Henley gate at night.
Credit: Tony Mastres

 Upcoming Events

Nov
05

CPOS Seminar: "A Stochastic Framework for Efficient Simulation of Solvated Reaction Energetics"

Speaker: Annabelle Canestraight, PhD Candidate, Vlcek Group / Department of Chemical Engineering, UC Santa Barbara

Location: HYBRID (Zoom / In-person: 2520D PSBN (CPOS Conference Room) | 9:00am
Jan
29

A Symposium Celebrating Nobel Laureate Alan Heeger's 90th Birthday

Thursday, January 29th, 2026 / Corwin Pavilion/ University of California, Santa Barbara

Organizers: Thuc-Quyen Nguyen, Fred Wudl, Craig Hawker

Corwin Pavilion/ University of California, Santa Barbara | 9:00am

 Events Archive

CPOS Seminar: Directed Evolution of a C(sp3)-F Bond Forming Enzyme and Biocatalyzed Controlled Radical Polymerization

Speaker: Betty Chen, PhD Student, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Yang Lab, Read de Alaniz Lab, UC Santa Barbara

CPOS Seminar: Bottlebrush elastomers: unique properties encoded in polymer architecture.

Speaker: Intanon Lapkriengkri (PK), PhD Student, Materials Department, Bates Lab, UC Santa Barbara

CPOS Seminar: Probing Electrochemical Noise during Faradaic Processes

Speaker: Kaden Wheeler, PhD Student, Department of Chemistry, UC Santa Barbara, Sepunaru Group

CPOS Seminar: Microrheology of Kinetically Evolving Systems

Speaker: Caidric Gupit, PhD - Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara

CPOS Seminar: A Materials-Inspired Antibiotic Platform to Combat the Silent Pandemic of Antimicrobial Resistance

Speaker: Alex Moreland, PhD - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Santa Barbara

CPOS Seminar:Universal 3D Crosslinkers for Nondestructively Solution-Processed Electronics

Speaker: Professor BongSoo Kim - Department of Chemistry, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Republic of Korea

CPOS Seminar: Large Area Elastomer-Based Printed Electronics

Speaker: Dr. Peter Zalar - Program Manager - Large-Area Sensors at Holst Centre, Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands  

CPOS Seminar: Structure, Thermodynamic, and Thermomechanical Characteristics of Semiconducting Polymers: Nomenclature, Property Conundrums, and Applications

Speaker: Distinguished Professor Harald W. Ade - Department of Physics and Organic and Carbon Electronics Laboratories (ORaCEL),  North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NCBiomolecular Science and Engineering

CPOS Seminar: Design and Tribological Characterization of Stimuli-Responsive Hydrogels

Speaker: Allison Chau, 5th yr graduate student, Materials Department, UCSB, Pitenis Group

CPOS Seminar - Electrochemical Detection of Insulators and Biomolecules

Speaker: Julia Chung, Graduate Student Researcher - Biomolecular Science and Engineering,  UC Santa Barbara, Sepunaru & Plaxco Group