Events - Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Day

Week

Month

Term

January 2017

Wednesday, January 4th, 2017

8:00am – 5:00pm

Beginning of Instruction of Winter Term

Academic

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

Impact of mesophyll conductance on photosynthesis from leaf to globe

Ying Sun, Caltech Postdoctoral Scholar, Earth Science Section, Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special Inorganic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Bridging the Gap Between Molecules and Materials: Redox Reactivity of MOFs and Quantum Dots

Carl Brozek, Dr., Clean Energy Institute, University of Washington,

Thursday, January 5th, 2017

9:00am – 5:00pm

Undergraduate Academic Standards and Honors Committee Meeting

Location to be announced

Academic

Friday, January 6th, 2017

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special Inorganic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Fundamental Processes and Materials Development in Next Generation Battery Systems

Kimberly See, Dr., Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,

Tuesday, January 10th, 2017

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Enabling Function in Soft Materials through Molecular Design

Maxwell Robb, Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,

Wednesday, January 11th, 2017

2:00pm – 3:00pm

PhD Seminar

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)

Full Spectrum Ultrahigh Efficiency Photovoltaics: System Design, Integration, and Characterization

Cristofer Flowers, graduate student, Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

Ambiguity in the causes for decadal trends in atmospheric methane and hydroxyl

Alex Turner, Graduate Student, Department of Atmospheric Chemistry, Harvard University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Materials Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Hidden Order in the Pseudogap Region of High-Tc Superconductors

David Hsieh, Faculty, Quantum Matter, Institute for Quantum Information and Matter (IQIM), Caltech,

Thursday, January 12th, 2017

12:00pm – 1:00pm

PhD Thesis Defense

Broad 100

Biophysical Characterization of an ABC L-methionine Transporter

Qi Wen Li, Graduate Student, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bioengineering Lecture

Kerckhoff 119

Chemical Discovery in the Microbial World

Emily Balskus, Morris Kahn Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Chemistry & Chemistry Biology, Harvard University,

Monday, January 16th, 2017

8:00am – 5:00pm

Martin Luther King Day (Institute Holiday)

Academic

Tuesday, January 17th, 2017

2:00pm – 3:00pm

PhD Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Engineering Protein Therapeutics: Using Non-Canonical Amino Acid Mutagenesis to Modulate Insulin Biophysics

Katharine Fang, graduate student, Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special Inorganic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Inorganic Molecular Precursors: The Quest for Function Through Structure

Alexandra Velian, Dr., Department of Chemistry, Columbia University,

Wednesday, January 18th, 2017

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

Understanding how Weather Responds to Changes in Climate

Derek Posselt, Research Scientist, Atmospheric Physics and Weather | Earth Science Section, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Materials Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Integrating High Throughput Experimentation with Theory and Computation for the Discovery of Solar Fuels Materials

John M. Gregoire, Thrust Coordinator for Photoelectrocatalysis, Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP), Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special Inorganic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Phase Transitions and Adsorption at the Atomic and Nanoscale: From Storing and Separating Gases to Manipulating

Jarad Mason, Dr., Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University,

Thursday, January 19th, 2017

8:30am – 5:00pm

Ahmed H. Zewail Memorial Symposium

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Friday, January 20th, 2017

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Questioning Why and How We Gather Students Together: Empowering Changes in Curricula and Teaching

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Monday, January 23rd, 2017

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Special Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Spectroscopy, Chiral Analysis, and Quantum Manipulation of Cryogenically Buffered Polyatomic Molecules

David Patterson, Ph. D, Senior Scientist, Department of Physics, Harvard University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Arthur D. Riggs Lecture

Gates Annex B122

Adventures in Complexity, Technology, Systems Biology, Systems Medicine and Healthcare

Leroy Hood, MD, PhD, President & Co-founder, Institute for Systems Biology,

Tuesday, January 24th, 2017

7:30am – 9:00pm

Politics and American Higher Education

Ramo Auditorium

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Visualizing Molecular Vibrations: Chemical Imaging for Biomedicine

Lu Wei, Ph.D., Department of Chemistry, Columbia University,

7:30pm – 9:00pm

Politics and American Higher Education

Ramo Auditorium

Public Event

Wednesday, January 25th, 2017

8:00am – 5:00pm

Last Day for Adding Courses and Removing Conditions and Incompletes

Academic

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)

The California Drought

Richard Seager, Professor, Palisades Geophysical Institute, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Materials Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Architected Materials: Performance Through Deformation

Katia Bertoldi, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences, Harvard University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Frontiers of 2DIR Spectroscopy: From Protein Aggregation to Wide-Field Microscopy

Arnaldo L. Serrano, Ph.D, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison,

Thursday, January 26th, 2017

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Cyclopolymerization Using Grubbs Catalysts

Tae-Lim Choi, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University,

Friday, January 27th, 2017

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Towards Terminal High-Valent Metal-Oxo Motifs on Multimetallic Scaffolds

Dr. Graham de Ruiter, Postdoctoral Scholar, Chemistry, Caltech,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

From photon correlation Fourier spectroscopy to surface plasmon lasers: fundamental studies and applications of colloidal quantum dots

Jian Cui, Ph.D, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH, Zurich,

Monday, January 30th, 2017

12:00pm – 1:00pm

EARTH WEEK PLANNING MEETING

Jorgensen 109

12:00pm – 1:00pm

THE EARTH WEEK PLANNING KICK-OFF MEETING

Winnett Center

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Bioengineering Lecture

Kerckhoff 119

Atomic-Level Visualization of Biological Membranes and Membrane Proteins in Action Using Advanced Simulation Technologies

Emad Tajkhorshid, J. W. Hastings Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Computational Biology, Computational Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics Group, Department of Biochemistry, School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Illinois ,