Events
April 2025
Tuesday, April 1st, 2025
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Wavepackets that Probe Electron transfer and Quantum-Like States
Gregory D. Scholes,
William S. Tod Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Princeton University,
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Laboratory constraints on photochemical processing of biomass burning-derived secondary organic aerosol
Maria Zawadowicz,
Brookhaven National Lab,
Friday, April 4th, 2025
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
A Pd-Catalyzed Cascade Strategy Towards the Total Synthesis of Cassiabudanol A.
Katelyn (Kate) Gallagher,
Graduate Student (Reisman Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, April 7th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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EVOxZANKOU Seminar
"Thirsting for blood then hunting for water: evolution of feeding and egg-laying behaviour in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes"
Ben Matthews,
Assistant Professor and Laboratory Head,
Department of Zoology,
University of British Columbia,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar
Engineering nitrogenase for the bioelectrocatalytic reduction of N2 to ammonia
Stephen Mayo,
Bren Professor of Biology and Chemistry; Merkin Institute Professor,
Caltech,
Douglas Rees,
Roscoe Gilkey Dickinson Professor of Chemistry; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
Caltech,
Tuesday, April 8th, 2025
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Biomolecular Engineering of Gas Vesicles with Thiol Functionality
Erik Schrunk,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering (Shapiro Lab),
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Roel Tempelaar,
Assistant Professor of Chemistrry,
Department of Chemistry,
Northwestern University,
4:00pm
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Women in Chemistry Special Organic Seminar
Choose Your Own Adventures in Metal-Hydride Catalysis
Prof. Vy Dong,
University of California Irvine,
Wednesday, April 9th, 2025
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Leveraging the unique (photo)reactivity of aromatic cations for chemical biology
Michael Taylor,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of Arizona,
- Internal Event
Thursday, April 10th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Friday, April 11th, 2025
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1:30pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Development and Mechanism of Transition Metal Catalyzed Ring Formation Reactions & Arene Hydrogenation at Room Temperature under 1 atm Hydrogen Gas
- Internal Event
Tuesday, April 15th, 2025
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Scientific Careers and Priorities at the DoD
Alessandra Zito,
Innovation Fellow,
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency,
Matthew Glasscott,
Program Manager,
Electrochemistry Army Research Office,
Ana Alvarez,
Research Materials Engineer,
Army Research Laboratory,
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Mapping and controlling excited state potential energy surfaces with ultrafast Raman spectroscopies
Renee Frontiera,
Northrop Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Minnesota,
Wednesday, April 16th, 2025
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Climate Feedback from Plant Physiological Responses to Increasing Atmospheric CO2 in Earth System Models
Yue Li,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Stabilizing a complex but promising dual phase cathode material: making lithium-rich, manganese-rich cathode materials useful
Jay Whitacre,
Professor,
Engineering and Public Policy, Materials Science and Engineering,
Carnegie Mellon Universiry,
Friday, April 18th, 2025
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Illuminating Molecular Spin Relaxation Mechanisms through Ligand Field Theory and Physical Inorganic Spectroscopy
Nathanael Kazmierczak,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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CGSC Industry Seminar
Why So Many Ways to Die?
Dr. Vishva Dixit,
Vice President,
Physiological Chemistry, Genentech,
Monday, April 21st, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar
A Digital Twin of the Electrical Distribution Grid
Yiheng Xie,
Graduate Student, Low Group,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences,
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering
Ionic Compatibilization of Plastics to Reduce Environmental Impacts (general lecture)
Rachel Segalman,
Edward Noble Kramer Professor,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
UC Santa Barbara,
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Anaerobic Heteroatom Transfer Reactions Promoted by Photoexcited 1,3-Dipoles
- Internal Event
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Soil moisture teleconnections and summertime temperature variability in the western United States
David Battisti,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering
Using Bioinspired Polypeptoids to Understand How Chain Shape Influences Self-assembly and to Design New Photoresists (technical lecture)
Rachel Segalman,
Edward Noble Kramer Professor,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
UC Santa Barbara,
Thursday, April 24th, 2025
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Understanding the oncogenic transcription factor Lmo2 in its native role during T cell development
Samantha Chang,
Graduate Student,
Rothenberg Group,
Friday, April 25th, 2025
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
New Photodriven Approaches to Sm Catalysis
Drew Tarnopol,
Graduate Student (Peters Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, April 28th, 2025
10:30am
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11:30am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Asymmetric Transformations from Palladium Enolates and Progress Toward the Total Synthesis of Hypermoin A
Kaylin (Kali) Flesch,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Elecrochemistry Seminar
"Metallacarbatrane and Related Platforms for the Synthesis of Main Group Metal Hydride Compounds and Catalysts for the Reduction of CO2"
Gerard Parkin,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Columbia University,
Tuesday, April 29th, 2025
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Why don't plants get sunburn?
Gabriela Schlau-Cohen,
Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Massachussetts Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, April 30th, 2025
8:00am
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Ongoing
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Paleoclimate and Historical Perspectives on Modern Climate Sensitivity
Vince Cooper,
University of Washington,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
New Microscopes for Critical Insights into Metals Manufacturing
Leora Dresselhaus-Marais,
Assistant Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Beginning to understand light-mediated Ni catalysis using physical organic techniques and data science
- Internal Event