The Center for Applied Energy Research each year sponsors seminars dealing with science topics to provide access to current topics of both academic and research interests. The 1997/1998 contact for these seminars was Chris Lafferty.
| NAME | LOCATION | DATE of SEMINAR |
| Dr. Juan R. Inga | Air Products & Chemicals Inc. | November 23, 1998 |
| Dr. Dongguang Wei | Chemical Eng, Univ of Pittsburgh | November 18, 1998 |
| Malvina Farcasiu | Springview R& D Corp, New York | October 29, 1998 |
| Dr. Adam J. Berkovich | Univ of Technology, Sydney, Australia | September 17, 1998 |
| Ms. Kathy Ackley | University of Cincinnati | August 20, 1998 |
| Dr. Sallie Baliunas | Center for Astrophysics | May 14, 1998 |
| Dr. R.B. Clarkson | Illinois EPR Research Center | April 29, 1998 |
| Dr. David A. Rockstraw | New Mexico State University | April 23, 1998 |
| Dr.David W. Koppenaal | Pacific NW National Lab | April 17, 1998 |
| Dr.Malcolm Hepworth | University of Minnesota | April 2, 1998 |
| Dr. A.K. Ismail | Central Metallurgical R & D Institute | March 17, 1998 |
| Dr. H.H. Hamdeh | Wichita State University | March 3, 1998 |
| M.L. Occelli | Georgia Institute of Technology | January 8, 1998 |
| Prof. Bala Subramaniam | University of Kansas | January 27, 1998 |