Events
October 2017
Monday, October 2nd, 2017
9:30am
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4:30pm
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Tuesday, October 3rd, 2017
10:00am
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10:40am
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Women in Chemistry
Industry Conversations with Barbara Burger
Barbara Burger,
Caltech Alumna & President of Chevron Technology Ventures,
Wednesday, October 4th, 2017
12:00am
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12:00am
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD seminar
The Hydrodynamics of Active Particles Inside of a Porous Container and the Galerkin Boundary Element Discretization of Stokes Flow
Kevin Marshall,
graduate student,
Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Changes in the duration of extreme precipitation events with climate warming and links to atmospheric dynamics
Paul O'Gorman,
Associate Professor,
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Alex Greaney,
Assistant Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering,
UC Riverside,
Thursday, October 5th, 2017
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Profiling Cells Inside and Out Using Nanostructured Materials
Shana Kelley,
Distinguished Professor ,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Toronto,
Monday, October 9th, 2017
6:10pm
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9:30pm
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Tuesday, October 10th, 2017
1:00pm
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1:30pm
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Center for Selective C-H Functionalization Virtual Symposium
Regioselective Intermolecular Allylic C–H Functionalization of Internal Olefins via π-Allyl Intermediates
Simon B. Blakey,
Associate Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Emory University,
1:30pm
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2:00pm
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Center for Selective C-H Functionalization Virtual Symposium
C–H and C–C Functionalization of Ketones
Guangbin Dong,
Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Chicago,
2:00pm
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2:30pm
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Center for Selective C-H Functionalization Virtual Symposium
Small-Molecule and Biological Catalysis in C-H Activation
John Montgomery,
Margaret and Herman Sokol Professor of Synthetic or Medicinal Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Michigan,
2:30pm
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3:00pm
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Center for Selective C-H Functionalization Virtual Symposium
Translational Chemistry
Phil S. Baran,
Professor, Darlene Shiley Chair in Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
The Scripps Research Institute,
Wednesday, October 11th, 2017
11:00am
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12:00pm
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Resnick Institute Seminar
Research talks from Resnick Graduate Research Fellow Vatsal Jhalani & Postdoctoral Scholar Akira Kudo PhD
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Oxygen isotope fractionation in the CaCO3-DIC-H2O system
James Watkins,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Earth Sciences,
University of Oregon,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Quasi 2D and 1D van der Waals Materials: From Fancy Physics to Practical Devices
Alex Balandin,
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
UC Riverside,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
The Lithiated Flatlands and Beyond. Part I
Victor A. Snieckus,
Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus,
Department of Chemistry,
Queen's University,
Thursday, October 12th, 2017
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
"Designing a phenotypic antimicrobial susceptibility test for N. gonorrhoeae at the point of care"
Emily Savela,
Graduate Student, Ismagilov Group,
CCE,
Caltech,
Friday, October 13th, 2017
8:00am
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Stretch-relaxation of DNA molecules in semidilute solutions
Ravi Prakash Jagadeeshan,
Professor,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Modulating Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Reactions Using Lipid-Modified Electrodes
Edmund Tse,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, October 16th, 2017
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Chemical Control of Spin in the Synthesis of Metal-Organic Magnets and MRI Probes
T. David Harris,
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry,
Northwestern University,
Wednesday, October 18th, 2017
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Modeling of Cloud Microphysics. Can we do better?
Wojciech Grabowski,
Senior Scientist,
Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology (MMM) Laboratory,
NCAR,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Imaging electronic states in van der Waals heterostructures
Brian LeRoy,
Associate Professor,
Physics,
University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Rational Synthesis of Semiconductor Fragments
Rebekka Klausen,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Johns Hopkins University,
Thursday, October 19th, 2017
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Asymmetry in Molecular Machines
Gino Cingolani,
Professor,
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology,
Thomas Jefferson University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Constantin G. Economou Memorial Lecture
Drugs and metal: using directed evolution to engineer biocatalysts for facile pharmaceutical production
Kari Hernandez,
Chemical Engineering,
California Institute of Technology ,
Friday, October 20th, 2017
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar-CANCELLED
!! This talk will be rescheduled for a later date
Yigong Shi,
Professor,
School of Life Sciences,
Tsinghua University,
Monday, October 23rd, 2017
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Synthesis of Pillar-Shaped Macrocyclic Compounds "Pillar[n]arenes" Providing Supramolecular Assemblies
Tomoki Ogoshi,
Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Kanazawa University,
Tuesday, October 24th, 2017
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
"Models of phenotypic plasticity and its role in the transition to metastasis"
Herbert Levine,
Hasselmann Professor of Bioengineering, Co-Director, Center of Theoretical Biological Physics,
Department of Bioengineering,
Rice University,
Wednesday, October 25th, 2017
8:00am
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10/31
5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Rethinking the abyssal ocean circulation: bottom-intensified mixing on slopes
Jörn Callies,
Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Molecular Design Strategies for Functional Soft Materials
Maxwell Robb,
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Thursday, October 26th, 2017
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Chemical Engineering Seminar
Synthetic Polymers as Molecular Platforms for Antimicrobial Peptide-Mimetics
Kenichi Kuroda, Ph.D.,
Associate Professor,
Department of Biologic & Materials Sciences,
University of Michigan School of Dentistry,
Friday, October 27th, 2017
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
New Reactions via Earth Abundant Element Photocatalysis
Julian West,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, October 30th, 2017
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Photocatalytic Nitrite Reduction on CoMg Complexes: Mechanistic Insights into N–N Bond Formation
Tanvi Ratani,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Tuesday, October 31st, 2017
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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