Events
October 2018
Monday, October 1st, 2018
9:00am
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2018
12:30pm
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1:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Bioresorbable vascular scaffolds gain ductility, resistance to hydrolysis and radial strength via a unique poly L-lactide microstructure
Karthik Ramachandran,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Bringing ecosystem science and remote sensing "down to earth" for environmental and land-use decision-making in drylands from Africa to California
Marc Mayes,
Research Geoscientist,
Earth Research Institute,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
New Frontiers in Thermal Transport Modeling
Giuseppe Romano,
Research Scientist ,
Mechanical Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology ,
Thursday, October 4th, 2018
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
"Leading a Double Life: Histones as Copper Reductases"
Siavash Kurdistani,
Professor,
Department of Biological Chemistry,
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Diversity in Chemistry Initiative Seminar
Using Small Molecules to Probe Protein Homeostasis in Bacteria
Jason Sello,
Associate Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Brown University,
Friday, October 5th, 2018
1:10pm
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6:00pm
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Wednesday, October 10th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Carbon-water coupling: processes, model uncertainties and observational constraints
Pierre Gentine,
Associate Professor,
Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Making Oxidation Easier in Ultra High Vacuum
Bharat Jalan,
Associate Professor and Distinguished Shell Chair,
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science,
University of Minnesota,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Redefining Druggability using Chemoproteomic Platforms
Daniel K. Nomura,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology and Nutritional Sciences and Technology,
University of California, Berkeley,
Thursday, October 11th, 2018
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
"Redox inhibition of a DNA repair enzyme through [4Fe4S] Cluster Nitrosylation"
Levi Ekanger,
Postdoctoral Scholar, Barton Group,
CCE,
Caltech ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Special Seminar
Radical reactions for control freaks: New synthetic methods involving aryl radicals and strong C–F bonds
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Small Molecules to Particles - Do Interfaces Promote New Particle Formation over Remote Oceans?
Rainer Volkamer,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Colorado Boulder,
Monday, October 15th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Small Molecule Activation of 1st-Row Transition Metal Pincer Complexes
Yunho Lee,
Associate Professor,
Chemistry,
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology,
Tuesday, October 16th, 2018
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Attosecond science and its applications to chemical dynamics
Daniel Neumark,
Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of California, Berkekely,
Wednesday, October 17th, 2018
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Beckman Lecture
Developing New Metal-Catalyzed Reactions for Organic Synthesis
Melanie S. Sanford,
Moses Gomberg Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Light absorption by atmospheric particles: using field and lab studies to understand linkages between sources, chemical processing and impacts
Christopher Cappa,
Professor,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
UC Davis,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thursday, October 18th, 2018
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
"A mechanism for a rapid diagnostic assay of the activity of beta-lactam antibiotics against pathogenic bacteria."
Eric Liaw,
Graduate Student, Ismagilov Lab,
BBE,
Caltech ,
Friday, October 19th, 2018
8:00am
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5:00pm
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Monday, October 22nd, 2018
4:00pm
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018
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Seminar and Reception with Cheryl Dartt
Embracing the Crooked Path
Cheryl Dartt,
Director of Analytics,
Facebook,
Wednesday, October 24th, 2018
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Excited Electronic States: Dielectric Screening and Hot-Electron Mediated Ion Diffusion
Andre Schleife,
Assistant Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Development and Applications of New Synthetic Strategies for Polymer Science
Thursday, October 25th, 2018
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
"Noninvasive neuromodulation with Acoustically Targeted Chemogenetics"
Jerzy Szablowski,
Postdoctoral Scholar, Shapiro Group,
CCE,
Caltech ,
Tuesday, October 30th, 2018
4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Ultrafast and Non Equilibrium Lattice Dynamics
David A. Reis,
Deputy Director of the Stanford PULSE Institute and Professor of Applied Physics and Photon Science,
Department of Applied Physics and Photon Science,
Stanford University,
6:00pm
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8:30pm
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2018
8:00am
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Ongoing
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Biochemistry Seminar
Watching metalloenzymes at work
Amie Boal,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Department of Chemistry,
Pennsylvania State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Mapping Particulate Air Pollution from Space
David Diner,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Magnetism, Superconductivity and Non-trivial Topology in Quantum Materials