American Chemical Society
Division of Physical Chemistry

Fall 2005 Newsletter

Officers
Remarks from the Chair
Election Information and Ballot
Notes from the Secretary
Councilor's Report
Biophysical Subdivision
Theoretical Subdivision
Poster Session Awards
Request for Symposia Topics and Speakers
Recent Symposia Topics
Technical Program — 230^th National Meeting — Washington, DC
Call for Papers — 231^st National Meeting — Atlanta, GA
Restrictions for Speakers for PHYS Symposia
Submission of Abstracts
General Information for Contributed Papers
Future ACS Meetings
Membership Information
Membership Application

Remarks from the Division Chair
Fall, 2005

David Nesbit

Greetings to all members of the PHYS division! As the current chair for 2005, it has been extremely gratifying to see PHYS continue to grow in size, stature and richness of intellectual impact on the chemistry community. This is evidenced in many ways, by the historically large number of contributing abstracts in the biannual ACS meetings, the numerous ACS awards received by our fellow physical chemistry colleagues (and celebrated in the Tuesday award symposia each Spring), as well as the growing number of requests for interdisciplinary topic symposia in collaboration with other divisions. We can all be duly proud of the pivotal role PHYS plays in generating the fundamental ideas and technologies that so often prove crucial for enabling major advances not only in our own area, but also in a remarkably wide variety of other disciplines.

The recent national ACS meeting in San Diego last Spring was a great success for the PHYS division. Under the skillful management of Program Chair Barbara Garrison, organized 8 symposia, reflecting diverse topics from nanoparticles dynamics, environmental physical chemistry, nano-biophotonics, hydrogen bonding, growth and catalysis of metal overlayers, protein/peptide aggregation, and recent developments of NMR. The upcoming ACS Fall meeting in Washington DC is similarly diverse, with symposia on charge transfer processes, computational exploration of energy landscapes, frontiers in photobiology, metal oxides, clusters, ions in complex systems, chemical reactions at solid surfaces, single molecule detection, terahertz spectroscopy, non-linear optics, and innovations in teaching physical chemistry.  Barbara continues our recent and superb tradition of giving Graduate Student Poster Awards (see separate listing in this newsletter). Thanks, Barbara, for putting together two terrific programs!

The program for the spring 2006 meeting to be held in Atlanta, organized by incoming Program Chair Bruce Kay, promises to be equally exciting. Symposium topics will include molecular scale electronics, molecules in space, frontiers in density functional theory, peptides/protein interactions with membranes, emerging issues in atmospheric chemistry, quantum dynamics in condensed phase, spectroscopy of interfaces, and low energy electron induced processes. Once again, PHYS has been blessed with many ACS national award winners choosing to present their award addresses in our division, the full day symposium for which will be held on Tuesday, March 28, 2006. OASYS is currently open for the submission of abstracts for this Spring ACS meeting. We look forward to another banner year of PHYS division effort and activity under Bruce’s guidance.

Programming ideas for the 2007 and 2008 national meetings should be directed to the future Program Chairs Greg Voth and Laurie Butler, respectively. From the input I have received on upcoming programs from these folks, it is clear we will be in excellent hands for years to come!

I would like to invite all PHYS division members to become more active in the Division, as officers or executive committee members. If you are interested in participating in this manner, please let me or any of the other Division officers know, as a three-person Nominating Committee will soon be formed, and we are looking for candidates. In an organization such as the ACS, where the lion’s share of the work is carried out by volunteers, it is critically important to have diverse and active participation by the Division members.

Finally, I would like to thank the officers and staff of the PHYS division for their dedication and hard work. Our Secretary/Treasurer, Ken Jordan, has worked tirelessly for the Division. His efforts to see that the money flows appropriately and quickly have made the national meetings run smoothly. Elaine Springel has been our Division administrative assistant for the past four years and has provided invaluable assistance for which we are most grateful. Over the course of the next year, Ken will be handing over the reins to Anne McCoy, who I’m sure will continue in the excellent tradition as Secretary/Treasurer. I would personally like to thank former division chairs Jim Skinner and John Hemminger for their wisdom and advice to me over the past several years – the “learning curve” for the PHYS division chair can get pretty steep at times – thanks for all the help and support! Our special thanks goes to George Schatz who has most ably taken over the editorship of the Journal of Physical Chemistry from Mostafa El-Sayed. The journal continues to grow in size, diversity and impact, thanks to the hard efforts of these two gifted leaders.

In closing, I just want to say that it has been an honor to serve as the Chair of the PHYS division. I leave feeling more excited than ever about the future of physical chemistry and confident and enthusiastic about the Division’s leadership. It is truly an exciting time to be a physical chemist!

Election Information and Ballot

Dear PHYS Division Member:

The Bylaws of the Division of Physical Chemistry, approved in 1999, 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 vacancy 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.

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 4,000). 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 posting 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.

Biographical sketches of all the nominees are found below. This year, the Nominating Committee consisted of Jim Skinner, David Nesbitt, and Sylvia Ceyer. They have chosen the following candidates for election:

John E. Adams

Division of Physical Chemistry (University of Missouri Section). Chemistry Department., University of Missouri, Columbia. Born: 1952. Academic Record: Univ. of Mo., Rolla, B.S., 1974; Univ. of Calif., Berkeley, Ph.D., 1979. Honors: Sigma Xi; Phi Kappa Phi; Phi Eta Sigma; Phi Lambda Upsilon; NSF Grad. Fell., 1974-77; AMOCO Found. Undergrad. Teach. Award, 1987; Kemper Fell. for Excell. in Teach..; Excellence in Advising Award, 2005. Professional Positions: Univ. of Mo., Prof., 2003 to date; Assoc. Chm. for Undergrad. Studies, 1987 to date; Assoc. Prof., 1987-2003; Asst. Prof., 1981-87; Brown Univ., Vis. Assoc. Prof., 1989-90; Los Alamos Nat. Lab., Postdoc. Fell., 1979-81. ACS Local Section and Division Offices: Mem. ACS since 1974. Physical Chemistry Div.: Councilor, 2003-2005. University of Missouri Sec.: Councilor, 1993-2002; Chm., 1988-89; Chm.-Elect, 1987-88; Secy.-Treas., 1984-85. Midwest Reg. Mtg.: Prog. Chm., 1993; Gen. Chm., 2003. ACS National Service: Soc. Comm. on Bud. and Fin., 2003-2007; Comm. on Const. and Bylaws, 2002-2002, Comm. Assoc., 2003-2005; Comm. on Mem. Aff., 1995-2000, Comm. Assoc., 2001, 1994; Bd. of Trustees, Grp. Ins., Plans for ACS Mem. (ex off.), 1997-2000. Member: APS; Alpha Chi Sigma.

Michael R. Berman

Dr. Michael R. Berman is the program manager for the Molecular Dynamics and Theoretical Chemistry Programs in the Directorate of Chemistry and Life Sciences at the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Arlington, VA. He received his B.S. in Chemistry from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1975 and his Ph.D. degree in Physical Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1981. After a National Research Council Postdoctoral Research Associateship at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC from 1981 to 1982, he was a scientist at the McDonnell Douglas Research Laboratories in St. Louis for eight years. During this period he was also an Adjunct Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Missouri – St. Louis (1985-1989). In his research, he has studied many applications of lasers to chemistry and spectroscopy including the kinetics of fast chemical reactions involved in combustion and atmospheric chemistry, and laser material processing. Dr. Berman received the Donald R. Ulrich Award for excellence in program management at AFOSR (1995) and was named a fellow of the Air Force Research Laboratory (1998). He also received the Arthur S. Flemming Award (1999) which recognizes individuals who have performed outstanding and meritorious work for the Federal government. In 2001, he was selected by the National Research Council to be a member of their Chemical Sciences Rountable, and in 2002, he was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is also a member of the ACS ,APS, and AAAS.

Edwin Heilweil

Edwin Heilweil received B.A. degrees in Chemistry/Mathematics and M.A. degree in Physical Chemistry from Brandeis University (1978) and Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania (1983). At Penn he developed time‑resolved spectroscopic experiments to measure vibrational energy dynamics for condensed‑phase systems. From 1984-85 Dr. Heilweil was a NRC Postdoctoral Fellow at NIST (formerly NBS) and is a staff Research Chemist there. During 1986-1991, he developed ultrafast broadband infrared laser methods to examine vibrational energy transfer and photochemical processes of molecules as gases and in liquids and performed the first time-resolved vibrational measurements for adsorbates on dielectric and metal surfaces. Determining vibrational energy bond-breaking mechanisms and solvation in photochemical metal-carbonyl reactions were Heilweil's major activities in 1994-1998. He performed the first direct measurements of electron charge injection rates for dye-sensitized solar cells in 1998-2000. His current research interests include ultrafast infrared measurements using infrared array detectors for hyperspectral imaging. Far-infrared technologies (Terahertz/THz) are being developed to monitor chemical reactions and structural dynamics of biomolecules in condensed phase and used to detect chemical threats and objects in containers for Homeland Security applications. Heilweil received the Instrument Society of America Beckman Award, Department of Commerce Stratton Award and Sigma Xi Young Scientist award. He has authored 86 technical papers, delivered 107 invited talks, holds one U.S. Patent, chaired the Vibrational Spectroscopy Gordon Conferences in 2000 and 2002 and co-chaired the international Time-Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy conference in May, 2005. Dr. Heilweil is a member of the American Chemical Society (1978), Optical Society of America, Coblentz Society and Sigma Xi.

Laurie J. Butler

B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1985; Postdoctoral associate, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1985-1986. Laurie Butler joined the faculty at The University of Chicago in January of 1987. A full professor in the Department of Chemistry and The James Franck Institute at The University of Chicago working in the area of physical chemistry, her research investigates the fundamental inter- and intramolecular forces that drive the course of chemical reactions. The studies test the predictions of emerging quantum theories on nonadiabatic reaction dynamics in small systems and develop an intuitive framework for understanding chemical reaction dynamics in more complex organic and inorganic reactions not yet accessible to precise quantum calculations. Recent work focusses on investigating bimolecular addition/insertion reactions that proceed via radical intermediates along the reaction coordinate, developing our understanding of reactions important in organic transformations and combustion and atmospheric chemistry. Author of over 75 peer-reviewed papers in the field, she has been recognized by a number of awards including the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, A. P. Sloan Research Fellow, and Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar award. She was named a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2002 and has served the physical chemistry community as chair of the Chemical Physics Division of the American Physics Society and as member of the editorial boards to the Journal of Physical Chemistry and the Journal of Chemical Physics, among others.

Gustavo E. Scuseria

Gustavo E. Scuseria is the Robert A. Welch Professor of Chemistry at Rice University. He obtained his PhD at the University of Buenos Aires in 1983 and joined the faculty at Rice in 1989, after postdoctoral work at UC Berkeley and the University of Georgia. Scuseria is a Fellow of APS and AAAS, and has won numerous prestigious awards including IBM, Dreyfus, and Guggenheim Fellowships. His research interests are in computational quantum chemistry and include density functional and coupled cluster theories, methodology for systems with periodic boundary conditions, relativistic methods, and applications to carbon fullerenes and nanotubes. He is co-author of more than 260 publications. Scuseria is currently Associate Editor of the ACS Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation.

Mark A. Johnson

B.S. in Chemistry (Highest Honors), University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. in Chemistry from Stanford University (Prof. R.N. Zare) and postdoctoral associate with Prof. W.C. Lineberger (J.I.L.A./Univ. of Colorado).

Prof. Johnson has built up a cluster spectroscopy program at Yale University starting in 1985, where he is now Professor of Chemistry. He is especially interested in using molecular clusters as model systems with which to explore elementary aspects of aqueous chemistry, including the hydration of protons and electrons. Other interests include trapping and spectroscopic characterization of trapped reaction intermediates in chemical reactions. He has been instrumental in the development of pulsed methods for incorporation of pulsed lasers into size-selective laser spectroscopies based on mass-spectrometric separation. His work has resulted in over 120 publications in peer reviewed journals and he is presently on the editorial board of Chemical Physics Letters. He has organized three symposia for National ACS meetings and two Gordon Research Conferences. He has been recognized by a number of awards including the Dreyfus Grant for Newly Appointed Faculty, the Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, the Presidential Young Investigator Award, a JSPS Fellowship, and is an elected Fellow of the APS. He is a member of the ACS, APS, and AAAS.

Roger E. Miller

Roger E. Miller is John B. Carroll Professor of Chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He earned his Ph.D. degree in 1980 from the University of Waterloo in Canada, after which he carried out post doctoral work as a research fellow at the Australian National University. In 1985 he moved to the chemistry department at UNC. His awards include; Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, Earle K. Plyler Prize (American Physical Society), William F. Meggers Award (Optical Society of America), Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Senior Research Fellow, Fellow of the American Physical Society and APS Chair of the Division of Chemical Physics (2003) and he is editor of International Reviews in Physical Chemistry. His research interests span a range of fields, including intermolecular forces, chemical dynamics, surface science, atmospheric chemistry and combustion. The unifying theme in all of this work is the application of laser spectroscopy to the study of chemical dynamics and the development of new experimental techniques. Miller has published 215 articles in peer-reviewed journals.

Notes from the Secretary/Treasurer

Kenneth D. Jordan

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 this 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 current ACS Bylaws & Regulations may be viewed at:

http://www.chemistry.org/portal/Chemistry?PID=acsdisplay.html&DOC=committees%5Ccnb%5Cindex.html.

Click on the link to Documents of the Committee and then on the link to Charter, Constitution, Bylaws, and Regulations of the American Chemical Society (Bulletin 5).

A copy of the bylaws and regulations is also included on the Division’s web page (http://hackberry.chem.trinity.edu/PHYS).

Councilor’s Report

John E. Adams

I want to bring to your attention several pieces of business considered at the spring ACS National Meeting in San Diego and to preview the items coming before the ACS Council in Washington this fall. I start with the highlights of the San Diego meeting.

• Council selected candidates for the 2006 President-Elect election. Catherine T. Hunt and John W. Kozarich. They will join George E. Heinze, a certified petition candidate, on the ballot that you all will receive this fall.
• The Committee on Ethics was established by vote of the Council, although not without dissent. Efforts to assign the duties of this new committee to the existing Committee on Economic and Professional Affairs did not find Council support.
• Students continue to constitute a large fraction of national meeting attendees. Indeed, the number of student registrants is roughly two-thirds of the number of regular member registrants.
• Membership in the ACS remains essentially static. There were roughly 158,000 ACS members at the end of 2004.
• A petition advocating a change in the procedures for certain national elections (in particular, when a run-off election is required) was withdrawn. Certain inconsistencies in the proposal were raised by the Committee on Constitution and Bylaws, so the Committee on Nominations and Elections decided to go back to the drawing board. A revised petition from the latter committee is expected in the near future.
• The Council approved an increase in the dues for 2006 in accordance with the formula appearing in the ACS Bylaws. The regular member dues for next year will be $127. To this will be added the Board-approved temporary special assessment of $5 that funds the increase in support to Divisions and Local Sections approved by the Council, the Board, and the membership a couple of years ago.
• The Committee on Budget and Finance reported on the financial status of the Society.  Rather than try to summarize that data here, I invite you to visit the Committee’s web site: go to http://chemistry.org and search on “budget and finance”. The first link will take you to a page where you can find the 2004 audited data.
• The Committee on Membership Affairs is considering the entire ACS membership structure (e.g., should there be both members and associate members?) with an eye to simplifying the current system.
• A task force will be formed to reconsider the structure of Society governance in general. It is not clear at this point what the outcome of these discussions will be.
• ACS staff is looking at the presence of ACS on the web and considering a restructuring of the present site, presumably in conjunction with coming changes in the software that interfaces with the member database.

Now, a peek at coming attractions in Washington….

• Council will elect individuals to various Council committees, including the Committee on Committees (really, I’m not kidding, that is the name—this is the group that largely determines committee appointments), the Council Policy Committee (essentially, the executive committee of the Council), and the Committee on Nominations and Elections. My fellow PHYS councilor, John Yates, is one of the ten nominees for the five open seats on this committee.
• There will be a special discussion on the floor of Council concerning a Vision Statement for the ACS that is being developed by the Board of Directors and the ACS Staff. The preliminary draft is, in this Councilor’s opinion, sufficiently broad to encompass just about anything, but the emphasis (as expected) is on being the “premier professional organization for molecular scientists and engineers” and on maintaining/extending the ACS’s role in the propagation of chemical information (abstracts, publications, meetings).
• The Committee on Constitution and Bylaws will request Council approval of revised bylaws templates for new Local Sections and new International Chemical Sciences Chapters. One of the important changes incorporated in these documents is the removal of provisions requiring that certain elections be conducted by mail ballot.
• Following the close of the Council meeting, the ACS President, Bill Carroll, will chair an open meeting dealing with the subject of ACS Staff compensation. (Bill also chairs the Special Committee on Executive Compensation.) My guess is that this open meeting will generate as much interest as will the formal Council business, inasmuch as executive staff salaries have been the subject of numerous C&EN letters and even more behind-the-scenes discussions/rumors/whispers.

Biophysical Subdivision

Benoit Roux

Subdivision membership is free to dues-paying members or affiliates of the Division of Physical Chemistry. To join the Biophysical Subdivision, notify the Chair, Benoit Roux, 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.

Theoretical Subdivision

Sharon Hammes-Schiffer

I am happy to report that a nominating committee consisting of Ken Jordan, Anne Chaka, Dave Freeman, and Sharon Hammes-Schiffer chose Todd Martinez as the next Vice-Chair-Elect of the Theoretical Subdivision. Todd has agreed to serve in this capacity.

We are happy to announce the winners of this year's IBM Graduate Student Awards in Computational Chemistry. The subdivision is grateful to IBM for their support of these awards. These awards are designed to encourage graduate work in computational chemistry, to recognize research accomplishments, and to stimulate interest in the Subdivision of Theoretical Chemistry and the Physical Chemistry Division of the ACS. Awardee selection was made on a competitive basis. First prize winner, Sergey Maximo, was born in Moscow, Russia in 1977. He received his bachelor and master degrees in materials science from Moscow State University (magna cum laude). As a Ph.D. student with Profs. Scuseria (Rice University) and Ernzerhof (Univeristy of Montreal), he developed a novel formally exact density functional approach to transport through nanostructures and molecules. Second prize winner, Yousung Jung, received his undergraduate education at Seoul National University in Korea, after which he joined Mark Gordon's group at Iowa State University for his M.S. where he became interested in electronic structure theories. He then moved to UC Berkeley in 2001 for his Ph.D. under the direction of Prof. Martin Head-Gordon. >You are encouraged to contact Krishnan Raghavachari with ideas for symposia at future ACS National Meetings. Subdivision membership is free to dues-paying members or affiliates of the Division of Physical Chemistry. To join the Theoretical Subdivision, notify the Chair, Sharon Hammes-Schiffer, 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 Subdivision by completing the application form at the end of this newsletter.

Visit the Theory Subdivision website at www.chem.missouri.edu/theory. Highlights included on the site are links to upcoming meetings of interest to the theoretical community. Please let us know how we can make this site more useful to you by directing your comments to the Subdivision's Webmaster, John Adams (AdamsJE@missouri.edu).

Student Poster Awards

Barbara Garrison

The winners of the Physical Chemistry Student Poster Award Competition at the Spring 2005 ACS meeting in San Diego, CA, are:

• Elena Jakubikova, Colorado State University, “Exploration of Basis Sets for Calculation of Intermolecular Interactions”
• Taewoo Lee, Brown University, “Ultrafast X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (UXAFS) Measurements of Solvated Transition Metal Complexes: Seeing Atomic Motions in Solutions”
• Shashi Vyas, University of California, Davis, “Using Residual Quadrupolar Couplings to Study Ion Binding Site Structure in Biomolecules”
• Michael Murcia, Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis, “
• Eric G. Diken, Yale University, “Argon Predissociation Spectroscopy of the Small Portonated Water Clusters in the 1000-2000 cm^-1 Region: Using the Shared Proton Bands to Explore the Evolution of Eigen vs Zundel Forms of the H⁺(H₂O)_n) (n=2-6) Cations”
• Chad Ray, Duke University, “Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy of Alpha-synuclein 12-mer”

Congratulations to the presenters of these excellent posters! Each winner received $300 and a signed award certificate. The Physical Chemistry Division thanks the many other people who entered the competition and also the twelve anonymous and impartial judges.

Request for Symposia Topics and Speakers

The Executive Committee solicits formal suggestions for symposia and speakers for the meetings to be held in future years. The Executive Committee will meet in Atlanta in March, 2006, to plan the programs for 2007. Please send your suggestions to the 2007 Program Chair, Gregory A. Voth, at the address in the table of officers. The deadline for receipt of suggestions is November 1, 2005. These suggestions will be essential input for organizing the programs of the meetings. For greatest effectiveness, follow these guidelines:

1. Recommend a symposium topic, organizer, and list of suggested speakers (a list of recent PHYS symposia follows for informational purposes).
2. Provide a brief description of the significance of the symposium.

Recent Symposia Topics

Fall 05 Meeting
Technical Program
August 28 – September 1, 2005 — Washington, DC

The 230^th American Chemical Society National Meeting will take place in Washington, DC, during the week of August 28-September 1, 2005. Dr. Barbara Garrison, 2005 Physical Chemistry Division Program Chair, has arranged a broad range of topics in modern physical chemistry to be featured in symposia and a general poster session at this meeting. The topical symposia and their organizers are:

• Charge Transfer Processes: Making Connections, Robert J. Cave (Harvey Mudd College), Matthew B. Zimmt (Brown University), and Alexei A. Stuchebrukhov (University of California, Davis)
• Chemical Control of Oxide Material Response, Andrew M. Rappe (University of Pennsylvania) and Nicola A. Spaldin (University of California, Santa Barbara)
• Computational Exploration of Energy Landscapes: Challenges and Solutions, C. David Sherrill (Georgia Institute of Technology) and Anna I. Krylov (University of Southern California)
• Influence of Local Structure and Reagent Energy on Chemical Reactions at Solid Surfaces, Dennis C. Jacobs (University of Notre Dame) and S. Alex Kandel (University of Notre Dame)
• Frontiers in Photobiology, Robert J. Stanley (Temple University) and Linda A. Peteanu (Carnegie Mellon University)
• Physical Chemistry Curriculum Reform Update:< Where are We Now and Where are We Going?, Tracy A. Schoolcraft (Shippensburg University) and Mark D. Ellison (Wittenberg University)
• Structures and Properties of Small Clusters, Caroline Chick Jarrold (Indiana University) and J. V. Ortiz (Kansas State University)
• Ions in Complex Physical, Chemical and Biological Systems, Benoit Roux (Cornell University) and Susan B. Rempe (Sandia National Laboratories)

Spring 06 Meeting
Call for Papers
March 26-30, 2006 — Atlanta, GA

Program Chair: Bruce D. Kay, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, 99352; 509-376-0028; fax 509-376-6066; bruce.kay@pnl.gov

Online abstract submission for this meeting begins September 12, 2005. Please see http://oasys.acs.org/ for abstract submission access and guidelines. Only electronic abstracts via the ACS online submittal system, OASys, will be accepted, except by special arrangement with the ACS symposium organizers before approximately the end of October. You can check the Division’s website for specific deadlines. The web page is http://hackberry.chem.trinity.edu/PHYS.

Submit your abstract online at the ACS website: http://oasys.acs.org/. Please see the following for more information regarding submission. As is now customary, Program Chair Kay 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 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(s), unless the authors request otherwise. Since the organizers will not be able to accommodate all requests, the poster sessions will be specifically organized to group posters by symposium topic. While the symposia do cover a wide range of topics, they cannot cover the full depth and breadth of physical chemistry. The Division, therefore, also welcomes general contributions to the poster sessions, which will be grouped by subject area.

The planned symposia and their organizers are:

• Emerging Issues in Atmospheric Science: A Physical Chemistry Perspective, Veronica Vaida (University of Colorado) and D. James Donaldson (University of Toronto)
• Interactions of Peptides and Proteins with Membrane Surfaces, Diana Murray (Weill Medical College of Cornell University) and Themis Lazaridis (City College of New York)
• Molecular and Molecular-Scale Electronics, Mark Hersam (Northwestern University) and Mark Ratner (Northwestern University)
• Molecules in Space, Eric Herbst (The Ohio State University) and Lewis Snyder (University of Illinois)
• Quantum Molecular Dynamics in the Condensed Phase: Towards Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Experiment, Jianshu Cao (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Eltan Geva (University of Michigan)
• Spectroscopy of Interfaces, Heather C. Allen (The Ohio State University) and Mary J. Shultz (Tufts University)
• Theoretical and Experimental Advances in The Study of Low-Energy Electron-Induced Process in Complex Systems, Thomas M. Orlando (Georgia Institute of Technology) and William McCurdy (University of California, Davis)

Restrictions on Speakers for PHYS Symposia

A speaker may give, at most, one invited talk in the PHYS Division in any given meeting. Note that this rule does 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.

Submission of Abstracts

Abstract Requirements: Submit a 150-word abstract via the ACS web-based submission system, OASys. Submission instructions and information on abstract requirements can be found at the ACS Web site, http://www.acs.org/meetings.

Request for Contributed Oral Presentations: Authors who submit a contributed paper to the program and wish their abstract to be considered for possible oral presentation in a topical symposium must indicate such preference. The abstract should be submitted to the symposium in which oral presentation is desired and is due one week prior to the deadline.

General Information for Contributed Papers

General Papers – Members are cordially invited to present papers at the poster sessions. Abstracts should be submitted as instructed on the ACS Meetings web page, http://www.acs.org/meetings. The deadline, as published in C&E News, on the OASys web site, and the call for papers must be observed to allow the ACS to compile the program and to print and to circulate the abstracts.

Information and Rules Applying to All Contributed Poster Papers

1. No paper will be accepted unless an author expects to be present.
2. Prospective poster presenters who also submit papers to other Divisions should inform the Chairman-Elects as to the Division, titles of papers and co-authors by the deadline date.
3. Each poster paper will have a poster board measuring 4’x8’.
4. 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.
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.
5. There must be a heading (with letter at least 1” height) giving the title of the papers, the author(s), their affiliation(s), and the number assigned to it in the program.
6. 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.
7. There should be a logical sequence (introduction, development and conclusion) to the display and each sheet should be numbered.
8. Mounting the sheets on colored construction paper and using other techniques for improving graphic impact will enhance the presentation’s effectiveness. Ease of reading is far more important than artistic flair. Certain color combinations, for instance, may look beautiful but may be almost impossible to read, especially in the absence of optimum lighting.
9. Do NOT mount illustrations on heavy stock, which is difficult to mount on the poster boards.
10. Each author is responsible for mounting his or her material at least ½ hour prior to the opening of the assigned poster session and removing it within ½ hour after the close of the session. ACS cannot assume any responsibility for materials beyond those time limits.
11. Do provide sign-up sheets to record names and addresses of attendees who wish more information.
12. Do bring duplicates of data and conclusions. Duplicating facilities are unavailable through ACS.
13. ACS provides a modest supply of pushpins, 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.
14. Admission to poster sessions will be by ACS meeting badge only.
15. 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 Chair.

Future National ACS Meetings

American Chemical Society
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Subdivision of Theoretical Chemistry
Subdivision of Biophysical Chemistry

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 discounts on the purchase price of CDs of meeting abstracts. Discounts for other books and journals are also available, and new arrangements are negotiated from time to time.
2. 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.
3. The Division holds mixers at each national meeting of the ACS at which a division program is presented. These events are held in conjunction with a poster session and provide an excellent opportunity to meet other physical chemists.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. The Division hosts important awards symposia. The Debye, Hildebrand, and Theoretical Chemistry awards are given each year, 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.
7. 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.
8. In 1978, 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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