Welcome to the Division of Physical Chemistry (PHYS) website. Our division focuses on promoting Physical Chemistry within ACS and on organizing the PHYS Symposia at the National ACS Meetings.
- PHYS elections will open soon. Biographical sketches of the candidates are here. Watch your email for election information coming soon.
- Chair’s remarks from the Fall 2011 Newsletter!
- Congratulations to the 2011 ACS Fellows who are members of PHYS!
- The PHYS Division congratulates this year's recipients of the Division's Postdoc Awards: Christian Bleiholder (University of California, Santa Barbara), Sean T. Roberts (University of Southern California), Ksenia Bravaya (University of Southern California) and Igor Schapiro (Bowling Green State University. Each awardee will be will giving a talk in a PHYS symposium at the Denver meeting and will be honored at our reception on Tuesday evening August 30, 2011. Details on the application procedure for the 2011 awards are here, and they will be updated in early 2012 with information on the 2012 process.
- The ACS Graduate Student Awards in Computational Physical Chemistry: Congratulations to the most recent recipients: Dimitrios Argyris (School of Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering, University of Oklahoma; "A Generalized Model for the Electric Double Layer") and Kai Zhang (Department of Chemistry, Duke University; "Monte Carlo Study of Modulated Phases by Thermodynamic Integration"). Information on the 2011 Award can be found on the Theory Subdivision webpage.
- The fifth "Workshop for Undergraduate Chemistry Majors" will be held at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, August 19 - 23, 2012 in Philadelphia, PA. Professor Carol Parish (University of Richmond) is organizing this workshop. More information is here. The application and instructions are here: pdf/ms-word .
- Nominations are being accepted for the 2012 Physical Chemistry Division Award in Theoretical Chemistry until Nov. 1, 2011. Details can be found here. We are pleased to announce that Professor James L. Skinner is the 2011 recipient of the ACS Physical Chemistry Division Award in Theoretical Chemistry, in recognition of his pioneering work in the theory of dynamics and spectroscopy in condensed phases, and for the close coupling of this work to experiment. The award was presented, and the 2010 award to Kenneth D. Jordan, at the Telluride School on Theoretical Chemistry in July.
- Nominations are being accepted for the 2012 Physical Chemistry Divsion Award in Experimental Physical Chemistry until Nov. 1, 2011. Details can be found here. We are pleased to announce that Professor Michael A. Duncan is the 2011 recipient of the ACS Physical Chemistry Division Award in Experimental Physical Chemistry, in recognition of his developments in photodissociation spectroscopy to investigate the structure and bonding in metal atom clusters, metal cation-molecular complexes, protonated molecular ions, and carbocations. The award will be presented at the JPC/PHYS Reception on Tuesday evening at the Fall ACS meeting in Denver.
- See the Fall 2011 National ACS Meeting Poster Award Winners!
- Are you interested in participating in PHYS Division activities?
- If you would like to organize a symposium, please contact Martin Gruebele who is currently scheduling for the year 2012 or Joel Bowman who is working on the 2013 schedule. We are always looking for new people to organize. Here are the Instructions for Symposia Organizers. If you would like to propose a symposium in honor of an individual, special policies apply and can be found here.
- For participation with the Executive Committee contact the chair of the nominating committee, the Biophysical Subdivision contact Gregory Engel, the Energy Subdivision contact John Hemminger, and for the Theoretical Subdivision contact Phillip Geissler.
- Here is how to Join the Division or a subdivision in case you are not already a member.
Best wishes,
Mark A. Johnson
PHYS Division Chair, 2011
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