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: "Understanding the Optoelectronic properties of Organic Semiconductor: Exciton Binding Energy and Reorganization Energies"

Speaker: Somayeh Kashani / Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University (P. Gkoupidenis Lab, Organic Neuromorphic Bioelectronics)

CPOS Seminar: Open-Shell Derivatives for Solid-State Spintronic Applications

Speaker: Hyunki Yeo, Postdoctoral Researcher, UC Santa Barbara, Material Research Laboratory - Chabinyc Group

CPOS Seminar: "Imitation of "living" functions by synthetic materials"

Speaker: Jesus Guillen Campos, PhD Candidate, UC Santa Barbara - Department of Chemistry, Read de Alaniz Group

CPOS Seminar: "Application of Coh"erent States Field Theory in Polymer Compatibilization

Speaker: Dan Sun, PhD Candidate, UC Santa Barbara - Department of Chemistry, Glenn Fredrickson Group

CPOS Seminar: "Diazirine-Containing Polymers as Efficient Photo-Crosslinkers"

Speaker: Banruo Huang, Postdoctoral Researcher, UC Santa Barbara - Materials Research Laboratory, Hawker Group

CPOS Seminar: "UC Irvine Doctoral Studies: Development of Fluorescence Microscopy Methods for Investigations of Polymer-Catalyst Dynamics and Polymer Molecular Weight"

Speaker: Antonio Garcia IV, Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Santa Barbara -California NanoSystems Institute, <

CPOS SEMINAR: "Immiscible Polymer Blend Compatibilization through Pendant Ionic Interactions"

Speaker: Haley Beech, Postdoctoral Researcher, UC Santa Barbara, Segalman and Hawker Groups

CPOS Seminar: Controlling Lubricated Sliding Friction for Soft Solids

Speaker: Hao Dong, Postdoctoral Researcher, UC Santa Barbara, Megan Valentine and Chris Bates Groups

CPOS Seminar: Optical detection systems using various optical probes

Speaker: Prof. Yun Kyung Jung, School of Biomedical Engineering, Inje University, Republic of Korea / Visiting Professor - Center for Polymers and Organic Solids, UCSB / Nguyen Group

CPOS Seminar: Functional Motifs for Self-reporting and Stimuli-responsive Materials

Speaker: Livius F. Muff, Ph.D., Department of Materials, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry; C. M. Bates, C. J.