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SUMMARY:New Faculty Welcome Reception
DESCRIPTION:Dear Faculty and Staff\,\n We will hold a casual welcome event for our newest faculty members\, Professors Prineha Narang\, Matthew Nava\, and Danielle Schmitt!   \nThe event will be held on Thursday\, September 8th\, 3-4pm on the Boyer Hall 159 Patio.\n\nPlease be sure to save the date and RSVP here. Light refreshments and snacks will be provided.\n\nHope to see you there!
URL:https://www.chemistry.ucla.edu/events/new-faculty-welcome-reception/
LOCATION:Boyer 159\, 611 Charles E Young Dr E\, Los Angeles\, CA 90095\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220909T120000
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SUMMARY:Staff Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Greetings Staff! \nJoin the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry on September 9th from 12-1pm for an All Staff Meeting. The meeting will include a lecture by Professor Bill Gelbart “Viruses\, Vaccines\, and Your Immune System” followed by staffing updates\, major departmental initiatives\, and training opportunities presented by Amy Ragsdale. The meeting will also include break out sessions with fellow staff members to team team build and get to know one another. \nThe meeting will be hybrid format with an in-person viewing group in Young Hall 2050 and the rest of the meeting taking place over zoom. Boxed lunches will be provided for who RSVP’d by 8/31. Once you retrieve your meal from Young Hall 2050\, it is encouraged that you attend the meeting in your office via Zoom. \nThank you and please email Isaiahgtz@chem.ucla.edu for questions.
URL:https://www.chemistry.ucla.edu/events/staff-meeting/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220916T130000
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SUMMARY:The 2022 M. Frederick Hawthorne Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Dear Alumni\, Collaborators\, Colleagues\, and Friends: On behalf of the organizing committee\, is it our pleasure to invite you to the M. Frederick Hawthorne Symposium that will bring together alumni\, current students and collaborators at UCLA on Friday\, September 16th\, 2022. The Hawthorne Symposium aims to honor the career and research of those who have made significant contributions to chemistry involving the elements of groups 1\, 2\, and 13-18 in the periodic table in keeping with the example provided by the late Professor M. Frederick Hawthorne (August 24\, 1928 – July 8\, 2021)\, whose work in boron chemistry and time as a UCLA professor have largely shaped the field and touched the lives of countless students\, faculty\, researchers\, and staff. \nWe will be honoring two keynote speakers and recipients of the M. Frederick Hawthorne Award in Main Group Inorganic Chemistry award\, Philip Power and Karl O. Christe\, as well as four symposium speakers — Ohyun Kwon\, William J. Evans\, R. Tom Baker\, and Alexandra Velian. There will be ample opportunities for alumni\, collaborators and newcomers to interact across disciplines. In addition to speaker presentations\, a reception will be served during and after the symposium. We hope to count on your participation to contribute to this meeting. \nIf you would like to attend\, please RSVP at: https://forms.gle/9AUuqaBoy9ry6dbz8. For more information\, please contact Stephanie Lo (stephanie.lo@chem.ucla.edu).
URL:https://www.chemistry.ucla.edu/seminars/the-2022-m-frederick-hawthorne-symposium/
CATEGORIES:Hawthorne,Inorganic,Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220919T160000
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SUMMARY:Physical Chemistry Seminar 228: Jennifer Dionne
DESCRIPTION:Title: Lighting Up the Oceans: Emerging Nanophotonic Platforms for Real-time Ocean Observation\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbstract: The oceans are the largest biological habitat in the known universe and are among the least charted. Covering over two and a half times the area of Mars\, the oceans host diverse microorganisms that cycle nearly all chemical elements and are responsible for half of the global photosynthetic activity. Yet\, studying the marine microbiome remains an outstanding challenge. Very few marine microbes have been successfully cultured under laboratory conditions\, and culture-free methods like genomics and mass spectrometry are incompatible with the real time measurements necessary to study how physicochemical drivers impact microbial nutrient cycling. Here\, we present our efforts to simultaneously and rapidly measure multiple ‘omic’ signatures from the ocean. First\, we combine Raman spectroscopy and deep learning to accurately classify bacteria by both species and antibiotic resistance in a single step. With a convolutional neural network (CNN)\, we achieve species identification and antibiotic susceptibility accuracies similar to leading mass spectrometry techniques. Next\, we describe resonant nanophotonic surfaces that enable detection of genes\, proteins\, and metabolites with femtomolar sensitivity. These metasurfaces produce a large amplification of the electromagnetic field intensity\, increasing the response to minute refractive index changes from target binding; simultaneously\, the light is beam-steered to particular detector pixels. By combining metasurface design with acoustic bioprinting for functionalization\, we produce develop chips that detect gene fragments\, proteins\, and small molecule toxins on the same platform. We discuss integration of these sensors with autonomous underwater robots from Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) for real-time phytoplankton and phycotoxin detection.
URL:https://www.chemistry.ucla.edu/events/chem-228-jennifer-dionne/
LOCATION:Mani L. Bhaumik Centennial Collaboratory\, 607 Charles E. Young Dr.\, East\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Physical Chemistry Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220921T160000
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SUMMARY:Jeffrey I. Zink Inorganic Chemistry Seminar 278: Neil Tomson
DESCRIPTION:Flyer: Prof. Neil Tomson \nTitle: Ligand Flexibility in Surface-Inspired Cluster Chemistry \nAbstract: Metallic surfaces perform many chemical transformations that hold promise for the future energy economy\, including dinitrogen reduction\, ammonia oxidation\, and alkane synthesis\, but surfaces are difficult to tune\, limiting chemists’ ability to improve their efficiencies. Molecular cluster complexes inspired by surface chemistry have been studied for decades to capitalize on the advantages of metallic surfaces while avoiding the scaling relationships that govern their activities. Progress in this area has been hampered\, however\, by the lack of ligand architectures able to provide an appropriate degree of geometric and electronic flexibility to the cluster core. \nThis talk will describe our use of macrocyclic\, multi-nucleating ligands that have been designed to bind small metal clusters (2-4 metal atoms) in a way that mimics M–M bonding. Doing so allows for both facile electron redistribution within the cluster-ligand assembly and a high density of thermally accessible electronic states. These ligands have the added advantage of providing the geometric flexibility needed for stabilizing a range of surface-relevant species. Examples include diiron dinitrogen complexes that exist in a geometry reminiscent of the side-on binding of dinitrogen to the Mittasch catalyst\, a diiron-supported sp-hybridized bridging nitride that converts into an sp3-hybridized bridging amide following hydrogen atom transfer\, and the first (putative) dicobalt bridging nitride – a highly reactive species that mimics aspects of surface nitrides that develop during ammonia oxidation in the Ostwald Process. Particular attention will be paid to the electronic structures of an electrophilic diiron bridging nitrides\, which appears to exhibit a sub-valent oxidation state.
URL:https://www.chemistry.ucla.edu/seminars/jeffrey-i-zink-inorganic-chemistry-seminar-278-neil-tomson/
LOCATION:Mani L. Bhaumik Centennial Collaboratory\, 607 Charles E. Young Dr.\, East\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Inorganic,Seminars
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SUMMARY:Houk-Jung Organic Colloquium 247: Clemence Corminbouef
DESCRIPTION:Prof Corminbouef Flyer \nTitle: NaviCat: Computational Tools to Navigate Molecular Catalyst Landscape \nAbstract: Over the last few years\, we have worked on an assortment of computational and digital tools aimed at accelerating the through exploration and optimization of homogeneous catalyst landscapes. These interoperable tools are assembled into the NaviCat (Navigating Catalysis) platform\, which includes: volcanic\, an automated generator of volcano plots and activity/\nselectivity maps; NaviCatGA\, a genetic algorithm-based catalyst optimizer; and additional pipelines that generate structures\, create catalyst libraries as well as statistical models and representations specifically developed to accelerate the exploration process. \nThe complementary nature of these tools will be demonstrated through optimizing the catalytic activity and selectivity of both prototypical classes of reactions and challenging organic processes. Overall\, the NaviCat platform aims to expand upon original data-driven tools and broaden their application in the field of computational homogeneous catalysis.
URL:https://www.chemistry.ucla.edu/events/houk-jung-organic-colloquium-247-clemence-corminbouef/
LOCATION:Mani L. Bhaumik Centennial Collaboratory\, 607 Charles E. Young Dr.\, East\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Organic Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220928T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220928T171500
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SUMMARY:Jeffrey I. Zink Inorganic Chemistry Seminar 278: Joshua Goldberger
DESCRIPTION:Flyer: Prof. Joshua Goldberger Flyer \nMeet the Speaker: 11 a.m.\, YH 3096 \nTitle: New Directions in Layered\, Anisotropic Materials \nAbstract: Layered and 2D materials are currently one of the most well-studied classes of solid-state compounds\, due to the plethora of unique physical phenomena found in these materials coupled with advances in the characterization of structure and properties down to the single layer scale. Here\, we will describe our recent work in the synthesis\, properties\, and applications of layered materials that exhibit n-type conduction and p-type conduction simultaneously across different crystallographic directions. Recently\, we discovered that NaSn2As2\, a 2D van der Waals material\, simultaneously exhibits p-type conduction along the in-plane direction and n-type behavior along the cross-plane direction\, a phenomenon we define as “goniopolarity”. We will establish the origin of this exotic behavior as well as the chemical design principles for creating new goniopolar materials\, which has allowed us to significantly expand the number of materials that exhibit this phenomenon. Finally\, considering that almost all modern electronic devices require the integration of p-type and n-type regions for functionality\, we will show that the unique charge separation in goniopolar materials can overcome limitations of energy-harvesting technologies ranging from thermoelectrics to photocatalysis.
URL:https://www.chemistry.ucla.edu/seminars/jeffrey-i-zink-inorganic-chemistry-seminar-278-joshua-goldberger/
LOCATION:Mani L. Bhaumik Centennial Collaboratory\, 607 Charles E. Young Dr.\, East\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Inorganic,Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220929T160000
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SUMMARY:Houk-Jung Organic Colloquium 247: Javier Read De Alaniz
DESCRIPTION:Prof Read de Alaniz Flyer \nTitle: Simplifying Synthesis With Chemistry \nAbstract: Photons have multiple enabling advantages to control chemical reactions\, processes and stimuli-responsive materials. In this seminar\, I will discuss our groups effort to design and develop a new class of negative photochromic molecules termed DASA\, their incorporation into materials and subsequent effort to unlock their unique potential as multi-stage photoswitches.
URL:https://www.chemistry.ucla.edu/events/houk-jung-organic-colloquium-247-javier-read-de-alaniz/
LOCATION:Mani L. Bhaumik Centennial Collaboratory\, 607 Charles E. Young Dr.\, East\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Organic Colloquium
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