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: "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

CPOS SEMINAR: "Scalable Synthesis of Degradable Copolymers Containing α-Lipoic Acid via Miniemulsion Polymerization"

Speaker: Parker Morris, PhD Student, Chris Bates, Javier Read de Alaniz Groups, Materials Research Laboratory, UCSB

 

CPOS SEMINAR: "Tailoring functional properties in polymer composites and multi-materials via macromolecular design"

Speaker: Divya J Iyer, PhD, Elings Postdoctoral Scholar, Materials Department - Bates Group, UCSB 

 

CPOS Seminar: "Transient Oligomers of Neuropeptides as Drug Development Targets"

Speaker: Pritam Ganguly, Assistant Project Scientist, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara

CPOS Seminar: "Drug Delivery and Therapeutic Drug Monitoring (TDM): Improving Therapeutic Efficacy through Carrier Design and Personalized TDM"

Speaker: Kon Son, Postdoctoral Researcher, Plaxco Group, Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies, University of California Santa Barbara