Past Events

Below is a list of past events related to AirUCI (sorted with the most recent first).

2024

Event Date: Fri, 06/07/2024

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 

Event Date: Wed, 06/05/2024

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".

Event Date: Tue, 06/04/2024

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".

Event Date: Tue, 06/04/2024

AirUCI will host a visit and talk in early June by Prof. Ralf Zimmermann of the University of Rostock in Germany.  Exact date, time, and lecture topic TBD but he is currently studying the health impacts of aerosols, with cell exposure studies.

Event Date: Sun, 06/02/2024 to Thu, 06/06/2024

Several members of the AirUCI research team will attend and present at the annual American Society for Mass Spectrometry conference in Anaheim during the week of June 2-6.

Event Date: Wed, 05/29/2024

On May 29th AirUCI will host a visit from Professor Thorsten Benter of the University of Wuppertal in Germany.  He is a past member of UCI's Chemistry faculty and is an expert in mass spectrometry and atmospheric chemistry.  He will give a seminar at 2 pm in Rowland Hall 390, and the title of his talk is "Sampling and detecting ions generated in two (very) strange environments: Electrospray (ESI) plumes and Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) plasmas".

Event Date: Wed, 05/22/2024

On May 22nd AirUCI will host a visit from Dr. Zachary Schiffman of the University of Colorado at Boulder.  He will be meeting with AirUCI researchers and will give a talk at 2 pm in Rowland Hall 390, talk title TBA.

Event Date: Wed, 05/08/2024 to Thu, 05/09/2024

AirUCI faculty Scott Samuelsen, Jack Brouwer, and Voya Stamenkovic are special invited attendees at the Off Highway Powertrain & Fuels USA 2024 conference to be held May 8-9 at the Beckman Center.  The conference is organized by Emissions Analytics of Stokenchurch, England.  Details

Event Date: Thu, 05/02/2024

AirUCI faculty Andrea De Vizcaya Ruiz is organizing a meeting on May 2nd with Prof. Emeritus Alvaro Osornio Vargas of the University of Alberta, Canada, to discuss our research related to the environmental impact and health in Madison Park and Santa Ana.  Our collaborators from Green-MPNA, EcoGov Lab, and APHEL will attend along with several AirUCI faculty and researchers.  Presentations will be followed by a discussion on interdisciplinarity and our experiences as scientists from different disciplines partnering with an EJ organization.  Prof. Osornio Vargas' extensive experience in air...

Event Date: Tue, 04/30/2024

AirUCI will host a visit from Dr. Ryan Reynolds of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab on April 30th.  He will be visiting our labs, meeting with researchers, and will give a lecture at 2:00 in Rowland Hall room 390 entitled “Oxidizing Organic Aerosol at Tropospheric Temperatures: Kinetic Insights From (and Into!) Model Systems”.

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