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: "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

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