Events
April 2015
Wednesday, April 1st, 2015
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Experimental microbial sedimentology: seeing the processes that shaped enigmatic sedimentary structures
Giulio Mariotti,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences,
Louisiana State University,
Thursday, April 2nd, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
An HRE-binding Py-Im Polyamide Impairs Adaptation of Tumors to Hypoxia
Jerzy Szablowski,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
The advantages of precision in functional copolymers
Karen I. Winey,
Professor and TowerBrook Foundation Faculty Fellow,
Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Pennsylvania,
Friday, April 3rd, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Small Molecule Reactivity of an FeZr Complex Supported by a Dinucleating Ligand
Trixia Marie Buscagan,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, April 6th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Iron Catalysis for the Synthesis of Value-Added Products
Jeffery A, Byers,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Chemistry,
Boston College,
Wednesday, April 8th, 2015
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Oceans of Information
Steven Hallam,
CIFAR Scholar and Associate Professor,
Department of Microbiology & Immunology,
University of British Columbia,
Friday, April 10th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Photolabile Inorganic Complexes for the Triggering of Ion Channel Gating
Oliver Shafaat,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, April 13th, 2015
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Development and Application of Embedding Methods for the Simulation of Large Chemical Systems
Taylor Barnes,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Miller group,
Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
"Life inside the cell: STORM, CRISPR and imagenomics"
Bo Huang,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry; Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics,
University of California, San Francisco,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Metal-Carbon Multiple Bonds and New Vistas in Dehydrogenation Catalysis
Daniel J. Mindiola,
Presidential Chair Professor of Chemistry,
Chemistry,
University of Pennsylvania,
Tuesday, April 14th, 2015
4:00pm
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W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering
Preparing zeolites for specific applications in adsorption and catalysis (research lecture)
Avelino Corma,
Professor,
Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica,
Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain,
Wednesday, April 15th, 2015
7:30am
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6:00pm
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Thursday, April 16th, 2015
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
In-vitro Activation of Reconstituted Prokaryotic Ligand-Gated Ion Channel ELIC
Oliver Shafaat,
Department of Chemistry,
California institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering
Solid catalysts for single and multistep reactions (general lecture)
Avelino Corma,
Professor,
Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica,
Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain,
Friday, April 17th, 2015
8:00am
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5:00pm
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Monday, April 20th, 2015
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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JCAP Seminar
In Situ Study of Materials Transformations at the Atomic Level
Haimei Zheng,
Staff Scientist,
Materials Science Division ,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar--CANCELLED TO BE RESCHEDULED NEXT YEAR
TBA
Joel Rosenthal,
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of Delaware,
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2015
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Catalytic Synthesis of Tetrasubstituted Carbons Bearing Amines and Heteroaromatics
Catharine H. Larsen,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of California, Riverside,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Can Global Warming be Held to 2 Degrees Celsius above Pre-Industrial?
David Lea,
Professor,
Department of Earth Science,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Recent Progress in the Development of Efficient Thermoelectric Materials: The Case of Mg2Si1-xSnx Solid Solutions
Ctirad Uher,
C. Wilbur Peters Collegiate Professor of Physics,
Department of Physics,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
4:30pm
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5:30pm
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CPET Seminar - Filling the Great Teaching Void: Unusual Teaching Concepts
Armand R. Tanguay, Jr.,
Professor of Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Biomedical Engineering, Ophthalmology, Physics, and Astronomy,
University of Southern California,
5:00pm
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6:30pm
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Thursday, April 23rd, 2015
4:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Exploiting riboswitches to study and manipulate bacterial signaling
Ming Hammond,
Assistant Professor,
Departments of Chemistry and Molecular & Cell Biology,
University of California, Berkeley,
Friday, April 24th, 2015
4:00pm
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Monday, April 27th, 2015
4:00pm
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Bioengineering Lecture
"Controlling Cells through RNA Folding: Towards Design Principles for RNA Engineering"
Julius Lucks,
James C. and Rebecca Q. Morgan Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow,
School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
Cornell University,
Tuesday, April 28th, 2015
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Thesis Seminar
The Methanol-to-Olefins Reaction in SAPO-34 and SSZ-13: The Effect of Heteroatom Concentration
Mark Deimund,
graduate student,
chemical engineering,
california institute of technology,
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
On Some Master Equation Models Involving Pre-Reactive Complexes
John R. Barker,
Emeritus Professor of Atmospheric Science,
Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
Wednesday, April 29th, 2015
8:00am
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4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Inter-hemispheric asymmetries in climate and ITCZ migrations
John Marshall,
Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Oceanography,
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
High Efficiency Lanthanide-based Thermoelectric Materials for Space Power Generation Applications
Sabah Bux,
Technologist,
Thermal Energy Conversion Technologies Group,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
C–C and C–H Functionalization Based on Common Functional Groups
Guangbin Dong,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Texas-Austin,
Thursday, April 30th, 2015
4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Engineering entropy in nanomaterials: the bad, the ugly, and the good
Fernando A. Escobedo,
Marjorie L. Hart Professor of Engineering,
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
Cornell University,