Events
April 2010
Thursday, April 1st, 2010
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Leveraging the Reactivity of Thioesters and Activated Hydrazones in the Development of New Synthetic Methods: Applications to Natural Product Synthesis
Don Coltart,
professor of chemistry,
Duke University ,
Friday, April 2nd, 2010
12:00pm
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8:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Nonproductive Events in Ring-Closing Metathesis
Keith Keitz,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Saturday, April 3rd, 2010
11:00am
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2:00pm
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Monday, April 5th, 2010
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Coordination Chemistry of Triazacyclohexanes and Hexaazaisowurtzitanes: from Metal Clusters to Metal Mediated Cage Degradation
Randolf Kohn,
professor of chemistry,
University of Bath,
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Multiscale Modeling of Complex Biological Systems; Exploring Problematic Dynamical Proposals and Quantifying Enzyme Catalysis
Arieh Warshel,
professor of chemistry,
USC,
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Topic to be announced.
Mak Saito,
associate scientist in marine chemistry and geochemistry,
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
The Crystallization of NiTi Shape Memory Thin Films
Ainissa G. Ramirez,
associate professor of mechanical engineering,
Yale University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar- Cancelled, To be rescheduled
Adapting Proteostasis to Ameliorate Loss- and Gain-of-Function Misfolding Diseases
Jeffery W. Kelly,
professor of chemistry,
the Scripps Research Institute,
Friday, April 9th, 2010
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4:30pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Access to and Redox Chemistry of Ru(I) and Os(I) Metalloradicals
Ayumi Takaoka,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Monday, April 12th, 2010
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Chemical-Scale Studies of the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor: Insights From Amide-to-Ester Backbone Mutagenesis
Kristin Gleitsman,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture - CANCELED
Xiaowei Zhuang,
professor of chemistry and chemical biology, and professor of physics,
Harvard University,
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
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Chemical Physics Seminar
I. Ferromagnetism by Design: Understanding Bound Magnetic Polaron in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor Quantum Dots II. TDDFT Electronic Dynamics: Lifetimes of Excited States on Surfaces
Xiaosong Li,
assistant professor of chemistry,
University of Washington, Seattle,
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010
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Beckman Lecture
Breeding and Building Molecules to Spy on Cells and Tumors
Roger Y. Tsien,
professor of chemistry,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Impact of Turbulence on the Intensity of Hurricanes in Numerical Models
Richard Rotunno,
senior scientist in mesoscale meteorology,
National Center for Atmospheric Research,
Thursday, April 15th, 2010
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
The Bulk Viscosity of Suspensions
Manuj Swaroop,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Friday, April 16th, 2010
8:00am
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Enantioselective Hydroformylation: Catalyst Synthesis, Application, and Mechanism
Clark R. Landis,
professor of chemistry,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Tuesday, April 20th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Into and Out of the Last Glacial Maximum
Peter Clark,
professor of geosciences,
Oregon State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Nanoscale Materials for Solar Fuel Generation
Paul Alivisatos,
professor of chemistry, materials science, and nanotechnology,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Engineering Small Molecules and Ion Channels as Tools for Controlling Neuron Activity
Scott Sternson,
Janelia Farm Scientist,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Design vs. Screening—Searching for Nonlinear Effects, Conditions and Catalysts in Asymmetric Reactions
Matthew H. Todd,
professor of chemistry,
University of Sydney,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Understanding the Mechanisms of Generating Repressive Chromatin Structures
Geeta Narlikar,
professor of biochemistry,
UC San Francisco,
Friday, April 23rd, 2010
11:00am
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2:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Electrocatalytic O2 Reduction by Surface-Immobilized Molecular Cu Complexes
Charles McCrory,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
Caltech,
7:00pm
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9:30pm
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Monday, April 26th, 2010
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Functional Conducting Metallopolymer Materials
Bradley Holliday,
assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry,
the University of Texas at Austin,
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Astrochemistry: From H3+ to C60
Benjamin J. McCall,
assistant professor of chemistry and astronomy,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010
8:00am
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Biochemistry Seminar
How Enzymes Work
Daniel Herschlag,
professor of biochemistry,
Stanford University School of Medicine,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Compound-Specific Amino Acid Fractionation Patterns: A New Approach to Tracing Organic Nitrogen Source and Transformation
Matthew McCarthy,
associate professor of ocean sciences,
UC Santa Cruz ,
4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Solution-Processed Inorganic Photovoltaics from Semiconductor Nanocrystals
Matt Law,
assistant professor of chemistry,
UC Irvine,
Thursday, April 29th, 2010
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Elucidating Membrane Protein Function through Long-Timescale Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Ron Dror,
MSC, Chemistry,
D.E. Shaw Research,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
High-Temperature Transport in Lanthanum Telluride and Other Modern Thermoelectric Materials
Andrew May,
graduate student in chemical engineering,
Caltech,
Friday, April 30th, 2010
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Direct Simulation of Electron Transfer Dynamics
Artur R. Menzeleev,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,