Past Events

AirUCI Project Scientists Dr. Lisa Wingen and Dr. Veronique Perraud have organized regular meetings to discuss using the IGOR lab apparatus after a very successful meeting in late August.  The goal is to hold these tutorials on the first Tuesday of each month through December, with the first meeting to be held on October 1st from 3-4 pm in Rowland Hall room 390. 

AirUCI faculty Mike Dennin will participate in an online event to launch UCI's Year of Scholarly Values in a panel discussion to address some of the main issues raised by this campuswide theme. What are the scholarly values? How should we go about promoting them? What challenges do we face as a university when it comes to cultivating scholarly values? More information and registration

On August 8th the annual UC Irvine SoCal Undergraduate Chemistry Symposium was held at the ISEB.  This all-day event is a presentation of the latest in chemistry research conducted by undergrads, and three of AirUCI's students in the Finlayson-Pitts group participated:  Katelyn Pacaud, Mariam Parvinian, and Ellie Wingen.  All three had quite a lot of interest in their poster presentations among symposium attendees.

On July 12th AirUCI will host a visit from high school students from the ALMA Academy in Santa Ana.  ALMA is an educational organization under GREEN-MPNA, AirUCI's non-profit partner.  About a dozen of their science students will tour five of our labs in Chemistry and ESS and will hear presentations about our research projects.

At 1:00 pm Pacific Time on Monday, July 8th, NASA Astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson will Zoom with AirUCI from the International Space Station to answer questions we have compiled.  Tracy is an honorary member and alumna of AirUCI and is on her third trip to space.  She launched in late March for a six-month mission aboard the ISS.  Coordinating the schedule with NASA is a bit tricky, so while this date is fairly firm it could be postponed.  Check back here for updates!  ...

On June 19th AirUCI Co-Director Sergey Nizkorodov will give a talk as a featured speaker in the American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR) Lecture Series.  The lecture is entitled "Light-absorbing products of atmospheric oxidation of indole by hydroxyl radical, nitrate radical and ozone".  This is a virtual presentation to be held at 4 pm Pacific Time.  Details and registration

On June 17th, AirUCI will host a lecture by Dr. Hanna Hakulinen (formerly Hanna Lignell), Research Director of the VERIFIN Institute at the University of Helsinki in Finland.   Hanna is a former AirUCI postdoc in the Nizkorodov and Gerber groups.  The talk will be held at noon in Rowland Hall 390 and is entitled “Chemical disarmament research - who is guilty and...

AirUCI's AAAR Student Chapter is hosting an end-of-year social serving pizza and drinks on Friday, June 7th from 12:30-3:00 in Natural Sciences 2 room 2201. This is a chance for members to visit, reconnect on research, and talk about the presentations given over the year.  RSVP here 

On June 5th AirUCI will host a visit and talks by Prof. Ralf Zimmermann the University of Rostock in Germany and longtime collaborator Prof. Alex Laskin of Purdue University.  They will give a joint presentation at noon in Rowland Hall room 390.  Alex will present: "Molecular Insights into Atmospheric Brown Carbon: Optical Properties, Gas-Particle Partitioning, Viscosity".   Dr. Zimmermann's talk title is "New approaches for on-line characterization of health relevant properties and the toxicological impact of aerosols".

On June 4th AirUCI Co-Director Barbara Finlayson-Pitts will deliver the plenary lecture at Canadian Society of Chemistry (CSC) Conference to be held in Winnipeg, Canada.  The title of her talk is "The Intertwining of Air Quality, Air Toxics and Climate: Why Molecular Level Understanding Matters".