Events
November 2014
Ongoing
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11/4
5:00pm
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Monday, November 3rd, 2014
3:30pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
"Engineered Gene Circuits: From Clocks and Biopixels to Stealth Delivery"
Jeff Hasty,
Professor of Bioengineering,
Jacobs School of Engineering,
University of California, San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Control of Excited States of Inorganic Complexes for Applications in Biology and Solar Energy
Claudia Turro,
Professor,
Chemistry,
The Ohio State University,
Tuesday, November 4th, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
The mystery of water and its condensed phases
James L. Skinner,
Joseph O. and Elizabeth S. Hirschfelder Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of Wisconsin, Madison,
Wednesday, November 5th, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Ian Eisenman,
Assistant Professor,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
UC San Diego,
Thursday, November 6th, 2014
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Physical Clustering of Highly Transcribed Genes in E. coli
Wen Zhou,
Graduate Student,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
How telomeres solve the chromosome end protection problem
Titia de Lange,
Leon Hess Professor, American Cancer Society Professor, Head of Laboratory of Cell Biology and Genetics, Director-Anderson Center for Cancer Research,
The Rockefeller University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
From sequence to function to sequence: biophysical modeling and automated design of cellular sensors, circuits, and pathways
Howard M. Salis,
Assistant Professor,
Chemical Engineering and Agricultural & Biological Engineering,
Pennsylvania State University,
Monday, November 10th, 2014
9:00am
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9:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Applications of a Concise and General Strategy for the Syntheses of Transtaganolide and Basiliolide Natural Products
Jonathan Gordon,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Stoltz group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Taking Snapshots of Photosynthetic Water Oxidation Using Femtosecond Pulses from an X-ray Free Electron Laser
Junko Yano,
Staff Scientist,
Physical Biosciences Division,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
Wednesday, November 12th, 2014
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Structure determination of protein complexes that regulate mRNA polyA tails
Lori Passmore,
Ph.D.,
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Resnick Fellows Seminar
Enhanced Light-Matter Interactions in 2D Materials for Novel Solar Cell Designs & Catalysis without Precious Metals: Lessons from Nature in Sustainable Chemistry
Resnick Fellows Michelle Sherrott & Anton Toutov ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Tran Nguyen,
Stanback & NSF Postdoc Fellow,
Department of Environmental Science,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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John D. Roberts Lecture
Ultrasensitive Biomolecular Analysis using Nanostructured Materials
Shana Kelley,
Professor,
Department of Biochemistry,
University of Toronto,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Harnessing Nature's Light Manipulation Strategies for Multifunctional Optical Materials
Mathias Kolle,
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT,
Thursday, November 13th, 2014
4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
The Revolution will be Compartmentalized: Technology for Distributed Drug Discovery
Brian M. Paegel,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
The Scripps Research Institute,
Friday, November 14th, 2014
10:00am
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11/15
4:00pm
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Humanities Conference: Coping with Scarcity
Coping with Scarcity: Energy Shortages, Food Crises, Drought, and Critical Materials in the Modern World (c. 1800 to the present)
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Donor-Bidge-Acceptor Biradicals in Ground- and Excited States: Correlation of Exchange and Electronic Coupling with Excited-State Wave Function Mixing
David A. Shultz,
Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
North Carolina State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Comparison of Molecular Co and Fe Complexes in the Catalytic Conversion of N2 to NH3
Trevor Del Castillo,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, November 17th, 2014
4:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
"Building molecular assemblies to control the flow of biological information"
Ahmad S. Khalil,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Biomedical Engineering,
Boston University,
Tuesday, November 18th, 2014
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Boltzmann's Dog and Darwin's Finch: The statistical thermodynamics of self-replication and evolution
Jeremy L. England,
Thomas D. and Virginia W. Cabot Career Development Assistant Professor of Physics,
Department of Physics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, November 19th, 2014
8:00am
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Arthur D. Riggs Lecture
Reflections on a Career of Collaboration, Mostly with Caltech
Arthur D. Riggs,
Professor and Chair, Cancer Biology,
Department of Diabetes and Metabolic Disease Research,
Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
A Paleo-perspective on Ocean Heat Content and Climate Change
Yair Rosenthal,
Professor,
Department of Marine Biogeochemistry, Paleontology,
Rutgers University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Materials By Design: Unexpected routes to superconductivity
James Neilson,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Colorado State University,
Thursday, November 20th, 2014
8:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Spatial and Temporal Control of a Membrane Protein Chaperone
George Liang,
Dr.,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
Friday, November 21st, 2014
8:00am
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4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Strategies for the Stereoselective Installation of All-Carbon Quaternary Centers via Palladium and Iridium Catalysis
Corey Reeves,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, November 24th, 2014
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Coordination Chemistry as an Approach to the Development of Chemically Diverse Anti-Cancer Agents
Edith C. Glazer,
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry,
University of Kentucky,
Thursday, November 27th, 2014
8:00am
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11/28
5:00pm
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