Past Events

On October 25, 2016, AirUCI will host a lecture by Dr. Coty Jen of the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at UC Berkeley.  Her expertise is in chemical ionization mass spectrometry and measurements and modeling molecular clusters and gases that are important for atmospheric nucleation.  The talk will be held at 1:30 in Rowland Hall 390; the title of the talk is "Atmospheric Nucleation: Formation of Sulfuric Acid Clusters Stabilized by Amines".

AirUCI will host a visit by Corona High School in a presentation about our research and tours of our labs on October 17, 2016.  Teacher Bianca Pantoja, who completed our AirUCI Summer Teacher Workshop in 2011, will bring Honors students who are interested in science, particularly Biomedicine, as a field of study in college.  The tour will include research groups in the departments of Chemistry, Biology, Earth Systems Sciences, and Engineering.

On Thursday, October 13, 2016 at Rancho San Joaquin Middle School, AirUCI researchers Dr. Sambhav Kumbhani, Michelle Fairhurst, and Kristine Arquero participated in the 36th Annual Irvine Unified School District's Science Fair in the Ask-A-Scientist Night. They spoke with educators, parents, and students about topics such as climate change, air quality, careers in science, and chemistry.

As part of AirUCI's EACCO outreach endeavor, on Friday, June 10th we will host Dr. Andrew Martinez of the California Air Resources Board.  He will be speaking about his career path to the position he currently holds.  The lecture will begin at noon in Rowland Hall room 390.  We are happy to welcome Andrew back to AirUCI, as he was a postdoc in the Dabdub group.

AirUCI Director Barbara Finlayson-Pitts has served for the past year as Co-Chair of the National Academies of Science committee that gathered input, studied the state of atmospheric chemistry research, and wrote the report for NAS.  She will speak on Friday, August 26, 2017 from 11:00-12:00 EDT in Washington D.C. at the release event for this new Academies’ report, The Future of Atmospheric Chemistry Research: Remembering Yesterday, Understanding Today, Anticipating Tomorrow.  ...

As part of AirUCI's EACCO outreach endeavor, on Friday, June 10th we will host a talk by Dr. Jane Gansky of Pepperdine University at noon in Rowland Hall room 390.  She will be speaking about her career path and experiences as a professor of chemistry.

As part of AirUCI's EACCO outreach endeavor, on Friday, August 19th we will host a talk via Skype by Dr. Chris Harmon of California State University, Humboldt at 11 am in Rowland Hall room 390.  He will be speaking about his career path and experiences as a professor of chemistry.  We welcome Chris back to AirUCI as he was a graduate student and received his Ph.D. in the Nizkorodov group.

Prof. Hans-Joachim (Hajo) Freund, who is visiting us from the Fritz-Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin, will give a special seminar on Thursday, August 18, 2016 entitled "Models for Heterogeneous Catalysts: Complex Materials at the Atomic Level" at 2 pm in Natural Sciences building 2, room 3201.

AirUCI's John Hemminger is hosting a long term visit by Prof. Hans-Joachim (Hajo) Freund, of the Fritz-Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin.  Dr. Freund will give a special seminar on Thursday, August 11, 2016 entitled "Oxide Surface Chemistry: From Single Crystals to Thin Films" at 2 pm in Natural Sciences 2 room 1201.
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AirUCI postdoctoral scholar Sambhav Kumbhani will participate in the StemQuest: PBL Institute at Brandman University in Irvine on August 2nd and 4th, 2016.  At this event, hosted by Science OC, he will be discussing strategies for developing students’ 21st century competency skills, such as collaboration, communication, critical thinking, creativity, and innovation.  Key questions to be discussed will be:  What skills are students learning that would be beneficial in college or in our workplace?  How does a project foster critical thinking and creativity?  What opportunities are there for...