Events
October 2012
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10/15
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Monday, October 1st, 2012
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11:30am
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Thesis Seminar
Robust and Versatile Palladium(II) Dimer Precatalysts for Olefin Transformations
Matthew Winston,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Bercaw group,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Phototriggering Nitric Oxide Synthase
Gretchen Keller,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Gray group,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Lanthanide Chemistry in Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Catalysis
Matthew J. Allen,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Wayne State University,
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012
9:00am
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5:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Si Microwire Photoanodes Under High-Level Injection Conditions
Elizabeth Santori,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Lewis group,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012
10:00am
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11:00am
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Thesis Seminar
Sec-Facilitated Protein Translocation and Membrane Integration
Bin Zhang,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Miller group,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
Thursday, October 4th, 2012
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Guiding the Design of Synthetic DNA-Binding Molecules with Massively Parallel Sequencing
Jordan Meier,
Mr.,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
Friday, October 5th, 2012
9:30am
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12:00pm
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Thesis Seminar
Technology Advances for Radio Astronomy
Damon Russell,
Graduate Student,
Electrical Engineering,
California Institute of Technolgoy,
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Selective Functionalization of the Protein N-Terminus with N-Myristoyl Transferase in Bacteria
Selective Functionalization of the Protein N-Terminus with N-Myristoyl Transferase in Bacteria
Chethana Kulkarni,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Tirrell group,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
Sunday, October 7th, 2012
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3:00pm
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Monday, October 8th, 2012
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Advancing Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: New Molecules, Materials, Measurements and Modeling
Thomas Hamann,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Michigan State University,
Tuesday, October 9th, 2012
10:30am
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11:30am
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Thesis Seminar
Ligan-Gated Ion Channels: Structure-Function Studies & Crosstalk with Other Receptors
Walrati Limapichat,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Dougherty group,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
A Molecule to Detect and Perturb the Confinement of Charge Carriers in Colloidal Quantum Dots
Emily A. Weiss,
Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Northwestern University,
Wednesday, October 10th, 2012
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Microscale X-ray Imaging Applications of Synchrotron Radiation: Peering into the Earth with X-ray Vision
Samuel Webb,
Scientist,
Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource,
Stanford University,
Thursday, October 11th, 2012
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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Discovery of New Roles for Chondroitin Sulfate in Neurotrophin Signaling and Retinotopic Development
Discovery of New Roles for Chondroitin Sulfate in Neurotrophin Signaling and Retinotopic Development
Claude Rogers,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Hsieh-Wilson group,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
Friday, October 12th, 2012
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Polymerization Catalysis for the Precision Synthesis of Chiral and Sustainable Polymers
Garret Miyake,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Saturday, October 13th, 2012
2:00pm
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2012
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Time-resolved Molecular Imaging with a Femtosecond Hard X-ray Laser
John C.H. Spence,
Regents' Professor,
Department of Physics,
Arizona State University,
Wednesday, October 17th, 2012
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The plumbing of ice sheets
Ian Hewitt,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Institute of Applied Mathematics,
University of British Columbia,
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
A Logical Structure for Scientific and Technological Innovation
David A. Pensak,
Adjunct Professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine,
Department of Anesthesiology,
Drexel University College of Medicine,
Thursday, October 18th, 2012
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Imaging the E. coli Chromosome by Super-Resolution Microscopy
Timur Zhiyentayev,
Mr.,
Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Mechanism of Subunit Coordination Within a Ring-shaped Hexameric Molecular Machine
Xiaojiang Chen,
Professor of Biological Sciences and Chemistry,
Molecular and Computational Biology, Department of Biological Sciences,
University of Southern California,
Friday, October 19th, 2012
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Mechanisms of Oxygen Reduction Reactions Mediated by Rhodium and Iridium Hydride Complexes
Thomas Teets,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, October 22nd, 2012
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
"The H-NOX Family of Heme Sensor Proteins: Discovery of a New Role for Nitric Oxide Signaling in Bacteria"
Elizabeth M. Boon,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Stony Brook University,
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012
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Norman Davidson Lecture
Biochemical pathways to cell death
Xiaodong Wang,
Director & Investigator,
National Institute of Biological Sciences,
Wednesday, October 24th, 2012
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
North African dust emissions over the last 20,000 years: Estimating the abruptness, magnitude and climate impacts of past changes
David McGee,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Joint Biochemistry / Chemical Physics Seminar
Millisecond-Long Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Proteins on a Special-Purpose Machine
David Shaw,
D. E. Shaw Research and Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics,
Columbia University,
Thursday, October 25th, 2012
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Resnick Institute Seminar
Resnick Institute Fellows Seminar: Brush Polymers for Optoelectronic Devices and Branch Flow Model: Relaxation, Convexification and Application to Optimal Power Control
Raymond Weitekamp,
Brush Polymers for Optoelectronic Devices,
Masoud Farivar,
Branch Flow Model: Relaxation, Convexification and Application to Optimal Reactive Power Control ,
4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Accelerating microbial functional genomics
Trent Northen,
Staff Scientist,
Bioenergy/GTL and Structural Biology,
Lawrence Berkeley Lab,
Friday, October 26th, 2012
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
"The Development of a Palladium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Conjugate Addition of Arylboronic Acids to Cyclic Conjugate Acceptors"
Jeffrey Holder,
"The Development of a Palladium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Conjugate Addition of Arylboronic Acids to Cyclic Conjugate Acceptors",
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, October 29th, 2012
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Characterization and Applications of Metal-Metal Bonds in Early/Late Heterobimetallic Complexes
Christine M. Thomas,
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry,
Brandeis University,
Tuesday, October 30th, 2012
4:00pm
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Joint Biochemistry / Chemical Physics Seminar
Small-molecule Interrogation of Kinase Signaling and Membrane Protein Biogenesis
Jack Taunton,
Associate Professor,
Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology,
University of California, San Francisco,
Wednesday, October 31st, 2012
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Terrestrial Ecosystem Science at JPL: Global Carbon, Water, and Nutrients Cycling Impacts To and From Climate
Joshua Fisher,
Scientist,
Water & Carbon Cycles Group,
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL),