On March 16th, AirUCI's Internal Seminar will hold a meeting in Rowland Hall room 390 from 12:30 to 2:00. Alyssa Burns and Simon Rosanka (both of the Carlton group) will be speaking about their research projects. Alyssa's talk is entitled: "The Data Gap: Air Quality Networks Miss Air Pollution from Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs)" and Simon will speak about “In-cloud chemistry modeling: from global to regional scales”.
Past Events
Below is a list of past events related to AirUCI (sorted with the most recent first).
2023
Event Date: Tue, 03/14/2023
On March 14th, AirUCI will sponsor a P-Chem talk given by Prof. Styliani Constas, hosted by Barbara Finlayson-Pitts. Stella is a professor of chemistry at the University of Western Ontario and our new Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Climate Change, Air Quality, and Atmospheric Chemistry, University of California, Irvine. The seminar is entitled “Modeling of electrostatic and chemical properties of nanoscopic and microscopic aerosol droplets” and will be in room RH 104 from 3.30-4.30 pm.
Event Date: Thu, 03/02/2023
On March 2nd, AirUCI's Internal Seminar will hold a meeting in Rowland Hall room 390 from 12:30 to 2:00. Sourav Majumdar (Furche group) and Yixin Li (Finlayson-Pitts group) will be speaking about their research projects. Sourav's talk is entitled: "Extending the tool kit of modern non-adiabatic molecular dynamics simulation techniques for the study of non-Kasha fluorescence" and Yixin's talk is entitled: “A Novel Temperature-programmed Knudsen Cell for Studies of Gas-surface interactions”.
Event Date: Tue, 02/28/2023
On February 28th, AirUCI will sponsor a P-Chem talk given by longtime AirUCI collaborator Alla Zelenyuk-Imre from PNNL (hosted by Sergey Nizkorodov). The talk is entitled "Laboratory and Field studies of Isoprene-derived Secondary Organic Aerosol (SOA)"and will be held from 3:30 - 4:30 in Rowland Hall room 104.
Event Date: Sat, 02/25/2023
AirUCI is pleased to host the 2023 Science Olympiad in Rowland Hall room 360 on Saturday, February 25th. This event is organized by UC Irvine Chemistry Professor Kim Edwards in conjunction with similar events across the country.
Event Date: Thu, 02/09/2023
On February 9, AirUCI faculty Celia Faiola invites everyone to a special colloquium presented by Prof. Daniel Whiteson, who is well known for his expertise in communicating science to the public. The event will be held in Rowland Hall room 101 at 3:30 pm and is also available via Zoom. Details
Event Date: Tue, 02/07/2023
On February 7th, AirUCI will host a P-Chem talk given by Nate Slade of UCSD (hosted by Celia Faiola). This event will be held from 3:30 - 4:30 in Rowland Hall room 390. Topic TBA
Event Date: Tue, 01/31/2023
On January 31, 2023, EcoGovLab, GREEN-MPNA, and AirUCI hosted an Environmental Justice Stakeholder Meeting in Santa Ana with over 100 attendees and 25 Zoom participants, including residents, AirUCI researchers (DOJ sub-group), elected officials, and government agencies. Presentations were given on collaborative efforts to characterize and address Santa Ana’s cumulative pollution burden. Read the article
Event Date: Tue, 01/31/2023
On January 31st, AirUCI's AAAR Student Chapter will host a winter social, 'Coffee Fixes Everything', where the members can come together and interact about their research. Open to students, postdocs, and researchers, the event will be held in Rowland Hall room 390 from 3-5 pm.
Event Date: Wed, 01/18/2023
On January 18th, AirUCI will host a special seminar presented by Professor Man Nin Chan of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The talk will be held at 3:30 in Rowland Hall room 390 and via Zoom. The title of the talk is "Transformation Kinetics and Chemistry of Organosulfates in Atmospheric Aerosols through Heterogeneous Oxidation – Coupling to Aerosol Sulfate".
