Events

    
Check this Events page regularly — we often list short-notice speakers here that aren't indicated in our newsletter.

Upcoming Events

Summer 2009
Our annual Teacher workshop will be held June 22 – July 2, 2009 on the UCI campus.  More information

Past Events  

June 2008

• Our annual Teacher workshop was held June 30 – July 11, 2008.  More information

January 2008

• AirUCI held our annual institute workshop at the Balboa Bay Club in Newport Beach, California on January 23-24.

December 2007

• December 3: A special event commemorating the 100th meeting of the Scientific Review Panel for Airborne Toxic Chemicals of the California Air Resources Board was held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Irvine, with special guests Jim Pitts and Barbara Finlayson-Pitts of AirUCI in attendance.

Fall 2007

• Several AirUCI researchers presented talks in a series offered through the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute on the UCI campus. 
  More information

October 2007

• October 17: Dr. Tracy Caldwell, NASA astronaut, visited UCI in an event hosted by AirUCI at the Beckman Center.   Details

      See AirUCI on the space shuttle and the report on our News page.

July 2007

• July 6: Seminar at UCI by Dr. Jean Futrell of PNNL and AirUCI advisory panel member

June 2007

• AirUCI's 3rd annual Summer Teacher Workshop was held June 25-July 6.  This is an intensive Environmental Chemistry program geared for science teachers in grades 7-12, with lectures, labs, and university extension credit.  More information
• June 14: seminar at UCI by Dr. Allison Campbell, head of the Environmental Molecular Sciences Lab at PNNL

May 2007

• May 8: Seminar at UCI by Dr. Graham Cooks of Purdue University

April 2007

• April 14: Barbara Finlayson-Pitts presented the McElvain Lecture in Physical Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin, Madison

March 2007

• Our third annual Community Day was held March 29, 2007 on the UCI campus.  This event is designed to present an overview of our research to those in the community at large who may not have a background in science, but who nevertheless have an interest in air quality, climate change, and similar issues into which AirUCI conducts research.  For a general idea of the event, see info about Community Day
• March 13: Seminar at UCI by by Dr. Alla Zelenyuk of PNNL

December 2006

• December 11-13: the annual workshop of the AirUCI PIs, invited speakers, and Advisory Panel was held in Christchurch, New Zealand.   Details

November 2006

• November 16: seminar at UCI by by Professor Bernd Abel of the University of Goettingen and Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry at Nikolausberg-Goettingen, Germany
• November 14: AirUCI director Prof. Barbara Finlayson-Pitts was the Johnston Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley.  The Johnston Lecture is one of Cal's most prestigious, and is presented as part of Physical Chemistry Seminar series for an audience of typically 100+ faculty members, post-docs, and graduate students.

Summer 2006 

• June 26-July 11: AirUCI's second annual Teacher Workshop in Environmental Chemistry.  This course brings our cutting-edge research into high school classrooms by sharing our findings with local science teachers.

May 2006

• May 23: Seminar at UCI by Professor Mostafa El-Sayed from Georgia Tech
• May 9: Seminar at UCI by Professor Tomas Baer of the University of North Carolina

April 2006

• April 27: Michael E. Gebel and Jennifer Bentson-Gebel Library dedication.  Details

March 2006 

• Our second annual AirUCI Community Day was held March 30, 2006 on the UCI campus.  See Community Day 2005    

January 2006

• January 26-27: Annual meeting of the AirUCI PIs, invited speakers, and Advisory Panel in Laguna Beach, California. 
  View the workshop program
• January 18: AirUCI co-hosted an evening to honor Dr. Alan Lloyd, Secretary of California State EPA and member of the AirUCI advisory committee.  As part of the Chancellor's Distinguished Fellows series, Dr. Lloyd spoke on Air Quality, the Environment, and Energy from Smog to Global Climate Change at the Beckman Center on the UCI campus.  More info

October 2005

• October 7: Seminar at UCI by Federico Karagulian of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland

July 2005

• July 26: Seminar at UCI by Mads P. Sulbaek Andersen of the University of Copenhagen
• July 11-22: our first annual Summer Teacher Training Program in Environmental Chemistry

June 2005

• June 25-30: AirUCI Workshop on Ions and Molecules at Aqueous Interfaces in Prague, Czech Republic

• June 1: Seminar at UCI by Maria Krisch of the University of Chicago

March 2005

• March 31, 2005: our first annual AirUCI Community Day

February 2005

• February 15: Seminar at UCI by Dr. Veronica Vaida of the University of Colorado at Boulder

• February 14: 22nd Annual Informal Symposium on Kinetics and Photochemical Processes in the Atmosphere at the Beckman Center on the UCI campus

• February 9: Seminar at UCI by Dr. Joelle Underwood of the University of Southern California

January 2005

• January 31: Seminar at UCI by Dr. Amy Moskun of the University of Southern California

December 2004

• December 3: Seminar at UCI by Dr. Albert Verdaguer of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

• December 2: Seminar at UCI by Dr. Mark Rusyniak of Virginia Tech/Phillip Morris

• December 1: Seminar at UCI by Dr. Yong Liu of Northwestern University

November 2004

• November 23: Seminar at UCI by Dr. Franz Geiger of Northwestern University

October 2004

• October 20: Seminar at UCI by Dr. Jiho Park of Texas A & M University

• October 20: Professor Barbara Finlayson-Pitts addressed the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) on the topic of ozone in the upper and lower atmosphere

• October 13: Dr. Jim Pitts spoke about air pollution, past and present, at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI)

2004 CRC Workshop
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2003 CRC Workshop  
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