PhD Thesis Defense
The PhD Thesis Seminar and Defense is a public one-hour oral presentation followed by a closed-door defense of the student's thesis which is attended by the student's PhD examination committee. Thesis Seminars are the final component of the doctoral degree in Chemistry.
October 16, 2026
9:00 am
PhD Thesis Defense
Data-driven computational approaches for chemistry across scales
Vignesh Bhethanabotla,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
October 19, 2026
9:30 am
PhD Thesis Defense
High-Precision Photoacoustic and Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy of the Oxygen A-Band in Support of Remote Sensing
Leah Stevenson,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry (Okumura Lab),
Caltech,
November 3, 2026
11:00 am
PhD Thesis Defense
Matthew Cooper,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
November 4, 2026
1:00 pm
PhD Thesis Defense
Oxidation Products as Diagnostics of Emissions and Photochemistry Across East and Southeast Asia
Katherine Ball,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
November 6, 2026
2:30 pm
PhD Thesis Defense
Noninvasive Acoustic Control of Cellular Functions in Deep Tissue
Hao Shen,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry (Shapiro Lab),
Caltech,