Events
March 2023
Thursday, February 23rd, 2023
Ongoing
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3/10
11:59pm
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Wednesday, March 1st, 2023
9:00am
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10:00am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Development of Oxidation and Transition Metal-Mediated Reactions and Application to Natural Product Synthesis
Sara Dibrell,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
A new theory for heat extremes in a changing climate
Yi Zhang,
University of California Berkeley,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Thermochemical and Thermophysical Properties of Refractory Materials above 3000 ˚C
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
Selective strategies for phosphoranyl radical fragmentation for chemical synthesis
Valerie Schmidt,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of California, San Diego,
Thursday, March 2nd, 2023
9:00am
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4:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Microbial-Enrichment Method Enables High-Throughput Metagenomic Characterization from Host-Rich Samples"
Natalie J. Wu-Woods,
Graduate Student,
Ismagilov Group,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Building with fluids: a lazy approach to fabrication
Prof. Pierre-Thomas Brun,
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering,
Chemical and Biological Engineering,
Princeton University,
Friday, March 3rd, 2023
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Excited State Properties of Lead Halide Perovskites: Insights for Photocatalysis and Photovoltaics
Jeffrey DuBose,
Postdoctoral Scholar (Manthiram Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, March 6th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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CANCELLED - RSI Research Seminar
The California Climate Information System (CalCIS)
Dr. Christine Lee,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
From N-Heterocyclic Carbenes to Dithiolene Radicals: A Counterintuitive Trek Through Main Group Chemistry"
Gregory H. Robinson,
FRSC Foundation Distinguished Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistryp,
The University of Georgia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wednesday, March 8th, 2023
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Advances in understanding Antarctic sea ice
Lettie Roach,
Columbia University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thursday, March 9th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Scaling up reusable DNA strand-displacement circuits using heat as a universal energy source"
Tianqi Song,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Qian Group,
Friday, March 10th, 2023
12:00am
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3/11
12:00am
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Saturday, March 11th, 2023
8:00am
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3/14
11:59pm
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Monday, March 13th, 2023
3:45pm
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4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Recent Advances in the Reductive Chemistry of Rare-Earth and Actinide Metals
William J. Evans,
UC Irvine Distinguished Professor; Director, Eddleman Quantum Institute,
Department of Chemistryp,
University of California, Irvine,
Tuesday, March 14th, 2023
3:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Fun with Chemical Physics: From Controlling Hot Electron Dynamics in Plasmonic Nanostructures to Frequency Comb "Breathalyzer" Detection of COVID!
David Nesbitt,
Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Physics,
University of Colorado Boulder and NIST,
Wednesday, March 15th, 2023
8:00am
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3/17
11:59pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Using models to inform atmospherically relevant laboratory measurements of aerosol formation reactions
Hannah Kenagy,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Thursday, March 16th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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DEI/DICI SEMINAR
A Dreamer's Pathway to Become a Professor: Tips and Tricks
Osvaldo Gutierrez,
Associate Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
Texas A & M University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
Dissecting Protein Folding on the Ribosome – from Single Molecules to Living Cells
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Charge Up! Entrepreneurship Series
Fundraising - Part 1
Carly Anderson,
Principal,
Prelude Ventures,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Some Puzzles and Research Opportunities in Soft Materials
Prof. Steve Granick,
Director,
Center for Soft and Living Matter,
Institute for Basic Science (IBS), South Korea,
Friday, March 17th, 2023
12:00am
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3/18
12:00am
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Special Seminar
In silico Design and Optimization of Abundant Energy Materials
Pieremanuele (Piero) Canepa,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
National University of Singapore,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Nickel-Catalyzed Enantioconvergent and Diasteroselective Alienation of Secondary Alkyl Electrophiles: Concurrent Generation of Point and Axial Chirality
Asik Hossain,
Postdoctoral Scholar (Fu Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Saturday, March 18th, 2023
8:00am
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Monday, March 20th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar
Quantifying carbon stock and cycling in the Yukon River basin
Yutian Ke,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Geology,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Tuesday, March 21st, 2023
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Tod Pascal,
Assistant Professor of NanoEngineering and Chemical Engineering,
Materials Science and Engineering,
University of California, San Diego,
Wednesday, March 22nd, 2023
9:00am
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9:01am
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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PhD Thesis Seminar
Syntheses of Cyclic Polyolefins via Metathesis Polymerization
Quan Gan,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Tuesday, March 28th, 2023
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Chirped Pulse Rotational Spectroscopy of Small Molecule Clusters
Sarah Dutton,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Density function theory (DFT) and quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods for gas phase chemistry and magnetic materials
Sandeep Sharma,
Associate Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Colorado Boulder,
Friday, March 31st, 2023
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Strategies for Enabling Stable and Efficient (Photo)Electrochemical Water Splitting
Zachary Ifkovits,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,