Past Events

On Tuesday, May 7th, AirUCI will host a seminar by Dr. Thomas Kühn of the Finnish Meteorological Institute in Helsinki, Finland, which will be held from noon to 1 pm in Rowland Hall room 390.  The title of his talk is “Implementation of a volatility basis set in ECHAM-HAM-SALSA”.
 

AirUCI's AAAR Student Chapter at UCI will be hosting a Q&A session with Dr. Adam Bateman on Friday, May 3rd, from noon to 1 in Rowland Hall room 390.  Dr. Bateman did his Ph.D. work with Prof. Nizkorodov from 2006-2011, and currently works at Lam Research in Fremont, CA.  He also owns his own consulting firm, Aerosol Technologies LLC. 

AirUCI's AAAR Student Chapter is beginning a series of meetings that feature panels discussing careers after achieving a degree in Chemistry.  This series of career panels will feature UCI Ph.D alumni who have an established career in academia, industry, or public policy/government.  Attendees will be able to ask these panelists questions pertaining to their pathways to get to their current career and about their current position and its work/life balance.  The format of each event will begin with panelists introducing themselves, their research at UCI, pathway to their current career, and...

AirUCI will host a seminar by Dr. Andy Ault of the University of Michigan to be held on Monday, April 29, 2019 at 10 am in Rowland Hall room 390.  His talk is entitled "Dropping Acid in the Atmosphere: Is It Just a Phase?"

AirUCI will host a seminar by Dr. Manish Shrivastava of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory on Wednesday, April 24 from noon - 1 pm in Rowland Hall room 390.  His talk title is “Urban pollution greatly enhances formation of natural aerosols over the pristine Amazon”.

The next session of the AirUCI internal seminars will be held on Thursday, April 18th from 12:30 - 1:30 PM in Rowland Hall room 390.  All graduate students, postdocs, or project scientists who are affiliated with AirUCI are welcome.  Talks will be by Hayley Glicker (Smith research group), "Chemical composition of ultrafine aerosol particles in Amazonia during the wet season" and by Nanna Myllys (Smith and Gerber research groups), "Mechanisms and compounds in acid-base particle formation".

On April 10, 2019 AirUCI will host a seminar by Prof. Hind Al-Abadleh, our 2019 Fulbright visiting scholar from Wilfred Laurier University in Canada, to be held in Rowland Hall room 390.  The lecture will begin at noon and the title is “Understanding the Environmental Fate of Arsenicals from the Surface Chemistry of Hematite Nanoparticles”.
 

The next session of the AirUCI internal seminars will be held on Thursday, March 28th from 12:30 - 1:30 PM in Rowland Hall room 390.  All graduate students, postdocs, or project scientists are welcome.  This is the last winter quarter internal seminar, and Amy Christianson (Carlton group) will talk about her work investigating the clear-sky bias of satellite retrievals and comparison of data to surface measurements, as well as Wing-Sy Derieux (Shiraiwa group) talking about her work on modeling the kinetics of uptake of dimethylamine by ammonium sulfate and ammonium sulfate-sucrose...

A group of AirUCI graduate students are piloting a "near peer" mentoring program as part of their broader impacts requirement for a joint NSF project with Reed College in Portland, Oregon.  Our graduate student mentors are paired with Reed chemistry undergrads who want to learn more about graduate school.  Reed is a primarily undergraduate institution (PUI) with a high percentage of students who ultimately move on to pursue graduate degrees but, as it's a small PUI, many students have limited exposure to the details of life as a grad student.

For this pilot, there are nine Reed...

On Saturday, March 16th, AirUCI graduate students Natalie Smith and Vahe Baboomian, both in the Nizkorodov research group, participated in Science Saturday on the UCI campus.  They gave lab tours and demonstrations to 45 middle school students as a part of a three-part tour where the students visit UCI's chemistry, engineering, and biology departments.  They showed the students what aerosols are and where they come from, followed by having them make some aerosols using limonene and an air purifier that emits ozone.  They finished off the tour by showing the students our aerosol smog...