An experimental program was 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 Orlando ACS Meeting:

1. Abstracts are due by July 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 August 1 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 is joining with the American Chemical Society in celebrating the 100th anniversary of The Journal of Physical Chemistry. This celebration will take place at the Orlando meeting, and will include a special symposium celebrating the birthday; this will be a one afternoon symposium with lectures by six leaders in the field representing diverse areas that capture the breadth and the vitality of modern physical chemistry, with a vision of the future, the excitement of the present and some appreciation for past history. There will also be a centennial dinner Tuesday, August 27th, in honor of the centennial of the Journal and its present editor, Mostafa El-Sayed. Tickets for the dinner can be obtained in the usual way that all ACS dinner tickets can be obtained - if there are questions, please call one of the division officers.

There will be an extremely exciting set of symposia in Orlando, including ones on super cooled liquids, bimolecular interactions in small free radicals, highly excited states, molecule surface reactions, performance of quantum chemical and molecular modeling codes, biophysical chemistry and molecular biotechnology. While Florida at the end of August may not be an ideal climate, the science should be wonderful.

The Division has made a number of other significant advances in the recent past. These include:

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.

This is my final newsletter after five years of effort on behalf of the PHYS division. It has been a pleasure serving the members of the division and working with the five Chairs: Henry F. Schaefer, III, James J. Valentini, John C. Tully, Paul F. Barbara and Mark A. Ratner. During this time, I have been most fortunate to have a superb and dedicated administrative assistant, Ms. Nancy Anderson, who worked with great skill and much good cheer on all the financial and informational tasks required of the secretary-treasurer. She deserves significant credit for the smooth working of the division.

Dear PHYS Division Member:

Attached you will find approval ballots for the positions of Councilor and Alternate Councilor as required by ACS bylaws. These positions are for the years indicated on the ballot. Brief biographical material for all the candidates is also attached for your information.

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.

This year the Nominating Committee consisted of Paul Barbara, Peter Rossky and Hanna Reisler. They submitted the following slate of candidates:

Secretary-Treasurer: Mark Gordon (succeeding Andrew E. DePristo)

Vice-Chair-Elect: George Schatz (succeeding Geraldine Richmond)

Executive Committee: John Simon (succeeding Tom George)

Executive Committee: Paul Houston (succeeding Dan Neumark)

Councilor: Edward M. (Ted) Eyring (succeeding himself)

Councilor: Alvin Kwiram (succeeding himself)

Alternate Councilor: Ron Levy (succeeding Laurie Butler)

Alternate Councilor: Gregory Voth (succeeding Dan Kivelson)

MARK S. GORDON:

Born 1942. B.S. (1963) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Ph.D. (1968) Carnegie-Mellon University, Postdoctoral Research Associate (1967- 1970), Iowa State University. Assistant Professor, North Dakota State University (1970-73), Associate Professor, North Dakota State University (1973-76), Professor, North Dakota State University (1976-92), Distinguished Professor, North Dakota State University (1987-92), Professor, Iowa State University (1992- present), Chair, Department of Chemistry, North Dakota State University (1981-89), Visiting Fellow, Minnesota Supercomputer Institute (1985-86), Visiting Scientist, National Science Foundation (1989-90), Technical Consultant, Air Force Office of Scientific Research (1990-92), Visiting Professor, Institute for Molecular Science (1991-92).

Research Interests: Development and applications of methods in electronic structure theory and in the interface of electronic structure theory with dynamics, potential energy surfaces and mechanisms in organometallic chemistry, development of parallel software for electronic structure theory, development of new methods for treating solvent effects, silicon chemistry, the nature of very high energy species.

Member: ACS, APS, ISQB, WATOC

Mark Gordon has co-authored approximately 230 publication in the fields of quantum chemistry and dynamics.

GEORGE SCHATZ:

Born 1949. Caltech, Ph.D. (1976) Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT (1975-6). Northwestern University, Assistant Professor (1976-80), Associate Professor (1980-2), Professor (1982-present). Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar(1981-6). Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (1980-2). Fresenius Award (1983). Fellow, American Physical Society (1987). Visiting Fellow, JILA (1988-89). JSPS Fellow (1986). Max Plank Research Award (1993).

Research Interests: Theoretical Chemistry, especially as applied to gas phase chemical reactions important in combustion and atmospheric chemistry; potential energy surfaces; quantum and classical theories of collision processes; mode-specific chemistry, fine-structure effects in chemical reactions, collisional energy transfer, surface enhanced optical processes, nonlinear optics, hyperRaman scattering, electrodynamics.

Member: APS, ACS, AAAS

George Schatz has co-authored approximately 220 publications in physical chemistry. He is Senior Editor of the Journal of Physical Chemistry, and is on the Editorial Boards of Chemical Physics Letters, Computer Physics Communications and Theoretica Chemica Acta.

JOHN SIMON:

Born 1957. Harvard University, Ph.D. (1983) University of California at Los Angeles, Postdoctoral Fellow (1983-85). University of California at San Diego, Assistant Professor (1985-88), Associate Professor (1988-90), Professor (1990-Present). National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator (1985-1990), Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow (1988-90), Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar (1990-1995), Fresenius National Award in Chemistry (1992).

Research Interests: Dynamics of Chemical Reactions in Solution, Development of Novel Time-Resolved Spectroscopies, Nonlinear Spectroscopy of Liquids, Heterogenous Atmopheric Chemistry, Applications of Spectroscopy to Biochemical Systems.

Member: ACS, APS, AAAS

John Simon has co-authored over 100 publications in the field of reaction dynamics. He has co-authored two texts, "Physical Chemistry: A Molecular Approach" with Donald McQuarrie and "Braving the Elements" with Harry Gray and Bill Trogler. He is currently a member of the BBCA Study Section of the General Medicine Institute of NIH.

PAUL L. HOUSTON:

Born 1947. Yale University, B. S. (1969); Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D. (1973); University of California, Berkeley, Postdoctoral Fellow (1973-1975); Cornell University: Assistant Professor (1975-1981), Associate Professor (1981-1985), Professor (1985-present); Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow (1979-1981); Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (1980); J. Simon Guggenheim Fellow (1986-1987); Advisory Board, The Journal of Physical Chemistry (1988-1990); Editorial Board, The Journal of Chemical Physics (1989-1991); Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (1989).

Research Interests: Reaction kinetics of molecules in selected vibrational and electronic states, laser-induced chemical reaction, photodissociation, and energy transfer. Gas-solid interactions.

Member: ACS, APS, Sigma Xi, AAAS, NYAS, OSA

Paul Houston has co-authored approximately 120 publications in the field of physical chemistry. He serves as a Senior Editor of the Journal of Physical Chemistry. He was the co-chairman of the Gordon Research Conference on Molecular Energy Transfer in 1985 and was Program Chair (1992) and Chair (1994) of the International Laser Science Conference. He has also served on the NRC Advisory Committee to the Army Research Office (1981-84), on the NRC Planning Committee on Free Electron Lasers (1993-1994), and on the Associated Universities Brookhaven Chemistry Visiting Committee (1994-1999). He is Vice-Chair of the APS Division of Laser Science.

EDWARD M. (TED) EYRING:

Born 1931. University of Utah, Ph.D. (1960); Goettingen University, NSF Postdoctoral Fellow (1960 - 61). University of Utah, Assistant Professor (1961 - 65), Associate Professor (1965 - 68), Professor (1968 - Present), Department Chairman (1973 - 76, 84 - 85). NATO Senior Fellow (1976). IndoAmerican Fellow (1979). John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellow (1982 - 83).

Research Interests. Kinetics and mechanisms of reactions in aqueous and nonaqueous solutions; volumes of activation in organometallic reactions; chemistry of crown ethers and other macrocycles; photoacoustic spectroscopy of solids and liquids; molecular sieves and heterogeneous catalysis; catalysis of coal depolymerization.

Member: ACS, APS, AAAS, SAS

Edward Eyring served for five years (1986 - 91) as Secretary - Treasurer of the Division of Physical Chemistry ACS.

Publications: authored/coauthored over 230 publications in the fields of physical and analytical chemistry.

ALVIN L. KWIRAM:

Born 1937. California Institute of Technology, Ph.D. (1963). California Institute of Technology, Alfred A. Noyes Instructorship (1962-63). Stanford University, Research Associate (1963-64). Harvard University, Lecturer (1964-70). University of Washington, Associate Professor (1970-75); Professor (1975- ); Chair, Department of Chemistry (1977-87); Vice Provost (1987- ). Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, AAAS Fellow, American Physical Society Fellow, Council for Chemical Research Award for the Promotion of University-Industry Relations. Secretary Treasurer, Division of Physical Chemistry (1976-1986), Councilor, Division of Physical Chemistry (1986- ). Committee on Science (1989- ), Vice Chair (1991-93).

Research Interests: magnetic resonance in the solid state; ENDOR, NQR, optical detection of magnetic resonance in photo-excited states, matrix isolation.

Member: APS, ACS, AAAS, CCR, Sigma Xi

Publications: authored/co - authored over 70 publications in the field of physical chemistry.

RONALD M. LEVY:

Born 1949. Harvard University, Ph.D. (1976). Harvard University, NIH postdoctoral fellow (1976-78) and Research Associate (1978-80). Rutgers University, Assistant Professor (1980-84), Associate Professor (1984-87), Professor (1987-Present). Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow (1982-84), NIH Research Career Development Award (1982-86), NIH Fogarty Senior International Fellow (1986), John Simon Guggenheim Fellow (1995-96), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellow (1996).

Research Interests: Biophysical and physical chemistry of proteins, DNA, and aqueous solutions, liquid state chemical physics, protein structure, folding and dynamics, vibrational and optical spectroscopy of many mode systems, large scale software development for computational chemistry and biophysics.

Member: ACS, Biophysical Society

Ronald M. Levy has authored/co-authored approximately 90 papers in the fields of Biophysical and Liquid State Chemistry. He served on the Biophysical Chemistry Study Section of the NIH (1991-1995).

GREGORY VOTH:

Born 1959. California Institute of Technology, Ph.D. (1987) University of California, Berkeley, IBM Postdoctoral Fellow (1987-89). University of Pennsylvania, Assistant Professor (1989-94), Associate Professor (1994-Present). Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar (1994-99). Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow (1992-96). National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator (1991-96). David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellow (1990-95). Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation New Faculty Award (1989-94). Clauser Doctoral Prize (1987) and H. N. McCoy Award (1986), California Institute of Technology. Procter and Gamble Award, American Chemical Society (1985).

Research Interests: Theoretical Descriptions of Condensed Phase Dynamical Processes, Charge Transfer and Migration Processes in Biological and Solution Phase Systems, Electron Transfer Phenomena across the Electrode/Electrolyte Interface, Dynamics of Atoms and Molecules on Metal and Semiconductor Surfaces, Structure and Dynamics of Impurities in Low Temperature Solids, Vibrational Dynamics in Many- Body Systems, High Performance Computer Simulation and Modeling.

Member: ACS, APS, Biophysical Society, AAAS, Phi Lambda Upsilon

Greg Voth has co-authored 80 publications in the field of theoretical physical chemistry. He has presented 65 invited lectures in universities, government laboratories, and industries in the United States and abroad.

I approve the nomination of Mark Gordon for the Secretary-Treasurer position for
August, 1996 - August, 2001.

( ) Yes ( ) No

I approve the nomination of Alvin L. Kwiram for a Councilor position for January 1, 1997 - December 31, 1999.

( ) Yes ( ) No

I approve the nomination of Ted Eyring for a Councilor position for January 1, 1997 - December 31, 1999.

( ) Yes ( ) No

I approve the nomination of Ronald Levy for an Alternate Councilor position for
January 1, 1997 - December 31, 1999.

( ) Yes ( ) No

I approve the nomination of Gregory Voth for an Alternate Councilor position for
January 1, 1997 - December 31, 1999.

( ) Yes ( ) No

Since there are five vacant positions and only one candidate has been nominated for each position, you may cast a yes vote for all of the above candidates without invalidating your ballot. Please return no later than October 15, 1996 to:

Andrew E. DePristo, Secretary-Treasurer,
303 Wilhelm Hall, Ames Laboratory,
Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011

Voter's Signature

(will be removed from ballot by Teller)

A nominating committee, consisting of Bob Wyatt, Roger Loring, and James Skinner, was appointed by the outgoing Chairman of the Theory Subdivision, George Schatz, to choose the next Vice-Chair of the Subdivision. Rich Stratt, from Brown University, has been nominated and has graciously agreed to serve in this office. We all thank Rich for undertaking this important responsibility. He will begin his duties at the conclusion of the Orlando meeting.

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.

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 1998 have been accepted based upon these suggestions.

The deadline for receipt of suggestions is February 1, 1997. (Address these to the Secretary/Treasurer, Mark S. Gordon, at the address in the table of officers.) The Executive Committee will meet in San Francisco in April to plan the programs for 1999.

201st ACS National Meeting Atlanta, GA April 14 - 19, 1991

Fractals
Hydrogen in and on Solids
Isotope Effects in Chemical Reactions and Photodissociation Processes
Physical Chemistry of Organic Molecules
Photoinitiated Reactions in Weakly-Bonded Complexes
Reactions, Spectroscopy and Structure of Molecular Ions
Silicon Hydride Chemistry and Silicon CVD Mechanisms

202nd ACS National Meeting New York, NY August 25-30, 1991

Superconductivity
Energy Transfer and Relaxation in Condensed Phases
Comparison of Ab Initio Quantum Chemistry With Experiment
New Developments and Applications of Magnetic Resonance and Optical Spectroscopies
Chemical Vapor Deposition of Diamond (and c-BN, SiC)
Gas-Phase Metal Reactions
Atomic Imaging: STM and Related Techniques
Undergraduate Physical Chemistry Laboratory Development

203rd ACS National Meeting San Francisco, CA April 5-10, 1992

Laser Photochemistry of Organometallics
Intermolecular Forces
Fundamental Processes in Atmospheric and Combustion Chemistry: Kinetics of Radical - Radical Reactions
State-to-State Dynamics on Multiple Potential Energy Surfaces
Complex Interfaces
Photochemistry at Surfaces
Surface Science of Catalysis: Students and Friends of Gabor Somorjai I-V

204th ACS National Meeting Washington, DC August 23-28, 1992

Photochemistry: From Isolated Molecules to Solution
Chemical Applications of Interface Nonlinear Optics
Surface Chemistry from Reaction Dynamics through Materials Growth
Coherent Control of Molecular Dynamics
Frontiers of Molecular Simulations
Structure and Dynamics of Large Molecular Clusters
Theoretical Aspects of Materials Related Surface Chemistry

205th ACS National Meeting Denver, CO March 28 - April 2, 1993

Spin Effects in Chemistry: Theory and Experiment
Chemistry and Physics of Fullerenes
Glass: Physical Science and New Technologies
Optical and Electronic Properties in Restricted Geometries
Molecular Processes at Solid Surfaces

206th ACS National Meeting Chicago, IL August 22 - 27, 1993

Atomic and Molecular Views of the Electrode-Electrolyte Interface
Physical Chemistry and the Environment
Quantum Tunneling in Condensed Phases
Connecting Molecular Level Calculational Tools with Experiment
Protein Folding

207th ACS National Meeting San Diego, CA March 13 - 18, 1994

Comparison of Cluster and Condensed Phase Chemistry
Modern Optical Tools for Probing Molecular Processes
Chemistry at Liquid Surfaces: Equilibrium and Dynamic Properties
Structure and Reactivity in Aqueous Solutions
Chemical Dynamics

208th ACS National Meeting Washington, DC August 21 - 26, 1994

Coherence in Condensed Phase Chemical Dynamics
Materials Research at the Crossroads of Physical and Solid State Chemistries
Nonadiabatic Dynamics
Spectroscopy and Dynamics in Solids
Biophysical Chemistry

209th ACS National Meeting Anaheim, CA April 2-9, 1995

Physical Chemistry of Protein
Photodynamics: Manipulating Molecules with Fields
Density Functional Theory in Chemistry
Physical Chemistry of Polymers and Complex Liquids
Microscopics and Imaging
Metal-Metal Bonding: from Clusters to Surfaces

210th ACS National Meeting Chicago, IL August 20-27, 1995

Physical Chemistry of Membranes
Proton Transfer
Chemical Kinetics in Environmental Systems
Molecular Electronics/Nanostructures and Nanomaterials
Frontiers in Biophysical Chemistry

211th ACS National Meeting New Orleans, LA March 24-28, 1996

Photoeffects at Semiconductor-Liquid Interfaces
Site-Specific Chemical Reactions: The Role of Surface Structure in Mediating Thermal and Photo-Chemistry on Surfaces
Transition State from Dilute Gases to Condensed Media
State-to-State Scattering Studies in the Production and Reactivity of Molecular Photoions
Adsorbed and Included Species in Zeolites

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 two general poster sessions. The topical symposia and their organizers are:

• Experimental and Theoretical Approaches to Supercooled Liquids: Advances and Novel Applications. John Fourkas, Boston College; Daniel Kivelson, University of California-Los Angeles; Udayan Mohanty, Boston College; Keith Nelson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
• Bimolecular Interactions of Small Free Radicals. Millard Alexander, University of Maryland ; Paul Dagdigian, Johns Hopkins University.
• Highly Excited States: Relaxation, Reactions and Structure. Amy Mullin, Boston University; George Schatz, Northwestern University.
• Hyperthermal Energy Molecule/Surface Reactions. (Co-Sponsored with the Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry) Luke Hanley, University of Illinois-Chicago; Dennis Jacobs, University of Notre Dame.
• Performance of Quantum Chemical and Molecular Modeling Codes for Complex Chemical Systems: How Applicable is Current Simulation Technology to Real World Problems? Richard Friesner, Columbia University.
• 100 Years of Physical Chemistry: A Celebration of the Birthday of the Journal of Physical Chemistry. (Co-Sponsored with the Division of The History of Chemistry) Executive Committee, Division of Physical Chemistry.
• Dynamics of Biological Systems. Graham Fleming, University of Chicago.
• Molecular Biotechnology. (Co-Sponsored with the Division of Analytical Chemistry and the Biotechnology Secretariat) Cheng Lee, Iowa State University; Richard Mathies, University of California-Berkley.

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 sessions, unless the authors request otherwise.

The Physical Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society will be having a number of special events during 1996 to celebrate the centennial of the Journal of Physical Chemistry. These include a centennial issue of the Journal to be published on August 1, 1996 to couple closely with the ACS National Meeting in Orlando, Florida, a dinner on Tuesday evening August 27, 1996 at the meeting in honor of the Journal and its present editor, Mostafa El-Sayed, and a one afternoon symposium featuring a number of speakers who represent the breadth and vitality of modern physical chemistry, with a vision of the future, the excitement of the present, and some appreciation for past history. The following physical chemists have agreed to speak at this special symposium: Sylvia Ceyer, David Chandler, Graham Fleming, Joshua Jortner, Alex Pines and Richard Zare. This symposium will be run as a "blocking symposium" on Tuesday afternoon, August 27, 1996, having no sessions in parallel with it. In addition there will be throughout the week (Sunday-Thursday) some 7 other symposia in the Physical Division with more than 45 sessions of exciting physical chemistry on topics including theory, biophysical chemistry, gas and condensed phase dynamics. We hope that you will join us for this singular event and look forward to seeing you in Orlando.

Very Important Notice

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: "

Technical Program

The 213th American Chemical Society National Meeting will be held in San Francisco, CA, April 13-17, 1997. Ellen Stechel, 1997 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:

• Single Molecule Spectroscopy & Manipulation (co-sponsored with the Division of Analytical Chemistry), W.E. Moerner, University of California, San Diego and Sunney Xie, Pacific Northwest National Laboratories.

• Kinetics of Growth on Surfaces, Stan Williams, Hewlett Packard.

• Nanostrutured Materials: Clusters, Composites & Thin Films, Martin Moskovits, Department of Chemistry, Univ. of Toronto and Vladimir Shalaev, Department of Physics, New Mexico State University.

• Frontiers in Electronic Structure Theory, Rod Bartlett, Quantum Theory Project, University of Florida and Martin Head-Gordon, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley.

• Orientational Effects in Chemical Reactions, Roger Miller, Dept. of Chemistry, University of N.C.

• New Concepts in Surface Science: Surface Diffusion, (co-sponsored with the Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry) Prof. John Yates, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Chemistry, Pittsburgh, PA and Prof. Hannes Jonnson, Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

As is now customary, Program Chair Stechel 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 Stechel 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.

Submission of Abstracts

All contributed papers for presentation at the San Francisco meeting, in either the topical symposia or the general poster session, must be sent to Ellen Stechel 1997 Division of Physical Chemistry Program Chair. Important notes:

Abstract deadline: December 1, 1996

Send Abstract to:

Ellen B. Stechel

Sandia National Laboratories

MS 1421, Dept 1153

Albuquerque, NM 87185-1421

(505) 844-2436

FAX (505) 844-4045

Email: ebstech@sandia.gov

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.

Las Vegas, NV, September 7-11, 1997

Four copies of abstracts (with the original on the ACS form) must be submitted by April 15, 1997 to Ellen B. Stechel, Sandia National Laboratories, MS 1421, Dept 1153, Albuquerque, NM 87185-1421, (505) 844-2436, FAX (505) 844-4045, Email: ebstech@sandia.gov. Further information on ACS abstract forms is given at the end of this newsletter.

• Structure & Dynamics at Liquid Interfaces, Jin Zhang and Ilan Benjamin, Department of Chemistry, Univ of California, Santa Clara

• Heterogeneous & Homogeoneous Processes in the Atmosphere (co-organized with the Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry), John Heminger, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine

• Bio-Physical Program
  
• Physical Chemistry of Self-Assembly, (co-organized with the Materials Secretariat)
  
• Dynamics of "small" Molecules
  
• Radiation Chemistry
  

Dallas, TX, March 29-April 3, 1998

Four copies of abstracts (with the original on the ACS form) must be submitted by November 12, 1997 to Geraldine Richmond, whose address is given in the list of officers at the beginning of this newsletter. Further information on ACS abstract forms is given at the end of this newsletter.

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 25-30, 2001

Organic Thin Films for Photonic Applications

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.

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                                                
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Professor Ken Singer          Professor George I. Stegeman  
Case Western University       CREOL                         
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Several outstanding speakers have accepted invitations to participate in the following symposia: "Organometallic Chemistry", "Organic Synthesis", "Chemical and Structural Characterization of Catalysts", "Protein Structure and Function", and "DNA and RNA: Structure, Dynamics and Function". In addition, a special K-12 Chemical Education Workshop and a symposium dealing with Student Affiliates/Undergraduate Research are planned. The technical program consists of general sessions and posters in analytical, inorganic, medicinal, organic, physical, polymer, and theoretical chemistry. ACS Staff will manage an Employment Clearinghouse and present a special Minority Affairs Workshop. A chemical exposition is also planned.

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  ACS Southeast Regional        The 15th North American     
          Meeting               Catalysis Society Meeting   
   November 10-13, 1996         May 18-23, 1997             
Greenville, South Carolina      Sheraton Hotel and Towers   
                                301 East North Water        
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        submitting              Chicago, IL 60611           
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     Furman University          Dr. Jeffrey T. Miller,      
   Greenville, SC  29613        Meeting Secretary           
                                Amoco Corporation           
   phone: (864) 294-3373        150 West Warrenville Road   
    fax: (864) 294-3559         PO Box 3011                 
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The Office of Industry Relations invites you to join us at the 212th ACS National Meeting in Orlando, Florida. The Industry Relations Pavilion will be providing a series of presentations and workshops addressing YOUR practical needs. Whether you're interested in finding sources of money, finding a job, understanding the future, managing your finances, or meeting a famous scientist, the Pavilion is for you. There will be eleven one-hour sessions beginning on Monday, August 26 at 9:30 am and ending Wednesday, August 28 at 2:00 pm. Refreshments will be served and prizes awarded during the three days. For more information, contact the Office of Industry Relations at (202) 872-6075. The workshops and presentations are as follows:

"Marketability and Job Security in the Chemical Industry"

"The Government/Industry Partnership Programs"
"Meet the Eminent Chemist"
"Being Part of an Innovative Team"
"Non-Traditional Fields in Chemistry"
"A View From the Inside: An Industry Recruiter's Perspective"
"The Small Chemical Company: Starting One and Working In One"
"Your Guide to Investing"
"SciFinder"
"Electronic Job Searching"
"The Disney Environmental Challenge"

ACS Department of Government Relations and
Science Policy Analysis

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 for Affiliates are slightly higher than for Members, 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.) Because it is expensive to make extensive mailings to non-ACS members, we request your assistance in publicizing this option. Please inform your colleagues of this information and share the application on page 24 with anyone who may be interested in becoming an Affiliate of the Division.

ACS Releases Biotechnology Information Pamphlet

Biotechnology is any technique that uses living organisms to make or modify products, including simple fermentation in cheese making. However, most people think of genetic engineering when they hear the term "biotechnology." This modification of genetic material in modern biotechnological techniques has raised concerns from all sectors of society about biotechnology's potential risks to the environment and human health. The American Chemical Society's (ACS) newly revised Biotechnology information pamphlet explores the science that underlies this revolutionary field and examines both its potential benefits and risks.

The revised Biotechnology pamphlet was developed by the ACS Department of Government Relations and Science Policy (GRASP). It incorporates scientific advances and public policy developments in bio- technology over the past ten years. Written for the nonscientist, the Biotechnology information pamphlet provides a brief overview of the science behind recombinant DNA technology, and explores its myriad uses. The pamphlet highlights biotechnological applications in human health care, agriculture, environmental protection, industrial processes, and consumer products.

Biotechnology is part of GRASP's Information Pamphlet Series, which are written for the general public to provide a basic understanding of the chemical sciences and technologies underlying public policy issues. Other titles in the series include: Acid Rain; Chemical Risk: A Primer; Chemical Risk: Personal Decisions; Global Climate Change; Ground Water; Hazardous Waste Management; Pesticides; and Recycling.

Individuals may receive one copy of the Biotechnology information pamphlet free of charge. To order, contact GRASP by phone at 202/872-8725 or send a self-addressed label to the American Chemical Society, GRASP, Room 330, 1155 Sixteenth Street, N. W., Washington, DC, 20036. Non-profit organizations may receive up to ten pamphlets free of charge. Additional copies are available for a nominal fee. For details on how to receive multiple copies, please call 202/872-4386.

ACS Publishes Spill Response Guide

For many reasons, people have become extremely cautious when responding to laboratory spills. If handled improperly, a spill can seriously disrupt a laboratory's activities. At worst, a spill can cause bodily harm or property damage. A properly handled spill, on the other hand, may present nothing more than a nuisance. The American Chemical Society's new booklet, The ACS Guide for Chemical Spill Response Planning in Laboratories, is designed to help the bench-top chemist prevent and better respond to chemical spills.

Written by the Society's CEI/CCS Task Force on Laboratory Waste Management, this new booklet provides a framework for spill response planning. The guide reviews emergency preparedness measures, discusses the steps to take when a spill occurs, and recommends procedures for cleaning up a simple spill. Additionally, the guidebook's appendices provide a regulatory overview, a summary of spill prevention methods, a listing of chemical spill kit components, and descriptions of general decontamination processes.

Designed to be easily carried by laboratory personnel, the guidebook may be used in conjunction with an institution's regulatory compliance program. The booklet, however, only provides an overview of the technical considerations required to safely respond to laboratory spills.

Individuals may receive one copy of The ACS Guide For Chemical Spill Response Planning in Laboratories free of charge. Send a self-addressed label to the American Chemical Society, 1155 Sixteenth Street, N. W, Room 330, Washington, DC, 20036. Non-profit organizations may receive up to ten booklets free of charge. Additional copies are available for a nominal fee. For details on how to receive multiple copies, please call (202) 872-8725.

Make a difference. If you don't speak up for science, who will?

An Open Letter to President Clinton and Congressional Leaders

The federal government is at a crossroads: the budget will be balanced in the next seven years and it will take many sacrifices to get there. The Republican budget plans have called for a one-third reduction in federal support for research and education in the sciences in the next seven years. S&T must not be sacrificed for short-term political gains.

Your participation is necessary to prevent these drastic cuts. The ACS will help to secure a strong future for S&T by enlisting its 151,000 members to sign a petition to demonstrate support for federal funding for research and education in the sciences. Please fax back a copy of this letter to (202) 872-6206 or send in your name via e-mail to PETITION@acs.org to have your name added to the petition.

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 the Division 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.

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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.

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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.