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January 2025

Ongoing

Ongoing – 1/5 11:59pm

Winter Recess

Academic

Ongoing – 1/1 5:00pm

Institute Holidays

Academic

Monday, January 6th, 2025

12:00am – 1/7 12:00am

Beginning of Instruction of Winter Term

Academic

Tuesday, January 7th, 2025

9:00am – 12:00pm

Undergraduate Academic Standards and Honors Committee Meeting

Academic

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special Chemistry Seminar

Gates Annex B122

Enabling Molecular Quantum Information Science with Electron Spins

Ryan G. Hadt, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Insitutute of Technology,

Internal Event

Wednesday, January 8th, 2025

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

Ocean circulation, microbial ecology, climate extremes and the carbon cycle

Mara Freilich, Brown University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Frontiers in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Gates Annex B122

Chemistry- and imaging-based methods to explore extracellular biology

Kayvon Pedram, Group Leader, Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute,

Internal Event

Friday, January 10th, 2025

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Samarium as a Catalytic Electron-Transfer Mediator in Electrochemical Nitrogen Reduction to Ammonia

Emily Boyd, Graduate Student (Peters Research Group), Department of Chemistry, Caltech,

Wednesday, January 15th, 2025

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

Geoengineering with stratospheric aerosols: what do we know and what do we need to know?

Douglas MacMartin, Cornell University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Postponed! Frontiers in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Gates Annex B122

Chemoproteogenomic approaches to stratify the functional and therapeutically relevant proteome

Keriann M. Backus, Associate Professor, College of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles,

Internal Event

Friday, January 17th, 2025

2:30pm – 4:00pm

Caltech Community Gathering

Beckman Mall

Internal Event

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Ultrafast, all-Optical Coherence of Molecular Electron Spins

Erica Sutcliffe, Postdoctoral Scholar (Hadt Research Group), Department of Chemistry, Caltech,

Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Informal CCE Seminar

Braun Laboratory 152

Update from year 25 of an odyssey with undergraduate researchers to understand the structure and function of alkane monooxygenase (AlkB)

Rachel Narehood Austin, Diana T. And P. Roy Vagelos Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Barnard College, Columbia University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

Title TBD

Kelly Wrighton, Colorado State University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Natural Superlattice Design of Modulated Superconductors

Joseph Checkelsky, Associate Professor, Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

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Friday, January 24th, 2025

8:00am – 5:00pm

Last Day for Adding Courses and Removing Conditions and Incompletes

Academic

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Chemical Engineering Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

Electrochemical synthesis of Value-added chemicals from CO2 and N2 reduction reaction

Yun Jeong Hwang, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Imaging Excited-State Carrier Dynamics in Strontium Titanate Photocatalysts through Ultrafast Electron Microscopy and Correlative Electron Spectroscopies

Levi Palmer, Graduate Student (Cushing Group), Department of Chemistry, Caltech,

Monday, January 27th, 2025

12:00pm – 1:00pm

RSI Research Seminar

Resnick Sustainability Center 120

Ecological Pattern to Molecular Mechanism: Evolutionary Selection for Environmental Resilience in the Marine Environment

Margaret McFall-Ngai, Division of Biosphere Sciences and Engineering, Carnegie Institution for Science,

Wednesday, January 29th, 2025

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365

Recent land carbon sink responses to trends in CO2 and Climate diagnosed from a CARDAMOM reanalysis

Eren Bilir, JPL,

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Nature of the topological insulating and superconducting states in ultrathin semimetal WTe2

David Cobden, Professor, Physics, University of Washington,

Thursday, January 30th, 2025

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar

Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)

"Ultrasonic Reporter for Kinase Activity and Other Cellular Enzymes"

Jee Won Yang, Graduate Student, Shapiro Group,

Friday, January 31st, 2025

10:30am – 11:30am

PhD Thesis Seminar

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Bond-Selective Nonlinear Optical Microscopy: From Live Cell to Single Molecule Imaging

Dongkwan Lee, Graduate Student, Chemical Engineering (Wei Group), Caltech,

1:00pm – 2:00pm

PhD Thesis Defense

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Nanophotonic engineering of thermal emitters

Komron J. Shayegan, Graduate student, Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology,

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Environmental Impacts of Fires at the Wildland-Urban Interface

Online Event

Public Event

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Inorganic-Organometallics Seminaer

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)

Synthesis and Spectroscopy of Open-shell Complexes Bearing Unusual Me-E (E = N, C) Bonding Motifs

Tianyl (Mike) He, Graduate Student (Agapie Research Group), Chemistry, Caltech,