Events
March 2009
Ongoing
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3/11
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Monday, March 2nd, 2009
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Carbon Dioxide Coordination, Activation, and Functionalization at Reactive Uranium Complexes
Karsten Meyer,
professor,
Institute for Inorganic Chemistry,
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg,
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
10:00am
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11:30am
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1:30pm
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Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
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Biochemistry Seminar
Enzymes as Chemotherapeutic Agents
Ronald T. Raines,
professor of chemistry,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Gauging Cryosphere-Driven Sea Level Rise: How Stable Are the Polar Ice Sheets?
Shawn Marshall,
associate professor of geography and Canada Research Chair in Climate Change,
University of Calgary,
Thursday, March 5th, 2009
11:00am
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Robert W. Vaughan Lecture in Chemical Engineering
Engineering Microbes to Produce Methyl Halides
Christopher Voigt,
associate professor pharmaceutical chemistry,
UC San Francisco,
Friday, March 6th, 2009
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Bioengineering Seminar
Genetic Design Automation: Progress and Future Research Directions
Chris J. Myers,
professor of electrical and computer engineering,
University of Utah,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Metal-Ligand Multiple Bonds in Nickel Complexes Supported by Chelating Bisphosphine Ligands
Vlad Iluc,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:15pm
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Monday, March 9th, 2009
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Trianionic Pincer Ligands: Nitrile Synthesis via N-Atom Transfer, High Oxidation State Cr(IV) and Cr(V) and New Chemistry with W-W Triple Bonds
Adam S. Veige,
assistant professor of chemistry,
University of Florida,
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
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Materials Research Lecture
Developments in Transformation Optics and Invisibility Cloaks
David R. Smith,
professor of electrical and computer engineering,
Duke University,
Thursday, March 12th, 2009
8:00am
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3/15
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Biochemistry Seminar
Functional Consequences of Coupled Folding and Binding in the NF-κB/IκBα
Elizabeth Komives,
professor of geological sciences,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
UC San Diego,
Friday, March 13th, 2009
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Zirconocene Aluminohydride Complexes: Possible Resting States for Ziegler-Natta Polymerization
Steven Baldwin,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:15pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, March 16th, 2009
8:00am
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3/18
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Design of Nonlinear Optical Materials and a Few other Random Thoughts
Seth R. Marder,
professor of chemistry,
Georgia Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Adventures in Transition-Metal-Catalyzed Nitrogenation of Hydrocarbons
Kenneth M. Nicholas,
research professor,
department of chemistry and biochemistry,
the University of Oklahoma,
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
8:00am
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Materials Research Lecture
Personalized Energy: A Carbon-Neutral Energy Supply for 1 (x6 Billion)
Daniel G. Nocera,
professor of energy,
MIT,
Thursday, March 19th, 2009
8:00am
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3/29
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Biochemistry Seminar
Chemical Approaches to Biofuels
Ronald T. Raines,
professor of chemistry,
University of Wisconsin–Madison,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Constantin G. Economou Memorial Lecture
On the Route to Mechanistic Understanding of How Targeted Nanoparticles Target Cancer Cells
Chung Hang Jonathan Choi,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
Caltech,
Friday, March 20th, 2009
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Understanding π Bonding Influences on Pincer Ligand Geometry in Tantalum bis(phenolate) ComplexesÂ
Ian Tonks,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, March 23rd, 2009
4:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Nature, Nurture, or Just Blind Chance: Stochastic Gene Expression and Its Consequences
Alexander Van Oudenaarden,
professor of physics,
MIT,
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
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Friday, March 27th, 2009
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Luminescent Iridium Corroles
Joshua Palmer,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, March 30th, 2009
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Corroles: Synthesis, Coordination Chemistry, Catalysis, and Conjugation to Proteins for Biomimetic Processes
Zeev Gross,
professor of chemistry,
Technion, Israel Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
10:00am
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Running a Chemical Reaction Inside C60 with Spin Chemistry, Following the Path of Memory by Imaging mRNA with Molecular Beacons, and Designing a $1000 Genome on a Chip Through Sequencing by Synthesis
Nicholas J. Turro,
professor of chemistry,
Columbia University,