Department Seminar
Upcoming Seminar
Chemical and Physical Properties of Independence Day Fireworks Aerosol Particle Emissions in Southern California
Dr. Daniel Curtis, CSU Fullerton
February 26, 2025
4:00pm-5:00pm in HSCI-105
Atmospheric aerosol particles can negatively impact human health depending on their chemical composition and physical properties. The July 4 Independence Day holiday is one of the worst air quality days of the year in the greater Los Angeles region due to extreme particulate emissions from extensive private use of fireworks, potentially impacting public health. Fireworks aerosol particles are especially concerning because they are known to contain certain heavy metals and because they are small and can penetrate the deep lung, depending on their size. This presentation will describe a series of measurements of ambient fireworks particles during the Independence Day holidays in recent years at sampling sites near Fullerton and Downey, California. Particle concentrations, selected heavy metal concentrations, particle size distributions, and spectroscopic properties of the fireworks particles will be presented and impacts on air quality will be discussed.
Seminars are held on Wednesdays at 4:00pm. All are invited to attend.
Seminar Coordinator
For information and suggestions about our Department Seminar series, please contact the seminar coordinator:
Dr. Fangyuan Tian
Fangyuan.Tian@csulb.edu
Schedule
The following schedule is for Spring 2025.
| Date | Title | Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| February 26, 2025 | Chemical and Physical Properties of Independence Day Fireworks Aerosol Particle Emissions in Southern California | Dr. Daniel Curtis, CSU Fullerton |
| March 5, 2025 | Chemical Approaches to Perturb and Illuminate Biological Processes | Dr. Chao Zhang, USC |
| March 12, 2025 | Intra and extracellular mechanisms regulating AMPA receptor trafficking and synaptic docking | Dr. Javier Diaz Alonso, UC Irvine |
| March 19, 2025 | Defining the Pathways of Eukaryotic Translational Quality Control | Dr. Michael Lawson, UCLA |
| March 26, 2025 | The "Rippled" Beta-Sheet: An Old Theory by Pauling and Corey Inspires New Biomaterials | Dr. Jevgenij Raskatov, UC Santa Cruz |
| April 9, 2025 | Fundamental Studies of Microporous Polymers and their Applications in Biomedicine | Dr. James Bour, Wayne State University |
| April 16, 2025 | Part 1: Some Studies with Chiral Compounds and Stereoselection; Part 2: Organophosphorus Compounds as Butyrylcholinesterase Inhibitors | Dr. Ken Nakayama, CSU Long Beach |
| April 23, 2025 | TBA | Dr. Alina Schimpf, UC San Diego |
| April 30, 2025 | TBA | Dr. Xia Yang, UCLA |
| May 2, 2025 | Predicting Thermoelectric Performance with Artificial Intelligence | Dr. Holger Kleinke, University of Waterloo |
| May 7, 2025 | Moiré excitons in van der Waals Materials | Dr. Gang Lu, CSU Northridge |
Previous Seminars
| Date | Title | Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| February 19, 2025 | Single molecule investigation of liquid-liquid and liquid-solid phase separation of amyloid proteins | Dr. Kanchan Garai, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Hyderabad, India |
| February 12, 2025 | Bio-Integrated Nanoelectronics for Precision Medicine and Biomanufacturing | Dr. Deependra Ban, UC San Diego |
| February 5, 2025 | Dynamically Tunable Plasmonic Surfaces using Oscillatory Electric Fields | Dr. Regina Ragan, UC Irvine |
| January 29, 2025 | Beginning to understand light-mediated Ni catalysis using physical organic techniques and data science | Dr. Ana Bahamonde, UC Riverside |
The Seminar Archive has Department Seminars from previous semesters.
The Department Seminar is supported by The Allergan Foundation.
