Events
December 2009
Ongoing
Ongoing
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12/4
5:00pm
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Quantum Dynamics at Conical Intersections
Stuart C. Althorpe,
reader in theoretical chemistry,
University of Cambridge,
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Crystallization of a Racemic Mixture: Which Will It Be—An Achiral Racemic Compound Versus True or False Conglomerates of Chiral Crystals?
Robert Glaser,
professor of chemistry,
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Asian Monsoon Anticyclone, Pollution Near the Tropopause and Transport to the Stratosphere
Bill Randel,
director,
Atmospheric Chemistry Division,
National Center for Atmospheric Research,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Using Occam's Razor in a Bar Fight: Simple Conclusions from Complex Reactions
Matthew P. Meyer,
assistant professor,
School of Natural Sciences,
UC Merced,
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Seminar on Teaching in Chemistry
Refining Organic Chemistry Education
Haim Weizman,
professor of chemical education and bioorganic chemistry,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Regulation of Secretory and Membrane Protein Biogenesis
Ramanujan Hegde, M.D.,
senior investigator,
Cell Biology and Metabolism Program, NICHD,
National Institutes of Health,
Friday, December 4th, 2009
8:00am
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5:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Copper and Iron Complexes with Unusual Coordination Geometries Enforced by Phosphine Chelates
Neal Mankad,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Sizing Aerosol Particles Between One and Three Nanometers
Nicholas Brunelli,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Interactions between Hippocampal Areas CA3 and CA1 during Slow-wave Sleep
Ming Gu,
graduate student in computation and neural systems,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Studies of Organolithium Reactivity by Rapid-Injection NMR and Efforts Toward an Asymmetric Total Synthesis of Ineleganolide
Amanda C. Jones,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:15pm
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6:00pm
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Saturday, December 5th, 2009
8:00am
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12/8
5:00pm
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Monday, December 7th, 2009
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
Synthetic, Programmable Replicators
Andrew Ellington,
professor of chemistry and biochemistry,
the University of Texas at Austin,
2:00pm
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4:30pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Development and Applications of Quantum Monte Carlo
Daniel Fisher,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Designing Functional Metalloproteins: Beyond the Primary Coordination Sphere
Yi Lu,
professor of chemistry,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
9:00am
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10:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Algorithms for Nucleic Acid Sequence Design
Joseph N. Zadeh,
graduate student in bioengineering,
Bioengineering,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Nanoscopic Imaging of Biomolecules and Cells
Xiaowei Zhuang,
professor of chemistry and chemical biology, and professor of physics,
Harvard University,
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
8:00am
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12/11
5:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Abbott Symposium, Part I—cancelled
Discovery of Lanifanib: An Angiogenesis Inhibitor for Cancer Treatment
Yujia Dai,
Doctor,
Cancer Research,
Abbott Laboratories,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Abbott Symposium, Part II—cancelled
Topic to be announced.
Keith Fagnou,
associate professor of chemistry,
University of Ottawa,
Thursday, December 10th, 2009
2:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Connectivity of the Primate Brain from Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Dirk Neumann,
graduate student in computation and neural systems,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Photochemical and Dynamics Studies of Oxygen Isotope Exchange Reactions of Carbon Dioxide
Laurence Yeung,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
Friday, December 11th, 2009
8:00am
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5:00pm
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4:15pm
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6:00pm
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Monday, December 14th, 2009
9:00am
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10:00am
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Thesis Seminar
The T-shaped Anisotropic Molecule Model: A Unique Perspective of the Glass Transition and Gelation in Low Valence, Directional, Network Forming Liquids
Jennifer Witman,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
Caltech,
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Linus Pauling Lectureship
The Largest Molecule: Structure, Function and Secrets of the Human Genome
Eric Lander,
professor and director,
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard,
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
Monday, December 21st, 2009
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar
Chemical Proteomic Tools to Investigate Protein Reactivity
Eranthie Weerapana,
postdoctoral fellow in chemical physiology,
the Scripps Research Institute,
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar
Interrogating the Histone Ubiquitylation Mark by Semisynthesis
Champak Chatterjee,
postdoctoral associate in chemistry,
the Rockefeller University,