Past Events

AirUCI will host Dr. Rachel Hems of the University of Toronto for a week-long visit in late March. She will present a lecture on Tuesday, March 20, 2018 in Rowland Hall room 390, talk title TBD.

Prof. Jon Abbatt, AirUCI's Fulbright Scholar from the University of Toronto, will be giving a chemistry seminar on Tuesday, February 27 at 3.30 pm in Rowland Hall room104.  The title of his talk is "Multiphase Oxidation Chemistry: Focus on Indoor Environments".

On February 2nd, AirUCI faculty and co-Director Barbara Finlayson-Pitts will present a lecture entitled "Neonicotinoids in the Environment: How Reactive Are They?" at 2 pm which wilI be held at the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health.

Prof. Manabu Shiraiwa, AirUCI faculty, will present a seminar entitled "Multiphase Chemistry of Organic Aerosols and Reactive Oxygen Species" on January 30th from 3:30-4:30 pm in Rowland Hall room 104. The talk will cover highlights of Manabu's incredibly productive career as a Chemistry Department faculty at UCI and as a group leader at Max Planck Institute for Chemistry.

AirUCI faculty Alex Guenther will speak at the UCI Physical Sciences Breakfast Lecture Series on January 23, 2018.  The lecture will be held at the UCI Student Center, Pacific Ballroom D from 7:30–9:00 am, and his talk is entitled, "Do Trees Pollute the Air?"

On Friday, January 19, 2018 at 4:00 pm, AirUCI Fulbright Scholar Jonathan Abbatt will present a lecture in the Jenkins Room (Croul Hall 3101) entitled "Aerosol in the Arctic Summertime: Particle Formation and Growth, Clouds, and Melting Sea Ice".  All are invited.  Arctic Haze is a well known springtime phenomenon wherein high levels of aerosol are prevalent in polar regions due to efficient transport and slow deposition.  This talk will contrast Arctic Haze to the case of summertime Arctic aerosol where new field measurements demonstrate that particle nucleation and growth are common,...

AirUCI faculty Craig Murray will present a lecture on January 16, 2018 at 11:30 am in Rowland Hall room 104.  The title of his talk is, "Photodissociation dynamics and reaction kinetics: a collection of short stories."

AirUCI is hosting a graduate student, Pablo Corral Arroyo, from the Paul Scherrer Institut where he is working on multiple projects in the research group of Markus Ammann, a frequent AirUCI collaborator. On November 16 at 1 pm in Rowland Hall room 390, Pablo will be giving a talk entitiled, "Feedbacks between atmospheric aerosol microphysics and aerosol aging induced by photochemistry of iron complexes."

AirUCI faculty Alex Guenther is organizing a Long-term Biosphere/Atmosphere Chemical Flux Workshop on the future of atmospheric chemistry research to be held at the Beckman Center on November 13-14, 2017.  The workshop is hosted by AirUCI and funded by NSF, and the objective is for the scientific community to discuss strategies for developing an international effort to investigate biosphere-atmosphere chemical exchange across key ecosystems and develop innovative observational instruments and approaches that transform the community capabilities for quantifying comprehensive, long-term...

Sergey Nizkorodov, co-Director of AirUCI, will speak to a delegation from the Université Côte d’Azur (UCA) in France on Thursday, September 7th.  UCI and UCA are strategic partners in the UCA JEDI program with various programmatic collaborations. On this visit, the delegation is seeking opportunities for students in their new interdisciplinary graduate degrees to spend six months at UCI, and Sergey will give a presentation about AirUCI's research projects and opportunities for students interested in environmental and sustainable development issues.  Previous campus visits over the past two...