Events
April 2026
Wednesday, April 1st, 2026
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Building a new era of atom-by-atom materials characterization with electron ptychography
Pinshane Y. Huang,
Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Heuristics of Plant Water-Use and the Problem of Scale
Emma Reich,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Environmental Science and Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Frontiers in Chemical Engineering
Understanding (and controlling) electrified interfaces for energy and health
Yuzhang Li,
Associate Professor,
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
University of California, Los Angeles,
Thursday, April 2nd, 2026
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Transcriptional Regulation of Zebrafish Enteric Nervous System Development
Yuanyun (Rose) Huang,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Transcription and RNA quality control in health and disease
Karen Adelman,
Edward S. Harkness Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology,
Harvard Medical School,
4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Synthetic Biology for Human Health: RNA Sensors, Protein Circuits, and Machine-Guided Humanization
Friday, April 3rd, 2026
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Monday, April 6th, 2026
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Women in Chemistry Special Seminar: Prof. Jenny Yang
Integrated CO2 Capture and Electrocatalytic Conversion
Jenny Y. Yang,
University of California, Irvine,
Tuesday, April 7th, 2026
10:30am
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11:30am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Illuminating the Regulatory Dark Matter of E. coli with Massively Parallel Reporter Assays
Tom Röschinger,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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BBE Division Seminar - Blaise Agüera y Arcas
Are Biology and Computer Science the Same Discipline?
Blaise Agüera y Arcas,
Chief Technology Officer,
Technology & Society,
Google,
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Pushing Ab Initio Electron-Phonon Theory Beyond Perturbation: From Polaron Structure to Transport
Joonho Lee,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Harvard University,
Wednesday, April 8th, 2026
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Nanoscale Spectroscopic Imaging of Carriers and Heat in Photocatalysts
Levi Palmer,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Atmospheric Gravity Waves: New Observations, High-Resolution Simulations, and Data-Informed Methods
Aditi Sheshadri,
Assistant Professor of Earth System Science and Center Fellow, by courtesy, at the Woods Institute for the Environment,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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Frontiers in Chemical Engineering
Upcycling of Plastic Waste into Lubricants
Guoliang (Greg) Liu,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry, Department of Chemical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Macromolecules Innovation Institute, and Academy of Integrated Science-Nanoscience,
Virginia Tech,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Atomic-Scale Imaging of Interfacial Structure, Charge, and Phonon Dynamics
Xiaoqing Pan,
Professor,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Department of Physics and Astronomy,
UC Irvine,
Thursday, April 9th, 2026
11:00am
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar
Applications of Acetal Radicals in Organic Synthesis
- Internal Event
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CANCELLED - Biochemistry Seminar
Short RNA chaperones promote aggregation-resistant TDP-43 conformers to mitigate neurodegeneration
James Shorter,
Professor,
Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics,
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania,
Friday, April 10th, 2026
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Wednesday, April 15th, 2026
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Integrating Multi-Scale Data to Constrain Forest Biomass Stocks and Dynamics
Xiangtao Xu,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Autonomous Experiments and Accessible Automation for Soft Matter Research
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Predicting Chemical Reactivity?
Franziska Schoenebeck,
Professor of Chemistry and Chair,
Institute of Organic Chemistry,
RWTH Aachen University,
- Internal Event
Thursday, April 16th, 2026
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EVOxZankou Seminar
"Sidewinder: new realm of freedom to write any DNA" and "Structural evolution of the MTCH family of mitochondrial insertases"
4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Diffusiophoresis-enhanced instabilities
Ankur Gupta,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering,
University of Colorado Boulder,
Friday, April 17th, 2026
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Monday, April 20th, 2026
10:30am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Synthesis of Stereoenriched Polycyclic Scaffolds via Pd Enolates and Progress Toward the Total Synthesis of Hypermoin A
Ruby Chen,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Tuesday, April 21st, 2026
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Deciphering & controlling the mechanisms of energy flow across materials
Andres Montoya Castillo,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Colorado Boulder,
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Chemistry in condensed matter: from nuclear quantum effects to detonations
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Canceled! Organic Chemistry Seminar
Nickel Complexes for Cooperative Catalysis & Mechanistic Insight
C. Rose Kennedy,
James P. Wilmot Distinguished Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Rochester,
- Internal Event
4:00pm
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Distinguished Materials Seminar Series
Intersection of Solid-State Ionics, Chemistry and Physics in Intercalation Compounds
William Chueh,
Professor,
Department of Materials Science & Engineering & of Energy Science & Engineering,
Stanford University,
Thursday, April 23rd, 2026
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Probing Interfacial Mechanics and Electrostatics under Confinement
Joelle Frechette,
Professor and Vice Chair of Graduate Education,
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
University of California, Berkeley,
Friday, April 24th, 2026
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CGSC Industry Seminar
Inventing for Life at Merck
Dr. Kevin Campos,
Vice President, Process R&D,
Merck,
Monday, April 27th, 2026
11:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Expanding molecular designs for mechanochromic polymers
Yan Sun,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
3:30pm
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4:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Enantioselective Reactions of Palladium Enolates and Progress Toward Mitomycin B
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Christian Strong,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry (Stoltz Group),
Caltech,
3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Real-time electrocatalytic control of C-H and C-C bond transformation and fuel formation
Marcel Shreier,
University of Wisconsin, Madison,
Tuesday, April 28th, 2026
4:00pm
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Marcus Center Special Seminar
Real-time simulations of ultrafast electron relaxation dynamics
Joshua S. Kretchmer,
Assistant Professor,
School of Chemistry & Biochemistry,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, April 29th, 2026
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Thermodynamic Control of Hydroclimate Change in the Western United States and Its Consequences
Alex Hall,
Director, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability; Professor, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences; Faculty Director, Sustainable LA Grand Challenge Institute of the Environment and Sustainability,
UCLA,
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Thursday, April 30th, 2026
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PhD Thesis Defense
Principles of Proton-coupled Electron Transfer Mediator Design
Enric Adillon,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry (Peters Group),
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemistry Seminar
Finding Chemical Insight in the Maze of Mass Spectra with Machine Learning
- Internal Event