Henley gate at night.
Credit: Tony Mastres

 Upcoming Events

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: Stimuli-responsive Fluorogenic Hydrogels and Probes using NITEC Chemistry

Speaker:  Shivshankar R. Mane, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UC Santa Barbara, Carlini Group

CPOS Seminar: Dissecting Turnover Number Heterogeneity in Electrocatalysts: Insights into Platinum Nanoparticle Hydrogen Evolution

Speaker: Miguel Orozco, Graduate Student Researcher, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UC Santa Barbara, Sepunaru Group

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