Atmospheric Chemistry Program Seminar

Why should environmental chemists care about theory? by Sandeep Sharma, PChem faculty, CU Boulder
"I will begin by discussing why learning about theory might be of interest to students doing experimental research in analytic chemistry. I will then proceed to give a birds-eye view of my research program. How questions are formulated, how one goes about trying to answer them and where are the challenges. I will also discuss how this line of research might help answer some of the questions environmental chemists ask. The presentation will end with some specific problems that Paul Ziemann and I are planning to collaborate on in the near future."
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Chemistry of Organic Compounds in the Atmosphere and Indoor Air by Paul Ziemann, ANYL Faculty, CU Boulder
"Laboratory studies provide much of the fundamental data on reaction kinetics, products, and mechanisms that are needed to understand atmospheric and indoor air chemistry and to develop models that are used to establish air quality regulations and predict the effects of human activities. Research in my laboratory focuses primarily on environmental chamber studies of the atmospheric chemistry of organic compounds emitted from natural and anthropogenic sources and the physical and chemical processes by which oxidized organic reaction products form aerosol particles. In addition to this we have conducted a number of collaborative studies of indoor air chemistry at CU."