Events
April 2022
Monday, April 4th, 2022
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
"Record Level Selectivity for C≥2 Products in Strong Acid on Cu Electrodes Provided by N-Heterocycle Organic Additives."
Gavin Heim,
Postdoctoral Scholar (Agapie Research Group),
Department of Chemistry,
Caltech,
Tuesday, April 5th, 2022
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Genome Organization through Phase Separation: Random yet Precise
Bin Zhang,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Associate Member of the Broad Institute, Pfizer-Laubach Career Development Professorship,
Department of Chemistry,
Massachussetts Institute of Technolocy,
Wednesday, April 6th, 2022
9:00am
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Targeting Fusion Proteins of HIV-1 and SARS-CoV-2
Claudia Jette,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
First-Principles Many-Body Theory and Quantum Dynamics for Materials in Quantum Information Science
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thursday, April 7th, 2022
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
Online Event
"How Runx Transcription Factors Instruct Early Thymic T-cell Development"
Boyoung Shin,
(Rothenburg group),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Impact of Biophysical Constraints on the Mutational Tolerance of Integral Membrane Proteins
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Design & Engineering of Macromolecules for Energy and Environmental Sciences
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Online Event
Aqueous Aerosols in Atmospheric Chemistry and Airborne Disease
Alan Gu,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
Friday, April 8th, 2022
9:00am
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10:00am
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Does bottom boundary layer turbulence drive deep-ocean upwelling? First insights from the BLT Recipes experiment
Alberto Naveira Garabato,
Professor of Physical Oceanography,
University of Southampton,
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Singlet Fission in Bipentacene Coordination Complexes
Ryan Ribson,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Wednesday, April 13th, 2022
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Stereoselective Synthesis of Acyclic Quaternary and Tetrasubstituted Stereogenic Centers
Tyler Fulton,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Opening the blackbox of ‘policy engagement': things every scientist should know about how academic research is used within environmental policymaking
Roxana Shafiee,
California Institute of Technology,
Friday, April 15th, 2022
8:00am
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12:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Tuning Active Sites in Catalytic Nanomaterials through Collodial Synthesis
Christina W. Li,
Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Purdue University,
Monday, April 18th, 2022
10:00am
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Development of Nickel-Catalyzed Asymmetric Cross-Coupling Reactions
Travis DeLano,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Wednesday, April 20th, 2022
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
A "dusty" perspective on East Asian land-atmosphere interactions across the Plio-Pleistocene
Jordan Abell,
University of Arizona,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thursday, April 21st, 2022
4:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Strategies for Engineering How Cells Sense and Interpret Mechanical Cues
Friday, April 22nd, 2022
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Online and In-Person Event
Cyclic Polyacetylene, August Kekulé, and the Catalyst that Connects Them After 150 Years
Adam Steven Veige,
University Research Foundation Professor; Director, Center for Catalysis,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Florida,
Monday, April 25th, 2022
10:00am
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Palladium-Catalyzed Cascade Cyclizations in Natural Product Synthesis: Synthetic Studies of Noraugustamine and Falcatin A
Karli Holman,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Tuesday, April 26th, 2022
9:00am
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11:00am
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New Directions in Biology and Biological Engineering Symposium
Caroline Albertin,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Marine Biological Laboratory,
Shawn Davidson,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Princeton University,
10:00am
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11:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Fragment Coupling Approach to C19 and C20 Diterpenoid Alkaloids: Total Synthesis of (–)-Talatisamine, (–)-Liljestrandisine and (–)-Liljestrandinine
Nicholas Fastuca,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Online Event
Transport and microrheology of active colloids
Zhiwei Peng,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Cancelled Chemical Physics Seminar
Amish Patel,
Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
University of Pennsylvania,
Wednesday, April 27th, 2022
8:00am
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Ongoing
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
From plants to planets: land surface effects on global climate
Marysa Lague,
University of Saskatchewan,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Ultrathin topological bismuth crystals grown inside an atomically-flat van der Waals mold
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Photodynamics simulations explain photochemical reactivity and selectivities towards strained molecules
Steven Lopez,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
Northwestern University,
Thursday, April 28th, 2022
1:00pm
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2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Online Event
Path space Markov chain Monte Carlo methods for molecular simulation
Jorge Rosa,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,