Events
January 2011
Monday, January 3rd, 2011
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Tuesday, January 4th, 2011
Wednesday, January 5th, 2011
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Thesis Seminar
Iron Mediated Reduction Schemes of Dinitrogen and Carbon Dioxide
Caroline Saouma,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar
Design of Living Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization of Strained Alkynes
Felix R. Fischer,
postdoctoral research fellow in chemistry,
Columbia University,
Friday, January 7th, 2011
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Solid Supported Olefin Metathesis Catalysts
Matthew M. Van Wingerden,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
Wednesday, January 12th, 2011
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Energetics and Potential Implications of Iceberg Calving
Jason Amundson,
postdoctoral scholar in geophysical sciences,
the University of Chicago,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Organic Chemistry Seminar
Shedding Light on the Biosynthesis of Cyanobacterial Sunscreens
Emily P. Balskus,
research fellow in biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology,
Harvard Medical School,
Thursday, January 13th, 2011
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Ruth and Edward Hughes Lecture
The Structural Basis of Decoding by the Ribosome
Venki Ramakrishnan,
MRC Laboratory for Molecular Biology,
Friday, January 14th, 2011
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Late Transition Metal Complexes Bearing Electron-Withdrawing Lambda-4 Sulfur Donors
Daniel L. Suess,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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6:00pm
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Monday, January 17th, 2011
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Tuesday, January 18th, 2011
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Conformational Flexibility Leading to Activation of G-Protein Coupled Receptors: Its Relevance to Drug Design for Pancreatic Cancer
Nagarajan Vaidehi,
professor of immunology,
Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope,
Wednesday, January 19th, 2011
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Using Triple O Isotopes and O2/Ar Ratios for Estimating Primary Production under Non-steady Conditions in Marginal Ice Blooms in the Bering Sea
Masha Prokopenko,
assistant research professor of Earth science,
USC,
4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Microscale Heat Transfer in Graphene and Nanostructured Thermoelectrics
Chris Dames,
assistant professor of mechanical engineering,
UC Riverside,
Thursday, January 20th, 2011
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Friday, January 21st, 2011
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Bulk and Surface Modifications of WO3 for Photoelectrochemical O2 Evolution at pH=0
Qixi Mi,
postdoctoral scholar in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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Saturday, January 22nd, 2011
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Monday, January 24th, 2011
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Bioengineering Lecture
Micro- and NanoFluidics for Cellular Studies
Shuichi Takayama,
associate professor biomedical engineering and of macromolecular science and engineering,
University of Michigan,
Tuesday, January 25th, 2011
3:00pm
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Special Seminar
Nanowires for Electrochemical Energy Storage: High Performance Lithium-ion Batteries
Candace Chan,
graduate student in chemistry,
UC Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
"Molecules Under Tension: Theory of Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy"
Gerhard Hummer,
senior investigator and chief,
Theoretical Biophysics Section,
NIDDK, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD,
Wednesday, January 26th, 2011
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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Materials Research Lecture
A 3D Thermoelectrochemical Model of a Li-ion
Jake Christensen,
principal engineer,
the Bosch Research and Technology Center,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Field-Scale Bioremediation of a Uranium-Impacted Aquifer under Natural and Artificially Stimulated Conditions
Kate Campbell,
research biogeochemist,
Water Resources,
U. S. Geological Survey, Boulder, Colorado,
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Exploring New Ligand Designs for Asymmetric Catalysis
Sukwon Hong,
professor of chemistry,
University of Florida,
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
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Biochemistry Seminar
Information in Protein Sequences: Combinatorial and Statistical Protein Design
Thomas Magliery,
assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry,
the Ohio State University,
Friday, January 28th, 2011
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Free Energy and Dissipation Out of Equilibrium
David Sivak,
postdoctoral fellow in physics,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Highly Selective Ruthenium Metathesis Catalysts for Ethenolysis
Renee M. Thomas,
graduate student in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:30pm
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Monday, January 31st, 2011
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Bioengineering Lecture
The Quest for Ultimate Sensitivity of Nonlinear Label-free Optical Imaging in Biology and Medicine
X. Sunney Xie,
professor of chemistry and chemical biology,
Harvard University,