J-Group Meeting

This page is a schedule and repository of information for the meeting of the Jimenez Group at the University of Colorado-Boulder.

• Click this link to schedule a room in Chemistry (the first time you use it you have to create your own personal log on).

Topics for Future Meetings

• Presentations on ongoing work (in order, trade w others if you prefer): Amber, Delphine, Mike, Ingrid, Joel, Donna

• Carly: journal presentation on this paper
• MikeQ: Monte-Carlo simulations on PIKA fitting uncertainties

Business Meeting: Thu Feb 18, noon - 1 pm, room TBD

• In lieu of regular group lunch
• Business items
  • Jose: recent paper update
  • Amber: journal club presentation (20 min per Ingrid's format)

Science Meeting: Wed Feb 17 @ 1 pm, room TBD

• (Brief) discussion of new meeting format
  • Selection of dates for next research meeting and business lunch
• Carly: Research Update
• Allen: FLAME-3 update
• Ingrid: volatility concept map

Archive of Past Meetings (Most Recent First!)

Change of Meeting Format, for Reference

This is the change of meeting format based on recent discussions

• Science Meeting
  • 2 people, 1 hr each (40 min + questions), every 2 weeks
    • Every person in the group will present ~5-6 times per year
  • Scheduling of the next meeting decided at the start of each meeting, by looking at the group calendar.
  • The research meeting is devoted 100% to group research presentations
  • Attendance is Mandatory. Notify Jose in advance if you can't make it or have to arrive late or leave early.

• Business Meeting
  • 1 hr brown bag lunch in a meeting room, every 3 weeks
  • Business items, Journal Club
  • Attendance is Mandatory. Notify Jose in advance if you can't make it or have to arrive late or leave early.

• Grp Lunch every Thu @ 1pm in Atrium (optional)

• Student + Jose lunch, every 3 weeks

• Postdocs + Research Scientists + Jose lunch, every 3 weeks

• Student Informal Prez w/ Postdocs, w/o Jose (1.5 hrs, 1 per mo)

Wed. Jan. 29 @ 1 pm, S274

• Business Items
  • Carbonite as a backup option
• What I learned at AGU: Carly, Amber, Ingrid, Mike, Delphine, Jose

Fri. Dec. 4 @ 3 pm, room TBD

• Business Items
• Rehearsals for AGU
  • Delphine
  • Ingrid
  • Mike
  • Carly
  • Amber
  • Jose

Fri. Nov 20 @ 3 pm, ESOC reading room

• 12:00-12:25 Business Items
  • New page for logos for acknowledgments
  • Grant numbers are on the "Various" Sheet of this "JG_Organization" spreadsheet
  • New page News & Press about the group
  • New page for FRAC (Front Range Aerosol Community) Meetings
  • Presentation on how to write successful proposals
  • Michael demo computer cleaning
• 12:25-12:30: Sanna: what I learned at AAAR
• 12:30-1:25 Allen Robinson: current work and what I'll do in Colorado + discussion
• 1:25-1:45: Delphine journal presentation
  • Shindell et al., Improved attribution of climate forcing to emissions. 2009. Science. abstract

Fri. Nov 6 @ 3 pm, room S274

• 3:00-3:15: Business Items
  • Pete wins the AAAR Friedlander Award!!
    • PPT of presentation
  • Jim Smith of NCAR wins the AAAR Whitby Award!
    • PPT of presentation
  • Global map of Science
  • New Wiki page: FAQs on AMS Hardware
  • Wiki page for the 2nd AMS Clinic
• 3:15-3:50: What people learned at AAAR (Sanna) and the AMS Users Meeting (Carly, Delphine, Mike, Ingrid, Donna, Jose) (1-2 slides per person)
• 3:50-4:05: Ingrid on new Journal prez proposal and discussion
• 4:05-4:25: Ingrid on presentation of one paper (20 min)
  • Liu et al., Oxygenated organic functional groups and their sources in single and submicron organic particles in MILAGRO 2006 campaign, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 9, 6849-6863, 2009. abstract

Tue Oct. 27, 2009

Patrick Hayes' visit schedule:

• 9:00-10:00: Delphine picks up at Millenium and brings to campus
• 10:00-10:30: Joel
• 10:30-11:15: Mike C
• 11:15-12:00: Carly
• 12:00-13:30: lunch w/ Ingrid & Amber
• 13:30-14:00: Donna
• 14:00-15:00: Jose
• 15:00-16:15: talk to the group CIRES auditorium
  • Hayes et al., Interaction of Nitrate, Barium, Strontium and Cadmium Ions with Fused Quartz/Water Interfaces Studied by Second Harmonic Generation. J. Phys. Chem. A 2008, 112, 660-668.
  • Hayes et al., An Optical Voltmeter for Studying Cetyltrimethylammonium Interacting with Fused Silica/Aqueous Interfaces at High Ionic Strength. J. Phys. Chem. A, 2009, 113 (16), pp 4269–4280.

• Dinner: Yumi, Jose, Patrick, Mike, Delphine, Donna??

Wed. Oct. 21, 2009 @ 3 pm

• 3-3:15: Business Items
• 3:15-3:45: Marco Bruns, Max Planck Institute (Borrmann Group): ALABAMA Single Particle Instrument
• 3:45-4:10: Joel on CI and other recent activities
• 3:10-4:30: Mike: ARCTAS intercomparisons and TabMEP Mtg.
• 4:30-4:50: Carly on FLAME-3

Mon Oct. 12 @ 3 pm

• Informal talk by Xiaoliang Wang (DRI) (Michael to reserve S274)
  • His new DustTrak Paper

Fri. Oct. 9, 2009 @ 3 pm

• Business Items
  • Decide to buy only STEEL Swagelok from now on
    • But ferrules should still match tubing (e.g. brass F for copper T, plastic F for plastic T)
  • Journal alerts
    • People still responsible for the same journals
    • People can do it either thru email table-of-content alerts, AND/OR through Google Reader
  • Grad Student Recruitment Weekend Coordinators: Carly for CHEM, Amber for ATOC
• Delphine: recent work
• Michael: ship report
• Amber and/or Sanna: FLAME-3 report

Fri. Aug. 14, 2009 at 3 pm

• Business Items
  • Archive of previous field studies and DATA
  • Jose's shared items from Google Reader (selected items from the recent literature)
• Donna (15 min): recent software developments
• Mike: new linear fits tool

Wed July 29, 2009 at 3 pm

• Business Items
  • Use only “NERL water”
  • Link to twhirl utility for twitter
  • Use Drycals for flow measurement (only atm. P, do not put particles thru them)
• Delphine: recent experiments in Hyytiala and Berkeley
• Mike: advanced linear regression

July 9, 2009

• Business Items
  • Microsoft Campus License
• Carly: review of MAB
• Ingrid: new directions with PMF

June 25, 2009

• Business Items
  • Check-In Wiki
• Monumental cake for Ingrid's paper !!
• Amber (15 min): summary of Houston SHARP
• Sanna (10 min): previous work and concentrator

June 12, 2009

• Business Items
  • Dell Chat support was very helpful and less intrusive
• Ken: SOAR analysis update
• Very short organic synthesis paper presentation by Ingrid
  • link to Nanoputians Paper

Thu April 2, 2009 3-5 pm

• Business Items
  • Email Ted.Demaria@colorado.edu when sending equipment away from CU (AMS: $400k, SMPS: $80k, supplies: $10k-$40k)
  • Get shipping and customs help from CIRES (Ellie Pommeroy)
  • New per-diem arrangement: claim actual expenses
  • Wiki on How to organize a field campaign

• Delphine
• Ingrid