Events - Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Day

Week

Month

Term

January 2015

Monday, January 5th, 2015

8:00am – 5:00pm

Beginning of Instruction of Winter Term

Academic

Tuesday, January 6th, 2015

9:00am – 5:00pm

Undergraduate Academic Standards and Honors Committee Meeting

Location to be announced

Academic

Wednesday, January 7th, 2015

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

Why is the ITCZ in the Northern Hemisphere? And why is there a double ITCZ problem?

Dargan Frierson, Associate Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington,

Thursday, January 8th, 2015

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Ab initio discovery of energy conversion pathways - theory and applications

Lee-Ping Wang, Ph.D., Department of Chemistry, Stanford University,

Friday, January 9th, 2015

11:00am – 12:00pm

Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

A molecular switch that turns on selective autophagy

Vlad Denic, Associate Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar--CANCELLED

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Magnetic Field Effects on Charge Transport Through DNA

Theodore (Ted) Zwang, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,

Monday, January 12th, 2015

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Special Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

How the Cellular Proteostasis Network Controls Protein Fate

Xin Zhang, Ph.D., Departments of Chemistry and Molecular & Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute,

Tuesday, January 13th, 2015

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Biology Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Chemical Biology to Activate Cell Signaling

Lingyin Li, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School,

Wednesday, January 14th, 2015

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

Physical mechanisms controlling the self-aggregation of tropical convection in idealized numerical simulations

Allison Wing, NSF AGS Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University,

Thursday, January 15th, 2015

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar

Crellin 151

Glycation of DNA as a Molecular Link between Metabolic Disease and Cancer

John Termini, Professor of Molecular Medicine, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope,

12:00pm – 1:00pm

PhD Thesis Seminar

Beckman Institute 115

First principles Based Multiparadigm Modeling of Electronic Structures and Dynamics

Hai Xiao, Graduate Student in Chemistry, Goddard group, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Caltech,

Friday, January 16th, 2015

3:00pm – 4:00pm

General Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Synthetic Biology Approaches to New Chemistry

Michelle Chang, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Chemical and Materials Design for Efficient and Stable Water Splitting

Shu Hu, Postdoctoral Scholar, Chemistry, Caltech,

Monday, January 19th, 2015

8:00am – 5:00pm

Martin Luther King Day (Institute Holiday)

Academic

Tuesday, January 20th, 2015

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Biology Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Mechanisms Controlling Phosphoinositide Synthesis at the Plasma Membrane

Jeremy Baskin, Ph.D., Yale University School of Medicine,

Wednesday, January 21st, 2015

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

Life at pH 12: being educated by cultivated organisms and geochemistry -- being surprised and mystified by metagenomics.

Kenneth H. Nealson, Wrigley Professor of Environmental Science, University of Southern California,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Gene regulation through tRNA-mRNA recognition— a tale of two intertwined non-coding RNAs

Jinwei Zhang, Ph.D., National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health,

Thursday, January 22nd, 2015

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Moore Distinguished Scholar Lecture

Crellin 151

The evolution of renormalization group theory

Garnet Chan, A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Theoretical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University,

3:00pm – 4:00pm

JCAP Seminar

Jorgensen 109

Photosensitization of Single Crystal Semiconductors: From Photography to Multiple Excitons

Bruce Parkinson, Professor, Department of Chemistry and the School of Energy Resources, University of Wyoming,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Biology Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Exploiting Orthogonality in Chemical Biology and Materials Science

Ellen Sletten, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Materials Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Nanomembranes and Soft Fabrication Methods for High Performance, Low Cost Energy Technologies

Ralph Nuzzo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,

Friday, January 23rd, 2015

8:00am – 5:00pm

Last Day for Adding Courses and Removing Conditions and Incompletes

Academic

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Investigating the Redox Properties of Human DNA Primase

Elizabeth (Liz) O'Brien, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,

Monday, January 26th, 2015

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Moore Distinguished Scholar Lecture

Crellin 151

Embedding theories in quantum chemistry

Garnet Chan, A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Theoretical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

TBA

Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede, Professor, Chemistry, Umea University, Sweden; Visiting Associate, Chemistry, Caltech,

Tuesday, January 27th, 2015

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Biochemistry Seminar

Gates Annex B122

The use of recent advances in electron microscopy to study ribosome structure

Venki Ramakrishnan, Joint Head, Structural Studies Division, Group Leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

The strong correlation problem: A quantum chemistry perspective

Gustavo E. Scuseria, Robert A. Welch Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University,

Wednesday, January 28th, 2015

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Moore Distinguished Scholar Lecture

Crellin 151

Towards an ab initio description of high-temperature superconductivity

Garnet Chan, A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Theoretical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

Simple predictions of forest structure from resource limitations and fractal geometry

Chris Kempes, Visiting Scholar in Control and Dynamical Systems, Department of Computing & Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,

Thursday, January 29th, 2015

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide with highly-dispersed metal nanoparticles

Karthish Manthiram, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley,

Friday, January 30th, 2015

4:00pm – 5:00pm

New Tasks for Multiheme Cytochrome c Enzymes

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Special Biochemistry Seminar

Oliver Einsle, Professor, Lehrstuhl für Biochemie, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiberg,