From 4 pm to 7:30 pm on April 6, 2023, UCI's Calcium Chapter of Iota Sigma Phi will present their first Women in Chemistry Symposium to be held in Natural Sciences 2 room 1201. The goal of this symposium is to highlight the amazing chemistry being researched by women at UCI, Speakers include AirUCI faculty Sarah Finkeldei and Annmarie Carlton and the event will include an in-person poster session and reception following the talks. Historically, AirUCI team members are quite active in this group and we have provided strong support for their events and activities. R...
Past Events
Below is a list of past events related to AirUCI (sorted with the most recent first).
2023
AirUCI faculty Jun Wu is among the speakers at a Madison Park Neighborhood Assn community forum to be held at 6 pm on Tuesday evening, April 4th at Davis Elementary School in Santa Ana. The address is 1405 French Street, 92701. MPNA is our local non-profit partner organization, working with us on the Beyond the Tailpipe project and other endeavors. Additional members of the AirUCI research team are expected to attend as well.
On March 16th, AirUCI's Internal Seminar will hold a meeting in Rowland Hall room 390 from 12:30 to 2:00. Alyssa Burns and Simon Rosanka (both of the Carlton group) will be speaking about their research projects. Alyssa's talk is entitled: "The Data Gap: Air Quality Networks Miss Air Pollution from Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs)" and Simon will speak about “In-cloud chemistry modeling: from global to regional scales”.
On March 14th, AirUCI will sponsor a P-Chem talk given by Prof. Styliani Constas, hosted by Barbara Finlayson-Pitts. Stella is a professor of chemistry at the University of Western Ontario and our new Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Climate Change, Air Quality, and Atmospheric Chemistry, University of California, Irvine. The seminar is entitled “Modeling of electrostatic and chemical properties of nanoscopic and microscopic aerosol droplets” and will be in room RH 104 from 3.30-4.30 pm.
On March 2nd, AirUCI's Internal Seminar will hold a meeting in Rowland Hall room 390 from 12:30 to 2:00. Sourav Majumdar (Furche group) and Yixin Li (Finlayson-Pitts group) will be speaking about their research projects. Sourav's talk is entitled: "Extending the tool kit of modern non-adiabatic molecular dynamics simulation techniques for the study of non-Kasha fluorescence" and Yixin's talk is entitled: “A Novel Temperature-programmed Knudsen Cell for Studies of Gas-surface interactions”.
On February 28th, AirUCI will sponsor a P-Chem talk given by longtime AirUCI collaborator Alla Zelenyuk-Imre from PNNL (hosted by Sergey Nizkorodov). The talk is entitled "Laboratory and Field studies of Isoprene-derived Secondary Organic Aerosol (SOA)"and will be held from 3:30 - 4:30 in Rowland Hall room 104.
AirUCI is pleased to host the 2023 Science Olympiad in Rowland Hall room 360 on Saturday, February 25th. This event is organized by UC Irvine Chemistry Professor Kim Edwards in conjunction with similar events across the country.
On February 9, AirUCI faculty Celia Faiola invites everyone to a special colloquium presented by Prof. Daniel Whiteson, who is well known for his expertise in communicating science to the public. The event will be held in Rowland Hall room 101 at 3:30 pm and is also available via Zoom. Details
On February 7th, AirUCI will host a P-Chem talk given by Nate Slade of UCSD (hosted by Celia Faiola). This event will be held from 3:30 - 4:30 in Rowland Hall room 390. Topic TBA
On January 31st, AirUCI's AAAR Student Chapter will host a winter social, 'Coffee Fixes Everything', where the members can come together and interact about their research. Open to students, postdocs, and researchers, the event will be held in Rowland Hall room 390 from 3-5 pm.