Henley gate at night.
Credit: Tony Mastres

 Upcoming Events

Nov
12

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

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: "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

CPOS Seminar: "Membranes and Megawatts: Revealing Mechanisms with NMR Spectroscopy"

Speaker: Leo W. Gordon, Postdoctoral Researcher, Clément Group, Materials Department and Materials Research Laboratory, University of California Santa Barbara

CPOS Seminar: "Challenges and Future Prospects of Organic Photovoltaics for Underwater Applications"

Speaker: Yu-Cheng Tseng, PhD Student, Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan / Visiting Graduate Student, Nguyen Group, CPOS, UC Santa Barbara

CPOS Seminar: "Efficient Cross-Linking of Unfunctionalized Commodity Materials Using Diazirine-Containing Polymers"

Speaker: Mizhi Xu, PhD, Materials Research Laboratory - Craig Hawker Group, UC Santa Barbara

CPOS Seminar: "Molecular insights to engineer sustainability: Understanding transport and reactivity in catalytic upcycling of polymers"

Speaker: R Bharath Venkatesh, PhD, Department of Chemical Engineering, Rachel Segalman Group, UC Santa Barbara

CPOS Seminar: "Hierarchical Tissue-like Material from Nematic Synthetic Colloids with Adaptive Internal Microstucture"

Speaker:  Elise Chuqiao Chen, PhD / MRL, UCSB (Segalman group & Fredrickson group) / PhD affiliation: Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, UChicago, (de Pablo group & Rowan group)

CPOS Seminar: "Benzopyrylium Polymer Platforms for Dynamic Nanoparticles with Tandem Near-IR Two-Photon Detection of Peroxynitrite"

Speaker:  Emile Morin, PhD Student, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry -  Carlini Group, University of California Santa Barbara

CPOS Seminar: "Ultrathin and Stretchable Organic Photovoltaics for Emerging Applications"

Speaker:  Kenjiro Fukuda, Senior Research Scientist, Thin-Film Device Laboratory & Center for Emergent Matter Science, RIKEN, Japan

CPOS Seminar: "Building Energy-Efficient AI: Neuromorphic Hardware Challenges and Materials Opportunities"

Speaker: Sai Sukruth Bezugam, PhD Student. Strukovs Research Group, Department of ECE, UC Santa Barbara

CPOS Seminar: "Understanding Structure-Property Relationships in P(NDI2OD-T2): Insights from In-Situ GIWAXS and FET Studies"

Speaker: Linjing Tang, Postdoctoral Researcher, UC Santa Barbara, Materials Department - Chabinyc Group