IndoorChem

The 2021 Chemistry of Indoor Environments Meeting will take place as a series of virtual events during January – May, 2021. Meetings will be gathered via Zoom, with a cap of 500 participants per session. Sessions 1-4 will be 1h20min long and present three speakers on a common topic, followed by a live panel Q&A. The last session (May 25th), will include a plenary talk by Prof. Charlie Weschler on Zoom, followed by a 2-hour poster and virtual networking session on Gather Town.

On social media, let’s use #IndoorChem2021

Registration

Virtual sessions will be open, free of charge, to the general public but pre-registration is required. You will receive occasional emails from us with reminders about each session and other meeting-related communication.

Please register here: http://bit.ly/IndoorChem2021

Poster presentations

The IndoorChem2021 Poster Presentation and Networking session will be an interactive virtual session to be hosted in Gather.Town.

There will be no fee to submit, present, or participate in the networking poster session, but pre-registration will be required to present and attend.

To be considered to present at this virtual poster session, please fill out the poster abstract submission form. Each first author may submit one abstract for consideration.

Deadline for abstract submission:

April 30, 2021 (midnight local time)

Abstracts submitted before the deadline will be accepted on a rolling basis. We aim to finalize the program by May 10, 2021.

Poster Session:

Date: May 25, 2021
Time: 11:30 am to 1:30 pm MT (6:30 – 8:30 pm UTC)

A complete list of posters and their abstracts can be seen here.

Meeting program

Speakers and titles are currently being finalized. Below is our preliminary meeting program. All meetings will take place on Tuesdays, starting at 10 am US Mountain Time (5 pm UTC), click here to convert this time to your time zone. Abstracts can be viewed here and by clicking on the presentation titles below.

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Adding events to your personal calendar does not register you for the meeting. You must register in order to attend.

Session 1: Indoor Chemistry on Surfaces

Tuesday, January 26

Time (MT)	Title	Presenter
10:00 - 10:05	Welcome	Marina Vance and Delphine Farmer
10:05 - 10:10	Topic Introduction	Sarah Styler, McMaster University
10:10 - 10:25	Oxidation of Indoor Surface Materials by Ozone and Chlorine Bleach Vapors.	Jon Abbatt, University of Toronto
10:25 - 10:40	Modeling indoor film formation, growth and chemistry.	Pascale Lakey, University of California, Irvine
10:40 - 10:55	Chemical and physical properties of indoor organic films.	Rachel O’Brien, College of William & Mary
10:55 - 11:20	Panel Q&A	Session Speakers and Panel Moderators: Sarah Styler and Anna Hodshire, Colorado State University

Session 2:The Roles of Water and Partitioning in Indoor Chemistry

Tuesday, February 23

Time (MT)	Title	Presenter
10:00 - 10:05	Welcome	Marina Vance and Delphine Farmer
10:05 - 10:10	Topic Introduction	Nadine Borduas-Dedekind, University of British Columbia
10:10 - 10:25	Indoor partitioning of volatile organic compounds.	Demetrios Pagonis, University of Colorado Boulder
10:25 - 10:40	Surface Water in Indoor Environments: Processes and Impacts.	Heather Schwartz-Narbonne, University of Toronto
10:40 - 10:55	Hydrolysis reactions of phthalates and other man-made esters in indoor environments.	Faye McNeill, Columbia University
10:55 - 11:20	Panel Q&A	Session Speakers and Panel Moderators: Nadine Borduas-Dedekind and Chen Wang, University of Toronto

Session 3: People, Health, and Indoor Chemistry

Tuesday, March 23

Time (MT)	Title	Presenter
10:00 - 10:05	Welcome	Marina Vance and Delphine Farmer
10:05 - 10:10	Topic Introduction	Lea Hildebrandt-Ruiz, University of Texas at Austin
10:10 - 10:25	People Chemistry.	Jonathan Williams, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
10:25 - 10:40	Wearable passive air samplers for capturing personal exposure to airborne contaminants.	Krystal Pollitt, Yale University
10:40 - 10:55	Ozone-skin chemistry and lotions.	Glenn Morrison, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
10:55 - 11:20	Panel Q&A	Session Speakers and Panel Moderators: Lea Hildebrandt-Ruiz and Caleb Arata, University of California, Berkeley

Session 4: Integrating Modeling and Measurements Indoors

Tuesday, April 27

Time (MT)	Title	Presenter
10:00 - 10:05	Welcome	Marina Vance and Delphine Farmer
10:05 - 10:10	Topic Introduction	Andy Ault, University of Michigan
10:10 - 10:25	Condensable Organic Material Emissions from HOMEChem Stir-frying: Application of VBS Modeling Techniques.	Michael Waring, Drexel University
10:25 - 10:40	Combining measurements and models to predict indoor radical concentrations: Effects of non-bleach (hydrogen peroxide) cleaning and indoor lighting conditions.	Shan Zhou, Rice University
10:40 - 10:55	Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Simulations of Indoor Chemistry.	Donghyun Rim, Penn State University
10:55 - 11:20	Panel Q&A	Session Speakers and Panel Moderators: Andy Ault and Clara Eichler, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Session 5: Closing Plenary and Networking Poster Session

Tuesday, May 25

Time (MT)	Title	Presenter
10:00 - 10:10	Welcome	Marina Vance and Delphine Farmer
10:10 - 10:50	Indoor Chemistry and Exposure Science.	Charlie Weschler, Rutgers University
10:50 - 11:10	Q&A	Panel moderators: Marina Vance and Delphine Farmer
11:20 - 1:00	Poster Session and Virtual Networking Session hosted on Gather Town	All participants

 

Poster Session

Presentation Schedule:
Poster presenters will be present by their posters during these times (MDT):
11:20 – 11:35 Group A
11:35 – 11:50 Group B
11:50 – 12:05 Group C
12:05 – 12:20 Group D
12:20 – 1:00 Networking Time

A complete list of posters and their abstracts can be seen here.

 

Sharing policy

Talks will not be recorded for sharing on the internet. In the interest of encouraging a free exchange of preliminary findings while enabling some sharing on social media, we are establishing the following policy for this meeting:

• No sound or video recording of presentations is allowed.
• No photos of data slides or posters are allowed without permission from the author.

This means that photos of title/introduction/broad conclusion slides are allowed and could be shared on social media. If speakers are uncomfortable with photos of any form, they can add a note on their slides or poster requesting “No photos / no tweets” and all meeting attendees are expected to respect this request.

Unprofessional conduct, including disruptive behavior or harassment, will not be tolerated in these events. Attendees found to post inappropriate comments in the chat windows or who attempt to disrupt the meeting will be removed from the events.