Events
April 2014
Tuesday, April 1st, 2014
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014
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Resnick Institute Seminar
Energy Leadership: Integrating Policies Across Sectors
Catherine Sandoval,
Commissioner,
California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lectures
Heat under the microscope: Uncovering the microscopic processes that govern thermal transport
Austin Minnich,
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics,
California Institute of Technology,
Thursday, April 3rd, 2014
4:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
TBA
Brian Crane,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Cornell University,
Friday, April 4th, 2014
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special Chemical Engineering Seminar
Making active matter with colloids
Ramin Golestanian,
Professor,
Department of Physics,
University of Oxford,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
H2 Activation at Rhenium Carbonyl Complexes: A Thermodynamic Analysis of Base-Assisted Formyl C-H Bond
Thomas Teets,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, April 7th, 2014
4:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
"Building tissues to understand how tissues build themselves"
Zev Gartner,
Assistant Professor ,
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry,
University of California, San Francisco,
Tuesday, April 8th, 2014
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Direct Dynamics and Intrinsic Non-RRKM Dynamics. Applications to SN2 Nucleophilic Substitution Reactions
William L. Hase,
Paul Whitfield Horn Professor, Robert A. Welch Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
Texas Tech University,
Wednesday, April 9th, 2014
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Exploiting the Extraordinarily Versatile N-O Bond: Rapid Synthesis of Biaryls, Carbazoles, Primary Aromatic Amines and Aziridines
Laszlo Kurti,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Biohemistry,
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
In situ constraints on reactive nitrogen cycling at atmospheric interfaces
Timothy Bertram,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
UC San Diego,
Thursday, April 10th, 2014
9:00am
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10:00am
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Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Carbon-Oxygen Bond Activation in Nickel Diphosphine-Ether Complexes
Paul Kelley,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Agapie Group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering ,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Organizing colloids in space and time: from viscoelastic nonequilibrium states to the directed assembly of reconfigurable conducting materials
Kenneth S. Schweizer,
G. Ronald and Margaret H. Morris Professor of Materials Science and Engineering,
Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Friday, April 11th, 2014
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Ligand Design for Iron-Catalyzed Nitrogen Fixation
Sidney (Sid) Creutz,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Tuesday, April 15th, 2014
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Macromolecular Translocation Through Nanopores
Murugappan Muthukumar,
Wilmer D. Barrett Professor of Polymer Science and Engineering,
Department of Polymer Science and Engineering,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst,
Wednesday, April 16th, 2014
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Is there a need for an ice-sheet—ocean observation system?
Knut Christianson,
Postdoctoral Scientist,
Department of Environmental Studies and Physics,
St. Olaf College,
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Underutilized Functional Groups as Tools for Discovery
Jennifer M. Schomaker,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Thursday, April 17th, 2014
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Alteration of Cancer Metabolism via O-GlcNAc
Matthew Griffin,
Mr.,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Grab, Pull, and Cut: Mechanisms of Protein Degradation by the 26S Proteasome
Andreas Martin,
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology,
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology,
University of California, Berkeley,
4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Using MetRxn for metabolic model reconstruction, flux elucidation and strain redesign
Costas D. Maranas,
Donald B. Broughton Professor,
Chemical Engineering,
The Pennsylvania State University,
Friday, April 18th, 2014
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Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Design, Construction and Applications of a High Resolution Terahertz Time-Domain ASOPS Spectrometer
Daniel Holland,
Graudate Student in Chemistry, Blake group,
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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General Biology Seminar - Informal
Homeoprotein signaling from plants to brain.
Alain Prochiantz,
Professeur Titulaire,
Chaire des Processus Morphogénétiques Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherche en Biologie,
College de France,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Nickel-Catalyzed Asymmetric Reductive Cross-Coupling of Benzylic Electrophiles
Alan Cherney,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, April 21st, 2014
2:00pm
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Ph.D. Thesis Seminar
Functionalization of Si(111) Surfaces and the Formation of Mixed Monolayers for the Covalent Attachment of Molecular Catalysts in Photoelectrochemical Devices
Judith Lattimer,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Gray group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2014
4:00pm
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W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering
Metabolic engineering: synthetic chemistry of the 21st century (general lecture)
Gregory Stephanopoulos,
W.H. Dow Professor of Biotechnology and Chemical Engineering,
Chemical Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
A metabolic tree of life: from geochemical roots to oceanic ecosystems
Rogier Braakman,
Postdoctoral Associate,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering
Linking cancer and metabolism via isotope labeling and network analysis
Gregory Stephanopoulos,
W.H. Dow Professor of Biotechnology and Chemical Engineering,
Chemical Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Thursday, April 24th, 2014
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Chemical Physics Seminar
A Quiet Revolution in Optical Microscopy
Steven Chu,
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Physics and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University, Former U.S. Secretary of Energy, and Nobel Laureate ,
Physics Department,
Stanford University,
Friday, April 25th, 2014
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Ruth and Edward Hughes Lecture
Mass spectrometry: from noble gases to membrane motors
Carol Robinson,
Professor Dame,
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory,
University of Oxford,
Monday, April 28th, 2014
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Z-Selective Olefin Metathesis Using Chelating Ruthenium Alkylidene Catalysts
Myles Herbert,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Grubbs group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
The Coordination Chemistry of Semiconductor Nanocrystals
Jonathan S. Owen,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Chemistry,
Columbia University,
Tuesday, April 29th, 2014
2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Self-Assembly of Brush Polymers
Benjamin Sveinbjornsson,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Grubbs group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
What Color are Atmospheric Aerosols? Development of a Novel UV-Vis Aerosol Absorption Spectrophotometer
Geoffrey D. Smith,
Associate Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Georgia,
Wednesday, April 30th, 2014
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Studies of the Serotonin Type 3A Receptor and the Chemical Preparation of tRNA
Noah Duffy,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Dougherty group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
11:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Direct Simulation of Quantum Dynamics in Complex Systems
Artur Menzeleev,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Miller group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Insight to the past and future of the El Nino-Southern Oscillation from Plio-Pleistocene nutrient dynamics
Patrick Rafter,
Assistant Project Scientist,
Department of Earth System Science,
University of California, Irvine,
4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
In situ metrologies for characterization of advanced batteries
Jason Graetz,
HRL Laboratories, LLC,