Past Events

Below is a list of past events related to AirUCI (sorted with the most recent first).

2011

Event Date: Mon, 10/31/2011

On Monday October 31st Dr. Tad Kleindienst, Research Scientist at the EPA, will be visiting AirUCI and giving a seminar on secondary organic aerosol at noon in RH 390.  The title of his lecture is “Sources of Secondary Organic Aerosol Across the United States, or How Chem 131 Can Prepare You to Study Real-World Aerosols”.

Event Date: Tue, 10/11/2011

On October 11, 2011, Dr. Charles Kolb, President of Aerodyne Research, will give a talk entitled "Physical Chemistry and Composition of Atmospheric Particles" at noon in RH 390.

Event Date: Tue, 08/16/2011

On August 16, 2011 at noon, Dr. Christopher Blaszczak-Boxe, a research scientist at JPL, will give a talk entitled "Ozone and Climate Change: Knowns and Unknowns" in Rowland Hall room 390.

Event Date: Tue, 08/02/2011

Former AirUCI researcher Dr. Najat Saliba, Professor of Chemistry at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon, will give a talk entitled “When Urban Dust Mixes with Natural Dust: Chemistry and Size Distribution.”  Her lecture will be held in Rowland Hall 390 at noon on Tuesday, August 2, 2011.

Event Date: Mon, 06/27/2011 to Fri, 07/08/2011

AirUCI's seventh annual Teacher Workshop will be held June 27 – July 8, 2011 on the UCI campus.

We are honored that our program has been cited by the National Academy of Sciences as exemplary, and that we've been highlighted in their publication, Strengthening High School Chemistry Education through Teacher Outreach Programs where the vital importance of public school chemistry teachers is discussed. 

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Event Date: Tue, 06/21/2011

Professor James Pankow of Portland State University gave a talk at noon on Tuesday, June 21, 2011 in Rowland Hall room 390.  The lecture was entitled, "Probing the Fundamental Chemical Properties of Atmospheric Organic Particulate Matter:  Polarity, Mean Molecular Weight, and Equilibration Times".

Event Date: Thu, 06/16/2011

Dr. Yu Song from the University of California, Riverside will be giving a talk in Rowland Hall room 390 on June 16th at 11.30 am.  The title is entitled "Photodissociation dynamics of polyatomic organic radicals".

Event Date: Mon, 04/25/2011

On April 25, at noon in room RH390, Dr. Hong Xu of the University of California, Davis will give a talk entitled:

“Rovibrationally selected ion-molecule reaction studies using vacuum ultraviolet laser pulsed field ionization-photoion method”

Event Date: Thu, 03/31/2011

AirUCI is sponsoring a lecture presented by Professor Gil Nathanson of the University of Wisconsin, Madison entitled, “How Does HCl Dissolve?  A Molecular Beam Journey into Salty Glycerol and Water.”

This talk will be held Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 4:00 PM in Rowland Hall, Room 390 and is hosted by Vice Chancellor of Research, John Hemminger (AirUCI co-Director).

Event Date: Thu, 03/24/2011

Prof. Barbara Finlayson-Pitts and Prof. Benny Gerber of AirUCI are hosting a lecture by Prof. John Simons, F.R.S of the Department of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Oxford University.  This event will be held on Thursday, March 24, 2011 at 4:00 PM.

The title of the talk is "Sweetness and Light: Carbohydrate Shapes and Interactions in the Gas Phase". 

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