Spring 1996
Newsletter
| DIVISION OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY: OFFICERS | ||
| Chair (8/95-96) Mark A. Ratner Department of Chemistry Northwestern University 2145 Sheridan Road Evanston, IL 60208 (708) 491-5652 fax (708) 491-7713 ratner@mercury.chem.nwu.edu |
Chair-Elect(8/95-96) George W. Flynn Department of Chemistry Columbia University Havemeyer Hall New York, NY 10027 (212) 854-4162 fax (212) 932-1289 flynn@chem.columbia.edu |
Vice-Chair (8/95-96) Ellen B. Stechel Sandia National Laboratories Advanced Materials & Device Physics Dept. 1153, MS 1421 Albuquerque, NM 87185-1421 (505) 844-2436 fax (505) 844-4045 ebstech@sandia.gov |
|
Vice-Chair-Elect(8/95-96) Geraldine L. Richmond Department of Chemistry University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403 (503) 346-4653 fax (503) 346-5859 richmond@oregon.uoregon.edu |
Secretary-Treasurer(8/91-96) Andrew E. DePristo 303 Wilhelm Hall Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory, USDOE Ames, IA 50011 (515) 294-9924 fax (515) 294-5204 depristo@ameslab.gov |
Past Chair (8/95-96) Paul F. Barbara Department of Chemistry University of Minnesota 139 Smith Hall Minneapolis, M 55455 (612) 625-0064 fax (612) 626-7541 barbara@chemsun.chem.umn.edu |
| DIVISION OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY: EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE | ||
| Tom George (8/93-96) Washington State University |
Dan Neumark (8/93-96) University of California- Berkeley |
Daniel Gerrity (8/94-97) Reed College |
|
Joseph Weber (8/94-97) DuPont Experiment Station |
Anne Meyers (8/95-98) University of Rochester |
Krishnan Raghavachari (8/95-98) AT&T Bell Laboratories |
| DIVISION OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY: COUNCILORS | |||
| Edward M. (Ted) Eyring (1/94 - 12/96) University of Utah |
Alvin L. Kwiram (1/94 - 12/96) University of Washington |
Katharine L. C. Hunt (1/95-12/97) Michigan State University |
Michael Bowers (1/96-12/98) University of California- Santa Barbara |
| DIVISION OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY: ALTERNATE COUNCILORS | |||
|
Laurie Butler (1/94 - 12/96) University of Chicago |
Dan Kivelson (1/94 - 12/96) University of California- Los Angeles |
Joyce Guest (1/95-12/97) University of Cincinnati |
Gil Nathanson (1/96-12/98) University of Wisconsin |
| SUBDIVISION OF THEORETICAL CHEMISTRY | |||
|
Chair (8/95-96) James L. Skinner Department of Chemistry University of Wisconsin 1101 University Avenue Madison, WI 53706 (608) 262-0481 |
Chair-Elect (8/95-96) Mark S. Gordon Department of Chemistry Iowa State University 256 Spedding Hall Ames, IA 50011 (515) 294-0452 |
Vice-Chair (8/95-96) Bill Hase Department of Chemistry Wayne State University 335 Chemistry Building Detroit, MI 48202 (313) 577-2694 |
Secretary (8/95-98) Mike Page Department of Chemistry North Dakota State University Fargo, ND 58105 (701) 231-8291 |
| SUBDIVISION OF BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY | |||
|
Chair (8/95-96) Steven G. Boxer Department of Chemistry Stanford University Satnford, CA 94305-5080 (415) 723-4482 |
Chair-Elect (8/95-96) Graham R. Fleming Department of Chemistry University of Chicago 5735 S. Ellis Avenue Chicago, IL 60637 (312) 702-7068 |
Vice-Chair (8/95-96) Robert G. Griffin MIT, FBML and Department of Chemistry NW 14-3220 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 (617) 253-5597 |
Secretary(8/95-96) Gerald T. Babcock Department of Chemistry Michigan State University 320 Chemistry Bldg. East Lansing, MI 48824 (517) 355-9715 x257 |
FOR THE NEW ORLEANS MEETING
An experimental program has been approved for the New Orleans and Orlando national meetings by the ACS Committee on Meetings and Expositions allowing the Division of Physical Chemistry to facilitate late-breaking topics. Post-deadline presentation abstracts will be accepted up to five weeks before the first day of the national meeting at which it is to be presented. Because the submission deadline is as close as feasible to the meeting date, the titles and abstracts will not be listed in the ACS program, and will appear only in a separate flyer handed out at the Physical Chemistry Division symposia and poster session. Furthermore, all such presentations will be "unofficial"; there will be no official ACS record of these presentations. The post-deadline presentations will be presented in a special section of the Physical Chemistry Division's general poster session. There will be a $50 fee for each post-deadline presentation accepted.
Rules for Post-deadline presentations at the New Orleans ACS Meeting:
1) Abstracts are due by February 15, 1996 and may be sent by FAX. A good quality copy accompanied by the $50 fee must also be sent to arrive within 3 days after the due date. Fees will be returned in the event that presentations are not accepted.
2) Abstracts need not be on the official ACS form. Any reasonable format is acceptable, but the quality must be good enough to be reproduced as handouts.
3) Abstracts should be sent to George Flynn, Department of Chemistry, 315 Havemeyer Hall, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, FAX (212) 932-1289. A check or money order for $50, payable to the Division of Physical Chemistry, must be included with the abstract.
4) Abstracts will be reviewed by the Division of Physical Chemistry Program Committee. Presentations will be accepted or rejected based on scientific content and the availability of space as determined by the ACS Department of Meetings, Expositions, and Divisional Activities. Applicants will be notified by FAX on February 21 if their post-deadline poster has been accepted by the Committee for inclusion in the Physical Chemistry Division program. It is essential that applicants include their FAX numbers with their submissions.
5) The usual rules for presentations at ACS meetings also apply to post-deadline presentations:
a. Presenters must be registered for the meeting
b. At least one author must be a member of the Society
Mark Ratner
The Division of Physical Chemistry (PHYS) has emerged from the dynamic period in which Paul Barbara, as chair, introduced a host of new initiatives, new vitality and new directions. The current state of the Division is marked by renewed activity on a number of fronts, activity that features the dynamic, successful, fascinating nature of physical chemistry in the 1990s. Some of the current strengths of the Division include:
Both the New Orleans and the Orlando meetings will feature a number of fascinating symposia; Program Chair George Flynn has arranged symposia that cover, like contemporary physical chemistry, time scales from femtoseconds to hours, distance scales from picometers to macroscopic. The PHYS executive committee and the PHYS officers seriously and respectfully request that members of the Division submit their ideas for symposia, for initiatives, and new programming to officers of the Division (names and addresses on page 2). The Division will be exactly as vibrant as its membership; new ideas from the Division members for change in the programs for the Division, and for the recruitment of new members, are the stuff on which progress can be based. We encourage your participation, and hope that you find the programs of the Division as exciting as we do.
This newsletter contains information about the ACS national meetings and any other items of interest to significant numbers of PHYS division members. All members of the PHYS division are welcome to submit items to the Secretary for inclusion in the newsletter. The deadlines are generally around December 1 and May 1 for the newsletters appearing before the Spring and Fall ACS meetings, respectively. Submissions may be made via mail, FAX or e-mail.
The Bylaws of the Division of Physical Chemistry, approved in 1977, call for the Division Chair to appoint a three person nominating committee before the spring meeting. A complete slate of candidates prepared by this committee will consist of one candidate for Vice-Chair-Elect, one candidate for each of two vacancies on the Executive Committee, and one candidate for each vacancy that may have developed in the ranks of the Division Councilors, Alternate Councilors, and Secretary-Treasurer position. The Vice-Chair-Elect automatically becomes the Vice-Chair, Chair-Elect, Chair, and Immediate Past-Chair in each succeeding year. Thus this person makes a commitment to serve five years on the Executive Committee. In the year this person serves as Chair-Elect the duties of Program Chair are also his or hers. The term of office for other Executive Committee members, Councilors, and Alternate Councilors is three years. The Secretary-Treasurer serves five years.
The Secretary-Treasurer is required to announce the slate of candidates in the fall newsletter (which is part of the abstract separates for the fall meeting).
To increase the input of the members in this nominating process and to broaden the pool of candidates, the executive committee seeks input directly from members for use by the nominating committee. Any member may suggest nominees to any of the officers of the PHYS division in writing. The nominee must agree to serve.
Additional nominations can come from the membership in the following fashion: A petition candidate must be supported by the signatures of not fewer than 4% of the members of the PHYS division in good standing (presently approximately 3,000). No signature shall be valid if it appears on more than one nominating petition for the same vacancy during the same calendar year.
A letter shall be submitted from each petition nominee stating willingness to be a candidate for election and to serve the Division for a full term if elected. No nominee may be a candidate for more than one vacancy. If nominated for more than one vacancy, the nominee must choose which nomination to accept.
Four weeks from the date of the mailing of the fall newsletter shall be allowed for additional nominations to be received by the Secretary-Treasurer. All valid nominations received within that period shall be accepted, and no others.
If no valid nominations are forthcoming from the membership, the nominees submitted by the Nominating Committee for Vice-Chair-Elect, Secretary-Treasurer and membership on the Executive Committee are declared elected.
Regardless of whether petition nominees are validated or not, the Bylaws require the Secretary-Treasurer to mail to every PHYS division member a ballot that bears at a minimum the names and biographical sketches of the single candidates for each Councilor and Alternate Councilor vacancy submitted by the Nominating Committee.
New officers for the PHYS division are:
Mark A. Ratner Chair 1 year
George W. Flynn Chair-Elect 1 year
Ellen B. Stechel Vice-Chair 1 year
Geraldine Richmond Vice-Chair-Elect 1 year
Krishnan Raghavachari Executive Committee 3 years
Anne Meyers Executive Committee 3 years
Michael Bowers Councilor 3 years
Gil Nathanson Alternate Councilor 3 years
The first six physical chemists assumed their respective offices at the close of the national ACS meeting in Chicago, IL (August, 1995). The last two began their terms of service on January 1, 1996. The PHYS division thanks outgoing officers Paul F. Barbara (Chair), Mark A. Ratner (Chair-Elect), George W. Flynn (Vice-Chair), Ellen B. Stechel (Vice-Chair-Elect), Emily Carter (Executive Committee), Horia Metiu (Executive Committee), and Donald W. Setser (Alternate Councilor) for their service to the Division.
Theoretical Chemistry News is mailed semiannually to all members of the Theoretical Chemistry Subdivision. It includes news of symposia at national meetings as well as information about the Theoretical Chemistry Postdoctoral Position Clearinghouse.
Subdivision membership is free to dues-paying members or affiliates of the Division of Physical Chemistry. To join the Theoretical Subdivision notify the secretary, Michael Page, at the address in the table of officers. Indicate that you wish to join and mention that you belong to the PHYS division. If you do not belong to the Division, you may join both the Division and the Theoretical Chemistry Subdivision by completing the application form at the end of this newsletter.
The Theoretical subdivision administers an award in computational chemistry for theoretical chemistry graduate students. This year two awards will be presented, one sponsored by IBM and the other sponsored by Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC). The purposes of the awards are to support the scholarly activity of theoretical chemistry graduate students, and to encourage the use of computers in theoretical chemistry. Each award consists of a check for $2500. Applicants for these awards submit a research proposal describing the scientific problem to be solved, and detailing how state-of-the-art computers would help in solving their problem. Mr. David Sherrill and Mr. Ruhong Zhou have received the IBM and DEC awards, respectfully.
IBM Award (which includes time on IBM computers at the Cornell Theory Center)
Mr. Sherrill is a graduate student in the Chemistry Department at the University of Georgia, working with Professor Fritz Schaefer. His proposal is entitled: "Parallel Implementation of the Restricted Active Space Configuration Interaction Method."
DEC Award (which includes time on DEC computers at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center)
Mr. Zhou is a graduate student in the Chemistry Department at Columbia University, working with Professor Bruce Berne. His proposal is entitled "A New Molecular Dynamics Method for Proteins and other Complex Systems: Using a Top-down Fast Multipole Method and the Reference System Propagator Algorithm."
In response to member feedback, the Biophysical Subdivision was formed to support the growing number of physical chemists who study biological systems.
Subdivision membership is free to dues-paying members or affiliates of the Division of Physical Chemistry. To join the Biophysical Subdivision, notify the secretary, Gerald Babcock, at the address in the table of officers. Indicate that you wish to join and mention that you belong to the PHYS division. If you do not belong to the Division, you may join both the Division and the Biophysical Subdivision by completing the application form at the end of this newsletter.
A speaker may give at most one invited talk in the PHYS division in any two consecutive national ACS meetings. Note that these rules do not apply to contributed talks and posters so there is still plenty of opportunity for all physical chemists to present their research results in the PHYS division.
The Executive Committee has been soliciting formal suggestions for symposia and speakers for the meetings to be held in three years. These suggestions will be essential input for organizing the programs of the meetings. For greatest effectiveness, follow these suggestions:
a) Recommend a symposium topic, organizer and list of suggested speakers. (A list of all PHYS symposia since 1991 appears on the following pages for information purposes.)
b) Provide a brief description of the significance of the symposium.
Numerous symposiums in 1996 have been accepted based upon these suggestions.
The deadline for receipt of suggestions is August 1, 1996. (Address these to the Secretary/Treasurer, Andrew E. DePristo, at the address in the table of officers.) The Executive Committee will meet in Orlando in August to plan the programs for 1998.
The 211th American Chemical Society National Meeting will be held in New Orleans, LA, March 24-28, 1996. George Flynn, 1996 PHYS division Program Chair, has arranged for the breadth of modern physical chemistry to be featured in six symposia and two poster sessions devoted to a wide range of topics. The topical symposiums and organizers are:
As is now customary, Program Chair Flynn has arranged for the presentation of contributed talks in each of the topical symposia. The contributed talks will be selected by the individual symposium organizers, from among abstracts submitted to Program Chair Flynn for the poster sessions that explicitly request consideration for oral presentation. The criterion for selection will be close connection with the topics addressed in the symposia. Abstracts not selected for oral presentation will be assigned to the poster sessions, unless the authors request otherwise.
The PHYS division awards program will consist of seven addresses by the following leaders in the fields of education, experimental, computational and theoretical chemistry :
A significant portion of the Division's annual income is provided by the ACS, based in part on Division members' attendance at the national meetings. On the advance meeting registration form you will see a question such as that given below. If you list the Physical Division, you will contribute to our income and allow the Division to offer better symposia.
"Please list ALL of the division(s) to which you belong: "
The 212th American Chemical Society National Meeting will be held in Orlando, FL, August 25-29, 1996. George Flynn, 1996 PHYS Division Program Chair, has arranged for this meeting a technical program of eight topical symposia and a general poster session. The topical symposia and their organizers are:
Program Chair Flynn has arranged for the presentation of contributed talks in each of the topical symposia. The contributed talks will be selected by the individual symposium organizers, from among abstracts submitted to Program Chair Flynn for the poster session that explicitly request consideration for oral presentation. The criterion for selection will be close connection with the topics addressed in the symposia. Abstracts not selected for oral presentation will be assigned to the poster session, unless the authors request otherwise.
All contributed papers for presentation at the Orlando meeting, in either the topical symposia or the general poster session, must be sent to George Flynn, 1996 Division of Physical Chemistry Program Chair. Important notes:
Abstract deadline: April 15, 1996
Send Abstract to
Abstract requirements: Four copies, one of camera-ready quality on an original ACS abstract form. Abstracts sent via FAX cannot be accepted. Information about obtaining abstract forms is listed under "General Information for Contributed Papers."
Request for oral presentation: Authors who wish their abstracts to be considered for possible oral presentation in a topical symposium must attach a note to the abstract submission so indicating, and identify the symposium in which oral presentation is desired. They must also submit a copy of the abstract to the organizer of the symposium in which they wish to make their presentation.
San Francisco, CA, April 13-17, 1997
Four copies of abstracts (with the original on the ACS form) must be submitted by December 7, 1996 to Ellen B. Stechel, Sandia National Laboratories, Advanced Materials & Device Physics, Dept. 1153, MS 1421, Albuquerque, NM 87185-1421. Further information on ACS abstract forms is given at the end of this newsletter.
Las Vegas, NV, September 7-11, 1997
Dallas, TX, March 29-April 3, 1998
Boston, MA, August 23-28, 1998
Anaheim, CA, March 21-26, 1999
New Orleans, LA, August 22-27, 1999
Las Vegas, NV, March 26-31, 2000
Washington, DC, August 20-25, 2000
San Francisco, CA, April 1-6, 2001
Chicago, IL, August 19-24, 2001
Orlando, FL
August 25-30, 1996
Co-located with the ACS annual meeting in Orlando, this meeting is managed and sponsored by the ACS PMSE division in conjunction with the POLY and PMSE divisions of ACS, and OSA. A similar meeting will be held at the fall OSA meeting in 1997.
This conference provides a unique opportunity to interact with the optics community to discuss materials and processing issues needed for practical implementation of organic materials into the optoelectronics and photonics industry. Joint ACS/OSA sponsorship will provide an interdisciplinary forum for the presentation and discussion of new and previously unpublished results on advanced organic thin films and their applications for photonics. Materials synthesis, fabrication and processing will be covered in depth and related to chemical, physical and optical properties. Theoretical and experimental studies of these properties and their implementation in photonics devices will be described. Materials and devices using electroluminescence, second-order, third-order, and photorefractive nonlinear optical properties, polymer optical fibers, as well as materials for active and passive applications such as interconnects, data display and storage, polarizers, holography, lasers, and amplifiers will be given particular emphasis. A poster session will provide an opportunity for a variety of additional topics to be covered. The call for papers for this meeting is available, with Abstracts and preprints due April 1, 1996.
For PMSE Abstract and Preprint forms (due April 1, 1996), please contact:
Judy Flory/UES (reference to ACS meeting) by fax or e-mail.
Fax: (513) 429-5413 e-mail: jflory@eagle.aamrl.wpafb.af.mil
For further information, please contact:
Professor Hilary S. Lackritz Dr. Charles Lee School of Chemical Air Force Office of Engineering Scientific Research Purdue University 1283 CHME 110 Duncan Avenue Suite B115 Building Bolling Air Force Base West Lafayette, Indiana Washington DC 20332-6448 47907-1283 phone (202) 767-4963 FAX: phone (317) 494-4065 FAX 202-767-4961 317-494-0805 lackritz@ecn.purdue.edu Professor Ken Singer Professor George I. Stegeman Case Western University CREOL Department of Physics University of Central University Circle Florida Cleveland, OH 44106-7079 12424 Research Parkway phone (216) 368-4017 FAX: Orlando, FL 32826 216-368-4671 phone (407) 658-3915 FAX: 407-658-3955
CONGRESS & CHEMISTRY
Underneath the coffee ring on today's newspaper, you read about taxes, budget reform, and less government. You can either wonder what it means to your future as a chemical professional or you can work within this time of dramatic congressional change. By signing up to join the ACS Federal Funding Networks, you will have timely, critical information about the status of NSF and NIH in the federal policy arena at your fingertips. Bulletins will be sent to you by fax or e-mail that detail the budget and policy battles over NSF and NIH to provide you the information you need to communicate effectively with your Representatives in Congress.
Why get involved? Two reasons: The future and the present. Looking into the future, the recent budget resolutions in the House and the Senate project NSF to have 19.5% less real dollar purchasing power in the year 2002 when compared to today, NIH will fare even worse. In the present, you can make a difference. Common sense dictates that E+R=O, or Event + Response = Outcome. If you don't register your response to congressional actions that affect your future, you will not be part of the outcome.
Make a difference. Join the ACS Federal Funding Networks today. Contact the ACS Federal Funding Networks by telephone at (202) 452-2127, or via e-mail at NSFNET@acs.org or NIHNET@acs.org. We look forward to hearing from you.
Many physical chemists are not members of the ACS and are not aware of the fact that they can become Affiliates of the Division of Physical Chemistry and the Subdivisions of Theoretical and Biophysical Chemistry without being a member of the ACS itself. At $10.00 per year the dues are slightly higher for such Affiliates, but many of the advantages of association with the Division are the same. (Division Affiliates may not hold elective office and may not vote in Division elections.) Since it is expensive to make extensive mailings to non-ACS members in order to inform them of this option, we invite you to assist us.
We invite you to encourage non-members to join the PHYS division. It is the professional organization devoted to physical chemistry and physical chemists and can be most successful with maximum participation by physical chemists. Some of the more practical advantages of membership are:
1. Members receive, in advance, abstracts of the papers to be delivered in the Division of Physical Chemistry programs at national meetings of the ACS.
2. Members receive a newsletter with the abstracts of the National meetings listing future symposia and divisional meetings, and giving the deadlines for submission of papers to be presented at these meetings. The newsletter is included with the abstracts of papers for convenience.
3. Members receive discounts on the purchase price of the complete bound books of meeting abstracts. Discounts for other books and journals are also available, and new arrangements are negotiated from time to time.
4. The Division of Physical Chemistry is an affiliate of the American Institute of Physics, and members of the Division are eligible for a discount on various AIP publications including The Journal of Chemical Physics.
5. The Division holds a mixer at each national meeting of the ACS at which a divisional program is presented. These events are held in conjunction with a poster session and provide an excellent opportunity to meet other physical chemists.
6. Members may vote and hold office in the Division and participate in its activities. Division Affiliates may not vote and may not hold office. Members and Affiliates are invited to suggest symposium topics, speakers and organizers.
7. The Division maintains a close relationship with the Journal of Physical Chemistry. Through theDivision programs, and through cooperation with the Journal of Physical Chemistry, we seek to call attention to the vigorous and dynamic character of physical chemistry in this country, and to stimulate intellectual cross-fertilization between the different fields of research in physical chemistry.
8. The Division mounts important award symposia. The Debye, Hildebrand and Theoretical Chemistry awards are given each year, and the Langmuir Award every other year by the ACS. In addition, the Pure Chemistry and Nobel Laureate Signature awards are frequent features in Division symposia.
10. In 1978 the Division established the Subdivision of Theoretical Chemistry. There is no additional fee for membership in the Subdivision. The Subdivision provides special services and participates fully in developing symposium topics, at the national meetings, specifically for the theoretically inclined.
12. In 1994 the Division established the Subdivision of Biophysical Chemistry. There is no additional fee for membership in the Subdivision. The Subdivision provides special services and participates fully in developing symposium topics, at the national meetings, specifically for the biophysically inclined.
Name _______________________________________________
Address _____________________________________________
City, State, Zip ________________________________________
Country, Postal Code ___________________________________
Telephone (w) ___________________ (h)
ACS member? NO YES ACS member # ___________________
Membership Categories: (qualification) (CIRCLE ONE)
Member (current ACS member) $9.00
Student (current Student ACS member) $3.00
Division Affiliate (Non-ACS member) $10.00
National Affiliate (current National Affiliate ACS member) $10.00
Check appropriate box for membership in this PHYS Subdivision:
Theoretical Chemistry (no additional fee at this time)
Biophysical Chemistry (no additional fee at this time)
Total $ _____________
Payment: (please check one)
Check Enclosed (make checks payable to "American Chemical Society")
VISA/Mastercard American Express
Card Number: ____________________________
Expiration Date: ___________________________
General Papers-Members are cordially invited to present papers at the poster sessions. Titles of papers and names of authors, with a short abstract, should reach the Chair-Elect by the deadline dates published in the Newsletter and in Chemical and Engineering News. The deadline must be observed to allow the ACS to compile the program and to print and to circulate the abstracts.
Short Abstract-The abstract must be sent on an ACS abstract form to the person who is chair-elect for the year of the meeting. The abstract form is typically available in academic chemistry department offices. They can also be obtained directly from ACS at 1-800-227-5558, the general ACS number, select '4' for meetings, or 202-872-4396 (the direct meeting's number). In the unlikely event that neither of these have forms, contact the Secretary-Treasurer of the PHYS, Dr. Andrew E. DePristo. The abstract cannot be changed in any way after the deadline date. It should arouse interest in the paper and do it justice. Succinctly state the purpose of the paper and mention important results and conclusions. Since the abstract is reproduced photographically, it is very important to use a good typewriter ribbon or laser printer cartridge. If the abstract has to be retyped, the Division of Physical Chemistry is required to pay for typing, which in the past this has been a sizable charge against the Division.
Classification By Subject Area-Authors are asked please to list on the bottom of the short abstract form (under the heading subject area) those of the following areas with which they prefer to see their poster papers classified.
Chemical Magnetic Resonance Solutions Equilibrium Photochemistry Spectroscopy Electrochemistry Theoretical Chemistry Thermodynamics Kinetics: Gas Phase Radiation Chemistry (Others) Specify area Kinetics: Liquid Phase
Information And Rules Applying to All Contributed Poster Papers
1. No paper will be accepted unless an author expects to be present.
2. ACS Bylaws 3(a) require that "papers by American Chemists or chemical engineers not members of the Society shall not appear on the program unless they be joint with one or more Society members."
3. Prospective poster presenters who also submit papers to other Divisions should inform the Chairman-Elect as to the Division, titles of papers and co-authors by the deadline date.
4. Each poster paper will have a poster board measuring 4'x8'.
5. All illustrations, charts, and textual material to be posted must be prepared in advance since materials for these purposes will not be available at the meeting.
6. Posters should be mounted prior to the opening of the session and left in place until the close. Authors are encouraged to be present the entire session.
7. There must be a heading (with lettering at least 1½" height) giving the title of the papers, the author(s), their affiliation(s), and the number assigned to it in the program.
8. Illustrative material will be read by attendees from a distance of 3' or more, so lettering on illustrations should be at least 3/8" high.
9. There should be a logical sequence (introduction, development and conclusion) to the display and each sheet should be numbered.
10. The presentation's effectiveness will be enhanced by mounting the sheets on colored construction paper and using other techniques for improving graphic impact. Ease of reading is far more important than artistic flair. Certain color combinations, for instance, may look beautiful but be almost impossible to read, especially in the absence of optimum lighting.
11. Do NOT mount illustrations on heavy stock which is difficult to mount on the poster boards.
12. Each author is responsible for mounting his or her material at least 1/2 hour prior to the opening of the assigned poster session and removing it within 1/2 hour after the close of the session. ACS cannot assume any responsibility for materials beyond those time limits.
13. Do provide sign-up sheets to record names and addresses of attendees who wish more information.
14. Do bring duplicates of data and conclusions. Duplicating facilities are unavailable through ACS.
15. ACS provides a modest supply of push-pins, masking tape and felt-tipped pens but it is wise to bring your own. Upon advance request, ACS will arrange for blackboards to be available in the room.
16. Admission to poster sessions will be by ACS meeting badge only.
17. A poster paper submitted to the Program Chair (before the deadline) for presentation at a national meeting should be considered accepted unless the author is specifically notified to the contrary by the Division of Physical Chemistry Program Chairman.