Events
February 2005
Tuesday, February 1st, 2005
10:30am
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12:00pm
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Wednesday, February 2nd, 2005
8:00am
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5:00pm
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3:40pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Investigating the Sources of Halogenated Organic Compounds in Marine Mammals: Are They Naturally Produced or Industrially Derived?
Christopher Reddy,
Visiting Associate at Caltech,
Department of Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry, MS #4,
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bioengineering Seminar
Seeing the Invisible: From Polarization Vision in Nature to Bio-Inspired Sensing and Imaging Science and Technology,
Nader Engeta,
Professor,
Electrical and Systems Engineering,
University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Reverse Engineering Biomolecular Recognition with Combinatorial Protein Libraries
Gregory A. Weiss,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry,
University of California, Irvine,
Thursday, February 3rd, 2005
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bioengineering Seminar
Building Biological Systems
Drew Endy,
Assistant Professor,
Biological Engineering,
MIT,
Friday, February 4th, 2005
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Chemistry That Controls DNA Structure and Function
Hiroshi Sugiyama,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Kyoto University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Olefin Metathesis Catalysts with Chelating Alkylidenes
Andrew Hejl,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, February 7th, 2005
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Prediction and Design of Protean Structures and Protein Interactions
David Baker,
Professor,
University of Washington,
Tuesday, February 8th, 2005
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Controlling and Understanding Complex Biochemical Reaction Networks In Space and Time Using Microfluidics
Rustem Ismagilov,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Chicago,
Wednesday, February 9th, 2005
3:40pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Antibiotics in Biological Control: Not Just for Competition Anymore!
Leland (Sandy) Pierson III,
Professor & Division Chair,
Department of Plant Sciences,
University of Arizona,
Thursday, February 10th, 2005
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Caltech Biotechnology Club Speaker
Systems Biology and the Future of Biotechnology and Medicine
Leroy Hood,
Dr.,
Institute for Systems Biology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Pattern Formation in Developing Epithelial Layers
Stanislav Shvartsman,
Professor,
department of chemical engineering,
Princeton University,
Friday, February 11th, 2005
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
The Mechanism of Olefin Oxidation by Pd(II) Chloride Confirming the Mechanistic Chloride Dependence in the Wacker Process
John Keith,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Molecular Oxygen, Hydrogen Peroxide and Oxidation Reactions Catalyzed by Polyoxometalates
Ronny Neumann,
Rebecca and Israel Sieff Professor of Organic Chemistry,
Organic Chemistry,
Weizmann Institute of Science,
Monday, February 14th, 2005
9:00am
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4:00pm
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Wednesday, February 16th, 2005
3:40pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Cirrus Clouds/Aerosols: Remote Sensing and Climatic Implication
Kuo-Nan Liou,
Distinguished Professor and Director IRRS (Institute of Radiation and Remote Sensing),
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences,
University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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John D. Roberts Lecture
From Physical Organic Chemistry to Biomedical Research
Dieter Seebach,
Professor Dr. ,
Laboratorium fur Organische Chemie,
Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule, Zuerich,
Thursday, February 17th, 2005
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bioengineering Seminar
Discovery of System Design Principles and Construction of Gene Circuits,
Michael Savageau,
Distinguished Professor,
Biomedical Engineering & Microbiology Graduate Group,
UC Davis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Organic Synthesis: Still Central!?
Dieter Seebach,
Professor Dr.,
Laboratorium fur Organische Chemie,
Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich,
Friday, February 18th, 2005
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Multi-Scale Modeling of Small Scale Materials Phenomena: Applications in Materials Science and Biology
Markus J. Buehler,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, February 21st, 2005
8:00am
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Iminium and Enamine Activation: Methods for Enantioselectve Organocatalysis
Sean Brown,
Graduate Student,
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar - PLEASE NOTE TIME CHANGE
Trapped Nanoparticles: New Ways to Study Interstellar Dust
Dieter Gerlich,
Prof. Dr.,
Institut fuer Physik,
Technische Universitaet, Chemnitz, Germany,
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005
8:00am
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5:00pm
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3:40pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Diverse Microbial Partnerships Mediating the Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane
Victoria Orphan,
Assistant Professor of Geobiology,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Confined Self-Assembly: From Mesostructure Tuning to Nanowire Engineering
Yiying Wu,
Dr,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Stereoselective Methods for the Synthesis of Contiguous Stereocenters
Tomislav Rovis,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Colorado State University,
Thursday, February 24th, 2005
8:00am
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Ongoing
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4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Biomolecular Engineering of Genetic Switches, Therapeutic Proteins, and Biological Catalysts
Huimin Zhao,
Professor,
departments of chemical and biomolecular engineering, chemistry and bioengineering,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,