Past Events

AirUCI graduate students have taken the lead in forming an American Association for Aerosol Research Student Chapter at UCI.   This organization was formed in December, 2018 and is intended to provide a platform to connect students and faculty of similar aerosol interests at UCI, and to support graduate students in their academic endeavors.  We aim to be a resource for primarily graduate students to develop skills outside of doing research and better prepare grad students for successful careers.

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After AirUCI hosted our most recent Researchers Retreat at the Lake Arrowhead Conference Center in September 2018, the attendees organized themselves into an ongoing group called the AirUCI Internal Symposium.  They will be meeting regularly to continue the discussions from the retreat, build new collaborations, and find ways to maximize use of equipment available throughout the different AirUCI research groups.  To that end, they compiled a list of the equipment available in each research group to foster collaboration and enable experiments that might not otherwise be possible without...

AirUCI hosted an informal lunch meeting on November 20, 2018 — a first at UCI, intended to bring together atmospheric chemists, Physics and Astrophysics faculty, ESS faculty, and faculty from Molecular Biology Biochemistry to discuss potential overlaps in exoplanet science, particularly issues associated with atmospheres.  The meeting was so successful that an informal group has been formed to continue these conversations.
 
The group's second meeting will be a brown bag lunch to be held on Tuesday, January 15th at noon in Rowland Hall room 390. 
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Although it won't be on January 8th, look for an AirUCI seminar to be presented by Dr. Kerry Pratt of the University of Michigan – the initial date had to be shifted to a Monday in early 2019, beginning at 1 pm in Rowland Hall room 390. Talk title and date TBA soon.

Prof. Jim Smith's Ultrafine Aerosol Group hosted an AirUCI workshop on Aerosol Dynamics, taught by Prof. Pete McMurry of the University of Minnesota. The workshop took place December 12-14, 2018 at the James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve near Idyllwild, California. During the workshop the group learned how to use a sectional code for calculating the time-dependent evolution of an aerosol particle size distribution. It was a lot of fun and we hope to have a chance to organize additional workshops in the future!

AirUCI will host Prof. Theo Kurten from the University of Helsinki in Finland.  He will be visiting AirUCI faculty Jim Smith for the week of December 10th and will present an AirUCI seminar at 1 pm on December 11th in Rowland Hall room 390.  Prof. Kurten is well known for applying computational techniques to studying atmospheric chemistry reaction mechanisms and has been very effective at bridging calculations with experiment.  The title of his talk is “Computational insights into formation mechanisms and properties of atmospheric autoxidation products.”

AirUCI will host an informal lunch meeting on Tuesday, November 20th at noon in Rowland Hall room 390.  This meeting is a first at UCI, intended to bring together atmospheric chemists, Physics and Astrophysics faculty, ESS faculty, and faculty from Molecular Biology Biochemistry to discuss potential overlaps in exoplanet science, particularly issues associated with atmospheres. 

On November 15th at 4 pm, Dr. Michael Lawler, AirUCI Project Scientist in the Smith Research Group, will be presenting his recent work on Identifying cloud-forming aerosol in the high Arctic: A month at the North Pole.   The talk will be held in 3101 Croul Hall, and Mike will give an overview of a 2-month icebreaker expedition, science goals of the campaign, perspective of the environment, and initial results to questions such as, " What is the current relationship among surface biota, aerosol, and clouds, and what might it be in the future?"

Prof. Gunther Andersson of Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia will present a lecture hosted by AirUCI on November 9, 2018 in Rowland Hall room 390.  The talk title is “Liquid Surfaces: from Salty Solutions to Forces in Self-Supported Foam Films”.  Time of the lecture is TBD.

Prof. Peter McMurry, recently retired from the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of Minnesota, will be visiting AirUCI and give a talk on Thursday, November 8th, at 3 pm in Rowland Hall room 390. Talk title TBD.