Past Events

As part of AirUCI's EACCO outreach endeavor, on Friday, May 27th we will present a special double seminar featuring Dr. Najat Saliba of the American University of Beirut amd Dr. Armando Rivera-Figueroa, a faculty member at East Los Angeles College.  They will be speaking about the paths they took to their current positions.  The lecture will begin at noon in Rowland Hall room 390. 
We are happy to welcome Najat and Armando back to AirUCI as they both earned their PhDs in the Finlayson-Pitts group; Najat also spent a year as a postdoc in...

Sonja Klee from Tofwerk AG will give an informal seminar on May 26, 2016 at 2 pm in Rowland Hall 390.  The title of her talk is “Chemical Ionization Processes in Mass Spectrometry.”

On Monday, May 24th 2016, AirUCI will once again sponsor the High School Awards Dinner on campus for the Orange County chapter of the American Chemical Society.  Scores of students are honored at this annual event, and we wish them the best as they continue their studies.

As part of AirUCI's EACCO outreach endeavor, on Thursday, May 12th we will host Dr. Paul Nissenson, assistant professor at Cal Poly Pomona in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.  He will be speaking about his career as a professor and some of the educational tools he has implemented to improve student interest and learning.  The lecture will begin at noon in Rowland Hall room 390.  We are happy to welcome Paul back to AirUCI, as he did his PhD in the Dabdub group.

As part of AirUCI's EACCO outreach endeavor, on Friday, April 29th we will host Dr. Steve Mang, senior lecturer at University of Maryland, Baltimore County, in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.  He will be speaking about his interest in undergraduate curriculum development and inquiry-based instruction as well as his career path to the position he currently holds at UMBC.  The lecture will begin at noon in Rowland Hall room 390.  We are happy to welcome Steve back to AirUCI, as he completed his PhD in the Nizkorodov group.

As part of AirUCI's EACCO outreach endeavor, on Monday, April 18th we will host Dr. Marc Carreras Sospedra speaking about his position at the South Coast Air Quality Management District.  The event begins at 10:30 am in Rowland Hall room 390.  We are happy to welcome Marc back to AirUCI, as he completed his PhD studies and held a Project Scientist position in the Dabdub group.

On Friday, April 8th, AirUCI will host a group of Advanced Placement chemistry students from Troy High School in Fullerton.  The group will view presentations about our research and tour the Finlayson-Pitts, Nizkorodov, and Saltzman labs.

On Tuesday, March 29th Prof. Miriam Freedman of Penn State University will give a lecture at 3.30 in Rowland Hall room 104.  The title of her talk is “The Structure of Atmospheric Particles & Impacts on Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate".
 

AirUCI PI Craig Murray is organizing the annual Informal Symposium on Kinetics and Photochemical Processes in the Atmosphere conference to be held at UCI on March 24, 2016 at the UCI Student Center.  Invited guests will speak, and talks and posters from our group will be presented by researchers of all levels — from graduate students to faculty.  For additional information and to register for this event, please visit the Murray Research Group ISKPPA page.

AirUCI’s partner institute, the Advanced Power and Energy Program (APEP), is hosting ICEPAG 2016: Microgrid Global Summit to be held March 22-24, 2016.  This event is a gathering of global energy professionals focused on the business and technology issues of:

• Utility distribution Microgrids
• End user deployments
• Remote Microgrids
• The economics of Microgrids
• Microgrid controllers

To capture an integrated view of clean energy systems more effectively than any other forum, the...