CU-Analytical-Seminars

ANALYTICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY DIVISION and ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY PROGRAM SEMINAR

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• The seminar calendar is also displayed here in the CHEM webpage and as a Google Calendar.
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General Information

• Jointly sponsored by the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, CIRES, and the Environmental Program
• All seminars will be held on Mondays @ noon - 1 pm in Ekeley S274, unless marked otherwise
• Schedules for meeting with external speakers (Ask Anne or faculty if interested)
• As in the past, CU speakers may be asked to move to a later (or occasionally earlier) date to accommodate schedules of out-of-town speakers.
• Links: ANYL Division Page / ANYL Seminar Guidelines / ANYL Seminar Abstracts / Schedules of Past Years / Guidelines for meal reimbursements in CHEM / Organization Tasks (pw) Atmos. Chem. Summer Supergroup
• Best Student Paper Award

Spring 2018

• January 15, 2018 - Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday, NO SEMINAR
• January 22, 2018 - Maggie Tolbert, "Every Drop Counts…Looking for Water on Mars", and Joost de Gouw, "Atmospheric Chemistry of Volatile Organic Compounds", (ANYL Faculty), Abstracts
• January 29, 2018 -
• February 5, 2018 -
• February 12, 2018 - Prof. Emily Fischer, CSU Atmos. Sci. "Assessing the Sources of Elevated Front Range Ozone Based on Observations from the Boulder Atmospheric Observatory" (host: RMV), Abstract
• February 16, 2018: CIRES Distinguished Lecture (CIRES Aud, 3 pm): Paul Wennberg, Caltech
• February 19, 2018(@) -
• February 26, 2018 - Jennifer Berry (ANYL 3rd Year Student, Browne lab), CU Boulder. "Chemical Composition of Positive Ions During Laboratory Simulations of Titan’s Haze Formation", Abstract
• March 5, 2018 - Prof. Daven Henze, CU Mech. Eng.. "International air quality, health, and climate impacts of cookstoves, diesel NOx, and other anthropogenic sectors via PM2.5 and O3" (host: JLJ), Abstract
• March 12, 2018(&) - Prof. Allan Bertram, University of British Columbia, "Diffusion of organics in secondary organic aerosol" (host: ECB), Abstract
• March 19, 2018 (# * @?) - Joep de Bruin, (visiting student, de Gouw lab), "Separation of NOx emissions from drilling, and oil and gas extraction in the U.S. using monthly data from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument", Abstract
• March 26, 2018 - Spring break, NO SEMINAR
• April 2, 2018 (#) - Prof. Joel Thornton, Univ. of Washington, "The peroxy radical chemistry that drives atmospheric nano-particle growth", (host: JLJ), Abstract
• April 9, 2018 - Prof. Dylan Millet, University of Minnesota, "Ecosystem-atmosphere fluxes of volatile organic compounds: Which ones matter?" (host: JdG), Abstract
• April 10, 2018 2:00 PM, CIRES Auditorium: Special seminar, note time and room - Joost de Gouw, CU Boulder, "Chemistry of Volatile Organic Compounds in a Changing Atmosphere", Abstract
• April 16, 2018 (@) - Kevin Jansen, (ANYL 3rd year, Tolbert lab), CU Boulder, "Optical Properties of Absorbing Organic Aerosol", Abstract
• April 23, 2018 ($) - Ekeley W165, No Pizza Quazi Ziaur Rasool, Rice University "Mechanistic modeling of reactive soil nitrogen emissions on a continental scale", (host: RMV), Abstract
• April 24, 2018 - Special Seminar, 12:00 Ekeley W165 - Melissa Ugelow, Tolbert lab ANYL Student Dissertation Defense, CU Boulder: "Laboratory Studies of Planetary Atmospheres and Organic Hazes”, Abstract

• April 25, 2018 Special seminar, 2:30 PM, W166 - note time and room - Melissa Trainer, NASA, "Chemistry on Mars: The Search for Habitable Environments with Curiosity", Abstract
• April 30, 2018 - Bob Sievers (ANYL Faculty), CU Boulder, "Inhalation and Sublingual Delivery of Medical Cannabinoids and Vaccines" and Doug Day (ANYL ResSci, Jimenez group), "Observations of particle organic nitrates from airborne/ground platforms: Insights into method improvement, vertical/geographical distribution, gas/particle partitioning, losses, and contribution to total particle nitrate", Abstracts
• May 7, 2018 - Finals Week, NO SEMINAR
• May 10, 2018 - Special Seminar, 1:00 CIRES Auditorium - Erin McDuffie, ANYL Student Dissertation Defense, CU Boulder: "Measurements and Modeling of Nitrogen Oxides: Tropospheric Transformations During Summer and Winter in Polluted Regions Across the U.S.", Abstract
  • Dates in which specific faculty are out-of-town: (*): JLJ; (#): MAT; (%): PJZ; (^): ECB; (@): RMV; (&): RES; ($): JdG; (?): not sure)

• Future: Prof. Theodore Dibble, SUNY-ESF "Halogen initiated oxidation of atmospheric mercury" (host RMV)

Summer 2018

• Thurs, 24 May 2018 - ANYL Dissertation Defense, 9:30 AM, CIRES Auditorium - Megan Harries, Bruno/Jimenez labs

• Thurs, 24 May 2018, W166, 4-5 PM:
  • Natalie Kille, Volkamer group, CU Boulder
  • Zack Decker, Brown group, NOAA/CU Boulder

• Thurs, 21 June 2018, S274, 4-5 PM:
  • Lucas Algrim, Ziemann group, CU Boulder: Effect of Keto, Alcohol, and Nitrate Functional Groups on SOA Formation
  • Matt Coggon, CSD NOAA: Deodorant, Cleaning Products and the Virtue of Smelling Bad: Investigations into Emerging Sources of Air Pollution from Consumer Chemical Products

• Thurs, 19 July 2018, W166, 4-5 PM:
  • Benjamin Nault, Jimenez group, CU Boulder: Secondary Organic Aerosol Produciton over Seoul, South Korea, during KORUS-AQ
  • Aroob Abdelhamid, Browne group, CU Boulder: Measurements of Positive Ambient Ions in Lamont OK as Part of the Holistic Interaction of Shallow Clouds Aerosols and Land Ecosystems (HISCALE II) Field Campaign

Fall 2018

• August 27, 2018 - First day of classes, NO SEMINAR
• September 3, 2018 - Labor Day holiday, NO SEMINAR
• September 10, 2018 (%) - Henning Finkenzeller, (ANYL 3rd Year Student, Volkamer lab), CU Boulder
• September 17, 2018 - Sergey Nizkorodov, UC Irvine (host: students)
• September 24, 2018 (#) -
• October 1, 2018 -
• October 8, 2018 -
• October 15, 2018 -
• October 22, 2018 -
• October 29, 2018 -
• November 5, 2018 -
• November 12, 2018 -
• November 19, 2018 - Fall Break, NO SEMINAR
• November 26, 2018 (#?) -
• December 3, 2018 -
• December 10, 2018 -
• December 17, 2018 - Finals week, NO SEMINAR

• • Dates in which specific faculty are out-of-town: (*): JLJ; (#): MAT; (%): PJZ; (^): ECB; (@): RMV; (&): RES; ($): JdG; (?): not sure)

Spring 2019

• January 14, 2019 - No Seminar: First day of Classes
• January 21, 2019 - No Seminar: Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday
• January 28, 2019 -
• February 4, 2019 -
• February 11, 2019 -
• February 18, 2019 -
• February 25, 2019 -
• March 4, 2019 -
• March 11, 2019 -
• March 18, 2019 -
• March 25, 2019 - No Seminar: Spring Break
• April 1, 2019 -
• April 8, 2019 -
• April 15, 2019 -
• April 22, 2019 -
• April 29, 2019 -
• May 6, 2019 - No Seminar: Finals Week

Related Seminar Series in Boulder

• CIRES Events and Seminars (dates and times vary)
• NCAR Atmospheric Chemistry (Mon 3:30 pm, Foothills Lab) (Note that they provide videos of many past seminars)
• CU Astrobiology (Wed 2-3 pm, LASP conference room D142, Duane Physics Bldg.)
• NOAA Chemical Sciences Division (Wed 3:30 pm, Skaggs Bldg., Room 2A305)
• CU Mechanical Engineering (Thu 3:30 pm, ECCR 200)
• CU Environmental Engineering (Fri 11 am, ECCE 1B41)
• Physical Chemistry/Chemical Physics (Fri 4-5 pm, JILA Aud.)
• CU Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (Fri 4-5 pm, Physics Commons, top of Gamow Tower)
• Front Range Aerosol Community (FRAC) Meetings (2-3 meetings per year on afternoons)