Past Events

Professor Barbara Finlayson-Pitts, Director of AirUCI, will give a lecture on November 27, 2015 for the University of Toronto's Department of Chemistry Colloquium Series.

Dr. Dominique Verreault of the Ohio State University will be presenting a lecture on November 16, 2015 from 12-1 pm in Natural Science Building 2, room 1201. The title of his talk is “Probing Water Organization and Ion Distributions at Aqueous Interfaces by Vibrational Nonlinear Spectroscopy.”

Prof. Barbara Wyzlouzil of the Ohio State University will be presenting the Physical Chemistry lecture for UC Irvine's Department of Chemistry on Novemeber 10, 2015 at 3:30 pm in Rowland Hall room 104.  Her talk is entitled, "Water, ice, and CO2: Three tales of nucleation".

Dr. Julia Lehman of the University of Boulder, Colorado will be presenting a lecture on November 2, 2015 at noon in Natural Sciences 1 room 1114.  Her talk is entitled, "Photochemistry of Atmospheric Radicals and Anions (My PhD and Postdoctoral Research in 45 minutes)".

AirUCI Director Barbara Finlayson-Pitts will give a presentation on air pollution to the UCI Retirees Association at 3:30 pm on Tuesday, September 22nd at the University Club.

On June 19th at 9:30 am in Rowland Hall 390, AirUCI will host a talk from Barak Hirshberg of Hebrew University of Jerusalem.  The talk is entitled "Formation of carbonic acid from the impact of CO2 on water."

On Tuesday, June 16th, AirUCI will host Dr. Ehud Tsivion of the Head-Gordon group at UC Berkeley in a lecture at noon in Rowland Hall 390.  His talk is entitled, "Modifying MOFs (Metal-organic frameworks) for high density storage of gaseous fuels."

On Monday, May 18th 2015, 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.

AirUCI will host the National Research Council’s Committee on The Future of Atmospheric Chemistry Research as they invite input from the atmospheric chemistry research community—including scientists, students, and postdocs from academia, government, and the private sector—on topics such as:

• Key scientific questions that will drive fundamental atmospheric chemistry science over the next decade
• Important societal and interdisciplinary science challenges affected by and affecting atmospheric chemistry science
• Current and future infrastructure or...

On May 1st at 11 am in Rowland Hall room 390, AirUCI will host a talk by Professor Yoshizumi Kajii of Kyoto University.  The title of the lecture is:  “OH Reactivity Measurements Under Several Environments and Unknown Reactive Species in Air”.