Events
January 2023
Saturday, December 10th, 2022
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11:59pm
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Monday, December 26th, 2022
Ongoing
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1/2
5:00pm
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Wednesday, January 4th, 2023
12:00am
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1/5
12:00am
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4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Monsoon depressions: Mechanisms & trends of high-impact storms at the edge of the tropics
William Boos,
University of California Berkeley,
Thursday, January 5th, 2023
Monday, January 9th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
"Molecular Insights into Metal-Support Interactions for Catalyst Design."
Alexandra Velian,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Washington,
Tuesday, January 10th, 2023
9:00am
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10:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Insertion of Olefins into Nickel Alkyl Complexes: Mechanistic Studies and Polymerization Catalysis
Shuoyan Xiong,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Wednesday, January 11th, 2023
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Micro-scale biogeochemistry; global scale impacts
Andrew Babbin,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Superlattices at van der Waals interfaces: Moiré Lattice Relaxation and Chemical Intercalation of 2D Heterostructures
Thursday, January 12th, 2023
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
AI for Chemical Space Exploration and Synthesis
Prof. Connor W. Coley,
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Department of Chemical Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Friday, January 13th, 2023
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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Diverse Minds Seminar Series: Combining Synthetic Chemistry and Biology for Streamlining Access to Complex Molecules | Dr. Hans Renata (Rice University)
Combining Synthetic Chemistry and Biology for Streamlining Access to Complex Molecules
Dr. Hans Renata,
Associate Professor,
Rice University,
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Tensor network algorithms for high-accuracy simulation of realistic materials
Matthew O'Rourke,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Synthesis and Reactivity of Phosphorus-Containing Heterocycles and Tetrahedranes
Martin-Louis Riu,
Postdoctoral Scholar (Nelson Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, January 16th, 2023
12:00am
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12:00am
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2023
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Unravelling biomolecular structure, interactions and dynamics with mass photometry
Philipp Kukura,
Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Oxford,
Wednesday, January 18th, 2023
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Climate mitigation and adaptation solutions to food, energy, and water systems
Lorenzo Rosa,
Carnegie Institution for Science at Stanford,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thursday, January 19th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Towards the Molecular Mechanism of Cotranslational Nascent Protein Acetylation"
Dr. Alfred Lentzsch,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Shan Group,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Bioinspired friction of soft materials
Prof. Lilian Hsiao,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
North Carolina State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Chemistry Seminar
"Thermodynamic principles of redox biochemistry & Illuminating the biochemical black box of M. tuberculosis"
Dr. Adrian Jinich,
HHMI Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
School of Medical Sciences,
Weill Cornell Medicine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Special Inorganic Chemistry Seminar
"Doubling Down on Perovskites: Double and 2-D Halide Perovskites for Optoelectronics and Solid Refrigerants"
Dr. Adam Slavney,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Center for the Environment,
Harvard University,
Friday, January 20th, 2023
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Chemical Biology Seminar
Illuminating Bioelectricity in the Brain
Dr. He Tian,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Cohen Lab,
Harvard University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
"Thermochemistry of Proton-Coupled Ln(II) Reductants that Enable Selective Fe-Catalyzed N2-to-N2H4 Conversion"
Emily Boyd,
Graduate Student (Peters Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, January 23rd, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar
Soil-dwelling nematode Steinernema hermaphroditum as a vector for engineered E. coli
Tuesday, January 24th, 2023
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Hope Michelsen,
Associate Professor,
College of Engineering and Applied Science,
University of Colorado Boulder,
Wednesday, January 25th, 2023
8:00am
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Title TBD
Jeff Dukes,
Carnegie Institution for Science,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Alumni Fireside Chat, RSI Entrepreneurship
Online Event
Cody Finke, Caltech Alum, CEO and Co-Founder of Brimstone
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Thursday, January 26th, 2023
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Frontiers in Biochemistry Seminar
"How does protein synthesis start in eukaryotes?"
Dr. Jinfan Wang,
Postdoctoral Research Associate,
Department of Structural Biology,
Stanford University School of Medicine,
Friday, January 27th, 2023
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Chemical Biology Seminar
Chemical Proteomics – Driving biological discovery and therapeutic development
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Catalytic Asymmetric C-H Insertion Reactions of Vinyl Carbocations
Sepand Nistanaki,
Graduate Student (Nelson Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, January 30th, 2023
2:15pm
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3:15pm
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Tuesday, January 31st, 2023
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Inaugural Peter B. Dervan Lecture
A Decade of CRISPR-Cas9 Genome Editing: What's Ahead for the Technology and Its Applications
Jennifer A. Doudna,
Nobel Laureate in Chemistry; Li Ka Shing Chancellor's Chair in Biomedical and Health Sciences and Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology,
Department of Chemistry and Department of Molecular and Cell Biology,
University of California, Berkeley,