Events - Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Day

Week

Month

Term

January 2016

Monday, January 4th, 2016

8:00am – 5:00pm

Beginning of Instruction of Winter Term

Academic

4:00pm – 5:00pm

inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Photophysics and Photochemistry of Nanoscale Semiconductors

Gordana Dukovic, Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder,

Tuesday, January 5th, 2016

9:00am – 5:00pm

Undergraduate Academic Standards and Honors Committee Meeting

Location to be announced

Academic

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special Inorganic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

"Molecular and Solid-State Architectures for the Isolation of Reactive Species"

Eric Bloch, Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Harvard, and Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

Wednesday, January 6th, 2016

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

Biomimetic processes for water treatment - CANCELLED

Julie Zilles, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,

Thursday, January 7th, 2016

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Integrative structural biology of Tetrahymena telomerase

Juli Feigon, Professor of Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles,

Friday, January 8th, 2016

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Electronic Structure of an Unusual Redox Series of Iron-Nitrosyl Complexes

Matthew Chalkley, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,

Monday, January 11th, 2016

10:00am – 11:00am

PhD Thesis Seminar

Beckman Auditorium

Chemical and Photoelectrochemical Behavior of Graphene-Covered Silicon Photoelectrodes

Adam Nielander, Graduate Student in Chemistry, Lewis group, Chemistry, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bioengineering Lecture

Beckman Institute Auditorium

Surprising Physics of DNA on the Genome Scale

Taekjip Ha, Department of Biophysics and Structural Biology, University of Chicago,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special Inorganic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

"Electronically Doped Colloidal Semiconductor Nanocrystals"

Alina Schimpf, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

Tuesday, January 12th, 2016

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Chemistry Club Seminar

Schlinger 101

Learning from a Hard Problem: Vignettes from Graduate, Postdoctoral, and Independent Studies on Selective C-H Functionalization

Jared C. Lewis, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago,

Wednesday, January 13th, 2016

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

Iron supply to an anemic ocean: Using Fe isotopes to trace global Fe sources

Seth John, Associate Professor (Research), Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Materials Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Atomic Packing and Structure-Property Correlations in Amorphous Metals

Evan Ma, Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Engineering Proteins for Selective Catalysis

Jared C. Lewis, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago,

Thursday, January 14th, 2016

11:00am – 12:00pm

PhD Thesis Seminar

Crellin 151

Molybdenum-Quinonoid Complexes: Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity

Justin Henthorn, Graduate Student in Chemistry, Agapie group, Chemistry, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Running rings (and spirals) around DNA: molecular mechanisms for initiating and controlling replication

James Berger, Professor, Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Johns Hopkins Medical Institute,

Friday, January 15th, 2016

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Transition Metal-Catalyzed Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation

Timothy P. (Patrick) Montgomery, Postdoctoral Scholar, Chemistry, Caltech,

Monday, January 18th, 2016

8:00am – 5:00pm

Martin Luther King Day (Institute Holiday)

Academic

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special Inorganic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

"Mesoscopic Control of Light and Reactivity at Extended Solids"

Shoji Hall, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

Tuesday, January 19th, 2016

10:30am – 11:30am

PhD Thesis Seminar

Gates Annex B122

Engineering, Predicting, and Understanding Nicotinamide Cofactor Specificity

Jackson Cahn, Graduate Student in Chemistry, Arnold group, Chemistry, Caltech,

Wednesday, January 20th, 2016

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

Chemical Tracers of Particle Dynamics in the Ocean

Phoebe Lam, Assistant Professor, Department of Ocean Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Materials Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Some Recent Opinions in Mechanical Behaviors of Amorphous Solids

Mo Li, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology,

Thursday, January 21st, 2016

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar

Crellin 151

Sulfotransferase Inhibitors for Studying the Biology of Chondroitin Sulfate

Sheldon Cheung, Mr., Department of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Polymeric tools to manipulate innate immunity: Probing a code without a key

Aaron Esser-Kahn, Assistant Professor, Chemistry, University of California, Irvine,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special Experimental Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Hybrid organic/nanocrystal films for solid-state, non-coherent, infrared–visible photon conversion

Mark W.B. Wilson, Ph.D., Center for Excitonics and Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

Friday, January 22nd, 2016

8:00am – 5:00pm

Last Day for Adding Courses and Removing Conditions and Incompletes

Academic

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

A New Therapeutic Strategy for Hedgehog Pathway-Dependent Cancers

Alison Ondrus, Department of Chemical & Systems Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine,

Monday, January 25th, 2016

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Chemical Research Conference

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

The Structure of the Nuclear Pore Complex

Andre Hoelz, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Division of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology,

Wednesday, January 27th, 2016

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

Stochastic dynamical systems and seasonal climate dynamics

Woosok Moon, Herchel-Smith Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Materials Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

When Twins Collide: adventures in nanocrystals

David Srolovitz, Joseph Bordogna Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, Materials Science & Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania ,

Thursday, January 28th, 2016

9:00am – 1/29 5:00pm

Atomic Force Microscopy Workshop and Open House

Beckman Institute 121

Quantitative Mechanical and Electrical Atomic Force Microscopy Scanning Modes

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Emergent physics of intracellular soft matter

Elena Koslover, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biochemistry, Stanford University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special Biochemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Watching mechanical protein degradation one molecule at a time

Adrian O. Olivares, Ph.D., Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

Friday, January 29th, 2016

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Nickel-Catalyzed Asymmetric Reductive Cross-Coupling of Vinyl and Benzyl Electrophiles: Mechanistic Insights and Recent Advances

Julie L. Hofstra, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,