Events
November 2011
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11/1
5:00pm
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Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
10:00am
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11/27
11:59pm
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Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Molecular Tools for Monitoring Biodegradation of Emerging Water Contaminants
Shaily Mahendra,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of California, Los Angeles,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Synthesizing pi-Conjugated Copolymers with Sequence Control using Ni Catalysis
Anne J. McNeil,
professor of chemistry,
University of Michigan,
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Chiral Phosphoric Acid as Versatile Catalysts for Enantioselective Transformations
Masahiro Terada,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Tohoku University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Building new chemical function in living organisms
Michelle Chang,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
UC Berkeley,
Friday, November 4th, 2011
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Thesis Seminar
Exploiting the Reactivity of Arynes for the Synthesis of Natural Products
Pamela Tadross,
Chemistry Graduate Student, Stoltz Group,
Chemistry & Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Functionalization of Dinitrogen at Iron Metallaboratranes
Marc-Etienne Moret,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, November 7th, 2011
9:00am
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9:00pm
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4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Synthesis, Reactivity and Bonding in Uranium(IV-VI) Mono- and Bis-imido Complexes
James M. Boncella,
Technical Staff Member,
Materials Physics and Applications Division,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Linus Pauling Lectureship
Post-Transcriptional Control of Inflammatory Genes
David Baltimore,
President Emeritus and Robert Andrews Millikan Professor,
Division of Biology,
California Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Bristol-Myers Squibb Symposium-NOTE EVENT, TIME & LOCATION CHANGES
Process Development Studies Towards BMS-690514: A Dual HER/VEGFR Inhibitor
David A. Conlon,
PhD,
Bristol-Myers Squibb,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Bristol-Myers Squibb Symposium-NOTE EVENT, TIME & LOCATION CHANGES
Evolution of Anion Relay Chemistry (ARC): Construction of Architecturally Complex Natural and Unnatural Products
Amos B. Smith, III,
professor of chemistry,
the University of Pennsylvania,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Remote sensing of African smallholder farmers and their environment: Impacts of agricultural subsidies and climate adaptation
Gillian Galford,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Woods Hole Research Center,
Friday, November 11th, 2011
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
New Ligand Architectures for Intramolecular Lewis Acid Promoted Syngas Conversion
Amaruka Hazari,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Saturday, November 12th, 2011
9:00am
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12:00pm
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Monday, November 14th, 2011
4:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
Cancer Cell Migration in 3D
Denis Wirtz,
Professor,
Johns Hopkins Physical Sciences - Oncology Center,
Johns Hopkins University,
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Swift Lecture
Discovery of Metal-Catalyzed Reactions for Sustainable Chemistry
David Milstein,
Israel Matz Professorial Chair of Organic Chemistry,
the Weizmann Institute of Science,
Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
8:00am
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
CalTech vs GaTech: Secondary organic aerosol and soluble brown carbon
Rodney Weber,
Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry,
School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences,
Georgia Institute of Technology ,
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Chemical Manipulation of Mammalian Viruses
Isaac Carrico,
professor of chemistry,
Stony Brook University,
Thursday, November 17th, 2011
8:00am
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4:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Engineered synthetic antibodies as chaperones for structural and biological applications
Anthony Kossiakoff,
Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
University of Chicago,
Friday, November 18th, 2011
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Electrochemistry of Self-Assembling Inorganic Membranes: Simulating the Origin of Metabolism in Hydrothermal Systems
Laura M. Barge,
Caltech Postdoctoral Scholar at JPL,
NASA Astrobiology Institute Icy Worlds Team,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Saturday, November 19th, 2011
8:00am
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Monday, November 21st, 2011
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Just Say N,O. Amidates and Ureates as Simple Chelates for Complex Chemistry
Laurel L. Schafer,
Associate Professor,
Chemistry,
University of British Columbia,
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Imaging voltage: from E. coli to neurons
Adam E. Cohen,
Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and of Physics,
Department of Physics,
Harvard University,
Thursday, November 24th, 2011
8:00am
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11/25
5:00pm
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Monday, November 28th, 2011
1:30pm
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2:30pm
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Thesis Seminar
The role of pesticide-induced aldehyde dehydrogenase inhibition in the pathogenesis of Parkinsons disease
Arthur G. Fitzmaurice,
Graduate student,
Environmental Science and Engineering,
UCLA (Detached Duty Caltech),
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Lights... Camera... Chemistry! Single-Molecule Imaging Tools for Synthetic Chemists & Dual Catalysis with Gold
Suzanne A. Blum,
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry,
University of California, Irvine,
4:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
Rewiring and evolving bacterial signaling pathways
Michael T. Laub,
Associate Professor of Biology,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Working at the Interface of Science and Art: Collections Research at the Getty
Karen Trentelman,
Senior Scientist,
Collections Research,
Getty Conservation Institute,
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Let it rain: A convergence of carbon and biodiversity hotspots in the wettest of tropical forests
Alan Townsend,
Professor,
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,
University of Colorado Boulder,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Highly Monodisperse Core-Shell Particles Created by Solid-State Reactions in Alloys
Mark Asta,
Professor ,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California Berkeley ,
Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,