Past Events

Dr. Shupeng Zhu, postdoc in the Dabdub research group, will be a judge at the Orange County Science and Engineering Fair for students to be held on March 25, 2020 at the Orange County Fairgrounds.  He will be judging the Senior Division (Grades 9-12) where students are selected to represent Orange County at the International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF).

AirUCI faculty Jim Smith will be the speaker at the Physical Sciences Breakfast Lecture Series event to be held on March 24, 2020 at the UCI Student Center, Pacific Ballroom D.  Breakfast begins at 7:30 am; the lecture begins at 8 am, and the topic is "Ultrafine Aerosols:  The Good, the Bad, and the Mysterious."  The series is free and open to the public.

The AAAR Student Chapter at UCI, sponsored by AirUCI, will hold their second journal club meeting on Friday March 20th from 2:30 - 4:45 in Rowland Hall room 390. Grad students don't generally get much practice writing papers outside of actually writing them, and it can be difficult to know what makes a good paper.  This journal club is intended to give grad students more opportunities to learn about paper writing from PIs and project scientists who have much more experience in this.  All interested grad students in Physical and Biological Sciences are invited, as well as postdocs, project...

AirUCI faculty Celia Faiola will be the featured speaker at the Orange County Local Section of the American Chemical Society's monthly dinner meeting to be held on March 19, 2020 at the Doubletree Club Hotel in Santa Ana. Her talk title is "Atmospheric aerosol chemistry of complex terpene mixtures emitted from real plants." Dinner service begins at 5:30 pm and the presentation will start at 7:20.
 
Attendance to the lecture only is free, but please register as soon as possible, no later than noon on Tuesday, March 17, 2020 at...

The AirUCI Internal Symposium has scheduled a meeting on Thursday, March 12th in Rowland Hall room 390 from 12:30 - 1:30 for grad students, postdocs, and project scientists.  These meetings are an excellent opportunity to learn about AirUCI-related research and to form collaborations among the AirUCI labs.  Light lunch is provided, and the speakers are Blanca Rodriguez (Kim/Czimczik group) on Insights from Year-Round Isotopic Measurements of Black Carbon in Aerosol and Snow at Alert, Canada, and Sabrina Chee (Smith group) on The Organic Components of Nascent Sea Spray Nanoparticles from...

AirUCI will host a visit from Yinon Rudich, Professor of Environmental Sciences at the Weizmann Institute in Israel.  He will be meeting with AirUCI faculty to discuss research into aerosol physics of the atmosphere.  He will also be giving a talk on Monday, March 2nd from 4:30 - 5:30 pm in Rowland Hall room 390 — the lecture topic is "Nighttime Formation Pathways of Brown Carbon."

The AirUCI Internal Symposium has scheduled a meeting on Thursday, February 27th in Rowland Hall room 390 from 12:30 - 1:30 for grad students, postdocs, and project scientists.  These meetings are an excellent opportunity to learn about AirUCI-related research and to form collaborations among the AirUCI labs.  Light lunch is provided, and the speakers are Sanjeevi Nagalingam (Guenther group) on BVOC Response of Terrestrial Vegetation to Moderate and Extreme Heat Stress Events, and Natalie Smith (Nizkorodov group) on Highly Viscous Secondary Organic Aerosol from Healthy and Stressed Pine...

The AAAR Student Chapter at UCI, founded and run by AirUCI students, is starting a journal club.  Their first meeting will be held Thursday, February 20th from 3 - 4:15 in Rowland Hall room 390.  The format of the club is as follows: one group hosts each month. The hosting group will have a PI or project scientist select a paper and facilitate discussion. They will also provide some insight into what they look for in papers.
 
The hosts for the first meeting will be the Smith group, and a discussion article will be sent out prior to the meeting.  Grad students don't generally...

In 2019 AirUCI organized an informal group from physics and chemistry which has met several times to talk about planetary atmospheres, and in particular, exoplanets.  We have invited speakers in this area of study, and our first visitor is Professor Sarah Horst from Johns Hopkins who will give a PChem talk about the atmosphere of Titan on February 18th at 3:30 pm in Rowland Hall Room 104. 

The AirUCI Internal Symposium has scheduled a meeting on Thursday, January 30th in Rowland Hall room 390 from 12:30 - 1:30 for grad students, postdocs, and project scientists.  These meetings are an excellent opportunity to learn about AirUCI-related research and to form collaborations among the AirUCI labs.  Light lunch is provided, and the speakers are Shupeng Zhu (Samuelsen group) on Vehicle Emission Regulations Save Lives in California, and Jonathon Babila (Carlton group) on Aerosol Liquid Water Chemistry and Risk Bias in Particle Health Studies.