Events
February 2019
Friday, February 1st, 2019
10:00am
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Synthesis and Transmission Electron Microscopy of Transition Metal Trichalcogenides in the Single Chain Limit
Thang Pham,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Materials Science and Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Proton-Coupled Reduction of Acetylene Gas at a Mononuclear Iron Site Yields a Paramagnetic Alkylidyne Complex
Cooper Citek,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, February 4th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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BELS
"Enzymatic Oxidation of Methane"
Amy Rosenzweig,
Professor,
Molecular Biosciences and Chemistry,
Northwestern University,
Wednesday, February 6th, 2019
8:00am
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2/12
5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Can Climate Models Correctly Simulate the Continuum of Temperature Variability?
Julien Emile-Geay,
USC,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Harnessing data science to transform experimental materials discovery
Taylor Sparks,
Assistant Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Utah,
Thursday, February 7th, 2019
10:00am
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11:00am
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Quantum phase transitions in ZnO two-dimensional electron systems
Joseph Falson,
Nobel Laureate Fellowship postdoctoral researcher,
Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
TBD
Rebekah Silva,
Graduate Student, Barton Group,
CCE,
Caltech,
Friday, February 8th, 2019
10:00am
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11:00am
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Dynamic Imaging of Chiral and Topological Excitations in Magnetism
Felix Büttner,
postdoctoral researcher,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Nickel-Catalyzed Secondary Alkylations and Fluoroalkylations via C–H Activation
Sebastian Lackner,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Wednesday, February 13th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Plant Drought Tolerance: New Frontiers from Cells to Ecosystems
Lawren Sack,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Tailoring Instability at the Atomic Limit for Novel Material Properties
SungWoo Nam,
Associate Professor,
Mechanical Science and Engineering,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Data Intensive Physical Organic Chemistry
Matthew Sigman,
Professor of Organic Synthesis & Asymmetric Catalysis,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Utah,
Thursday, February 14th, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
Patrycja Kielb,
PostDoc, Gray Group,
CCE,
Caltech,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Normal and abnormal termination of translation in bacteria.
Venki Ramakrishnan,
President of the Royal Society, and Group Leader,
Structural Studies Division,
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK,
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Special Biochemistry Seminar
The quest for the structure of the machine that reads our genes.
Venki Ramakrishnan,
President of the Royal Society, and Group Leader,
Structural Studies Division,
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK,
8:00pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, February 15th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
A Mechanistic Investigation of Nickel/Cyano-Box-Catalyzed Enantioselective Suzuki Alkynylation
Wanji (Wendy) Zhang,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, February 18th, 2019
8:00am
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2019
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10:00am
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Controlling Electrochemistry Using Electrolyte Design
Chibueze Amanchukwu,
TomKat Center Postdoctoral Fellow in Sustainable Energy,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering
Making the Impossible Possible (General Lecture)
Molly Shoichet,
University Professor and Canada Research Chair, Tissue Engineering Senior Advisor to President on Science & Engineering Engagement ,
Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry,
University of Toronto,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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W.N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering
Molly Shoichet,
University Professor and Canada Research Chair, Tissue Engineering; Senior Advisor to President on Science & Engineering Engagement,
Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry,
University of Toronto,
Wednesday, February 20th, 2019
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
The Great Atmospheric Washing Machine: Concomitant Variability in High-latitude Aerosols, Water Isotopes and the Hydrologic Cycle
Brad Markel,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Materials from Nanoscale to Bulk: Assembly, Properties, and Applications in Optoelectronics and Renewable Energy
Osman Bakr,
Associate Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering,
KAUST (Saudi Arabia),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Chirality, Alzheimer's Disease and Amyloid Beta
Jevgenij Raskatov,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of California, Santa Cruz,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering
Tools of the Trade: Influencing the Cellular Microenvironment In Vitro and In Vivo (Technical Lecture)
Molly Shoichet,
University Professor and Canada Research Chair, Tissue Engineering Senior Advisor to President on Science & Engineering Engagement ,
Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry,
University of Toronto,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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W.N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering
Molly Shoichet,
University Professor and Canada Research Chair, Tissue Engineering; Senior Advisor to President on Science & Engineering Engagement,
Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry,
University of Toronto,
Thursday, February 21st, 2019
10:00am
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11:00am
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Materials Science Research Lecture
The Importance of Interfaces: Using Ionic Liquids and Nanodiamonds to Explore New Concepts in Materials Design
Matthew Gebbie,
GLAM postdoctoral fellow,
Materials Science & Engineering,
Stanford University ,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
"Engineered Protein Degradation for Time-Resolved Proteomics in Bacteria"
Elliott Mackrell,
Graduate Student, Tirrell Group,
CCE,
Caltech,
Friday, February 22nd, 2019
10:00am
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11:00am
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Low-dimensional Halide Perovskites for Light Harvesting and Optical Sources
Li Na Quan,
postdoctoral fellow,
Department of Chemistry,
University of California, Berkeley,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Inside the Cycle: Understanding Decomposition of Key Catalytic Intermediates in Olefin Metathesis
Gwendolyn (Gwen) Bailey,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
5:30pm
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6:30pm
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Monday, February 25th, 2019
8:00am
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4:00pm
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inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Benzannulated Aromatic N-Heterocycles and their Coordination Complexes
David Herbert,
Assistant Professor,
Chemistry,
University of Manitoba,
Tuesday, February 26th, 2019
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2019
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11:00am
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Chemical Research Conference
Life 2.0: Synthetic Self-Replicating and Evolving Systems
Gerald Joyce,
Professor,
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Plant Stress, Atmospheric Aerosols, and Sesquiterpenes: A Story of Sesquiterpene Structural Diversity
Celia Faiola,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Materials Science of Halide-Perovskite Solar Cells
Nitin Padture,
Otis Everett Randall University Professor of Engineering, Director of the Institute for Molecular and Nanoscale Innovation,
Brown University,
Thursday, February 28th, 2019
8:00am
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Ongoing
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar
"Its not just a phase Mom! Using liquid-liquid phase separation to study nuclear pore complex assembly and architecture"
George Mobbs,
PostDoc, Hoelz Group,
CCE,
Caltech,