Past Events

AirUCI Project Scientists Dr. Lisa Wingen and Dr. Veronique Perraud have organized regular meetings for researchers to discuss using the Igor lab apparatus..  The next meeting will be held on March 5th from 3:30 - 5:30 pm in Rowland Hall room 390.

AirUCI's AAAR stucent chapter will participate in the 2025 Sustainival event to be held in Aldrich Park on February 25th.  This is an annual fair that celebrates UCI’s campus culture of sustainability and our status as one of the environmentally outstanding universities in the world. The event will feature booths from campus and community groups, including our AAAR group.

AirUCI will welcome Prof. Markus Petters of UC Riverside who will give the Physical Chemistry Seminar on February 25th at 3:30 in Rowland Hall room 104.  His talk is entitled, "How does interfacial tension affect droplet nucleation and melting point depression in nanoparticles?"  Prof. Petters will visit AirUCI labs and meet with our researchers prior to his lecture.

On February 22nd, UCI was the site of the annual Science Olympiad, the premier team STEM competition in the nation that provides standards-based challenges to K-12 students across all 50 states.  We are proud to offer the AirUCI conference room each year as one of the venues on campus.  In cooperation with the Orange County Department of Education, UCI hosts the Olympiad for around 1000 grade 6-12 students from about 50 local schools. Winners at our regional event often go on to win at the state and national level.   Read...

On February 20th, AirUCI co-Director Barbara Finlayson-Pitts gave a remote seminar entitled "Air Quality and Climate Change: Why Chemistry Matters" to an Environmental Chemistry class at Illinois Institute of Techology.

Dr. Pieternel Levelt, Associate Director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder CO, will visit AirUCI on February 19th.  Hosted by AirUCI faculty James Randerson, Dr. Levelt will meet with AirUCI researchers and give an Earth System Science lecture entitled "Air Quality from Space".  The talk will be held in the Jenkins Room. Croul Hall room 3101 at 3:30.

Professor Joost de Gouw of the University of Colorado, Boulder Department of Chemistry will visit AirUCI on February 18th.  Hosted by AirUCI co-Director Barbara Finlayson-Pitts, Dr. de Gouw will meet with AirUCI researchers and hear presentations on our research in Rowland Hall room 390 at noon.  He will also give the Physical Chemistry Seminar on Tuesday at  3:30 in Rowland Hall room 104 entitled "Urban Air Quality in the Anthropocene".

To celebrate Valentine's Day, AirUCI's AAAR student chapter is holding a get-together on February 14th from 3-5 pm in Rowland Hall 386.  They're calling this "Coffee Fixes Everything" and are providing cocoa and pastries as well.  This is a chance to talk informally about various AirUCI research projects with members of our team.

AirUCI Project Scientists Dr. Lisa Wingen and Dr. Veronique Perraud have organized regular meetings for reesarchers to discuss using the Igor lab apparatus..  The  next meeting will be held on November 5th from 3:30 - 5:30 pm in Rowland Hall room 390.

On January 28th, AirUCI faculty Sarah Finkeldei and Jack Brouwer will be the featured speakers at the annual Physical Sciences Energy Lecture to be held from 8:30 to 10:00 am in the UCI Foundation office. The Energy Lecture features cutting-edge research on clean and abundant energy solutions that are free and open to the public. Sarah is an expert in nuclear energy conversion methods and nuclear waste, while Jack's expertise is in renewable energy systems, especially electrolyzers and batteries, as well as hydrogen fuel cells, production, storage, and conversion systems.  RSVPs are...