Henley gate at night.
Credit: Tony Mastres

 Upcoming Events

Dec
10

CPOS Seminar: "Achieving Visible Light Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers on III- Nitrides"

Speaker: Arturo Juan, Graduate Student Researcher, Steven DenBaars Group, Materials Department, UCSB

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
Jan
30

The Heeger Symposium on Organic Semiconductors and Electronics (HSOSE)

Friday, January 30th, 2026 / 1605 Elings Hall / University of California, Santa Barbara

Organizers: Thuc-Quyen Nguyen,  Grace Han,  Huiqiong Zhou, Junghwa Seo

1605 Elings Hall / University of California, Santa Barbara | 9:00am

 Events Archive

CPOS Seminar: "The Role of Charge-based Interactions on Water and Polymer Dynamics"

Speaker: Harrison Landfield, Postdoctoral Researcher / Segalman and Shell Groups / Department of Chemical Engineering / UCSB

CPOS Seminar: "Delivering radioactive metals for cancer treatment through metal-based cycloaddition"

Speaker: Grant J. Stec, Ph.D., Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCSB

CPOS Seminar: "Engineering a genetically encoded tissue-penetrant integral calcium sensor"

Speaker: Kaamini M. Dhanabalan, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemical Engineering, UC Santa Barbara, Mukherjee Group

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

CPOS Seminar: "Degradable materials design and deconstruction: Catalytic strategies towards polyethylene sustainability"

Speaker: Maximilian Baur, Postdoctoral Researcher, Scott Research Group, Department of Chemical Engineering, UC Santa Barbara 

CPOS Seminar: "Charges in Organic Redox Flow Batteries and Immiscible Polymer Blends"

Speaker: Katie Chung, Postdoctoral Researcher, Craig Hawker Group (UCSB)

CPOS Seminar: "Understanding and characterization of unusual metabolic pathways in anaerobic microbes"

Speaker: Bo Zhang, ExFAB Fellow, Postdoctoral Researcher, O’Malley Lab, Department of Chemical Engineering, UCSB<

CPOS Seminar: "Optogenetics in Bio-enabled Materials and Brain Cancer Control"

Speaker: Lisa Månsson, Ph.D. candidate, Materials Science, UCSB, Co-advised by Angela Pitenis (Materials) & Max Wilson (Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology)

CPOS Seminar: "Field-Controlled Thermal Switching at Room Temperature in Ferromagnets, Ferroelectrics, and Polymers"

Speaker: Fanghao Zhang, Postdoctoral Researcher, Liao Group, T.E.A. Lab @ UCSB, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UCSB

CPOS Seminar: "Tip-Enhanced Laser Desorption for simultaneous high-resolution imaging and chemical analysis"

Speaker: Ana Parejo Vidal, PhD Student, Chemistry and Biochemistry / De Vries Group, UCSB