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Monday, April 1st, 2019
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Beginning of Instruction for Spring Term

10:30am – 12:30pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Moore B270
Decoding the Past
Siddharth Jain, Graduate Student, Electrical Engineering, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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BELS

Kerckhoff 119
"Combining DNA Synthesis, Multiplexed Reporters, and Genome Engineering to better Understand Human Gene Regulation and Protein Function"
Sriram 'Sri' Kosuri, Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA,
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019
9:00am – 5:00pm
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Undergraduate Academic Standards and Honors Committee Meeting

Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Adventures with carbon monoxide: Space-based constraints on the oxidative capacity of the atmosphere
Dylan Jones, University of Toronto,
Friday, April 5th, 2019
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Moore 139
Multi-contrast Photoacoustic Computed Tomography: Seeing through small-animal wholebody and whole brain at high spatiotemporal resolution
Lei Li, Graduate Student, Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
A Hammett Series of Site-Differentiated Iron Clusters: Remote Ligand Modifications Tune Redox Distribution, Magnetic Properties and Ligand Binding
Charles (Charlie) Arnett, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
Monday, April 8th, 2019
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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BELS

Kerckhoff 119
TBD
Deborah Gordon, Professor, Biology, Stanford University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
The Transfer of H+, H•, H-, and e- from M-H Bonds, and their Applications to Synthesis
Jack R. Norton, Professor of Chemistry, Chemistry, Columbia University ,
Tuesday, April 9th, 2019
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Coherent Electron Dynamics in Inter-dimensional Metals: From Atomically Precise Clusters to Plasmonic Transducers
Kenneth L. Knappenberger, Jr., Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University,
Wednesday, April 10th, 2019
10:00am – 11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Effects of branching on polymer conformation, crystallization and self-assembly of polymers
Joey Kim, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Dual-Comb Spectroscopy for Open-Path Atmospheric Gas Measurements
Nathan Newbury, National Institute of Standards & Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Nanophononic Devices Based on Layered Materials
Davide Donadio, Assistant Professor, Chemistry, UC Davis,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
New Frontiers in Catalytic Heteroatom Transfer: Applications to Late-Stage Oxidation and Small Molecule Synthesis
Michael Hilinski, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
New Frontiers in Catalytic Heteroatom Transfer: Applications to Late-Stage Oxidation and Small Molecule Synthesis
Michael Hilinski, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia,
Thursday, April 11th, 2019
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Keck 142
Metasurfaces: beyond diffractive and refractive optics
Ehsan Arbabi, Graduae Student, Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,
Friday, April 12th, 2019
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Electrical Engineering Seminar

Moore B270
Chiral Inorganic Nanostructures: Why, How, and So What.
Nicholas Kotov, Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
How polymers shape the physicochemical environment of the gut
Asher Preska Steinberg, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Investigating the Role of the Redox Active 4Fe-4S Cluster of Yeast DNA2
Siobhan MacArdle, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
Monday, April 15th, 2019
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Design and Selection of Metalloenzymes and their Applications as Biocatalysts in Alternative Energies and as Biosensors in Environmental Monitoring, Medical Diagnostics and Imaging
Yi Lu, Jay and Ann Schenck Professor of Chemistry, Chemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
Tuesday, April 16th, 2019
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Canceled-Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
David Reichman, Centennial Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Columbia University,
Wednesday, April 17th, 2019
10:30am – 11:30am
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PhD Thesis Defense

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Reaction Development for the Total Syntheses of the Terpenoid Natural Products (+)-Psiguadial B, (+)-Rumphellaone A, and (–)-Isodocarpin
Jordan C. Beck, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
11:45am – 2:00pm
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CCE TecherTalk

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Observing the evolution of the Earth's carbon cycle from space
Anthony Bloom, JPL,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
New Materials from High Pressure
Timothy A. Strobel, Staff Scientist, Carnegie Institution of Washington,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Deciphering patterns in selective small molecule:RNA interactions
Amanda Hargrove, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Department of Biochemistry, Duke University; Duke University Medical School,
Thursday, April 18th, 2019
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar

Crellin 151
Structural and Functional Analysis of the Nuclear Pore Complex Cytoplasmic Filament Nup358
Si Nie, PostDoc, Hoelz Group, CCE, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Harden M. McConnell Lecture

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
An Enzymatic Process That Changed the World: Light-Induced Water Oxidation in Oxygenic Photosynthesis
Wolfgang Lubitz, Professor, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion,
Friday, April 19th, 2019
8:00am – 5:00pm
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Last Day for Adding Courses and Removing Conditions and Incompletes

1:00pm – 2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Beckman Behavioral Biology B180
Chiral Heterocycles: Palladium-Catalyzed Synthesis and Medicinal Utility
Alexander Sun, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Molecular Recognition in Chemical and Biological Systems: Chemical Models and Biostructural Investigations
François Diederich, Professor of Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich,
Monday, April 22nd, 2019
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Electrochemical and Photoelectrochemical Biomass Conversion and Desalination
Kyoung-Shin Choi, Evan P. and Marion Helfaer Professor of Chemistry, Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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Chen-Huang Sustainability Series Lecture: The California Experience Goes Global with Terry Tamminen, CEO of the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation

Ramo Auditorium
The California Experience Goes Global
Terry Tamminen, CEO, Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation,
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Development of Nickel-Catalyzed Asymmetric Reductive Cross-Coupling Reactions
Kelsey Poremba, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
Wednesday, April 24th, 2019
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Title To understand how ice sheets respond to climate change, look at the bed!
Mathieu Morlighem, University of California Irvine,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Magnetic Skyrmions in Thin Film Heterostructures
Suzanne G.E. te Velthuis, Argonne National Laboratory,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
New Strategies for the Catalytic Enantioselective Synthesis of Chiral Amines and Other Challenging Scaffolds
Steve Malcolmson, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Duke University,
Thursday, April 25th, 2019
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Center for the Chemistry of Cellular Signaling Seminar

Crellin 151
Biophysical and biomolecular mechanisms of ultrasonic neuromodulation
Sangjin Yu, PostDoc, Shapiro Group, CCE, Caltech,
Friday, April 26th, 2019
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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From research to market: A discussion with seven Biotech Entrepreneurs

Beckman Institute Auditorium
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Development and Mechanistic Studies of Ni-Catalyzed Asymmetric Reductive Cross-Coupling Reactions
Julie L. Hofstra, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Mechanistic Investigation of the Diverse Iron and 2-Oxoglutarate-Dependent Oxygenase Superfamily
Noah P. Dunham, Postdoctoral Scholar in Chemical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Caltech,
Monday, April 29th, 2019
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemistry Club Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Nitrogenase - A Tale of Carbon(s)
Markus Ribbe, Chancellor's Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, School of Biological Sciences, Department of Chemistry, School of Physical Sciences, University of California, Irvine,
Tuesday, April 30th, 2019
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Electric Excitations in Nanomaterials
Timothy Berkelbach, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Columbia University and Research Scientist Center for Computational Quantium Physics at Flatiron Institute,