen and J. F. Davis, ``Fault-Tolerant Control of a 

Reverse-Osmosis Desalination Process, ''Proceedings of 8th IFAC Symposium on 

Dynamics and Control of Process Systems - Volume 3, 163-168, Cancun, Mexico, 2007 

134. Libotean, D. M., J. Giralt, R. Rallo, Y,. Cohen, F. Giralt, H. F. Ridgway, G. Rodriguez, 

and D. Phipps, “Organic Compounds Passage Through RO Membranes,” J. Membrane 

Science, J. Membrane sci., 313, 23-43 (2008). 

135. Uchymiak, M, E. Lyster and Y. Cohen, “Kinetics of Gypsum Crystals Growth on Reverse 

Osmosis Membranes by Direct Visual Observations,” J. Membrane Sci., 314, 163-172 

(2008). 

136. Zach-Maor, A., R. Semiat, A. Rahardianto, Y. Cohen, S. Wilson, and S.R. Gray, 

“Diagnostic analysis of the technical feasibility of RO desalting of treated wastewater,” 

Desalination, 230, 239-247 (2008). 

137. Rahardianto, A, B. McCool and Y. Cohen,” Reverse Osmosis Desalting of Inland Brackish 

Water of High Gypsum Scaling Propensity: Kinetics and Mitigation of Membrane Mineral 

Scaling,” Env. Sci. Technol. 42, 4292-4297 (2008). 

138. Lewis, G. T. and Y. Cohen, “Controlled Nitroxide-Mediated Styrene Surface Graft 

Polymerization with Atmospheric Plasma Surface Activation,” Langmuir, 24, 13102- 

13112 (2008). 

139. McFall, C., A. Bartman P. D. Christofides and Y. Cohen, ``Control of Reverse Osmosis 

Desalination at High Recovery,'' Proceedings of the American Control Conference, 2241- 

2247, Seattle, Washington, 2008. 

140. Bartman, A. R., C. W. McFalla, P. D. Christofides, and Y. Cohen “Model-predictive 

control of feed flow reversal in a reverse osmosis desalination process,”, J. Process 

Control, doi:10.1016/j.jprocont.2008.06.016 

141. Libotean, D. M., J. Giralt, Y. Cohen and F. Giralt, “Neural Network Approach for 

Modeling the Performance of Reverse Osmosis Membrane Desalting Plants,” J. 

Membrane Sci., doi:10.1016/j.memsci.2008.10.028. 

142. Zhu, A., P. D. Christofides and Y. Cohen, “Revisiting the Problem of Energy Cost 

Optimization in RO Membrane Desalination,” Industrial and Engineering Chemistry 

Research, DOI: 10.1021/ie800735q. 

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143. McFall, C., A. Bartman, P. D. Christofides and Y. Cohen, ``Control and Monitoring of a 

High-Recovery Reverse-Osmosis Desalination Process,'' Ind. & Eng. Chem. Res., 47, 

6698-6710 (2008). 

144. Cohen, Y., J. Glater, B. McCool, A. Rahardianto and M. Kim, “Membrane Desalination of 

Agricultural Drainage Water,” 60 pages, chapter in Salinity Drainage, Editors: A. C. Wang 

and D. Brikle, UC Press, in press. 

145. Gabelich, Christopher J. P. Xu, Y. Cohen and M. Pribazari, “Concentrate Treatment in 

Inland Brackish Water Desalting,” in Membrane Filtration and Liquid Separations. Eds. I. 

Escobar and G. Lipscomb. DESTech publications, in press. 

146. Kim, M., J. Au, A. Rahardianto, J. Glater, Y. Cohen, F. W. Gerringer and C. J. Gabelich, 

“The Impact of Conventional Water Treatment Coagulants on Mineral Scaling in RO 

Desalting of Brackish Water,”, Industrial & Eng. Chem. Res., submitted 

147. Lewis, G., V. Nguyen, W. Shih and Y. Cohen, “Reverse Atom Transfer Radical Graft 

Polymerization of 4-Vinylpyridine on Silica,” J. Applied Polymer Science, submitted. 

148. Shih, W-Y, Lin, Nancy and Y. Cohen, “A Quartz Crystal Microbalance Study of the 

Kinetics of Gypsum Crystallization on Polymeric Surfaces,” in preparation. 

149. McCool, B., A. Rahardianto, J. Faria, K. Kovac and Y. Cohen, “Recovery Limitations and 

Economic Feasibility of Low Pressure Membrane Desalination of Agricultural Drainage 

Water from the San Joaquin Valley,” in preparation. 

150. Michal Uchymiak, Alex Bartman, Naphtali Daltrophe, Michael Weissman, Jack Gilron, 

Panagiotis Christofides and Yoram Cohen, “Control of Feed Flow Reversal Operational 

Mode of RO desalting using A Novel Ex-Situ Scale Observation Detector (EXSOD),” J. 

Membrane sci., in preparation. 

151. Zhu, R. P. Christofides and Y. Cohen, “Energy Optimization in Two-Pass RO/NF 

Membrane Desalination,” in preparation. 

152. Lyster, E., F. Giralt and Y. Cohen, “Numerical Analysis of the Relationship between Flux 

Decline and Mineral Scaling in a Laboratory RO Membrane Channel,” in preparation. 

153. Lewis, G. T. and Y. Cohen, “Diffusion and Sorption by Polymer Brush Layers: A Path to 

Robust Chemical Sensing Layers,” in preparation 

154. Lewis, G. T., M. Kim, H. N. Lin and Y. Cohen, “Surface Structuring of RO membranes by 

Grafting of Polymer Chains via Atmospheric Plasma Treatment,”in preparation. 

155. Hilary A. Godwin, Kabir Chopra, Kenneth A. Bradley, Yoram Cohen, Barbara Herr 

Harthorn, Eric M.V. Hoek, Patricia Holden, Arturo A. Keller, Hunter Lenihan, Roger M. 

Nisbet, and Andre E. Nel, The University of California Center for the Environmental 

Implications of Nanotechnology,” submitted, Env.Sci. and Technol. 

156. Montserrat Rovira-Bru, F. Giralt and Y. Cohen, “Protein Ultrafiltration with Poly(Vinyl 

Pyrrolidone Modified Zirconia Membrane,” J. Membrane Sci., in preparation. 

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157. Lewis, G. T., V. Nguyen, W. Yoshida and Y. Cohen, "Kinetic Model for the Graft 

Polymerization of Vinyl Acetate onto Silica,” in preparation. 

158. Rallo, R., G. Espinosa, F. Giralt, T. M. Vogel and Y. Cohen, “Quantitative Structure 

Biodegradation Relationships for Organic Pollutants in Water and Soil,” in preparation. 

159. Nancy H. Lin, G. T. Lewis and Y. Cohen, “Surface Studies of Mineral Salt Scale 

Nucleation and Growth on RO Membranes: Effect of Surface Topography and Surface 

Nano-Structuring,” in preparation. 

160. E. Lyster and Y. Cohen, “A Predictive Numerical Model of Gypsum Scale Formation 

Model in RO Membrane Desalting,” in preparation. 

161. Kim, Myung-man, R. Rallo, E. Lyster and Y. Cohen, “Direct observations of antiscalant 

suppression of mineral scaling in RO membrane desalting,” in preparation. 

TECHNICAL REPORTS 

1. Cohen, Y., "Compartmental Modeling of Environmental Transport," National Center for 

Intermedia Transport Research, Report, prepared for EPA, EPA, CR-807064-01-1, 

November (1981). 

2. Cohen, Y., "Mass Transfer Across Sheared, Wavy Air-Water Interfaces," National Center 

for Intermedia Transport Research, UCLA, NCITR 82-4, July (1982). 

3. Cohen, Y. and P.A. Ryan, "Multimedia Modeling of Environmental Transport," National 

Center for Intermedia Transport Research, UCLA, NCITR 83-3 (1983). 

4. Cohen, Y. and R. S. Parnas, "Coupled Parallel Flow of Power Law Fluids through a 

Channel Bounded by Porous Media," UERG report, 1986. 

5. Cohen, Y. and L. Tsai, "Removal of Organic Contaminant from Water: A Survey of 

Removal Methods," UCLA ERC Report p. 1-36 (1988). 

6. Cohen, Y., "Separation of Macromolecules by Surface-Grafted Supports," NSF 

CBT8416719, July 19 (1988). 

7. Cohen, Y. “An Introduction to Turbulent Transport,” UCLA, Chemical Engineering 

Department, 1988. 

8. Cohen, Y., W-T. Tsai and S. Chetty, "The Spatial Multimedia Compartmental Model 

(SMCM): A User Friendly Screening Level Pollutant Transport Model - Version 3.0, User 

Manual," NCITR, UCLA (1989). 

9. Cohen, Y., T. E. Browne and G. M. Gusler "Adsorption of Organic Solutes by Polymeric 

Resins,” Final Project Report, W-745, UC Water Resources Center, September (1991). 

10. Cohen, Y. and D. T. Allen, "Multimedia Assessment of Emissions (MAE) From The 

Amoco Oil Company Yorktown Refinery (AMOCO/EPA Pollution Prevention Project),” 

Report Prepared for the Amoco Oil Company, February 15, 1991. 

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TECHNICAL REPORTS (CONT’D): 

11. Cohen, Y., G. M. Gusler, T. E. Browne, and T. M. Meininger, "Adsorption of Organics 

from Aqueous Solutions by Polymeric Resins: Adsorption Database,” Report Prepared for 

the Water Resources Center, W-724, August (1991). 

12. Cohen, Y., G. E. Anderson, L. R. Chinkin, G. Pascoe, C. E. Schmidt and A. Winer, 

“Review of the Valdez Air Study,” prepared for the Prince William Sound Regional 

Citizens’ Advisory Council (PWRCAC), March 2, 1992. 

13. Cohen, Y., “Multimedia Fate and Effects of Airborne Petroleum Hydrocarbons in the Port 

Valdez Region,,” prepared for the Prince William Sound Regional Citizens’ Advisory 

Council (PWRCAC) (1992). 

14. Cohen, Y., A. M. Winer, R. B. Van de Water, F. A. Pan, R. Vohra, L. Zhou and L. 

Hernandez, “Development of Predictive Capabilities for Intermedia Transfer Factors for 

Toxic Air Pollutants,” Technical Report. California Air Resources Board, Sacramento, 

Research Division, ARB-R-97/637, NTIS No. PB98-102700INZ (1997). 

15. Cohen, Y. and A. M. Winer, a. “Development of Intermedia Transfer Factors for Toxic Air 

Pollutants. Volume I, Technical Report, California State Air Resources Board, Sacramento. 

16. Research Division, ARB-R-95/577; NTIS PB95-261376INZ (1994). b. Cohen, Y. and A. 

M. Winer, “Development of Intermedia Transfer Factors for Toxic Air Pollutants. Volume 

2, Technical Report, California Sate Air Resources Board, Sacramento. Research Division, 

ARB-R-95/578; NTIS PB95-260691INZ (1994). 

17. McCarty, P. L. and Y. Cohen, “Report of the Independent Panel on Kenwood Avenue 

DDT-Contaminated Soil Removal Action,” December 7, 2002, submitted to 

Congresswoman Jane Harman. 

18. Cohen, Y. And J. Glater “Membrane Treatment of Agricultural Drainage Water: Mineral 

Scale Formation and Control,” Final Report, Interagency Agreement 4600002097 for 

project period 7/1/2001 to 6/30/03, prepared for the California Department of Water 

Resources (September 2003). 

19. Glater, Julius and Yoram Cohen, "Brine Disposal from Land Based Membrane Desalination 

Plants: A Critical Assessment", Prepared for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern 

California CEC PIER II – Contract No. 400-00-013, “Desalination Research and Innovation 

Partnership; Improving Energy Usage, Water Supply Reliability, and Water Quality Using 

Advanced Water Treatment Processes; Subtask 2.3.1 – Evaluate Various Brine 

Minimization Technologies, July 2003. 

20. Cohen, Y., “Quality Assurance Project Plan for Contract no. XP-97933101-0/ UCLA: 

Desalination Research and Innovation Partnership: Surface Fouling by Mineral Salt Scaling 

and Dissolved Organics,” Prepared for the U.S. EPA, Region 9, May 2003. 

21. Cohen, Y., “a. Subtask 2.6.1- Membrane Mineral Scale Formation and Scale Control,” in 

Final Report: Desalination Research and Innovation Partnership: Improving Energy Usage, 

Water Supply Reliability, and Water Quality Using Advanced Water Treatment Processes,” 

prepared for the California Energy Commission (March 2005).


TECHNICAL REPORTS (CONT’D): 

22. Cohen, Y., “Membrane Desalination of Agricultural Drainage Water, “ UC Water 

Resources Center, December 2006. 

23. Cohen, Y. and J. Glater, “Membrane Treatment of Agricultural Drainage Water: Recovery 

Enhancement and Brine Minimization,” Final Report prepared under Interagency 

Agreement 4600002097 for project period 7/1/03 - 6/30/05, California Department of 

Water Resources. 

24. Cohen, Y., “Subtask 2.3.1– Evaluation of Accelerated Precipitation for High Water 

Recovery in Low Pressure Membrane Desalting of Colorado River Water,” Final Report: 

Desalination Research and Innovation Partnership: Improving Energy Usage, Water Supply 

Reliability, and Water Quality Using Advanced Water Treatment Processes,” prepared for 

the California Energy Commission (March 2005). 

25. Cohen, Y., A. Katner, T. Harmon, P. Ryan, J., N. Wheeler, L. Chinkin “The Potential for 

Offsite Exposures Associated with Santa Susana Field Laboratory, Ventura County, 

California,” Final Report prepared for the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease 

Registry (ATSDR) through a contract arrangement by Eastern Research Group, Inc. (ERG), 

February 2006. 

26. Zach-Maor, A., R. Semiat, S. Gray, . Y. Cohen and A. Rahardianto, “Melbourne Water – 

Reverse Osmosis fouling by Western Treatment Plant Reuse Water,” Report No: ISI-2006- 

002, October 2006, Victoria University, Australia. 

27. Cohen, Y., Critical Process Requirements for Membrane Desalination of Agricultural 

Drainage in the San Joaquin Valley, Final Project Report, Project Period: 9/01/04-8/31/07 

Interagency Agreement 4600003343, prepared for the Agricultural Drainage Program 

California Department of Water Resources, Fresno, California. 

28. Cohen, Y., Membrane Desalination of Agricultural Drainage Water: Water Recovery 

Enhancement and Brine Minimization, Technical Completion Report SD001, prepared for 

the UC Water Resources Center, University of California, Riverside, CA (December 30, 

2007). 

29. Myung-man Kim, J. Au, A. Rahardianto, J. Glater and Y. Cohen, Screening of Antiscalants 

for Compatibility with Pretreatment Coagulant Carryover, Final Project Report, prepared 

for Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, December 30, 2007. 

30. Cohen Y., Desalination Research and Innovation Partnership: Surface Fouling by Mineral 

Salt Scaling and Dissolved Organics, Final Project Report, Contract no. XP-97933101-0/ 

UCLA, prepared for Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, December 25, 

2007 (100 pages). 

31. Cohen, Y., P. Christofides and J. Gilron, "Flow Reversal Triggered by the EXSOD Scale 

Monitor for Achieving High Recovery in Reverse Osmosis of Potentially Scaling Brackish 

Water", Leshin Foundation, UCLA, (February 2008) A Cooperative Project between UCLA 

and Ben-Gurion University supported by the Leshin Foundation (UCLA/BGU). 

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PAPERS PRESENTED AND CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 

1. Mackay, D. and Y. Cohen, "Prediction of Volatilization Rates of Pollutants in Aqueous 

Systems,” NBS Symposium on Non-biological Transport and Transformation of Pollutants 

on Land and Water,” May, 1976, NBS, Gaithersburg, Maryland. 

2. Cohen, Y. and D. Mackay, "Mass Transfer of Low Solubility Materials Across an Air- 

Water Interface,” ACS Symposium on the "Transfer of Chemical Pollutants Between Air 

and Water," August, 1976, San Francisco, California. 

3. Cohen, Y., "The Role of Interfacial Transport in the Movement of Pollutants in Soils,” 

Workshop on Research Needs in Intermedia Transport Processes, National Center for 

Intermedia Transport Research, University of California, Los Angeles, April, 1982. NCITR 

81-1, August (1981). 

4. Cohen, Y., "Flow Enhancement and Reduction in Mobility Control with Polymer 

Solutions,” 182 ACS National Meeting, Division of Geochemistry, September, 1981, New 

York. 

5. Cohen, Y. and S. M. Dinh, "Hydrodynamic Adsorption Effects of Macromolecules in 

Porous Media,” ACS National Meeting, March 28-April 2, 1982, Las Vegas, Nevada. 

6. Cohen, Y. and A. B. Metzner, "Slip Flow of Polymer Solutions,” 54th Annual Meeting of 

the Society of Rheology, October 15-18, 1982, Evanston, Illinois. 

7. Cohen, Y. and A. B. Metzner, "Flow Induced Diffusion of Macromolecules,” AIChE 75th 

Annual Meeting, November 14-18, 1982, Los Angeles, California. 

8. Cohen, Y., "Mass Transfer Across Sheared, Wavy Gas-Liquid Interfaces,” AIChE 75th 

Annual Meeting, November 14-18, (1982), Los Angeles, California. 

9. Cohen, Y. and R. Christ, "Adsorption Effects in the Flow of Polymer Solutions Through 

Porous Media,” 55th Annual Meeting of the Society of Rheology, October 17-20, 1983, 

Knoxville, Tennessee. 

10. Cohen, Y., "Chemical Emissions from Liquid Waste Sites,” AIChE Summer National 

Meeting, August 19-22, 1984, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

11. Cohen, Y., "Adsorption and Apparent Slip Effects in the Flow of Emulsions and Polymer 

Solutions through Porous Media,” IXth International Congress on Rheology, October 13, 

1984, Acapulco, Mexico. 

12. Cohen, Y., "Multimedia Aspects of Pollutant Transport,” Conference on New Dimensions 

of Pollution Control: Cross Media Problems,” The Conservation Foundation, November 13, 

1984, Washington, D.C. 

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PAPERS PRESENTED AND CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS (Cont'd): 

13. Cohen, Y. and P. A. Ryan, "Environmental Distribution of Aerosol-Bound Pollutants,” 

ACS National Meeting, April 28- May 3, 1985, Miami, Florida. 

14. Cohen, Y. and P. A. Ryan, "Multimedia Modeling of Environmental Transport: 

Trichloroethylene Test Case,” AIChE Annual Meeting, November 25-30, 1984, San 

Francisco, California. 

15. Cohen, Y. and P. A. Ryan, "Multimedia Distribution of Pollutants in the Environment,” 

Northwest ACS Regional Meeting, June 18-20, 1985, Sun Valley Idaho. 

16. Cohen, Y. and M. P. Dudukovic, "Mass Transfer in Centrifugal Gas/Liquid Contacting 

Devices,” AIChE Annual Meeting, November 10-14, 1985, Chicago, IL. 

17. Taghavi, H., P. A. Ryan, and Y. Cohen, "Contaminant Transport under Non-Isothermal 

Conditions in the Top Soil,” ACS Annual Meeting, September 7-12, 1986, Anaheim, 

California. 

18. Ryan, P. A. and Y. Cohen, "Contaminant Diffusion in the Top Soil Zone -- The 

Equilibrium Assumption Revisited,” ACS Annual Meeting, September 7-12, 1986, 

Anaheim, California. 

19. Cohen, Y., "An Integrated Approach to Environmental Engineering Education at UCLA,” 

invited paper, the Fifth Conference on Environmental Education, July, 1986, Houghton, 

Michigan. Published in the Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Environmental 

Engineering Education, Baillord, C. R. (Ed), Michigan Technological University (1986). 

20. Cohen, Y., "Intermedia Transport Modeling in Multimedia Systems,” The First NCITR 

Workshop on "Pollutant transport and Accumulation in a Multimedia Environment,” 

January 21-24, 1986, Santa Monica, California. 

21. Cohen, Y., M. Chaimberg and R. S. Parnas "Surface-Grafting of Water Soluble Polymers,” 

AIChE Annual Meeting, November, 1986, Miami, Florida. 

22. Parnas, R. S. and Y. Cohen, "Flow of Non-Newtonian Fluids through A Channel Bounded 

by Porous Media,” Winter Meeting of the Society of Rheology, January 18-21, 1987, Santa 

Monica, California. 

23. Cohen, Y., "Models of Multimedia Pollutant Transport,” invited paper at the Academy of 

Sciences Symposium on "Multimedia Approaches to Pollution Control,” Washington, D.C., 

February 12-14, 1987. 

24. Cohen, Y., R. S. Parnas, M. Chaimberg, and V. Taepaisitphongse, "Adsorption of Polyvinylpyrrolidone 

onto Silica,” AIChE Annual Meeting, Nov., 1987, New York, New York. 

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25. Cohen, Y., M. Chaimberg, and R. S. Parnas, "Graft Polymerization of Water Soluble 

Polymers,” IUPAC International Symposium On Polymers for Advanced Technologies, 

Jerusalem, August 16-21, 1987. 

26. Cohen, Y., "Adsorption of Poly(vinylpyrrolidone) on Modified Silica Surfaces,” 

International Symposium on Surface Interactions, March 13-18, 1988, Neve-Ilan, Israel. 

27. Onishi, Y., L. Shuyler and Y. Cohen, "Multimedia Modeling of toxic Chemicals,” 

International Symposium, on Water Quality Modeling of Agricultural Non-Point Sources, 

Utah State University, Logan Utah, June 20-23, 1988. 

28. Cohen, Y. and R. S. Parnas, "Brownian Simulations of Terminally Anchored Freely- 

Jointed Chains,” ACS Workshop on Polymer Surfaces and Interfaces, September 20-23, 

1988, Pacific Grove, California. 

29. Chaimberg, M. and Y. Cohen, "Free Radical Graft Copolymerization,” AIChE Annual 

Meeting, November 1988, Washington, D.C. 

30. Cohen, Y., "Atmospheric Intermedia Transport Processes.,” invited paper, National 

Science Foundation Conference (co-sponsored by the Association of Environmental 

Professors) on Fundamental Research Directions in Environmental Engineering, 

Washington, DC, November 13-15, 1988. 

31. Parnas, R. S. and Y. Cohen, "Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Chain Molecules at 

Interfaces,” AIChE Annual Meeting, November 1988, Washington, D.C. 

32. Cohen, Y. and R. S. Parnas, "Molecular Dynamics of a Terminally Anchored Freely- 

Jointed Chain Subjected to Laminar Solvent Shear Flow,” AIChE Annual Meeting, 

November 1988, Washington, D.C. 

33. University of California, Santa Barbara, December 4-5, 1988, Workshop on 

"Characterization of Polymers at Solid Surfaces by Neutron Reflactometry,” invited 

presentation, "Dynamics of Polymers at Solid Surfaces". 

34. Tsai, W-T., Sakugawa, H., Kaplan, I. R., and Y. Cohen, "Modeling of Gaseous Hydrogen 

Peroxide and Ozone in Los Angeles Air,” American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San 

Francisco, California, December 5-9, 1988. 

35. Cohen, Y., "Human Exposure to Chemicals: A Workshop,” invited paper, University of 

Toronto (Toronto, Canada), December 12-13, 1988. 

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36. Cohen, Y. and T. E. Browne, "Selective Adsorption with Polymeric Adsorbents," paper 

presented in the workshop on "Advanced Aqueous Separation Technologies for Waste 

Minimization,” August 22-24, 1988, Santa Monica, CA. 

37. Cohen, Y. and R. S. Parnas, "Brownian Dynamics of Terminally Anchored Freely-Jointed 

Chains,” Symposium on "Polymers in Regions of Restricted Geometry,” ACS Meeting, 

April 9 - 14, 1989, Dallas, Texas. 

38. Cohen, Y., Tsai, W-T. and S. Chetty, "Dynamic Partitioning of Organic Pollutants in the 

Environment,” International Society for Ecological Modeling, ISEM North America 

Annual Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, August 6-10, 1989. 

39. Sakugawa, H., Tsai, W-T., Kaplan, I. R. and Cohen, Y., "Photochemical Generation of 

H 2 O 2 in the Los Angeles Atmosphere: Comparison of Field Data with Model Predictions,” 

American Chemical Society, Division of Environmental Chemistry, September 10-15, 

1989, Miami Beach, Florida. 

40. Cohen, Y. and D. T. Allen, "An Integrated Approach to Pollution Prevention Research," 

AIChE Symposium on "Pollution Prevention for the 1990's: A Chemical Engineering 

Challenge," December 4-5, 1989, Washington D.C. 

41. Cohen, Y. and P. A. Ryan, "NAPL and Contaminant Transport in the Soil Matrix,” ASCE 

Environmental Engineering Conference, Austin, Texas, July 10-12 (1989). Proceedings of 

the 1989 Society Conference, Malina, J. F. and C. W. Cook (Eds), ASCE, New York 

(1989). 

42. Cohen, Y., W-T. Tsai and S. Chetty, "Dynamic Partitioning of Organic Pollutants in the 

Multimedia Environment,” 10th Annual Meeting, Society of Environmental Toxicology 

and Chemistry, October 28-November 2, 1989, Toronto, Canada. 

43. Cohen, Y. and T. E. Browne, "Removal of Trichloroethylene and Chloroform by Polymeric 

Adsorbents,” Annual AIChE Meeting, November, 1989, San Francisco, CA. 

44. Cohen, Y., "Multimedia Transport,” Assessment of Human Exposure to Chemicals from 

Superfund Sites,” June 4-5, 1990, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan. 

45. Cohen, Y., "Fugacity Model Review,” July 9-10, 1990, University of Toronto, Toronto, 

Ontario, Canada. 

46. Parnas, . S. and Y. Cohen, "The Effect of Hydrodynamic Interactions of a Terminally 

Anchored Bead-Rod Model Chain in Simple Shear Flow,” Annual Meeting of the Material 

Research Society, November 1990, Boston, MA. 

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47. Chaimberg, M. and Y. Cohen, "Free-Radical Graft Polymerization of Vinyl Monomers 

Onto Silica,” Annual AIChE Meeting, November 11-16, 1990, Chicago, Illinois. 

48. Cohen, Y. and R. S. Parnas, " The Effect of Hydrodynamic Interactions on a Terminally 

Anchored Bead-Rod Model Chain," AIChE Annual Meeting, November 11-16, 1990, 

Chicago, Illinois. 

49. Seigneur, C., C. Whipple, Y. Cohen, et al., Formation of a Modular Mathematical Model 

for Multimedia Health Risk Assessment,” AIChE 1990 Summer Meeting, in Session 58: 

Control and Assessment of Impacts from Multimedia Toxic Chemical Releases. 

50. Cohen, Y., D. T. Allen and W-T Tsai, “Multimedia Assessment of Emissions from the 

AMOCO Oil Company Yorktown Refinery,” published in “AMOCO - U.S. EPA Pollution 

Prevention Project,” Yorktown, Virginia , March 1991. 

51. Cohen, Y. and D. T. Allen, "An Integrated Approach to Process Waste Minimization 

Research," Paper 91-84.6, 84th Annual Meeting of the Air & Waste Management 

Association, June 16-21, 1991, Vancouver, B.C. Canada. 

52. Cohen Y., D. T. Allen, R. Clay, W-T. Tsai, K. Rosselot, H. Klee and D. Blewitt, 

"Multimedia Assessment of Refinery Emissions," Paper 91-84.6, 84th Annual Meeting of 

the Air & Waste Management Association, June 16-21, 1991, Vancouver, B.C. Canada. 

53. Tsai, W-T., Y. Cohen, H. Sakugawa and I. R. Kaplan, "Rain Scavenging of Semi-Volatile 

Organics," 84th Annual Meeting of the Air & Waste Management Association, Paper 91- 

59.1, June 16-21, 1991, Vancouver, B.C. Canada. 

54. Seigneur, C. Whipple, C., P. Anderson, M. Bonfiglio, R. von Burg, D. Foliart, S. Foster, D. 

Galya, D. Liu, P. Ryan, A. Venkatram, A. Ziegler, Y. Cohen and T. Permutt, "Formulation 

of a Modular Mathematical Model for Multimedia Health Risk Assessment," 84th Annual 

Meeting of the Air & Waste Management Association, June 16-21, 1991, Vancouver, B.C. 

Canada. 

55. Cohen, Y. and V. Taepaisitphongse, "Adsorption of Water-Soluble Polymers onto 

Chemically Modified Silica Surfaces,” AIChE Annual Meeting, November 17-22, 1991, 

Los Angeles, California. 

56. Cohen, Y. and T. E. Browne, "Aqueous Phase Adsorption of Priority Pollutants onto 

Polymeric and Polymer-Grafted Resins,” AIChE Annual Meeting, November 17-22, 1991, 


57. Tsai, W-T., H. Sakugawa, I. R. Kaplan and Y. Cohen, "Rain Scavenging of Semi-Volatile 

Organics,” AIChE Annual Meeting, November 17-22, 1991, Los Angeles, California. 

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58. Cohen Y. and S. Chetty, "Total Dose Analysis,” Annual Meeting of the International 

Society for Exposure Analysis, Atlanta, Georgia, November 4-7, 1991. 

59. Monbouquette, H. G., Y. Cohen and R. G. Castro, "Surface Modification of Ceramic 

Membranes by Graft Polymerization,” AIChE Annual Meeting, November 17-22, 1991, 


60. Parnas, R. S. and Y. Cohen, "A Consistent Calculation of the Effective Hydrodynamic 

Thickness (EHT) of a Terminally Anchored Bead Rod Chain in Shear Flow,” AIChE 

Annual Meeting, November 17-22, 1991, Los Angeles, California. 

61. Gusler, G. M., T. E. Browne and Y. Cohen, "Anomalous Adsorption of Organics onto 

Polymeric Resins,” AIChE Annual Meeting, November 17-22, 1991., Los Angeles, 

California. 

62. Bobke, D. and Y. Cohen, "The Adsorption and Desorption of Organic Solutes on 

Polymeric Resins using an HPLC System,” AIChE Annual Meeting, November 17-22, 

1991, Los Angeles, California. 

63. Cohen, Y., "Transport and Fate of Organic Air Toxics in the Multimedia Environment," 

EPRI International Conference on Managing Hazardous Air Pollutants: State of the Art, 

November 4-6, 1991, Washington, D.C. 

64. Tsai, W-T. and Y. Cohen, "Rain Scavenging of Toxic Air Pollutants: The Need to Revisit 

the Application of the Rain-Scavenging-Ration Concept,” EPRI International Conference 

on Managing Hazardous Air Pollutants: State of the Art, November 4-6, 1991, Washington, 

D.C. 

65. Gusler, G. M., T. E., Browne and Y. Cohen, "Comparison of Polymeric Resins and 

Activated Carbon,” 23rd Annual Meeting of the Fine Particle Society Las Vegas, Nevada, 

July 13-17, 1992. 

66. Browne, T. E. and Y. Cohen, "Aqueous Adsorption of Priority Pollutants onto Polymeric 

Resins,” 23rd Annual Meeting of the Fine Particle Society Las Vegas, Nevada, July 13-17, 

1992. 

67. Pesinova, V., L. Creelman, A. M. Winer and Y. Cohen, "Intermedia Transfer Factors for 

Volatile Aromatic Hydrocarbons," Annual Air and Waste Management Association 

Meeting, Kansas City, Kansas, June 16-21, 1992, Paper 92-95.04. 

68. Cohen, Y. and R. E. Clay, "Multimedia Partitioning of Particle-Bound Organics,” AIChE 

Annual Meeting, 1-6 November, 1992, Miami Beach, FL. 

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69. Cohen, Y. and R. E. Clay, "Multimedia Partitioning of Particle-Bound Organics," AIChE 

Annual Meeting, 1-6 November, 1992, Miami Beach, Florida. 

70. Cohen, Y., "Integrated Multimedia Exposure Assessment," ATSDR International Congress 

on the Health Effects of Hazardous Waste, May 3-6, 1993, Atlanta, Georgia. 

71. Cohen, Y. and R. E. Clay, "Multimedia Transport and Fate of Particle-Bound Organics," 

Air & Waste Management Association Meeting, Paper 93-WA-73.04, June 11-18, 1993, 

Denver, Colorado. 

72. Van de Water, R. B. and Y. Cohen, "Multimedia Transport and Fate, Exposure and Risk 

Assessment: Strategies for Developing Evaluative, Integrated Computer Software," Air & 

Waste Management Association Meeting, Paper 93-WA-76.02, June 11-18, 1993, Denver, 

Colorado. 

73. Creelman, L. W., A. W. Winer and Y. Cohen, "Development of Intermedia Transfer 

Factors for Hexavalent Chromium," Air & Waste Management Association Meeting, Paper 

93-RA-116A.03, June 11-18, 1993, Denver, Colorado. 

74. Gusler, G. M., Y. Cohen and T. E. Browne, "Removal of Organics by Polymeric Resins: 

Adsorption or Absorption?" paper 186d, AICHE Annual Meeting, November 7-12, 1993, 

St. Louis, Missouri. 

75. Cohen, Y. and T. E. Browne, "A Screening-Level System for the Design of Polymeric 

Adsorption Resins," paper 184b, AICHE Annual Meeting, November 7-12, 1993, St. Louis, 

Missouri. 

76. Cohen, Y., G. M. Gusler and T. E. Browne, "Anomalous Bi-Solute Adsorption of Organics 

by Polymeric Resins," paper 159a, AICHE Annual Meeting, November 7-12, 1993, St. 

Louis, Missouri. 

77. Cohen, Y., "Volatile Organic Compounds in the Environment: A Multimedia Perspective," 

invited keynote speech, The First ASTM International Symposium on VOCs in the 

Environment, Montreal, Canada, April 11-13 (1994). 

78. Cohen, Y., "Multimedia Risk Assessment of Hazardous Waste Sites and Uncertainties,” 

invited paper, Seventh Annual Workshop of the Southern California Chapter for Risk 

Analysis, May 19, 1994, University of Southern California. 

79. Castro, R. P., Y. Cohen and H. G. Monbouquette, "Treatment of Oil in Water Emulsions by 

Ceramic-Supported Polymer Membrane," ASCE 1994 National Conference on 

Environmental Engineering, July 11-13, 1994, Boulder, Colorado. 

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80. Cohen, Y. and J. Klein, "Dynamic Column Adsorption and Regeneration Studies with 

Polymeric Resins," AIChE Annual Meeting, November 13-18, 1994, San Francisco, CA. 

81. Castro, R. P. and Y. Cohen, "Ceramic-Supported Polymer Membrane for Ultrafiltration 

Applications," AIChE Annual Meeting, November 13-18, 1994, San Francisco, CA. 

82. Cohen, Y. and R. van de Water, "Software for Multimedia Analysis of Chemical 

Contaminants,” Evirosoft, 1994, November 16-19, 1994, San Francisco, CA. 

83. Cohen, Y., “Environmental Risk Reduction,” Annual Meeting of the Center for Clean 

Technology, November, 1995. 

84. Cohen, Y., “Multimedia Distribution of Chemical Contaminants: An Integrated Modeling 

Approach,” invited paper, Eight Annual Workshop on Current Issues in Risk Assessment 

and Human Health, Southern California Chapter for Risk Analysis, May 18, 1995, Los 

Angeles, CA. 

85. Cohen Y. And F. Giralt, “Strategies in Pollution Prevention: Waste Minimization and 

Source Reduction,” 2a ConferPncia Internacional Sobre Miniització de Residus i Producció 

Neta, June 7-9, 1995, Barcelona, Spain. 

86. Cohen, Y. “Intermedia and Multimedia Transport of Chemical Pollutants,” invited Speaker, 

6th International Conference on Conservation and Management of Lakes, October 23-27, 

1995, Tsukuba, Japan. 

87. Cohen Y. and R. B. Van de Water, “Multimedia Distribution of Chemical Contaminants: 

An Integrated Modeling Approach,” Second World SETAC Congress, November 5-9, 1995 

Vancouver, BC, Canada. 

88. Cohen, Y. and R. Vohra, “Dynamic Bioaccumulation of Organics in Finned Fish,” Second 

World SETAC Congress, November 5-9, 1995 Vancouver, BC, Canada. 

89. Cohen, Y., R. P. Castro and H. G. Monbouquette, “Ceramic Membrane Modification by 

Graft Polymerization,” AIChE Annual Meeting, November 12-17, 1995, Miami Beach, 

Florida. 

90. Font, J., Y. He, J-D. Jou, R. Castro and Y. Cohen, “Ceramic-Supported Polymer 

Membranes for Pervaporation of Volatile Organic Compounds from Dilute Aqueous 

Solutions,” AIChE Annual Meeting, November 12-17, 1995, Miami Beach, Florida. 

91. Jou, D-J, Y. He and Y. Cohen, “Free-Radical Graft Polymerization of Vinyl Monomer onto 

Silica,” AIChE Annual Meeting, November 12-17, 1995, Miami Beach, Florida. 

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92. Cohen, Y., I. Cuesta, X. Grau and F. Giralt, “Hydrodynamics and Mass Transfer in 

Shallow Liquid Ponds Due to Surface Shear,” AIChE Annual Meeting, November 12-17, 

1995, Miami Beach, Florida. 

93. Cohen, Y., “Environmental Multimedia Assessment,” AIChE Annual Meeting, November 

10-15, 1996, Chicago, IL. 

94. Cohen, Y., “Current Trends in Human Health Risk Assessment,” Panel Member, Southern 

California Society for Risk Analysis, 9 th Annual Meeting and Workshop, Current Issues in 

Risk Management and Human Health, May 23, 1996, University of Southern California, 


95. Cohen, Y., I. Park, A. Markov, “Removal of Organics from Aqueous systems using 

Macronet Resins: Dynamic Sorption and Regeneration,” AIChE Annual Meeting, 

November 10-15, 1996, Chicago, IL. 

96. Cohen, Y., R. P. Castro, J-D Jou and H. G. Monbouquette, “Ceramic-Supported Polymer 

Membranes for Ultrafiltration,” AIChE Annual Meeting, November 10-15, 1996, Chicago, 

IL. 

97. Faibish, T., Cohen, Y. and M. Elimelech, “Effect of Interparticle Interactions on Flux 

Decline in Crossflow Membrane Filtration of Colloidal Suspensions.” North American 

Membrane Society Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, USA, May 1997. 

98. Cohen, Y., “Endocrine Disruptors: What Are the Most Appropriate Approaches to 

Estimating Exposure,” invited panel member, 7 th Annual Meeting of the International 

Society for Exposure Analysis, November 3-5, 1997, RTP, NC. 

99. Cohen, Y. and R. Van de Water, “Modular Environmental Multimedia Analysis Software,” 

18 th Annual Meeting, Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, November 16- 

20, 1997. 

100. Yaffe, D. And Y. Cohen, “Polyaromatic Hydrocarbons and their Nitro-PAH Daughter 

Products,” 18 th Annual Meeting, Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 16- 

20, November, 1997. 

101. Ron Faibish, Y. Cohen and M. Elimelech, “Crossflow Membrane Filtration of Colloidal 

Suspensions,” Poster Presentation, Gordon Research Conference on Membrane: Materials 

and Synthesis, New Hampshire, July , 1997. 

102. Cohen, Y., “Ceramic-Supported Polymer Membranes,” Gordon Research Conference on 

Membrane: Materials and Synthesis,” New Hampshire, July, 1997. 

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103. Cohen, Y. and J. Grifoll, “Infiltration of Liquid Contaminants in Nearly Dry Soils,” 

AIChE Annual Meeting, Miami Beach, FL, November 15-20, 1998. 

104. Grifoll, J. and Y. Cohen, “Front Tracking Numerical Algorithm for Liquid Infiltration into 

Nearly Dry Soils,” 1998 Symposium on Environmental Models and Experiments: 

EnviroMeet’98, July 20-23, 1998, Irvine, California. 

105. Yoshida, W., Y. Cohen and Jeng-Deng J., “Graft Polymerization and Application to 

ceramic Supported Polymer Pervaporation membranes for VOC Removal,” AICHE Annual 

Meeting, Miami Beach, FL, November 15-20, 1998. 

106. Cohen, Y. and E. Cooter, “Integrated Multimedia Assessment,” AICHE Annual Meeting, 

Miami Beach, FL, November 15-20, 1998. 

107. Yaffe, D. and Y. Cohen, “Multimedia Distribution and Environmental Impact of PAHs and 

their Nitro-PAH daughter Products,” AICHE Annual Meeting, Miami Beach, FL, 

November 15-20, 1998. 

108. Rovira, M., F. Giralt and Y. Cohen, “Protein Fouling Reduction on ceramic Membranes via 

Graft Polymerization,” AICHE Annual Meeting, Miami Beach, FL, November 15-20, 1998. 

109. Cohen, Y. and J.D. Jou, “Ceramic-Supported Polymer Pervaporation Membranes for VOC 

Removal,” 10 th Annual Meeting of the North American Membrane Society, May 19-20, 

1998, Cleveland, OH. 

110. Cohen, Y., W. Yoshida and Jeng-Deng, J., “CSP Membranes,” invited poster presentation, 

DOE First Annual Environmental Management Science Program Scientific Workshop, 

Rosemont, IL, July 27-30, 1998. 

111. Yaffe, D. and Y. Cohen, “Multimedia Risk Assessment for PAH and Nitro-PAHS,” Annual 

Air and Water Management Meeting, North Carolina, September, 1998. 

112. Faibish, R.S., Y. Cohen and M. Elimelech, “Ceramic-Supported Polymeric Membranes for 

Filtration of Stable Oil-in-Water Microemulsions.” International Congress on Membranes 

and Membrane Processes, Toronto, Canada, June 1999 

113. Ron Faibish and Y. Cohen, Crossflow Ultrafiltration of Oil-in-Water Microemulsions with 

Polymer-Modified Ceramic Membranes, 1999 AIChE Annual Meeting, October 31- 

November 5, 1999, Dallas, TX. 

114. Yoshida, Y., Jeng-dung Jou, Y. Liang, Y. Cohen, “Graft Polymerized Poly (vinyl acetate) 

and Poly(vinylpyrrolidone) Layers on Inorganic Substrates for Membrane Separations,” 

1999 AIChE Annual Meeting, October 31-November 5, 1999, Dallas, TX. 

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115. Yoram Cohen, Environmental Multimedia Distribution of Toxics (Mend-Tox), 1999 

AIChE Annual Meeting, October 31-November 5, 1999, Dallas, TX. 

116. Cohen, Y., Polymer at Solid Surfaces for Novel Membranes, Chemistry for a Cleaner 

Environment (January 29-February 2, 2000), Santa Fe New Mexico. 

117. Faibish, R. and Y. Cohen, Novel Polymer-Modified Ceramic Membrane for the Treatment 

of Oily Aqueous Waste, Poster Presentation, North American Membrane Society (NAMS) 

Annual Meeting, Boulder, CO, USA, May 2000. 

118. Yoshida, H. W. and Y. Cohen, Characterization of Polymer-Modified Ceramic Membranes, 

American Membrane Society (NAMS) Annual Meeting, Boulder, CO, USA, May 2000. 

119. Faibish, R. and Y. Cohen, Novel Polymer-Modified Ceramic (PMC) Membranes for the 

Filtration of Stable Oil-in-Water (O/W) Microemulsions, Poster Presentation, 74th Colloid 

and Surface Science Symposium, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA, June 2000. 

120. Faibish, R. and Y. Cohen, Fouling-Resistant Polymer-Modified Ceramic Membranes for 

Ultrafiltration of Oil-In-Water Microemulsions, Poster Presentation, Euromembrane 2000, 

September 2000, Israel. 

121. Yoshida, H. W. and Y. Cohen, "Characterization of Graft Polymerized Layers on Inorganic 

Substrates," AIChE Annual Meeting, November 11-17, 2000, Los Angeles, CA. 

122. Cohen, Y. and E. Cooter, "A Dynamic Simulator of Environmental Chemical Partitioning,” 

AIChE Annual Meeting, November 11-17, 2000, Los Angeles, CA. 

123. Nguyen, N. V. and Y. Cohen, "Kinetics of Graft Polymerization of Vinyl(pyrrolidone) onto 

Vinyl Silane-Modified Silica Surface," AIChE Annual Meeting, November 11-17, 2000, 

Los Angeles, CA. 

124. Yoshida, H. W. and Y. Cohen, "Pervaporation Removal of MTBE from Aqueous Solutions 

Using Ceramic Supported Polymer (CSP) Pervaporation Membranes,” AIChE Annual 

Meeting, November 11-17, 2000, Los Angeles, CA. 

125. Faibish, R., W. Yoshida and Y. Cohen, Topology and Wetting Characteristics of 

Terminally Grafted Polymer Chains on Ceramic Surfaces," AIChE Annual Meeting, 

November 11-17, 2000, Los Angeles, CA. 

126. Faibish, R. and Y. Cohen, Fouling-Resistant Polymer-Modified Ceramic Membranes for 

Ultrafiltration of Oil-In-Water Microemulsions, AIChE Annual Meeting, November 11-17, 

2000, Los Angeles, CA. 

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127. Giralt, F. G. Espinosa, A. Arenas, D. L. Yaffe and Y. Cohen, Estimation of Diverse 

Physical Properties of Organic Compounds with a Modified Fuzzy ARTMAP Neural 

System, AIChE Annual Meeting, November 11-17, 2000, Los Angeles, CA 

128. Yaffe, D. L., Y. Cohen, Giralt, F. G. Espinosa and A. Arenas, Estimation of 

Physicochemical Properties for Environmental Multimedia Analysis using Neural- 

Networks, AIChE Annual Meeting, November 11-17, 2000, Los Angeles, CA. 

129. Wai, Ron-Lee, A. Tsao, J. Glater and Y. Cohen, “Nanofiltration Membranes for 

Agricultural Water Reclamation,” Annual North American Membrane Society Meeting, 

May 15-18, 2001, Lexington, Kentucky. 

130. Cohen, Y., L. P. G. Villaluenga and W. Yoshida and, “Non-isothermal Pervaporation 

Model,” Annual North American Membrane Society Meeting, May 15-18, 2001, Lexington, 

Kentucky. 

131. Cohen, Y., J. Glater, A. Tsao and R-W Lee, "Nanofiltration Membranes for Agricultural 

Drainage Water Reclamation," International Conference on Membrane Technology for 

Wastewater Reclamation and Reuse, September 9-13, 2001, Tel-Aviv, Israel. 

132. Yaffe, D. L., Y. Cohen, Giralt, F. G. Espinosa and A. Arenas, “Neural Network- based 

Molecular Models for Estimating Physicochemical Properties for Environmental Analysis,” 

Annual AIChE Meeting, November 4-9, 2001, Reno, NV. 

133. Yoshida, H. W and Y. Cohen, “Multilayer Alkoxy Silane Silylation of Inorganic Oxide 

Surfaces,” poster presented at the Annual AIChE Meeting, November 4-9, 2001, Reno, NV 

134. Yaffe, D. L. and Y. Cohen, “Neural Network-Molecular Descriptor-based Models for 

Predicting Vapor Pressure of Hydrocarbons,” Annual AIChE Meeting, November 4-9, 

2001, Reno, NV. 

135. Cohen, Y. and J. P. G Villaluenga, “Non-Isothermal Pervaporation Model,” Annual AIChE 

Meeting, November 4-9, 2001, Reno, NV. 

136. Espinosa, G., Arenas, A., Giralt, F., Amat, L., Girones, X., Carbo-Dorca, R. and Y. Cohen 

“Prediction of Activity Coefficients of Organic Compounds in Water at Infinite Dilution 

with an Integrated SOM-Fuzzy ARTMAP Neural System,” SETAC Europe 12th Annual 

Meeting, Vienna, May, 2002. 

137. Yoshida, H. W and Y. Cohen, ”Surface Engineering of Grafted Polymers on Inorganic 

Oxide Substrates for Membrane Pervaporation,” North American Membrane Society 

Meeting, May 11-15, 2002, Long Beach, CA. 

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138. Villaluenga, J. P.G and Y. Cohen, “Non-isothermal effects in Pervaporation,” North 

American Membrane Society Meeting, May 11-15, 2002, Long Beach, CA. 

139. Cohen, Y., “Desalination of Agricultural Drainage Water: Future Challenges,” Plenary 

lecture, North American Membrane Society Meeting, May 11-15, 2002, Long Beach, CA. 

140. Cohen, Y., “Scale Formation and Control,” Desalination Innovation Research Partnership, 

Annual Meeting, October 8, 2002, Los Angeles, CA. 

141. Wayne,, H. Y. and Y. Cohen, “Surface Engineering of Grafted Polymers on Inorganic 

Oxide Substrates for Membrane Pervaporation,” Annual AIChE Meeting, November 3-8, 

2002, Indianapolis, IN. 

142. Giralt, F., G. Espinosa, A. Arenas, E. Besalú, X. Girones , R. Carbo-Dorca and Y. Cohen, 

“QSAR Based on Cognitive Neural Systems for Anti-HIV Activity Derivatives,” Annual 

AIChE Meeting, November 3-8, 2002, Indianapolis, IN. 

143. Grifoll, J., J. M. Gasto, and Y. Cohen, “Modeling and Numerical Simulation of Nonisothermal 

Water and Organic Solute Transport in Soil Vadose Zone,” Annual AIChE 

Meeting, November 3-8, 2002, Indianapolis, IN. 

144. Nguyen, V. and Y. Cohen, “Graft Polymerization of Vinyl Acetate onto Silica,” Annual 

AIChE Meeting, November 3-8, 2002, Indianapolis, IN. 

145. Williams, M., R. Evangelista and Y. Cohen, “Non-Isothermal Process for Recovering 

Reverse Osmosis Concentrate: Process Chemistry and Kinetics,” 2002 Water Quality 

Technology Conference, American Water Works Association, November 10-14, 2002, 

Seattle, Washington. 

146. Espinosa, G., Arenas, A., Giralt, F., Amat, L., Girones, X., Carbo-Dorca, R., and Y. Cohen, 

“Carcinogenicity Prediction by using SOM Prototypes & Fuzzy ARTMAP Neural 

Networks,” SETAC Europe 13th Annual Meeting, Hamburg, April-May, 2003 

147. Wen-Yi Shih and Y. Cohen, “Axial Development of CaSO 4 crystals on Reverse Osmosis 

Membranes,”, 2003 North American Membrane Society, May 17-21, 2003, Snow King 

Resort Hotel, Jackson Hole, Wyoming. 

148. Ron-Wai Lee, Wen-Yi Shih, Y. Cohen, and Mark D. Williams, “Flux Decline due to 

Gypsum Scale Formation in RO Desalting,” May 17-21, 2003, Snow King Resort Hotel, 

Jackson Hole, Wyoming. 

149. Nguyen, V and Y. Cohen, “Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization of 4-Vinylpyridine”, 

Annual AIChE Meeting, November 16-21, 2003, San Francisco, CA. 

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150. Cohen, Y., R-W Lee, W-Y Shih, J. Glater, J Gao and M. Williams, “Membrane 

Desalination of High Salinity Surface and Agricultural Drainage Waters - Mineral Salt 

Scale Formation and Control,” Annual AIChE Meeting, November 16-21, 2003, San 

Francisco, CA. 

151. W-Shih, R-W, Lee, J. Gao, J. Glater and Y. Cohen, “Surface Characterization of CaSO 4 

Crystals on RO Membranes,” Annual AIChE Meeting, November 16-21, 2003, San 

Francisco, CA. 

152. Cohen, Y., J. Gao, A. Rahardianto and J. Glater, “Enhanced Water Recovery from 

Membrane RO Concentrate: Process Evaluation, Membrane Scaling and Precipitation 

Kinetics”, Annual AIChE Meeting, November 16-21, 2003, San Francisco, CA. 

153. F. Giralt, G. Espinosa, A. Arenas, Y. Cohen, J. Ferre-Gine and R. Carbo-Dorca, 

“Extraction of molecular features with self-organizing maps to estimate infinite dilution 

activity coefficients of organic compounds in water by a fuzzy ARTMAP neural classifier”, 

Annual AIChE Meeting, November 16-21, 2003, San Francisco, CA. 

154. F. Giralt, G. Espinosa, R. Rallo, A. Arenas, Y. Cohen R. Carbo-Dorca, “A Predictive 

Methodology for Carcinogenicity and Drug Activity Based on Neural Networks”, (poster 

presentation), Annual AIChE Meeting, November 16-21, 2003, San Francisco, CA. 

162. Gabelich, C. J., F. W. Gerringer, J. C. Franklin, J. Gao, Y. Cohen, and I. H. Suffet, 

Reverse Osmosis Pretreatment: Challenges With Conventional Treatment, p1-15, in 

Proceedings of the 2004 AWWA ACE Meeting, Orlando, Florida. 

155. Shih, W-Y, A. Rahardianto and Y. Cohen, “Characterization and Analysis of mineral salt 

scale formation in membrane desalting on surface water and agricultural drainage water”, 

227th ACS National Meeting, March 28- April 1 2004, Anaheim Convention Center, 

Anaheim, California. 

156. Cohen, Y., Junbo Gao, Anditya Rahardianto, Wen-Yi Shih, Julius Glater, Mark Williams, 

Christopher Gabelich, "Membrane desalination of high salinity agricultural drainage water 

and surface water: Mitigation of mineral salt scaling and enhancement of product water 

recovery", 2004 NAMS Meeting, June 26-30, 2004, Honolulu, Hawaii. 

157. Wen-Yi Shih, Anditya Rahardianto, Julius Glater, Yoram Cohen, “Development of mineral 

salt scale on RO membranes and surrogate surfaces”, 2004 NAMS Meeting, June 26-30, 

2004, Honolulu, Hawaii. 

158. Cohen, Y., “Low Pressure membrane desalination - the quest for high product water 

recovery,” Advanced Membrane Technology II, Engineering Conferences International, 

May 23-28, 2004, Kloster Irsee, Irsee, Germany. 

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159. Raharidianto, A., and Y. Cohen, “Enhanced Water Recovery from Primary Membrane 

Desalination Concentrate by Precipitative Softening and Secondary Membrane 

Desalination,” AIChE Annual Meeting, November 7-12, 2004 in Austin, Texas. 

160. G. Lewis, “Surface Nanstructuring of Inorganic Oxide Surfaces by Atmospheric Pressure 

Plasma-Induced Graft Polymerization,” AIChE Annual Meeting, November 7-12 in Austin, 

Texas. 

161. Cohen, Y., A. Mofidi, C. J. Gabelich, M. D. Williams and Y. Tae I, “The Desalination 

Research and Innovation Partnership (DRIP) - A Cooperative Research Effort to Lower the 

Costs of Membrane Desalting in California,” AIChE Annual Meeting, November 7-12, 

2004 in Austin, Texas. 

162. Rahardianto, A., W-Y Shih, Y. Cohen and M. D. Williams, “Enhanced Water Recovery 

from Primary Membrane Desalination Concentrate by Precipitative Softening and 

Secondary Membrane Desalination”, Annual AIChE Meeting, November 7 – 12 2004, 

Austin Convention Center, Austin, TX 

163. Katner, A. and Y. Cohen, “Improvement of Risk Assessments in the Face of Critical Data 

Gaps: Chemical Ranking, Dose Reconstruction, and Tiered Screening of Exposure 

Scenarios for Informed Regulatory Decision-Making", Association of Schools of Public 

Health, Fifth Conference on Environmental Health Risk: Assessment, Management, 

Communications, July 12-13, 2005, McNamara Alumni Center, University of Minnesota, 

Minneapolis, MN. 

164. Cohen, Y., “Low pressure membrane desalting of brackish water at high product water 

recovery – mineral scale formation and mitigation,” Gordon Conference on “Membranes: 

Materials and Processes”, August 1-6, 2004, Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH. 

165. E. Lyster and Y. Cohen, “Numerical Modeling of Concentration Polarization and Mineral 

Scale Formation: Effects of Channel Geometry and Spacer Design,” Spring 2005 Meeting 

of the AWWA CA-NV Section, City of Industry, CA, April 4-8, 2005. 

166. Shih, W-Y and Y. Cohen, “Mineral Salt Crystallization on RO membranes and Surrogate 

Surfaces,” Spring 2005 Meeting of the AWWA CA-NV Section, City of Industry, CA, 

April 4-8, 2005. 

167. Rahardianto, A., “Enhanced Desalination Water Recovery by Induced Mineral 

Precipitation and Secondary Reverse Osmosis Desalting,” Spring 2005 Meeting of the 

AWWA CA-NV Section, City of Industry, CA, April 4-8, 2005. 

168. Katner A. and Y. Cohen, “Exposure Assessment Involving an Aerospace Facility With 

Limited Monitoring Data,” International Conference on Environmental Science and 

Technology, January 23-26, 2005, New Orleans, Louisiana. 

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169. Lyster, E. and Y. Cohen, “Numerical Model of Concentration Polarization: Considerations 

of Membrane Channel Geometry and Spacer Configurations,” 2005 Annual Meeting, North 

American Membrane Society, Providence, Rhode Island, June 11-15, 2005. 

170. Lyster, E., A. Rahardianto, M. Uchymiak and Y. Cohen, “Mineral Salt Scale Development 

in RO Membrane Desalting: A Predictive Numerical Model for Unsteady State Scale 

Formation,” 2005 Annual Meeting, North American Membrane Society, Providence, 

Rhode Island, June 11-15, 2005. 

171. Uchymiak, M. and Y. Cohen, “A Novel Ex-Situ Scale Observation Detector (EXSOD) for 

Mineral Scale Characterization and Online RO Process Monitoring,” 2005 Annual Meeting, 

North American Membrane Society, Providence, Rhode Island, June 11-15, 2005. 

172. Shih, W-Y and Y. Cohen, “Mineral Salt Crystallization on Surrogate Polymeric Surfaces 

and RO Membranes,” 2005 Annual Meeting, North American Membrane Society, 

Providence, Rhode Island, June 11-15, 2005. 

173. Libotean, D., Giralt, J., Rallo, R., Cohen, Y., and F. Giralt, “Reverse Osmosis QSAR 

Model Using Neural Networks Neural Networks Summer School,” Porto, July, 2005. 

174. Kampalath, A. R. and Y. Cohen, “Controlling Environmental Risk to an Urban Stream Via 

TMDLs: Ballona Creek Case Study,” Annual AIChE Meeting, October 30-November 4, 

2005, Cincinnati, Ohio. 

175. Katner, A. and Y. Cohen, “Environmental Community Impact Assessment Associated with 

a Multiuse Industrial Facility: Scientific Rigor, Uncertainties, Transparency and 

Participation of Stake Holders,” Annual AIChE Meeting, October 30-November 4, 2005, 

Cincinnati, Ohio. 

176. Shih, W-Y and Y. Cohen, “Mineral Salt Crystallization on Ro Membranes and Surrogate 

Surfaces,” Annual AIChE Meeting, October 30-November 4, 2005, Cincinnati, Ohio. 

177. Lewis, T. G. and Y. Cohen, “Plasma-Induced Graft Polymerization of Grafted Nanofilms 

onto Inorganic Surfaces,” Annual AIChE Meeting, October 30-November 4, 2005, 

Cincinnati, Ohio. 

178. Lyster, E., “A Predictive Numerical Model for Unsteady State Scale Formation in a Spiral- 

Wound Membrane Module with Channel Spacers,” Annual AIChE Meeting, October 30- 

November 4, 2005, Cincinnati, Ohio. 

179. Cohen, Y., “Membrane Surface Nano-Structuring: Selectivity Enhancement, Fouling 

Reduction and Mineral Scale Formation,” Invited Presentation, U.S. - Israeli Workshop on 

Nanotechnology for Water Purification, Arlington, VA, March 13-15, 2006. 

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180. Cohen, Y., "Membrane Desalination of Agricultural Drainage Water - Opportunities and 

Limitations,” Invited Presentation, 2006 Salinity Drainage Conference, Water Resources 

Center, Sacramento, CA, March 29, 2006. 

181. Cohen, Y., “Desalination Process Limitations and Enhancements ,”, Invited Plenary 

Presentation, California/Nevada Section American Water Works Association (CA/NV 

AWWA) 2006 Spring Conference, Burlingame, CA April 24-28, 2006 

182. Uchymiak, M., E. Lyster, J. Glater and Y. Cohen “A novel ex-situ scale observation 

detector (EXSOD) for mineral scale characterization and online RO process monitoring,” 

California/Nevada Section American Water Works Association (CA/NV AWWA) 2006 

Spring Conference, Burlingame, CA April 24-28, 2006. 

183. Rahardianto, A., B. C. McCool, S. Rezvani and Y. Cohen, “High Recovery Desalination of 

Agricultural Drainage Water: Integration of Accelerated Seeded Precipitation with RO 

Membrane Desalination,” California/Nevada Section American Water Works Association 

(CA/NV AWWA) 2006 Spring Conference, Burlingame, CA April 24-28, 2006. 

184. Shih, W-Y and Y. Cohen, “Crystallization on RO membranes and surrogate surfaces,”, 

Poster Presentation, California/Nevada Section American Water Works Association 

(CA/NV AWWA) 2006 Spring Conference, Burlingame, CA April 24-28, 2006. 

185. Uchymiak, M., E. Lyster, J. Glater and Y. Cohen, “Direct Optical Detection of Mineral 

Scale Formation and Gypsum Surface Crystallization Kinetics on Reverse Osmosis 

Membranes,” 2006 North American Membrane Society Meeting, May 12-17, 2006. 

186. Uchymiak, M., E. Lyster and Y. Cohen , “Ex-Situ Scale Observation Detector (EXSOD) 

for Early Detection of Mineral Scale Formation and Surface Crystallization Kinetics on RO 

Membranes,” poster presentation, 2006 North American Membrane Society Meeting, May 

12-17, 2006. 

187. Shih, W-Y, H-Y Nancy Lin, G. Lewis, E. Lyster and Y. Cohen, “Mineral Salt 

Crystallization on RO Membranes and Nano-Structured Polymer Surfaces,” CA/NV 

AWWA 2006 Fall Conference, Long Beach, CA, October 2-5, 2006. 

188. Cohen, Y., E. M.V. Hoek, P. Christofides, J. Glater and Francesc P. Giralt, “Advanced 

Desalination Research and Training at the UCLA Water Technology Research Center,” 

CA/NV AWWA 2006 Fall Conference, Long Beach, CA, October 2-5, 2006. 

189. Rahardianto, A., B. McCool, M. Uchymiak and Y. Cohen, “Impact of Mixed Mineral Salt 

Scaling and Its Mitigation in Brackish Water RO Desalination,” CA/NV AWWA 2006 Fall 

Conference, Long Beach, CA, October 2-5, 2006. 

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190. Uchymiak, M., E. Lyster, J. Glater and Y. Cohen, “Direct Observational Monitoring of RO 

Membrane Scaling in Brackish Water Desalination,” (CA/NV AWWA) 2006 Spring 

Conference, Burlingame, CA April 24-28, 2006. 

191. Martinez, I., Espinosa, G., Grifoll, J., Cohen, Y., and F. Giralt (2006) Modelling chemical 

multimedia partitioning with neural networks, SETAC Europe 16th Annual Meeting, The 

Hague, May 2006. 

192. Espinosa, G., Rallo,R., Grifoll, J., Vogel, T., Cohen, Y., and F. Giralt (2006) Cognitive 

neural networks analysis of organic pollutants persistence in the environment, SETAC 

Europe 16th Annual Meeting, The Hague, May 2006. 

193. Lyster, E., M. Uchymiak and Y. Cohen, “Numerical Modeling Mineral Salt Surface 

Scaling in Reverse Osmosis Modules using Single Crystal Growth Kinetics,” CA/NV 

AWWA 2006 Fall Conference, Long Beach, CA, October 2-5, 2006. 

194. Cohen, Y., “Desalination Process Development and Diagnostic,” First Western Workshop 

on Water Technology Research,” September 29, 2006, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA. 

195. Lyster, E., M. Uchymiak, F. Giralt and Y. Cohen, “Numerical Modeling Mineral Salt 

Surface Scaling in Reverse Osmosis Modules Using Single Crystal Growth Kinetics,” 

Session: Desalination Processes, Annual AIChE Meeting, November 12-17, 2006, San 

Francisco, California. 

196. Rallo, R., G. Espinosa, T. M. Vogel, Y. Cohen and F. Giralt, “Quantitative Structure 

Biodegradation Relationships for Organic Pollutants in Water and Soil,” Session: 

Advanced Computations for Environmental Applications I, Annual AIChE Meeting, 


197. Rahardianto, A., Y. Cohen M. Uchymiak, “Mixed Mineral Scale Formation in Low- 

Pressure Reverse Osmosis Membrane,” Session: Desalination Processes – II, Annual 

AIChE Meeting, November 12-17, 2006, San Francisco, California. 

198. Martinez, I., G. Espinosa, R. Rallo, J. Grifoll1, Y. Cohen and F. Giralt, “A Method for 

Modeling Chemical Multimedia Partitioning with Neural Networks and Classifiers,” 

Session: Environmental Fate and Transport Processes I, Annual AIChE Meeting, 


199. Libotean, D., J. Giralt, Y. Cohen, and F. Giralt, “Neural Network Approach for Modeling 

the Performance of RO Membrane Processes,” Session: Advanced Computations and 

Numerical Models in Water Technology and Resource Management – I, Annual AIChE 

Meeting, November 12-17, 2006, San Francisco, California. 

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200. Uchymiak, M., E. Lyster, J. Glater and Y. Cohen, “Real-Time Mineral Scale Detection and 

Characterization Using a High Pressure Ro Ex-Situ Scale Observation Detector,” Session: 

Desalination Processes – I, Annual AIChE Meeting, November 12-17, 2006, San Francisco, 

California. 

201. Lewis, G. and Y. Cohen, “Integrating Plasma Surface Initiation with Living Nitroxide- 

Mediated Polymerization: Novel Approach to Graft Polymerization,” Polymer Thin Films 

and Interfaces II, Annual AIChE Meeting, November 12-17, 2006, San Francisco, 

California. 

202. Hsiao-Yu Nancy Lin, H-Y, G. T. Lewis, W-Y Shih, M. Uchymiak and Y. Cohen, 

“Fundamental Characterization of Surface Mineral Crystallization on Aromatic Polyamide 

Ro Membrane Surfaces,” Session: Novel Techniques for Membrane Characterization and 

Functionalization, Annual AIChE Meeting, November 12-17, 2006, San Francisco, 

California. 

203. McCool, B. C., A. Rahardianto, S. Rezvani and Y. Cohen, “Technical and Economic 

Feasibility of Reverse Osmosis Reclamation of Agricultural Drainage Water in the San 

Joaquin Valley,” Session: Novel Membranes and Membrane Processes for Water 

Treatment and Production, Annual AIChE Meeting, November 12-17, 2006, San Francisco, 

California. 

204. Cohen, Y., invited panel member, Applied Membranes Workshop on Water Recycling, 

Australian Water Association, UNSW and Victoria University, Sydney, Australia , 

December 1, 2006. 

205. Cohen, Y., invited presentation, “High recovery brackish water desalination,” Engineering 

Conference International (ECI) Conference on Water Treatment and Reuse II, Tomar, 

Portugal, February 8-11, 2007. 

206. Cohen Y., Christofides P., Giralt F., Giralt J., Libotean D., McFall C., Uchymiak M., 

Rahardianto A., Lyster E. , “High Efficiency Reverse Osmosis Desalination – Process 

Integration and Control”, International Conference on Water Treatment and Reuse II, 

Tomar (Portugal), February 8-11, 2007. 

207. Cohen, Y., invited panelist, "Danger on the Delta" conference, Aquarium of the Pacific, 

Long Beach, CA, March 13, 2007. 

208. Cohen, Y., “The Water-Energy Nexus,” presented at the Faculty Workshop in Energy 

Related Research,” Organized by the Strategic Planning Group-Office of the Vice 

Chancellor for Research (OVCR), April 12, 2007, UCLA. 

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209. Dan Libotean, Jaume Giralt, Robert Rallo, Yoram Cohen and Francesc Giralt, “Neural 

Network QSAR Analysis of Organic Compounds Rejection and Fouling in RO 

Membranes,” paper presented at the “Monitoring and mitigation of fouling” Session, 2007 

North American membrane Society Meeting, Orlando, FL May 12-16 (2007. (This work 

was also presented in a Poster Session in the same meeting). 

210. Dan Libotean, Jaume Giralt, Yoram Cohen and Francesc Giralt “RO Membrane Plant 

Performance Modeling with Neural Networks,” paper presented at the “Membrane process 

modeling and simulation” Session, 2007 North American membrane Society Meeting, 

Orlando, FL May 12-16 (2007. (Also presented in a Poster Session in the same meeting). 

211. Espinosa G., Rallo R., Vogel T., Cohen Y., Giralt, F. , “Structure biodegradation 

relationships for organic pollutants in water and soil,” SETAC Europe 17th Annual 

Meeting, Porto, May, 2007. 

212. Martínez I., Espinosa G., Rallo R, Grifoll J., Cohen Y., Giralt F., “Estimation of 

Environmental Multimedia Partitioning of Pollutants from Molecular Descriptors using 

Artificial Neural Networks,” SETAC Europe 17th Annual Meeting, Porto, May, 2007. 

213. Anditya Rahardianto, Brian McCool, Michal Uchymiak and Yoram Cohen, “RO 

Membrane Desalination of Inland Brackish Water: Scaling by Gypsum in the Presence of 

Bicarbonate,” paper presented at the “Characterization and prediction of fouling” Session, 

2007 North American Membrane Society Meeting, Orlando, FL May 12-16 (2007. (This 

work was also presented in a Poster Session in the same meeting). 

214. Hsiao-Yu Nancy Lin, Gregory Lewis, Wen-Yi Shih and Yoram Cohen, “The impact of 

surface topology on the scaling propensity of polyamide membranes” paper presented at 

the “Characterization and Prediction of Fouling,” 2007 North American Membrane Society 

Meeting, Orlando, FL May 12-16 (2007). (This work was also presented in a Poster 

Session in the same meeting). 

215. Myung-man Kim, James Au, Julius Glater, Yoram Cohen and Fredrick W. Gerringer, 

“Diagnostic antiscalant screening for brackish water RO desalination with conventional 

feed pretreatment,” paper presented at the “Monitoring and mitigation of fouling” Session, 

2007 North American membrane Society Meeting, Orlando, FL May 12-16 (2007. (This 

work was also presented in a Poster Session in the same meeting). 

216. Myung-man, K., A. Rahardianto, E. Lyster, Y. Cohen and James Au, “Kinetics Of RO 

Membrane Scaling in The Presence Of Antiscalants,” paper 305d, session: Membrane 

Fouling, Annual AIChE Meeting, November 12-17, 2007, Salt Lake City, UT. 

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217. Hsiao-yu, N. L., G.T. Lewis, W-Y Shih, Y. Cohen , “The Impact Of Surface Topography 

On Scaling Propensity Of Polyamide Membranes,” Paper 189e, Session: “Novel 

Techniques for Membrane Characterization and Functionalization, Annual AIChE Meeting, 

November 12-17, 2007, Salt Lake City, UT. 

218. McFall, C., P. D. Christofides, Y. Cohen and J. F. Davis, ``Fault Detection and Control of a 

Reverse Osmosis Desalination Process,'' AIChE Annual Meeting, paper 444c, November 

12-17, 2007, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2007. 

219. McFall, C., P. D. Christofides, Y. Cohen and J. F. Davis, ``Fault-Tolerant Control of a 

Reverse-Osmosis Desalination Process,'' Proceedings of 8th IFAC Symposium on 

Dynamics and Control of Process Systems - Volume 3, 163-168, Cancun, Mexico, 2007 

220. Cohen, Y., E. M.V. Hoek and P. Christofides, Overview of basic and applied research at 

the UCLA Water Technology Research Center, RO Analysis and Modeling Session, 

CA/NV AWWA Spring Conference, Hollywood, CA, April 21-24 (2008). 

221. Bartman,A., C. McFall, P. Christofides and Y. Cohen, Advanced control concepts in 

membrane RO desalination, presented in the RO Analysis and Modeling Session, 2008 

CA-NV AWWA Spring Conference, Hollywood, CA, April 21-24 (2008). 

222. Lyster, E., M. Uchymiak, F. Giralt and Y. Cohen, “Comprehensive numerical modeling 

of concentration polarization and RO module performance for brackish water desalination,“ 

presented in the RO Analysis and Modeling Session, 2008 CA-NV AWWA Spring 

Conference, Hollywood, CA, April 21-24 (2008). 

223. Zhu, R., P. Christofides and Y. Cohen, “Fundamental analysis and practical implications 

of RO process optimization with respect to energy minimization,” presented in the RO 

Analysis and Modeling Session, 2008 CA-NV AWWA Spring Conference, Hollywood, 

CA, April 21-24 (2008). 

224. Giralt, F., R. Rallo, D. Libotean, J. Giralt and Y. Cohen, “Artificial Neural Networks 

analysis of RO process performance: organic compound passage and RO plant 

performance,” presented in the RO Analysis and Modeling Session, 2008 CA-NV 

AWWA Spring Conference, Hollywood, CA, April 21-24 (2008). 

225. Lewis, G., M. Kim, N. Hsiao and Y. Cohen, Development of RO/NF membranes of low 

fouling/scaling propensity by surface nano-structuring, presented in the RO Membrane 

Process Development and Novel Membranes Session, 2008 CA-NV AWWA Spring 

Conference, Hollywood, CA, April 21-24 (2008). 

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226. Rahardianto, A., B. McCool, Y. Cohen, High recovery inland water desalination via RO 

integrated with accelerated chemical demineralization – Laboratory and Pilot studies, 

presented in the RO Membrane Process Development and Novel Membranes Session, 

2008 CA-NV AWWA Spring Conference, Hollywood, CA, April 21-24 (2008). 

227. Uchymiak, M., A. Bartman, E. Lyster, M. Kim, A. Rahardianto, J. Glater, P. Christofides 

and Y. Cohen, Real-time monitoring and novel control scheme of RO membrane scaling, 

presented in the RO Membrane Process Development and Novel Membranes Session, 

2008 CA-NV AWWA Spring Conference, Hollywood, CA, April 21-24 (2008). 

228. Uchymiak M., A. Bartman, Y. Cohen, P. Christofides, and J. Gilron, “Brackish Water RO 

Operation in a Flow Reversal Model with automated Real-Time Scale Monitoring – 

Demonstration in the Gypsum System,” paper presented at the conference “Engineering 

with Membranes 2008: Membrane Process Development, Monitoring and Modeling – from 

the Nano to the Macro-Scale, May 22-28, 2008, Algrave, Portugal. 

229. Martínez I., Espinosa G., Rallo R, Grifoll J., Cohen Y., Giralt F., “Clustering the chemical 

space to estimate environmental multimedia partitioning of pollutants with Kernel methods 

and molecular descriptors, SETAC Europe 18th Annual Meeting, Warszawa, May, 2008. 

230. Cohen, Y., “Mineral scaling in Membrane Desalination,” presented in the Desalination 

Workshop, International Congress on Membranes and Membrane Processes (ICOM 2008), 

July 12-18, Honolulu, Hawaii. 

231. Lewis, G. N. Lin, M. Kim, and Y. Cohen, “High Performance Surface Nano-Structured 

RO/NF Membranes,” paper presented in Membrane and Surface Modification Session, 

Also presented as poster in Poster Session II, International Congress on Membranes and 

Membrane Processes (ICOM 2008), July 12-18, Honolulu, Hawaii. 

232. Uchymiak, M., A. Bartman, P. Christofides, N. Daltrophe, M. Weissman, J. Gilron, R. 

Rallo, and Y. Cohen, “RO Membrane Desalting in a Feed Flow Reversal Mode,” paper 

presented in Desalination II Session, International Congress on Membranes and Membrane 

Processes (ICOM 2008), July 12-18, Honolulu, Hawaii. 

233. Zhu, R., P. Christofides and Y. Cohen, “Energy Cost Optimization in RO Desalting and the 

Thermodynamic Restriction,” plenary presentation presented in Desalination I Session, 

Also presented as Poster in Poster Session I. International Congress on Membranes and 

Membrane Processes (ICOM 2008), July 12-18, Honolulu, Hawaii. 

234. Myung-man, K., R. Rallo, E. Lyster and Y. Cohen, “Optical Monitoring and Real-Time 

Digital Image Analysis of Mineral Scale Formation on RO Membranes,” in Membrane 

Fouling I-RO Desalination session, Also presented in Poster Session I. 2008 International 

Congress on Membranes and Membrane Processes, July 12-18, Honolulu, Hawaii. 

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235. Giralt, F., R. Rallo, D. Libotean, J. Giralt and Y. Cohen, “Artificial Neiral Netowrks 

Analysis of RO Processes Performance: RO Plant Performance and Organic Compound 

Passage,” paper presented in session on Membrane Modeling III – Process Simulations, 

International Congress on Membranes and Membrane Processes (ICOM 2008), July 12-18, 

Honolulu, Hawaii. 

236. Cohen, Yoram and H. Muralidhara, “Reuse/Recycle Water Opportunities and Challenges in 

Food/Bio Processing Industry Using Membrane Technology: Is this myth or reality?,” 

plenary presentations, presented in Drinking and Wastewater Applications I session, 



237. Lin, N. H, G. Lewis, M. Kim and Y. Cohen, “Surface Nano-Structuring by Atmospheric 

Pressure Plasma Induced Graft Polymerization for the Synthesis of Low Fouling and 

Scaling RO/NF Membranes, (paper 421c), in session on “Membrane/surface 

Modification,” Annual AIChE Meeting, November 16-21, 2008, Philadelphia, PA. 

238. Rahardianto, A., B. C. McCool, and Y. Cohen, “Accelerated Demineralization of Reverse 

Osmosis Concentrate of High Gypsum Scaling Propensity,” (paper 551a), in session on 

“Novel Membranes and Processes for Water Treatment and Purification,” Annual AIChE 

Meeting, November 16-21, 2008, Philadelphia, PA. 

239. Lewis, G. T. and Y. Cohen, “ Nanostructured Polystyrene Films: Graft Polymerization and 

Organic Sorption Behavior,” paper 616c in session “Polymer Thin Films and Interfaces I”, 

Annual AIChE Meeting, November 16-21, 2008, Philadelphia, PA. 

240. Zhu, R., P. D. Christofides and Y. Cohen, “Energy Cost Optimization in Membrane 

Desalination and the Thermodynamic Restriction,” (paper 624b) in session “Water 

Desalination and Purification,” Annual AIChE Meeting, November 16-21, 2008, 

Philadelphia, PA. 

241. McCool, C. B., A. Rahardianto and Y. Cohen, “Kinetics of Mineral Precipitation and 

Organics Removal In Brackish Water Desalination,” Paper 624d, in Session on Water 

Desalination and Purification, Annual AIChE Meeting, November 16-21, 2008, 

Philadelphia, PA. 

242. Christofides, P.D., A. Bartman, C. McFall, Y. Cohen “Model Predictive Control of Feed 

Flow Reversal In a Reverse Osmosis Desalination Process,” (paper 641b) in Session on 

“Dynamics and Control of Energetically Sustainable Processes”, Annual AIChE Meeting, 

November 16-21, 2008, Philadelphia, PA. 

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243. Giralt, F., R. Rallo, J. Giralt, D. Libotean and Y. Cohen “Data Driven Neural Network 

Based Models of Ro Desalination Plant Operation and RO Membrane Performance,” 

(paper 688d) in session “Data Analysis: Design, Algorithms & Applications,” Annual 

AIChE Meeting, November 16-21, 2008, Philadelphia, PA. 

244. Y. Cohen, P. Christofides, E. Hoek and W. Kaiser, “Research Advances at the Water 

Technology Research Center”, Poster presented at the AIChE Separations Division 

Networking session, Annual AIChE Meeting, November 16-21, 2008, Philadelphia, PA. 

245. Lyster, E., R. Rallo, F. Giralt and Y. Cohen "Numerical Modeling of Scale Formation In 

Ro Memrbane Desalination,” (paper 604b) session on Membranes for Water treatment II, 

Annual AIChE Meeting, November 16-21, 2008, Philadelphia, PA. 

246. Kim, M, N. H. Lin, G. Lewis and Y. Cohen, “Nano-Structured RO/NF Membrane with the 

Resistance for Scaling In Desalination and Fouling in Bio-Separation,” (paper 700a), 

Session on “Membrane Based Separations,” Annual AIChE Meeting, November 16-21, 

2008, Philadelphia, PA. 

247. McFall, C., A. Bartman P. D. Christofides and Y. Cohen, ``Control of Reverse Osmosis 

Desalination at High Recovery,'' Proceedings of the American Control Conference, 2241- 

2247, Seattle, Washington, 2008. 

INVITED LECTURES AND SEMINARS: 

1. Chemical, Nuclear, and Thermal Engineering Department, University of California, Los 

Angeles (November 1980), "Flow-Induced Diffusion of Macromolecules.” 

2. Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Davis (November 1980), 

"Non-Fickian Diffusion of Polymer Solutions." 

3. Imperial Oil Limited, Research Department, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada (December 1980), 

"Rheology of Polymer Solutions." 

4. Xerox Research Center of Canada, Materials Processing Laboratory, Mississauga, Ontario, 

Canada (December 1980), "Diffusion of Polymeric Systems." 

5. Chemical, Nuclear and Thermal Engineering Department, University of California, Los 

Angeles (February 1980), "The Flow Behavior of Polymer Solutions in Small Channels." 

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INVITED LECTURES AND SEMINARS (CONT’D): 

6. Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, 

Toronto, Canada (February 1982), "Polymer Rheology." 

7. National Center for Intermedia Transport Research, University of California, Los Angeles 

(July 1982), "Compartmental Modeling of Environmental Transport." 

8. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina (May 1983), 

"Multimedia Modeling of Pollutant Transport." 

9. Department of Applied Mechanics and Engineering, University of California, San Diego, 

La Jolla, California (May 1983), "Adsorption and Slip Effects in the Flow of Polymer 

Solutions through Porous Media." 

10. Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Buffalo, NY. (February, 1984), "The 

Transport of Pollutants in a Multimedia Environment." 

11. Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, Toronto, Canada (February, 

1984), "Multimedia Models of Pollutant Transport." 

12. Avery International, Pasadena, California (June, 1984), "Slip and Adsorption Effects in the 

Flow of Non-Newtonian Fluids through Fine Pores." 

13. Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Arizona, Tampa, Arizona (November, 

1984), "Flow of Non-Newtonian Fluids through Porous Media." 

14. Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Davis (March, 1985), 

"Hydrodynamics of Polymer Adsorption. 

15. Dowell Schlumberger Inc. (March, 1986), "Hydrodynamic Adsorption and Slip Flow of 

Polymer Solutions." 

16. Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, (April, 1986), "Multimedia Transport of Environmental 

Pollutants." 

17. Water Resources Center, Los Angeles Meeting (May, 1986), "Removal of Trace Organics 

Using Polymeric Adsorbents." 

18. Cohen, Y., "Multimedia Models of Pollutant Transport,” Invited lecture, Academy of 

Sciences Symposium on "Multimedia Approaches to Pollution Control,” February 12-14, 

1987, Washington, D.C. 

19. Department of Chemical Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel (December, 1987), "Polymers 

at Solid Surfaces -- Adsorption and Deformation." 

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20. Department of Chemical Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 

(March, 1987), "Hydrodynamics of Polymer Molecules Near Solid Surfaces - Apparent 

Slip and Adsorption Effects." 

21. Department of Chemical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University, Be'er-Sheva (January, 1988), 

"Macromolecular Dynamics at Solid Surfaces." 

22. Weitzman Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel (January, 1988), "Flow of Macromolecules 

through Fine Pores." 

23. Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel (April, 1988), "Hydrodynamics of Adsorbed and 

Grafted Macromolecules." 

24. Department of Civil Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel (May, 1988), "Intermedia and 

Multimedia transport of Chemical Contaminants." 

25. United States Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Monitoring Systems 

Laboratory, Las Vegas (October, 1988), "Multimedia and Intermedia Concepts in 

Environmental Transport.” 

26. Department of Materials, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, 

California (January, 1989), "Hydrodynamics of Macromolecules at Solid Surfaces.” 

27. Environmental Engineering Department, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois 

(March, 1989), "Multimedia Aspects of Pollutant Transport.” 

28. Department of Civil Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 

California (April, 1989), "Contaminant Transport in the Unsaturated Soil Zone.” 

29. Environmental Engineering Department, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois 

(May 1989), "Contaminant Migration in the Unsaturated Soil Zone.” 

30. ENSR, INC, Alameda, California (July 1989), "Contaminant Transport in the Upper Soil 

Zone.” 

31. AMOCO, Naperville, Illinois (July 1989), "Adsorptive Removal of Organic Solutes With 

Polymeric Resins.” 

32. Department of Petroleum Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Southern 

California (September 1989), "Transport of Contaminants in the Unsaturated Soil Zone." 

33. Michigan State University, Institute of Wildlife and Environmental Toxicology, East 

Lansing (April 1990), "Multimedia and Intermedia Transport of Chemical Pollutants.” 

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34. University of Michigan, Department of Civil Engineering, Ann Arbor (April 1990), 

"Contaminant Migration in the Unsaturated Soil Zone.” 

35. University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Health (May 1990), "Pollution is a 

Multimedia Problem.” 

36. Universitat Technica D'estitu de Catalunya, Tarragona, Spain (October 1990),"Multiphase 

Contaminant Transport in Porous Media.” 

37. Universitat de Barcelona, Tarragona, Spain (October 1990),"Partitioning of Organic 

Pollutants in the Environment.” 

38. Universitat Technica D'estitu de Catalunya, Tarragona, Spain (October 1990), 

"Atmospheric Intermedia Transport Processes.” 

39. Chevron Research Company, Richmond, CA (May 1991), "Multimedia Assessment of 

Chemical Releases.” 

40. Engineering Research Center for Hazardous Substances Control (UCLA), Los Angeles, 

California (August, 1991), "Multimedia Assessment of Chemical Pollutants." 

41. Michigan State University, (September 1991), "Multimedia Transport and Fate,” lecture 

given at the first meeting of the Relative Risk Assessment Project, Roscommon, Michigan, 

September 19-20 (1991). 

42. Center for Clean Technology, UCLA, Los Angeles, Annual Open House (December 10, 

1991), "Intermedia Transport Research.” 

43. Pierce College, Los Angeles, "Research Opportunities in Chemical Engineering,” (April 

1992). 

44. Cohen, Y., "Multimedia Environmental Studies,” invited lecturer, 1992 Summer School for 

Chemical Engineering Faculty, American Society for Engineering Education, Bozeman, 

Montana, August 9-5, 1992. 

45. Department of Chemical Engineering, University of West Virginia, "Polymer Surfaces and 

Separation Processes,” February, 1993. 

46. Instituto Technologico Y De Estudios Superiores De Monterrey, (Campus Monterrey), 

Monterrey, Mexico, (invited lecture), "Multimedia Strategies for Pollution Prevention," 

presented at the 1st Symposium of Chemical and Food Processing Engineering, 

"Production Optimization as a Strategy for Productivity," March 12-19 (1993). 

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47. Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Maryland (College Park), "Polymers 

and Selective Separation Processes,” March, 1993. 

48. The First ASTM International Symposium on VOCs in the Environment, Montreal, Canada, 

April 11-13 (1994), invited keynote lecture, "Volatile Organic Compounds in the 

Environment: A Multimedia Perspective." 

49. The Instituto Technologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (Mexico), July 25-29 

(1994), "An Approach to Environmental Undergraduate Engineering Education" -- a series 

of invited lectures given to Engineering Faculty. 

50. Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain (October, 1994), "Pollution Prevention 

Strategies: Waste Minimization and Source Reduction." 

51. Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan (November, 1994), 

"Polymers at Surfaces and Separation processes." 

52. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Environmental Engineering Seminar 

Series, UCLA (May, 1995), “Environmental Intermedia Transfers of Chemical 

Pollutants.” 

53. University of California, Riverside, Statewide Air Pollution Research Center, “Intermedia 

and Multimedia Transport of Chemical Contaminants,” November (1995). 

54. University of Toronto, Canada, Distinguished Lecturer, “Polymer Surfaces and Separation 

Processes,” December, 1995. 

55. University of Michigan, “Intermedia Transport and Multimedia Distribution of Chemical 

Pollutants in the Environment,” January, 1996. 

56. Southern California Society for Risk Analysis, Pasadena, CA,“Risk Assessment at 

Hazardous Waste Sites: Are We on the Right Track?,” May (1996). 

57. University of California, Los Angeles, Pollution Prevention Education and Research Center, 

“An Integrated Approach to Environmental Risk Reduction,” May, 1996. 

58. Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA, “Ceramic-Supported Polymer 

Membranes,” December, 1996. 

59. California Institute of Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, “Polymer 

Surfaces and Separation Processes, March, 1997. 

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60. The Instituto Technologico y de Estudios Superiores (ITES) de Monterrey (Mexico), 

August 27, 1997, "Hazardous Waste and Contaminant Transport,” Virtual University 

Lecture given to the ITES university system. 

61. NSF/EPRI, Advanced Polymer Initiative Workshop, invited presentation, “Ceramic- 

Supported Polymer Membranes,,” April 15, 1998, Arlington, VA. 

62. National Institute of Standards and Technology, “Polymer Surfaces in Separation 

Processes’, Gaithersburg, Maryland, May 15, 1998. 

63. United States Environmental Protection Agency, National Risk Management Research 

Laboratory “Polymer Surfaces and Separation Processes,” July, 1998, Cincinnati, OH. 

64. Emerging Environmental Challenges: A Workshop to Identify Future Issues for Cal/EPA, 

invited presentation, “Pollutants Distribution in a Dynamic Environment: A Multimedia 

Perspective, June 25, 1998, Sacramento, CA. 

65. EPA, USDOE, AIChE/CWRT "VOC Recovery Seminar,” invited presentation, 

“Polymeric Resins for VOC removal from Aqueous Systems,” Cincinnati, OH, September 

16-17, 1998. 

66. DOE, Environmental Molecular Surface Laboratory, “Polymer Surfaces for Selective 

Separations,” February 9, 1999. 

67. University of Washington, St. Louis, “Chemicals in the Environment: A Multimedia 

Perspective,” February 25, 1999. 

Vanderbilt University, “Multidisciplinary Environmental Research and Education,” 

February 26, 1999 

68. Los Alamos National Laboratory, “Polymer-Ceramic Surfaces for Novel Membranes,” 

February 2, 2000. 

69. Gordon Research Conference, “Surface Engineering for Membrane Synthesis,” invited 

lecture presented at the 2000 Gordon Research Conference on Membrane Materials and 

Processes, July 29-August 3, 2000, New London, Connecticut. 

70. Michigan State University, “Surface Engineering of Membranes for Pollution Prevention,” 

November 8, 2000. 

71. USEPA, National Exposure Research laboratory at RTP, “Object-Oriented Modeling of 

Multimedia Distribution of Chemical Pollutants,” March 12-13 (2001). 

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72. Workshop of the Desalination Research and Innovation Partnership, “Scale Formation and 

Control”, El Segundo, CA, October 8, 2002, 

73. Clemson University, “Surface Nano-Structuring with Polymers,” March 27, 2003. 

74. University of California, Riverside, “Surface Nano-Structuring of Modified Membranes 

with Polymers,” April 25, 2003. 

75. Undergraduate Research Center, Life and Physical Sciences, College of Letters and 

Science, UCLA, “Research and Teaching in the Academic World,” presented to the 

Student Research Forum, Honors Colloquium, May 1, 2003. 

76. Israel Institute of Technology (Technion), Improved Membrane Performance through 

Surface Modification with Polymers”, Haifa, Israel, August 3, 2003. 

77. Desalination Research and Innovation Partnership, Technology Transfer Workshop, 

“Membrane Scale Formation and Control,” (invited presentation), October 23, 2003, 

Fountain Valley, CA. 

78. Desalination Research and Innovation Partnership, Technology Transfer Workshop, 

“Enhanced Water Recovery by Accelerated Precipitation,” (invited presentation), October 

23, 2003, Fountain Valley, CA. 

79. AIChE, Environmental Division, Lawrence K. Cecil award, “"The Multimedia 

Environment is Our Domain: A Chemical Engineering Perspective.", AIChE Annual 

Meeting, November 18 (2003), San Francisco, CA. 

80. Advanced Membrane Technology Conference, Engineering Conferences International, 

May 24-28, 2004, Irsee, Germany, Invited Presentation, “ High Recovery Desalination with 

Low Pressure RO Membranes." 

81. Gordon Research Conference on Membranes: Membranes: Materials and Processes", 

August 1-6, 2004, Colby-Sawyer College New London, NH, invited lecture on "Low 

pressure membrane desalting of brackish water at high product water recovery – mineral 

scale formation and mitigation." 

82. Cohen, Y., “Low pressure membrane desalination - surface fouling and mineral scale 

formation,” Chemical Engineering Department, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, July 15, 2004. 

83. Cohen, Y., “Membrane Surface Engineering: Selectivity Enhancement, Fouling Reduction 

and Mineral Scale Formation,” Invited Seminar, GE Global Research, Schenectady, NY, 

September 20, 2004. 

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84. Cohen, Y. “Membrane Surfaces: Selectivity Enhancement, Fouling Reduction and Mineral 

Scale Formation,” Chemical Engineering Department, Louisiana State University, 


85. Cohen, Y. “Membrane Surface Nano-Structuring: Selectivity Enhancement, Fouling 

Reduction and Mineral Scale Formation,” Weitzman Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, 

March 23, 2005. 

86. Cohen, Y “High Water Recovery Membrane Desalination and Concentrate Issues in 

California,” Invited Plenary Presentation, AWA Specialty Conference - Membranes & 

Desalination, Adelaide, Australia, 23-25 February 2005. 

87. Cohen, Y., “Water Independence for California: Water Production from Brackish and 

Seawater,” UCLA School of Public Health, EHS/ESE Seminar Series, June 22, 2005. 

88. Cohen, Y., “The Water Technology Research Center”, Invited Keynote Speaker, Urban 

Water Institute, Seawater Desalination and Power Conference – June 23-24, 2005, Long 

Beach 

89. Cohen, Y. and J. Glater, “Reverse Osmosis Desalination: A Glimpse at the Past and a View 

Toward Future Water Independence for California,”, Invited Lecture, Hosted by the UCLA 

Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science as part of the School’s ongoing 

celebration of its 60th Anniversary , September 29, 2005. 

90. Cohen, Y., “High Water Recovery Membrane Desalination and Concentrate Issues in 

California,” Invited Keynote presentation, AWA Specialty Conference: Membranes & 

Desalination: Harvesting Water using Alternative Technologies, Adelaide, Australia, 23-25 

February 2005. 

91. Cohen, Y., Invited Seminar, “Inland Water Desalination,” Australian Water Association 

South Australian Branch, Adelaide, Australia, February 23, 2005. 

92. Cohen, Y., “Desalination of Brackish Water: Progress and Research Needs”, Invited 

Plenary Presentation presented at the Workshop on “Gaps in Water Research and Future 

Trends in Australia, USA, Europe and Israel” February 22, 2005, Victoria University, 

Melbourne, Australia. 

93. Cohen, Y., “Gypsum Surface Crystallization on RO Membranes and Surrogate Surfaces,” 

Zuckerberg Water Research Institute, Ben-Gurion University, Israel, January 11, 2006. 

94. Cohen, Y. “High Recovery RO Desalination of Brackish Water,” Invited Presentation, 4 th 

Chemical Engineering Conference for Collaborative Research in Mediterranean Countries, 

January 9-11, 2006, Le Meridien Hotel, Dead Sea, Israel. 

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95. Cohen, Y., “Membrane Surface Nano-Structuring: Selectivity Enhancement, Fouling 

Reduction and Mineral Scale Formation,” Invited Presentation, U.S. - Israeli Workshop on 

Nanotechnology for Water Purification, Arlington, VA, March 13-15, 2006. 

96. Cohen, Y., “"Membrane Desalination of Agricultural Drainage Water - Opportunities and 

Limitations,” Invited Presentation, 2006 Salinity Drainage Conference, Water Resources 

Center, Sacramento, CA, March 29, 2006. 

97. Cohen, Y., “Desalination Process Limitations and Enhancements,” Invited Plenary 

Presentation, California/Nevada Section American Water Works Association (CA/NV 

AWWA) 2006 Spring Conference, Burlingame, CA April 24-28, 2006. 

98. Cohen, Y., “High Recovery Brackish Water RO Desalination: Limitations, Technological 

Approaches and Opportunities,” invited presentation, An Applied Membrane Workshop 

on Water Recycling, Sydney, Australia, December 1, 2006. 

99. Cohen, Y., “High Recovery Membrane Desalination and Concentrate Issues,” University of 

New South Wales, UNESCO Center, December 4, 2006. Sydney, Australia. 

100. Cohen, Y., “Challenges in High Recovery Inland Water Desalination,” Victoria University, 


101. Cohen, Y., “High Efficiency Reverse Osmosis Desalination,” invited seminar, Chemical 

Engineering Department, Yale University, February 7, 2007. 

102. Cohen, Y., “Surface Nano-Structuring via Graft Polymerization and Applications in 

Membrane Separations,” invited seminar, Chemical Engineering Department, University of 

Connecticut, February 6, 2007 

103. Cohen, Y., "High recovery membrane RO desalination of brackish water: Opportunities 

and limitations", plenary speaker at the 233rd ACS National Spring Meeting, Division of 

Sustainability of Energy, Food, and Water Session on "Advanced Membrane Technology 

for Water Reuse", Chicago, IL, March 27, 2007. 

104. Cohen, Y., “Surface Nano-structuring with Polymers - Fundamentals and Applications in 

Membrane Separations,” Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona, Catalunya, Spain), March 

28, 2007. 

105. Cohen, Y., “Nano-Structuring of surfaces by Graft Polymerization: Applications in 

Membrane Separations,” Zuckerberg Water Research Institute, Ben-Gurion University 

(Israel), August, 15, 2007. 

106. Cohen, Y., “Advanced Water Technology Research and Opportunities for Technology 

Transfer,” invited speaker, Caltech/MIT Entrepreneur Forum, Caltech, March 8, 2008. 

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107. Cohen Y., “Advancing Desalination Research and Training: A Collaboration of Academia, 

Industry, Water Utilities, and Government”, plenary presentation at the WATEC Meeting, 

October 30, 2007. Tel-Aviv, Israel. 

108. Cohen, Y., The Water-Energy Nexus: Smart Water systems: Monitoring, Process Control, 

Membranes, and Nanotechnology for Advanced Water Treatment and Desalination,” 

invited lecture presented at the -UC System-Wide Technology Transfer Forum on Clean 

Technology, UCOP, April 3, 2008, Burlingame, California. 

109. Cohen, “Advances Membrane and Membrane Process Technology for Water Production 

and Treatment,” UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, 

Technology Forum, May 27, 2008. 

110. Cohen, Y., Zhu, R., and Christofides, “Energy Cost Optimization in RO Desalting and the 

Thermodynamic Restriction,” invited plenary presentation presented in Desalination I 

Session, Also presented as Poster in Poster Session I. International Congress on 

Membranes and Membrane Processes (ICOM 2008), July 12-18, Honolulu, Hawaii. 

111. Cohen, Y. and H. Muralidhara, “Reuse/Recycle Water Opportunities and Challenges in 

Food/Bio Processing Industry Using Membrane Technology: Is this myth or reality?,” 

plenary presentations, presented in Drinking and Wastewater Applications I session, 



112. Y. Cohen, “Mineral scaling in Membrane Desalination,” presented in the Desalination 

Workshop, International Congress on Membranes and Membrane Processes (ICOM 2008), 

July 12-18, Honolulu, Hawaii 

113. Cohen, Y., “Urban Water: Distributed Water Systems for Sustainable Growth,” Invited 

Presentation and Panel Participation, Asia Innovation Initiative, July 7-8, 2008, Fukuoka, 

Japan. 

114. Cohen, Y., “Membrane Desalination of Brackish Water: Process Analysis and 

Optimization,” Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research, Ben-Gurion University (Israel), 

August, 27, 2008. 

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