Michigan Engineering Alumni Weekend

October 2, 2008 - 7:00 pm

Michigan Engineering Alumni Society Awards Reception and Dinner

October 3, 2008 - 6:30 pm

Time TBD

2008 Alumni of the Year Lecture

October 3, 2008 - 12:30 pm

Prof. Brian G. Heikes, Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, "Microphysics 2 chemistry 2 biogeochemistry 2 microphysics" The trajectory of an AOS(S) graduate is followed from Ann Arbor to points around the world in pursuit of the linkages of meteorology, chemistry and climate. Two themes will be pursued - sulfur gas chemistry and formaldehyde with a smattering of hydrogen peroxide, methylhydroperoxide and ozone.

2008 Dean's Seminar Series

October 6, 2008 - 12:30 pm

Creating and Implementing Breakthrough Medical Technology. The speaker will be Dr. Robert Langer, Institute Professor at MIT. The seminar is intended to be accessible to our entire community, from first year students through graduate students and faculty and staff. After the seminar students working on creating medical products will be available in the lobby of Chrysler to talk about their work.

17th Annual US/Canada Great Lakes Operational Meteorology Workshop

October 8, 2008 - 7:00 am

The 17th Annual U.S./Canada Great Lakes Operational Meteorology Workshop offers an excellent opportunity for participants to exchange ideas and research findings related to all aspects of Great Lakes meteorology. Specifics regarding the workshop location, hotel accommodations, abstract submission, agenda and registration information will be made available at: http://www.crh.noaa.gov/dtx/?n=glom. Abstracts will be accepted through September 1, 2008. Please submit in MS Word format via email to: Greg.Mann@noaa.gov. The workshop is co-sponsored by NOAA's National Weather Service (NWS) and the Meteorological Service of Canada. This year's workshop is co-hosted by NWS Detroit-Pontiac and the University of Michigan - Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences.

AOSS 749 2008 Fall Seminar Series

October 9, 2008 - 3:30 pm

Neil Donahue, Associate Professor, Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University. "Organic Aerosol Chemistry: What Are We Missing?" Recent developments in field measurements of organic aerosol give us a clear picture of key attributes of bulk organic aerosol. Traditional representations of organic aerosol miss the mark by a wide margin. Primary organic aerosol are traditionally represented as non-volatile tarballs, whereas POA turns out to be relatively volatile. Secondary organic aerosol are traditionally represented as a semi-volatile veneer mixed with the primary aerosol in modest amounts, whereas SOA turns out to be highly oxidized, much less volatile, and dominant. We are developing a framework to represent the coupling of volatility and oxidation for this complex system. Our challenge is to represent organic oxidation chemistry in a way that respects what we do know about organic oxidation mechanisms but that can cover tens of thousands of compounds, many of them never observed or studied. We do this with a combination of laboratory experiments and theory, grouping compounds by volatility and oxidation state and constraining kinetics and mechanisms in this two-dimensional space. Using this framework, we can indeed recover the basic features of ambient observations with a computationally efficient scheme.

SPRL at 60: Universities and Space Exploration

October 16, 2008 - 7:00 pm

An open discussion on the role of universities in space exploration and engineering. As interests, funding and project structures change, how should institutions of higher education that are based in hard science research react; how do these changes affect the education of future scientists and engineers — what does the future hold? More Information

AOSS 749 Fall Seminar Series - NO SEMINAR

October 16, 2008 - 7:00 pm

SPRL at 60: Universities and Space Exploration

October 17, 2008 - 7:00 pm

An open discussion on the role of universities in space exploration and engineering. As interests, funding and project structures change, how should institutions of higher education that are based in hard science research react; how do these changes affect the education of future scientists and engineers — what does the future hold?

AOSS 749 2008 Fall Seminar Series

October 23, 2008 - 3:30 pm

Nilton Renno, Associate Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Michigan. "Deliquescence and Liquid Water on Mars"

AOSS 749 2008 Fall Seminar Series

October 30, 2008 - 3:30 pm

Prof. K. N. Liou, Professor, Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California at Los Angeles. Title: TBD