Events
October 2023
Monday, October 2nd, 2023
10:30am
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PhD Thesis Defense
Measuring charge carrier and structural photodynamics at solar energy material surfaces using transient extreme ultraviolet reflection spectroscopy
Jonathan Michelsen,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Tuesday, October 3rd, 2023
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Frontiers in Chemistry and Chemistry Engineering
Fusing machine learning and simulations for molecular design
Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli,
Jeffrey Cheah Career Development Chair, Associate Professor,
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Wednesday, October 4th, 2023
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
From leaves to ecosystems: new insight into plants from novel remote sensing observations
Xi Yang,
University of Virginia,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Design and Discover of New Correlated Electron Systems: Exploring New Materials Space
Paul Canfield,
Professor of Physics and Astronomy,
Iowa State University,
Senior Scientist at Ames Laboratory,
Thursday, October 5th, 2023
4:00pm
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Constantin G. Economou Lecture
Metal ions as dynamic crosslinkers for polyelectrolyte gel networks
Pierre Walker,
Graduate Student,
Chemical Engineering,
Caltech,
Friday, October 6th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Saturday, October 7th, 2023
8:00am
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Tuesday, October 10th, 2023
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Pursuit of Strongly Correlated Electrons and their Applications on Quantum and Classical Devices
David A. Mazziotti,
Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
University of Chicago,
Wednesday, October 11th, 2023
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Frontiers in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
More than physics, more than data: Integrated machine-learning models for chemistry
Michele Ceriotti,
Associate Professor,
Institute of Materials,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne,
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
Understanding and predicting radiation-matter interactions through atomistic modeling
Friday, October 13th, 2023
8:00am
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Frontiers in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Tales on Bismuth Redox Catalysis
Josep Cornella,
Research Group Leader,
Department of Organometallic Chemistry,
Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany,
Monday, October 16th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar
Appealing to Independents: Information on Negative Externalities Increases Support for Environmental Corrective Taxes
R. Michael Alvarez,
Professor of Political and Computational Social Science,
Humanities and Social Sciences,
Beatrice Magistro,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Computational Social Science,
Humanities and Social Sciences,
Tuesday, October 17th, 2023
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Wednesday, October 18th, 2023
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Applied atmospheric science for wind energy research
Caroline Draxl,
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL),
4:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture
From saving pharmaceuticals to saving priceless historical artefacts: understanding nanostructure with x-rays and algorithms
5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Charge Up! Entrepreneurship Series
Scaling for Growth: From R&D to Reality
Steve Oldham,
CEO,
Captura,
7:30pm
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8:30pm
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Thursday, October 19th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Natural and engineered molecular chaperones against amyloidogenic substrates"
Arpit Gupta,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Shan Group,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense
Some computer studies of membrane proteins, molecular chaperones, and color
Shyam Saladi,
Graduate Student,
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar
The role of ER shape, dynamics, and membrane contact sites in health and disease
Gia Voeltz,
Professor, HHMI Investigator,
Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology,
University of Colorado Boulder,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Engineering Seminar
Microbes in the wild: Unraveling microbial community dynamics in their natural environment
Smruthi Karthikeyan,
Professor,
Engineering and Applied Science,
Caltech,
Friday, October 20th, 2023
12:00am
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10/21
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PhD Thesis Defense
Neural Drug Biosensors in Cellular Imaging and Computational Ethology
Anand Muthusamy,
Graduate Student,
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, October 23rd, 2023
2:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
From Atom to System – Electrochemistry for Terawatt-Hour Energy Transition.
Ying Shirley Meng,
Professor of Molecular Engineering,
Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering,
University of Chicago,
Tuesday, October 24th, 2023
3:00pm
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Frontiers in CCE Seminar
"Unlocking molecular selectivity at electrochemical interfaces through redox-electron transfer"
Dr. Xiao Su,
Assistant Professor,
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
Probing and imaging nuclear and electronic motions at molecular length-scales in disordered media harnessing optical and scattering interactions
Thomas Markland,
Associate Professor of Chemistry,
Department of Chemistry,
Stanford University,
Wednesday, October 25th, 2023
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10/31
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Out of Sight, Out of Mind -- The DDT Story You Haven't Heard
David Valentine,
UCSB,
4:00pm
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Thursday, October 26th, 2023
12:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar
"Engineering RNA export to monitor and manipulate living cells"
Dr. Felix Horns,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Elowitz Group,
4:00pm
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Frontiers in Biochemistry Seminar
Decoding the Cellular Blueprint: DNA, Lipids, and Nuclear Geometry
4:00pm
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Robert W. Vaughan Lecture in Chemical Engineering
"Engineering Therapeutics for the Pediatric Brain"
Elizabeth Nance,
Jagjeet and Janice Bindra Endowed Career Development Associate Professor & Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies,
Department of Chemical Engineering,
University of Washington,
Friday, October 27th, 2023
4:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Development and Application of Cooperative Catalysts Methods for Alkene Carboboration
Stanna Dorn,
Postdoctoral Scholar (Reisman Research Group),
Chemistry,
Caltech,
Monday, October 30th, 2023
12:00pm
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