Events
February 2016
Monday, February 1st, 2016
2:00pm
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Special CPS Seminar
From Photons to Excitons to Materials: Understanding Energetic Heterogeneity and its Role in Technology and Energy Transport
Justin Caram,
Ph.D,
Department of Chemistry,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Secondary Metal-Ligand Interactions: C-H Activation and Metal-Carbon Multiple Bonding in Palladium Carbene Complexes
Vlad Iluc,
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of Notre Dame,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Chemistry Seminar
Chemoproteomic Discovery of Host and Pathogen Enzymes Active in Cholera
Stavroula Hatzios,
Department of Microbiology & Immunobiology,
Harvard Medical School,
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2016
8:00am
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2/9
5:00pm
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2:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Making the Connection Between Silicon and Molecules: Mechanisms and Praxis
Jillian Buriak,
Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Alberta,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Clouds and the (extra-)tropical circulation response to climate change
Aiko Voigt,
Postdoctoral Research Scientist,
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory | Ocean & Climate Physics,
Columbia University | Earth Institute,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Chemistry Seminar
Chemistry-Driven Biological Discovery"
Christina Woo,
Department of Chemistry ,
Stanford University,
Thursday, February 4th, 2016
9:00am
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10:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
The Design and Synthesis of Transition Metal Complexes Supported by Non-innocent Ligand Scaffolds for Small Molecule Activation
Kyle Horak,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Agapie group,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
9:00am
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10:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
The Design and Synthesis of Transition Metal Complexes Supported by Non-innocent Ligand Scaffolds for Small Molecule Activation
Kyle Horak,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Agapie group,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Elucidating the Functional Role of the DNA Polymerase δ [4Fe-4S] Cluster
Phillip Bartels,
Mr.,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Order and disorder in light-responsive materials for energy applications
Bradley F. Chmelka,
Professor,
Chemical Engineering,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar
Dissecting Human Transcription Dynamics by Single-Molecule Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Zhengjian Zhang, Ph.D.,
Senior Scientist,
Transcription Imaging Consortium,
Janelia Research Campus of HHMI,
Friday, February 5th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Theory of arrested spinodal decomposition: physical gels, porous glasses, and the glass transition
Magdaleno Medina-Noyola,
Professor,
Instituto de Fisica "Manuel Sandoval Vallarta",
Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi,
Monday, February 8th, 2016
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Design, Synthesis, and Study of Novel Platforms for Iron-N2 Chemistry and Photoinduced, Copper-Mediated C-N Bond Formation
Sid Creutz,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Peters group,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Tuesday, February 9th, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Reducing My Platinum Footprint
Fundamentals of Sustainability Science and Engineering Guest Lecturer
Wednesday, February 10th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Stratospheric variability and tropospheric responses
Aditi Sheshadri,
Postdoctoral Research Scientist,
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Research Lecture
Resonant-Phonon Harvesting
Massoud Kaviany,
Heat Transfer Physics Laboratory,
University of Michigan,
Thursday, February 11th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar
Reconstitution of T cell signaling: new insights into the activation and suppression of the T cell response
Enfu Hui,
Ph.D.,
Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology,
HHMI and University of California, San Francisco,
Friday, February 12th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar--CANCELLED
New Catalysts for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction
Sonja Francis,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, February 15th, 2016
8:00am
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2016
9:00am
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9:00am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Prashant K. Jain,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Materials Research Laboratory,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Swift Lecture
Inorganic Control of Biological Self-Assembly
F. Akif Tezcan,
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
Chemistry,
University of California, San Diego,
Wednesday, February 17th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Why is there an ocean overturning circulation in the North Atlantic and not in the North Pacific? Exploring three hypotheses
David Battisti,
Professor of Atmospheric Sciences & Tamaki Endowed Chair,
Department of Atmospheric Sciences,
University of Washington,
Thursday, February 18th, 2016
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Understanding dynamics and specificity in tail anchor membrane protein targeting
Meera Rao,
Ms.,
Department of Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Droplet microfluidics for high throughput biology
Adam Abate,
Assistant Professor,
Bioengineering,
University of California, San Francisco,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar
eIF3-directed translation regulation during cell growth and differentiation
Amy Si-Ying Lee,
Ph.D.,
Molecular and Cell Biology,
University of California, Berkeley,
Friday, February 19th, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Chemistry Seminar
Oh, the Places You'll Go: A Brief, Wondrous Tour of Life at a Startup
Dr. Joshua Palmer,
head of Research and Development,
Verrix, LLC,
Monday, February 22nd, 2016
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Using a Metal's Secondary Coordination Sphere as a Design Element to Control Reductive Catalysis
Nathaniel Szymczak,
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry,
University of Michigan,
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016
4:00pm
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Special Chemical Physics Seminar
Dynamic Soft Materials: Gels, Bubbles, and Drops
Lauren Zarzar,
Dynamic Soft Materials: Gels, Bubbles, and Drops,
Chemistry,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, February 24th, 2016
9:00am
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4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
In search of the elusive eastward inertio-gravity wave
George Kiladis,
Research Scientist,
Earth System Research Laboratory | Physical Sciences Division,
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration,
Friday, February 26th, 2016
9:00am
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4:30pm
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2:30pm
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3:30pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Applications of Nickel-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Methods in the Synthesis of Organofluorine Compounds
Yufan Liang,
Graduate Student in Chemistry, Fu group,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Polymerization Catalysis by Bimetallic Complexes
Jessica Sampson,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, February 29th, 2016
4:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Cotranslational protein folding
Gunnar von Heijne,
Professor,
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics,
Stockholm University,