Events
February 2022
Tuesday, February 1st, 2022
9:00am
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10:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Online Event
Isomer separation of multifunctional atmospheric compounds using gas chromatography and chemical ionization mass spectrometry
Krystal T. Vasquez,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Probing Dynamics at Individual Defects with Ultrafast Electron Microscopy
David Flannigan,
Associate Professor and L.E. Scriven Chair, DIRECTOR OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING,
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science,
University of Minnesota,
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022
8:00am
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2/8
11:59pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Controlling interfacial electron and atom transfer reactions for chemical synthesis
Monday, February 7th, 2022
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special Chemical Physics Seminar
Machine learning at the atomic scale: from structural representations to chemical insight
Michele Ceriotti,
Associate Professor,
Institute of Materials,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Online Event
Photoinduced Copper-Catalyzed Enantioconvergent Alkylations of Anilines by Racemic TertiaryElectrophiles: Synthesis and Mechanism
Hyungdo Cho,
Graduate Student (Fu Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
Wednesday, February 9th, 2022
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Supercooling super-droplets: on particle-based modelling of immersion freezing
Sylwester Arabas,
UIUC/Jagiellonian University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Reading Between the Reflections: Order, disorder, transport and functionality
Jessica Krogstad,
Associate Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Chemistry Seminar
Molecular Design of Solids and Surfaces
Dr. Megan Jackson,
Department of Chemistry,
UC Berkeley,
Thursday, February 10th, 2022
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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Special Chemical Engineering Seminar
From Trash to Treasure: Advancing the Heterogeneous Catalytic Deconstruction and Upcycling of Waste Polyolefins
Julie Rorrer,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Online Event
"Mechanism of G-Protein Activation by G-Protein-Coupled Receptors and Therapeutics"
Dr. Amirhossein Mafi,
Goddard Group,
Caltech,
Friday, February 11th, 2022
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Special Chemical Biology Seminar
Substrate-Selective Control of Insulin-Degrading Enzyme Reveals the Untapped Enzymology of Exosite Inhibition
Dr. Juan Pablo Maianti,
Co-founder, Exo Therapeutics,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Electrochemical CO2 Capture, Concentration, and Conversion
Jenny Y. Yang,
Associate Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of California, Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Anna Scott,
Graduate Student (Agapie Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, February 14th, 2022
9:00am
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9:01am
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9:00am
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10:00am
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Beyond the Omics Crystal ball: Integrating Omics approaches to study ecosystem functions
Smruthi Karthikeyan,
UC San Diego,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Online Event
"Phthalocyanine Oligomers as Slurry-State Electrolytes for Non-Aqueous Redox Flow Batteries and Ligand Field Spectroscopy of Chiral Nickel Halide Complexes"
Brandon McNicholas,
Postdoctoral Scholar (Hadt Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
Tuesday, February 15th, 2022
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Special Chemical Biology Seminar
Environment-Sensitive Probes for Point-of-Care Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases
Dr. Mireille Kamariza,
Junior Research Fellow,
Division of Chemistry,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Precision Synthesis of Quantum Material Building Blocks
Thomas J. Kempa,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering,
Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering,
Johns Hopkins University,
Wednesday, February 16th, 2022
9:00am
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10:00am
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Dynamics and Impacts of Changing Climate Hazards: From quantitative approaches to process understanding
Frances Davenport,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Studying climate through a spectral lens
Xianglei Huang,
University of Michigan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Online Event
Novel Indexing Approaches for Electron Back-Scattered Diffraction: Using the Complete Pattern
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Catalyst Development & Kinetic Investigation of ATRA Reactions: Integrating Undergraduate Research and Chemical Education
Kayode Oshin,
Associate Professor of Chemistry,
Director, CAS Haddix STEM Corridor Program,
Creighton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Non-Native Chemistry of Metalloenzymes
Nathaniel Goldberg,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, February 21st, 2022
12:00am
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2/22
12:00am
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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Special Chemical Physics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Ordering Excitons in Two Dimensions
Yusong Bai,
Postdoctoral Scholar, Columbia University,
Chemistry,
Columbia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Chemical Engineering Seminar
First Principles Driven Materials Design: From Building Blocks to Superlattices
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022
8:00am
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Online Event
"Cinematography" of nanoparticles, membrane proteins, and polymer membranes at the nanoscale
Qian Chen,
Associate Professor,
Materials Science and Engineering,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne,
Thursday, February 24th, 2022
8:00am
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Ongoing
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Online Event
"Harnessing Pseudomonas Physiology to Treat Chronic Infections"
Dr. Chelsey VanDrisse,
Newman Group,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Computer Vision for Global-Scale Biodiversity Monitoring
Sara M. Beery,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Chemical Engineering Seminar
Bridging Length Scales in Electrolyte Transport Theory via the Onsager Framework
Kara Fong,
PhD candidate and NSF Graduate Research Fellow,
Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering,
University of California, Berkeley,
Monday, February 28th, 2022
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Elucidating the Mechanism of Excited State Bond Homolysis in Nickel-Bipyridine Photoredox Catalysts
David Cagan,
Graduate Student (Hadt Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,