Upcoming Events for Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Monday, December 2, 2024
3:45 pm - 4:45 pm	DOW LECTURE IN ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY Gates Annex B122 The Bionic Leaf: Surpassing the C- and N-Fixation Processes of Nature Daniel G. Nocera, Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University,

Wednesday, December 4, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Organic Chemistry Seminar Gates Annex B122 New Strategies for Stereoselective Radical Biocatalysis Yang Yang, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara,

Thursday, December 5, 2024
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar Crellin 151 TBA George Daghlian, Graduate Student, Shapiro Group,

Wednesday, December 11, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Frontiers in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Gates Annex B122 Chemical Genomics: Small Molecule Mechanism in the Era of High-Throughput Genetics Brian Liau, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University,

Friday, December 13, 2024
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm	Green Labs December 2024 Meeting

Tuesday, January 7, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	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,

Wednesday, January 8, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	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,

Thursday, January 9, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Warren S. Warren, James B. Duke Professor of Chemistry; Director, Center for Molecular and Biomolecular Imaging, Department of Physics, Chemistry, Radiology, and Biomedical Engineering, Duke University,

Friday, January 10, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Roles of Samarium in Catalytic Nitrogen Fixation Emily Boyd, Graduate Student (Peters Research Group), Department of Chemistry, Caltech,

Wednesday, January 15, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Frontiers in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Gates Annex B122 Keriann M. Backus, Associate Professor, College of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles,

Friday, January 17, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	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,

Friday, January 24, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	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,

Friday, February 7, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Debbie Tseng, Graduate Student (Robb Research Group), Chemistry, Caltech,

Tuesday, February 11, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Heather Lewandowski, Professor of Physics, Fellow of JILA, Department of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder,

Wednesday, February 12, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering Gates Annex B122 Rachel Segalman, Edward Noble Kramer Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, UC Santa Barbara,

Thursday, February 13, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	W. N. Lacey Lectureship in Chemical Engineering Gates Annex B122 Rachel Segalman, Edward Noble Kramer Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, UC Santa Barbara,

Friday, February 14, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) catherine Romero, Graduate Student (Peters Research Group), Department of Chemistry, Caltech,

Tuesday, February 18, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Alex Wodtke, Director and Professor of University of Göttingen, Dynamics and Surfaces, Max Planck Institute,

Thursday, February 20, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biochemistry Seminar Gates Annex B122 Robert H. Singer, Harold and Muriel Block Chair, Professor of RNA Biology, Cell Biology, and Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine,

Friday, February 21, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Kimberly Sharp, Graduate Student (Hadt Research Group), Department of Chemistry, Caltech,

Friday, February 28, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Enantioselective Nucleophilic Florination of Alkyl Electrophiles via Copper Catalysis Zhuoyan Wang, Graduate Student (Fu Research Group), Department of Chemistry, Caltech,

Tuesday, March 4, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Rohit Bhargava, Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering, College of Engineering and Bioengineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,

Wednesday, March 5, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Frontiers in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Gates Annex B122 Xiao Wang, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard,

Thursday, March 6, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ruth & Eddie Hughes Lecture Gates Annex B122 Robert Tjian, Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology; Li Ka Shing Chancellor's Chair in Biology; HHMI Investigator, Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, UC Berkeley,

Monday, March 10, 2025
3:45 pm - 4:45 pm	Inorganic-Elecrochemistry Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Shiyu Zhang, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ohio State University,

Tuesday, March 11, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Shane Ardo, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine,

Wednesday, March 12, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Special Organic Chemistry Seminar - Organic Syntheses Lecture Gates Annex B122 Steven D. Townsend, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University,

Tuesday, April 1, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Gregory D. Scholes, William S. Tod Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University,

Friday, April 4, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) A Pd-Catalyzed Cascade Strategy Towards the Total Synthesis of Cassiabudanol A. Katelyn (Kate) Gallagher, Graduate Student (Reisman Research Group), Department of Chemistry, Caltech,

Tuesday, April 8, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Roel Tempelaar, Assistant Professor of Chemistrry, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University,

Wednesday, April 9, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Organic Chemistry Seminar Gates Annex B122 Michael Taylor, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona,

Friday, April 11, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Organic Chemistry Seminar Gates Annex B122 Zhi-Xiang Yu, Professor, College of Chemistry, Peking University,

Tuesday, April 15, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Renee Frontiera, Northrop Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota,

Wednesday, April 16, 2025
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm	BMS Lectures in Organic Synthesis Gates Annex B122 Gregory Beutner, Associate Scientific Director, Reaction Sciences Group, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Song Lin, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University,

Friday, April 18, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Nathan Friede, Graduate Student (Reisman Research Group), Department of Chemistry, Caltech,

Wednesday, April 23, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Organic Chemistry Seminar Gates Annex B122 Marvin Parasram, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, New York University,

Friday, April 25, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Drew Tarnopol, Graduate Student (Peters Research Group), Department of Chemistry, Caltech,

Tuesday, April 29, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Gabriela Schlau-Cohen, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Massachussetts Institute of Technology,

Wednesday, April 30, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Organic Chemistry Seminar Gates Annex B122 Ana Bahamonde, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside,

Friday, May 2, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Fernando Guerrero, Graduate Student (Agapie Research Group), Department of Chemistry, Caltech,

Wednesday, May 7, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Organic Chemistry Seminar Gates Annex B122 Christopher Parker, Professor, Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute,

Friday, May 9, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Mengdi Li, Graduate Student (Peters Research Group), Department of Chemistry, Caltech,

Monday, May 12, 2025
3:45 pm - 4:45 pm	INorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Jihye Park, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder,

Tuesday, May 13, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Chemical Physics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Vojtech Vlcek, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara,

Wednesday, May 14, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Organic Chemistry Seminar Gates Annex B122 Andy Thomas, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University,

Friday, May 16, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Sara Siddiqui, Graduate Student (Stoltz Research Group), Department of Chemistry, Caltech,

Monday, May 19, 2025
3:45 pm - 4:45 pm	Inorganic-Elecrochemistry Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Michael S. Inkpen, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California,

Tuesday, May 20, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	2025 Harden M. McConnell Lecture Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Magnetic Resonance One Spin At A Time Jörg Wrachtrup, Professor, Head of Department, 3rd Physics Institute and Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, University of Stuttgart,

Friday, May 23, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Seungju Kang, Graduate Student (Peters Research Group), Department of Chemistry, Caltech,

Friday, May 30, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Alex Pavelic, Graduate Student (Peters Research Group), Department of Chemistry, Caltech,

Wednesday, June 4, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	CCE: Beckman Lecture Gates Annex B122 Alanna Schepartz, Professor or Chemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, College of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley,

Friday, June 6, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall) Elena Urquiola, Graduate Student (Agapie Research Group), Department of Chemistry, Caltech,

Thursday, June 12, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Biochemistry Seminar Gates Annex B122 Tanya Paull, Professor of Oncology, Burl G. and Lorene L. Rogers Chair in Human Health, Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Texas at Austin,

Monday, October 13, 2025
3:45 pm - 4:45 pm	Inorganic-Elecrochemistry Seminar Gates Annex B122 Kyoko Nozaki, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, School of Energy, The University of Tokyo,