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Wednesday, January 4th, 2012
1:00am – Ongoing
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Resnick Institute Accepting Applications for Graduate Research Fellowships in Sustainable Energy Science

8:00am – 5:00pm
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Beginning of Instruction of Winter Term

Thursday, January 5th, 2012
9:00am – 5:00pm
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Undergraduate Academic Standards and Honors Committee Meeting

Friday, January 6th, 2012
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Crellin 151
The Strange and Wonderful Photophysical World of Per(difluoroborated) Platinum-POP
Yan Choi Lam, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
Monday, January 9th, 2012
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture

Beckman Institute Auditorium
Designing Biological Systems for Health and Sustainability
Pamela Silver, Professor, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School,
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Special CCE Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Personal Experiences & Lessons Learned in 20+ Years of Industrial R&D
William Banholzer, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer , Dow Chemical Company,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Snowpack, climate change and water balance in a Sierra Nevada forest
Roger Bales, Professor, Engineering, University of California, Merced,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Fluorescent Probes of DNA Structure and Function
Nathan W. Luedtke, Professor Dr., Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Zurich,
Thursday, January 12th, 2012
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Rethinking the replication-repair interface: single-molecule analysis joins BRCA1/2 and Fanconi Anemia proteins in a novel DNA fork protection pathway
Katharina Schlacher, Postdoctoral Fellow, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Institute and UCLA,
Friday, January 13th, 2012
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Crellin 151
Structure, Spectroscopy, and Thermochemistry of Paramagnetic Cobalt Dihydrogen and Dinitrogen Complexes
Daniel Suess, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
Monday, January 16th, 2012
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Martin Luther King Day (Institute Holiday)

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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Thesis Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Investigations on Low-Valent Group 8 and 9 Metalloradicals
Ayumi Takaoka, Graduate Student in Chemistry, Peters group, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Nanophotonics: The Art of Managing Photons at the Nanoscale
Mark L. Brongersma, Associate Professor , Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University,
Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Transilience of Mass and Momentum by Convective Clouds
David Romps, Assistant Professor, Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkley,
Thursday, January 19th, 2012
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Resnick Institute Lecture

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Nanorod Materials for Energy Device Applications
Dan Dapkus, William M. Keck Professor of Engineering, Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, USC,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ruth and Edward Hughes Lecture

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Noncoding RNAs: with a Viral Twist
Joan Steitz, HHMI Investigator and professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry, Yale University,
Friday, January 20th, 2012
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar

Crellin 151
Chemical-Scale Investigations of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors
Nyssa Puskar, Graduate Student in Chemistry, Dougherty group, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Caltech,
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Women Mentoring Women Seminar

Kerckhoff 119
Beyond Bias and Barriers: Current Prospects for Women in Science
Joan Steitz, Sterling Professor, Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Crellin 151
Synthesis of Heterometallic Trimanganese Mn3MOx Complexes Supported by a Hexapyridyl 1,3,5-Triarylbenzene Ligand
Emily Tsui, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
Sunday, January 22nd, 2012
2:00pm – 4:00pm
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Basic bike repair course

Student Activities Center
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
10:00am – 11:00am
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Thesis Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
High-Throughput Strategies for the Scalable Generation of RNA Component Functions
Joe Chih Yao Liang, graduate student, chemical engineering, california institute of technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Dynamics of Liquids and Interfaces Studied with Ultrafast 2D IR Vibrational Echo Spectroscopy
Michael D. Fayer, David Mulvane Ehrsam and Edward Curtis Franklin Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University,
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day for Adding Courses and Removing Conditions and Incompletes

4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Beckman Lecture

Gates Annex B122
Chemical Design of Anti-Cancer Compounds for Maximal Therapeutic Index
Kevan Shokat, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Biological productivity in the Southern Ocean, and variability in the atmospheric CO2 concentration over long timescales
Michael Bender, Professor of Geosciences, Earth History and Geochemistry, Princeton University,
Friday, January 27th, 2012
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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Special Microbiology/Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Flavin-based electron bifurcation, a novel mechanism of energy conservation in anaerobes.
Rolf Thauer, Professor of Microbiology, Max Planck Institute, Marburg (Germany),
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Crellin 151
Activator-Free Oligomerizations and Oxidative Transformations Catalyzed by Palladium Hydroxy-Bridged Dimers
Matthew Winston, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
Monday, January 30th, 2012
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture

Beckman Institute Auditorium
Learning to Program Cell Signaling Systems
Wendell Lim, Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco,
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Thesis Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Accelerating the interplay between theory and experiment in protein design
Alex Nisthal, graduate student, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Surprises in ionic driven assembly of membranes
Monica Olvera de la Cruz, Lawyer Professor of Materials Science, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Materials Science, Northwestern University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Thesis Seminar

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Interaction of Planning Areas in Cerebral Cortex
R. Chess Stetson, Computation & Neural Systems, California Institute of Technolgoy,