Fall 2011
Newsletter
Officers
Remarks from Division Chair
Election Information and Ballot
Notes from the Secretary/Treasurer
Councilor's Report
Biophysical Subdivision
Theoretical Subdivision
Energy Subdivision
Student Poster Awards
ACS Physical Chemistry Division Award in Theoretical Chemistry
ACS Physical Chemistry Division Award in Experimental Chemistry
ACS Physical Chemistry Annual
Postdoctoral Award
Request for Symposia Topics
Recent Symposia Topics
Call for Papers — 243rd National Meeting — San Diego, CA
Fall 2012 Meeting, Call for Papers, August 19-23, 2012, Philadelphia, PA
Restrictions for Speakers for PHYS Symposia
Submission of Abstracts
General Information for Contributed Papers
Future ACS Meetings
Information and Rules Applying to All Contributed Poster Papers
Membership Information
Membership Application
http://phys-acs.org/
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2011 OFFICERS |
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Chair (8/10-11) Mark A. Johnson Department of
Chemistry, Yale University New Haven, CT 06520-8107 (203) 436-4930, fax (203) 432-6144 mark.johnson@yale.edu Chair Elect (8/10-11) Sharon Hammes-Schiffer (814) 865-6442, fax (814) 863-5319 Secretary/Treasurer (8/06-11) Anne B. McCoy Columbus, OH 43210 (614) 292-4992, fax
(614) 292-1654 mccoy@chemistry.ohio-state.edu |
Vice-Chair ((8/10-11) Martin Gruebele Department of
Chemistry, University of Illinois Urbana,
IL 61801 (217)
333-1624, fax (217)244-3186 mgruebel@illinois.edu Vice
Chair Elect (8/10-11)
Joel Bowman Department
of Chemistry , Emory University 404-727-6592:
fax 404-727-6628 jmbowma@emory.edu Past Chair (8/10-11) Martin Head-Gordon Department of
Chemistry, University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 (510) 642-5957, fax
(510) 643-1255 mhg@ cchem.berkeley.edu |
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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE |
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Robert Cave
(8/08-11) Harvey Mudd College Ted Goodson (8/09-12)
University of Michigan Frank Keutsch (8/10-13) University of Wisconsin -
Madison |
Caroline Chick-Jarrold (8/08-11) Indiana
University Sotiris Xantheas (8/09-12) PNNL Angela Wilson (8/10-13) University of North Texas |
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COUNCILORS |
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John E. Adams (09-11) University of Missouri Ellen Stechel (10-12) Sandia National Labs |
Michael R. Berman (09-11) AFOSR Paul Jagodzinski (11-13) Northern Arizona University |
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ALTERNATE COUNCILORS |
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Xiaoyang Zhu (09-11) University of
Texas Jianpeng Ma (11-13) Baylor College
of Medicine |
Mary J. Shultz (10-12), Tufts University Rob Walker (11-13) Montana State University |
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BIOPHYSICAL SUBDIVISION |
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Chair (8/10-11)
Douglas J. Tobias Department of
Chemistry University of
California, Irvine (949) 824-4295 dtobias@uci.edu Chair-Elect (8/10-11) Greg Engel Department of ChemistryUniversity of Chicago(773) 834-0818 gsengel@uchicago.edu |
Vice-Chair (8/10-11) Judy Kim Department of Chemistry and BiochemistryUniversity of Califormia San Diego(858) 534-8080
judyk@ucsd.edu Past Chair (8/10-11) Christine Payne Department of Chemistry Georgia Tech (404) 385-3125 christine.payne@chemistry.gatech.edu |
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THEORETICAL SUBDIVISION |
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Chair (8/10-11) C.
David Sherrill Department of Chemistry, Georgia Tech (404) 894-4037 sherrill@gatech.edu Chair-Elect (8/10-11) Phillip Geissler Department of
Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley 510-642-8716 geissler@cchem.berkeley.edu |
Vice-Chair (8/10-11) Laura Gagliardi Department of Chemistry, University of MinnesotaMinneapolis, Minnesota 5545-0431
gagliardi@umn.edu Secretary Jan Steckel (412) 386-4430 steckel@netl.doe.gov
Past Chair (8/10-11) Gerhard Hummer Laboratory of Chemical Physics, National Institutes of Health 301-402-6290 Gerhard.Hummer@nih.gov |
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ENERGY SUBDIVISION |
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Chair (8/10-11) Emily A. Carter Department of
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Princeton University (609) 258-5391 eac@princeton.edu Chair-Elect (8/10-11) John C. Hemminger Department of
Chemistry (949) 824-6022 jchemmin@uci.edu |
Vice-Chair (8/10-11)
William Schneider Department of
Chemistry University of Notre
Dame (574) 631-8754 wschneider@nd.edu Past Chair (8/10-11) Bruce D. Kay Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory (509) 386-0028 Bruce.kay@pnl.gov |
Remarks from the Division Chair
Fall, 2011
The symposia organized by Sharon Hammes-Schiffer for the ACS National Meetings at Anaheim
and Denver were quite successful, providing excellent venues to highlight the outstanding
work being carried out by leaders in the field as well as younger scientists at
many levels. We are particularly excited
by the introduction of our mid-career awards for Theoretical and Experimental
Chemistry, with James Skinner and Michael Duncan being named this year’s
winners. In addition, we have four
post-doctoral prize lectures at the fall meeting, which provides a new venue designed
to enhance the visibility of physical chemists just on the threshold of their
independent careers. This year’s winners
are 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),
who received the
awards at the PHYS division reception on Tuesday evening in Denver. The reception is another relatively new
addition to our portfolio of division activities, and we are very grateful to
George Schatz and the Journal of Physical Chemistry in particular for
supporting this wildly successful event.
The poster sessions were once again well attended, with awards presented
to outstanding presentations by graduate students. Finally, Denver included the
Undergraduate Research Symposium organized by George Shields, bringing 12
students to the meeting with special introductory lectures by luminaries in the
fields highlighted in the program.
The PHYS division is thus constantly seeking
ways to serve our membership and maintain the vitality of the discipline. We
urge younger scientists to join PHYS so as to be eligible for these and other
opportunities. We look forward to another successful year as I turn the
Chair’s responsibilities over to Sharon Hammes-Schiffer,
and enjoy the symposia organized by program chair Martin Gruebele.
Remember, the programming is for YOU, and we seriously invite your suggestions
for new areas to highlight and organizers who may wish to participate more
fully in the division.
Election Information and Ballot
Dear PHYS
Division Member:
The
Bylaws of the Division of Physical Chemistry, approved in 2006, 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.
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
distribute 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 Martin Head-Gordon, Mark Johnson and Fleming Crim. They have chosen the
following candidates for election:
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Vice-Chair-Elect: |
Executive Committee: Carol Parish (to replace Robert Cave) |
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Alternate Councilor: |
Councilor: John Adams (for re-election) Michael Berman (for re-election) |
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Secretary/Treasurer: T. Daniel
Crawford (to succeed Anne B. McCoy) |
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The
election will open September 30, with a closing date of October 28.
John
E. Adams
received his B.S. degree in Chemistry from the University of Missouri-Rolla
(1974) and his Ph.D. degree in Physical Chemistry from the University of
California, Berkeley, working with W. H. Miller (1979). He was a Director’s
postdoctoral fellow at Los Alamos National Lab (1979-1981), working with J. D.
Doll, before moving to the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1981. He
currently is Curators’ Teaching Professor of Chemistry and Associate Chair for
Undergraduate Studies at MU and has been cited for his teaching and service to
the University by being awarded the AMOCO Foundation Undergraduate Teaching
Award (1987), a William T. Kemper Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching (1993),
the Excellence in Education Award (1999), the Excellence in Advising Award (2005),
the Outstanding Faculty Academic Advisor Award of the Missouri Academic
Advising Association (2005), the President’s Award for Outstanding Teaching
(2009), and the Governor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching (2009). His
research is in theoretical chemical dynamics, with current interests in the
dynamics of host-guest complexes and in energy transfer at a gas-liquid
interface. A member of ACS since 1974, he has served as Chair (1988-1989),
Chair-Elect (1987-1988), Secretary-Treasurer (1984-1985), and Councilor
(1993-2002) of the University of Missouri Local Section; and Program Chair
(1993) and General Chair (2003) of the Midwest Regional Meeting. His previous national service includes the
Council Committee on Membership Affairs (associate 1994 and 2001, member
1995-2000), the Society Committee on Budget and Finance (associate 2002, member
2003-2010, chair 2010), the Council Committee on Constitution and Bylaws
(member 2002, associate 2003-2010), the Program Review Advisory Group
(2006-2009, chair 2009), the Board Committee on Executive Compensation (2010),
and the Board Committee on Planning (2010), as well as several task forces.. He
currently serves as Councilor of the Physical Chemistry Division (2003-2011)
and is a member of the Council Policy Committee (2011-2013), the chair of the
ACS Fellows Program Oversight Committee (2010-2011), a Trustee of the Group
Insurance Plans for ACS Members (1997-2000, 2011-2013), webmaster of the
Theoretical Chemistry Subdivision, and webmaster and archivist of the Midwest
Regional Board. He received the E. Ann Nalley Midwest
Award for Volunteer Service (2008) and was named an ACS Fellow in 2009. He also is active in the Alpha Chi Sigma
Professional Chemistry Fraternity (vice president 1998-2002, president
2002-2004), is Secretary-Treasurer of the Alpha Chi Sigma Educational
Foundation (2009-2012), and is a member of APS and Sigma Xi.
Michael R. Berman received his B.S. degree in Chemistry from the State University of New York at Stony Brook (1975) and his Ph.D. degree in Physical Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley (1981). He was a National Research Council Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Naval Research Laboratory (1981-2) and then a scientist at the McDonnell Douglas Research Laboratories (1982-1991). He currently is a program manager at the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (1991-present) where he directs major national research programs in Chemical Dynamics and Theoretical Chemistry. His own research has included analytical chemistry using laser fluorescence detection (with R. N. Zare), the first experiments in multiphoton ionization spectroscopy of molecules (with P. M. Johnson), infrared laser-induced chemistry (with C. B. Moore) and the chemistry of CH radicals (with M. C. Lin). He has also done work on laser kinetics and laser materials processing. The research program that he manages at AFOSR has interests in nanostructures for catalysis and sensing, chemical reaction dynamics, atmospheric and space chemistry, energy storage and utilization, and lasers and diagnostics. Dr. Berman has received awards that include the Air Force John L. McLucas Basic Research Award (2008), the Arthur S. Flemming Award (1999), and the Donald R. Ulrich Award (1995). He is a fellow of the American Association of Arts and Sciences (2002) and the American Physical Society (2008) a member of the American Chemical Society. He also serves as a member of the National Academy of Sciences Chemical Sciences Roundtable (2001 – present), and as a Councilor for the Physical Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society (2006 – present). He also serves on the ACS Committee on Science(2009 - present) and the ACS Divisional Activities Committee (2009 - present).
Nancy E. Levinger is a Professor and
University Distinguished Teaching Scholar at Colorado State University where
she holds faculty positions in Chemistry and in Electrical Computer
Engineering. She earned B.A. degrees from Northwestern University in Integrated
Science and physics. Her Ph.D. degree in chemical physics from the University
of Colorado investigated spectroscopy and dynamics in large cluster ions. As a NSF postdoctoral fellow, she worked on
ultrafast electron transfer dynamics with P. F. Barbara at the University of
Minnesota. Since joining the faculty at
Colorado State University in 1992, her work has focused on dynamics of
molecules in the condensed phase, especially molecular assemblies, molecules at
liquid interfaces and in confined environments structure. She utilizes a broad
range of techniques from ultrafast spectroscopies to NMR to neutron scattering
to develop detailed models for complex systems. She is a fellow of the American
Physical Society and American Association for the Advancement of Science. She has served in the American Physical
Society Division of Chemical Physics as a committee-member-at-large. As the current councilor for the APS DCP, she
serves on the APS Executive committee. For her contributions in science and
education, she holds the title of University Distinguished Teaching Scholar.
Carol Parish is
currently the Floyd D. and Elisabeth S. Gotttwald
Chair and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Richmond. She received
the Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Purdue University where she studied
electronic structure theory with Cliff Dykstra.
She was also a Fujitsu post-doctoral fellow in Clark Still’s laboratory
at Columbia University and completed a sabbatical year in Roald Hoffmann’s
group at Cornell. Her work investigates
the fundamental molecular nature of a wide range of physical phenomenon ranging
from the accurate characterization of diradical
excited states to the dynamics of motor proteins. In the last 9 years she has coauthored 18
research publications with her undergraduate students and raised
over $1.8 million to support her research group from NSF, DOE, ACS-PRF and the
Dreyfus Foundation including the receipt of a Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar
award in 2005. Professor Parish has mentored 74 amazingly bright and hard-working
undergraduates in her research. Her students have gone on to do great things
including winning a Rhodes Scholarship, a Gates – Cambridge Scholarship, a
Department of Energy Fellowship, 3 ACS Scholar awards, a Fulbright Fellowship,
a DAAD Fellowship and 8 Goldwater Scholarships. Twenty-five of her students
have pursued the Ph.D in the chemical sciences and a
similar number have gone on to high-quality medical schools. Women and other
underrepresented students have worked with her in disproportionate numbers. She is a founding member of the MERCURY
consortium to support undergraduate computational chemistry.
T. Daniel Crawford is a Professor of
Chemistry at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. He received his B.S.
in chemistry and mathematics (cum laude) from Duke University in 1992
and his Ph.D. from the University of Georgia in 1996 under the direction of
Prof. Henry F. Schaefer. His research interests focus on the development
of quantum chemical models – especially high-accuracy methods such as coupled
cluster theory – for chiroptical spectroscopy,
including optical rotation, electronic and vibrational circular dichroism, and Raman optical activity. In addition,
his work contributes to new advances in reduced-scaling models for large
molecules, as well as accurate simulations of solvation effects on molecular
properties. He has given more than 90 invited lectures at conferences and
universities worldwide, and in 2010 he was co-organizer of the international
conference, "Molecular Quantum Mechanics: From Methylene to DNA and
Beyond" held at the University of California, Berkeley. In addition
to multiple teaching awards, he is the recipient of a New Faculty Award from
the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation (2000), an NSF CAREER award (2002), a
Cottrell Scholar award from the Research Corporation for the Advancement of
Science (2003), and the Dirac Medal of the World Association of Theoretical and
Computational Chemists (given annually to "the outstanding computational
chemist under the age of 40").
Donna J.
Minton
earned her B.S. (highest honors), M.S., and Ph.D. in Chemistry from Montana
State University - Bozeman. Her research involved molecular-beam
investigations of the dynamics of atomic-oxygen reactions with liquid
hydrocarbon surfaces and gaseous H2, methane, and ethane.
During her graduate work, she received a NASA GSRP Fellowship, and upon
completion of her degree, she was awarded the 2004 the university-wide Graduate
Achievement Award for Outstanding Performance in a Doctoral
Program. Following her graduate studies, she became the Deputy
Director of the NASA Montana Space Grant Consortium, during which time she also
served as Chair of the Montana Section of the ACS. In her position with
the Montana Space Grant Consortium, she organized several research projects
involving materials testing on the International Space Station. She took
her current position as Managing Editor with ACS Publications in 2007.
Her primary responsibilities have been with the Journal of Physical
Chemistry, but she has also participated in a number of initiatives within
the ACS Publications Division, including the launch of the Journal of
Physical Chemistry Letters. She has recently assumed additional
responsibilities as Managing Editor for the Journal of Chemical Theory &
Computation and Energy & Fuels.
Andrei Sanov is a Davis & Weed Professor in the
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Arizona. He
received his Master’s degree in Physics and Mathematics from the Moscow
Institute of Physics and Technology in 1992 and a Ph.D. degree in Chemistry
from the University of Southern California in 1996 (advisor: H. Reisler). Prior to
joining the University of Arizona faculty, he worked as a postdoctoral
research associate in the laboratory of W. C. Lineberger
at JILA, the University of Colorado in Boulder (1996-1999). His current
research program focuses on the applications of photoelectron imaging
spectroscopy to the studies of the electronic structure, reactivity, and
photoemission dynamics of atomic, molecular, and cluster anions. He is a past
recipient of the Beckman Young Investigator Award for innovative research
within the chemical and biological sciences (2002), the NSF Faculty Early
Career Development Award (2002), the Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering
(2002), and the Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (2004).
BALLOT
I approve the
nomination of Michael Berman for Councilor from January 1,
2012 through December 31, 2014.
YES [ ]
NO [ ]
I approve the
nomination of John Adams for Councilor from January 1, 2012
through December 31, 2014.
YES [ ] NO [ ]
I approve the
nomination of Donna Minton for Alternate Councilor from January
1, 2012 through December 31, 2014.
YES [ ]
NO [ ]
Voter’s Signature __________________________________
Please return your
ballot by October 28, 2011 to:
physvote@chemistry.ohio-state.edu
Or by mail to:
Anne B. McCoy, Secretary/Treasurer
Department of Chemistry
The
Notes from the Secretary/Treasurer
Anne B.
McCoy
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 April 1 and August 15 for the newsletters
appearing before the Spring and Fall ACS meetings,
respectively. Submissions may be made
via mail, FAX, or e-mail.
Councilor’s Report
Paul Jagodzinski
Fellow
members of the Physical Division,
The finances of the Society continue to be an
issue requiring due diligence on the part of the Board of Directors, the
Committee on Budget and Finance, and senior staff. The Society is anticipating
a greater net return from operations than budgeted for the current fiscal year.
However, the market decline and low interest rates require that the Society use
unrestricted net assets to cover some liabilities. Consequently, the Society is
not able to meet all of its financial guidelines.
Contained below is a synopsis of the
discussions and actions taken during the Council meeting held at the Fall 2011 national meeting in Denver as well as other
information reported to Councilors. The complete Council Agenda may be found at
the following link: http://portal.acs.org/portal/PublicWebSite/about/governance/councilors/CNBP_027851
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Council
elected Rigoberto Hernandez, Zaida
Martinez-Morales, Howard Peters and Sara Risch to
serve on the Committee on Committees for the 2012-2014 term.
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Council
elected Lawrence Barton, Peter Jurs, Mamie Moy and
Eleanor Siebert to serve on the Council Policy Committee for the 2012-2014 term.
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Council
elected Jack Breazeale, Catherine Fenseleau,
Anne O’Brien and Andrea Twiss-Brooks to serve on the
Committee on Nominations and Elections for the 2012-2014 term.
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Dennis
Chamot and Marinda Li Wu
were announced as candidates for President-Elect 2012.
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Ken
Anderson, William Carroll, Charles Kolb and Barbara Sawrey
were announced as candidates for Director-at-Large 2012-2014.
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Pat
Confalone and David Lohse
were announced as candidates for Director, District III, 2012-2014.
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Bonnie
Charpentier and Carlos Gutierrez were announced as
candidates for Director, District VI, 2012-2014.
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Council
voted to approve the Petition on Position
Statements. This petition assures that the Board of Directors has sole
authority in issuing position statements that establish policy for the Society
and that Society bodies other than the Board may issue statements on issues
that fall solely in their jurisdiction so long as they do not impair other
Society bodies’ ability to do the same. The Board will vote within 90 days on
whether to ratify the approved petition.
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Council
received two petitions to amend the ACS Constitution and Bylaws for
consideration. Action is expected at the 2012 Spring
meeting.
1) Petition on Market Data Collection
o
This
petition seeks to allow for controlled market testing in order to collect data
before the Society would change benefits, dues, or membership categories.
2) Petition to Amend Recorded Vote Request Procedure
o
This
petition, impacting Council meeting procedures, provides that a call for a
recorded vote after clicker voting has commenced and that a call for a recorded
vote after the initial clicker voting has taken place would both be out of
order.
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As
the result of a regular performance review, Council voted to continue the joint
Board-Council Committees on Publications and on Community Activities.
Continuing these committees requires Board of Directors concurrence.
·
President
Nancy Jackson led Council in a discussion on how the ACS can best cultivate a
culture of safety in US universities and colleges.
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Council
voted to grant full division status to the previously probationary Division of
Catalysis Science and Technology and to approve the division bylaws.
·
After
much discussion, Council voted 53%-47% to dissolve the Division of Petroleum
Chemistry and to combine its assets and members with those of the Division of
Fuel Chemistry under the new name of the Division of Energy and Fuels effective
December 31, 2011. The discussion focused on the name of the new division.
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The
Chair of the Board reported that the ACS appealed a previous ruling in the Leadscope case to the Ohio Supreme Court and that the Court
has agreed to hear the case. Oral arguments are scheduled for September 7 in
Columbus, Ohio.
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The
Board considered several program funding requests and, on the recommendation of
B&F, voted to include ACS Fellows,
ACS Leadership, ACS Scholars, and
ACS Global Research Experiences,
Exchanges, and Training Programs in the 2012 proposed budget. The Board
also voted to include funding for the ACS
Entrepreneurship Initiative in the 2012 and 2013 budgets.
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The
Board voted to adopt a non-Councilor committee member reimbursement policy at
the rate of 50% of Councilor travel reimbursement effective 2012.
Please feel free to contact me if you have
any questions about these or any other issues.
Biophysical Subdivision
Gregory
Engel
Subdivision membership is free to dues-paying members or affiliates of the Division of Physical Chemistry. To join the Biophysical Subdivision, notify the chair, Gregory Engel, 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
Phillip Geissler
Representing diverse interests within quantum chemistry and statistical mechanics, the Theoretical Subdivision leads the planningof PHYS symposia that feature significant contributions from theory and/or computation. The Subdivision also promotes the work of
theoretical physical chemists by developing and administering awards for early- and mid-career scientists, currently including the ACS Physical Chemistry Division Award in Theoretical Chemistry (nominations due Nov. 1) and the Graduate Student Award in Computational Physical Chemistry. We invite your nominations for these awards, as well as ideas for symposia at upcoming national meetings. Please submit such input to the current Subdivision Chair, Phillip Geissler.
Theoretical chemistry will be strongly represented at the Spring 2012 meeting in San Diego. Symposia concentrated in theoreticalpresentations include "Water Mediated Chemical Assembly," "Single Molecules: Theory Meets Experiment," "Frontiers in Heterogeneous Catalysis," "Nonadiabatic Dynamics: Surface Hopping and Beyond," and "Physical Chemistry of CO2 Separation."
Subdivision membership is free to dues-paying members or affiliates of the Division of Physical Chemistry. To join the TheoreticalSubdivision, please contact the Subdivision Secretary, Jan Steckel.
EnergySubdivision
Emily
Carter
The Energy Subdivision
was created in 2010 to address fundamental physical chemistry phenomena
relevant to the efficient conversion, storage, and utilization of energy and the
impact of energy technologies on the environment. Physical chemistry provides the scientific
foundation for many energy-related technologies such as combustion, catalysis,
fuel cells, energy storage, lighting, and solar energy conversion (photocatalysis, photoelectrochemistry, and photovoltaics),
and plays a central role in understanding related issues in climate change,
carbon capture and sequestration, and environmental detection and remediation
of pollutants caused by energy technologies. The Subdivision works
closely with the Division and the Theoretical and Biophysical Subdivisions in
developing energy-related programming for symposia at national meetings.
The inaugural officers
for the Subdivision were Bruce D. Kay (Chair) of Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory, Emily A. Carter (Chair-Elect) of Princeton University, and John C. Hemminger (Vice-Chair) of the University of California, Irvine.
William F. Schneider of the University of Notre Dame joined the
leadership team in 2011 as Vice-Chair-Elect. Currently, the leadership is Emily
A. Carter (Chair), John C. Hemminger (Chair-elect), and
William F. Schneider (Vice-Chair). We are delighted to welcome Dr. Steve Harris
of General Motors Research & Development Center as our new
Vice-Chair-Elect.
Subdivision membership
is free to dues-paying members or affiliates of the Division of Physical
Chemistry. To join the Energy Subdivision, simply complete and submit the
application form at the end of this newsletter.
Lastly, I’d like to
call your attention to two symposia we are sponsoring that will be held at the Spring 2012 ACS National Meeting:
“Physical Chemistry of
CO2 Separation,” co-organized by our Vice-Chair Bill Schneider and Abhoyit Brown of EPRI, and
“Solar
Energy Conversion and Utilization for Fuels and Energy Production,”
co-sponsored by PHYS and the Fuels Division.
Student Poster Awards
Mark
Johnson
The winners of the
Physical Chemistry Student Poster Award Competition at the Fall
2011 ACS meeting in Denver, CO were:
Yuyuan Zhang, University of
Southern California, “Competing
photoionization and photodissociation process in
small heteroaromatic systems”
Anne-Marie Dowgiallo,
Florida State University, “Ultrafast
electron-phonon coupling in hollow gold nanospheres”
Melissa Paulite,
University of Toronto, “Nanoscale imaging of the secondary structure of individual
amyloid fibrils made from a ß2-microglobulin fragment using
near-field infrared microscopy”
Zulma Jimenez (Sid Benson Award), Florida State University, “Stabilization
of scroll rings in the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction”
Takuji Adachi, University of Texas at Austin, Optical properties of ordered and
disordered single P3HT chains and the conformational effect on energy transfer”
Joshua Martin, University of Colorado,
“Photodissociation
dynamics of a triatomic pseudo-dihalide: Absorption
cross section and dynamics of solvated ICN-”
Alina Sergeeva, Utah State University , “Rationalizing
chemical bonding in molecular Wankel motors”
ACS Physical Chemistry Division Award in Theoretical
Chemistry
ACS Physical Chemistry Division Award in Experimental Chemistry
ACS Physical Chemistry Division Postdoctoral Research
Award
Congratulations to the winners of the 2011
ACS Physical Chemistry Division Postdoctoral Research Award. There are two winners
in the theoretical and computational area: Ksenia Bravaya (USC: Krylov group), Igor
Schapiro (Bowling Green: Olivucci group), and two
winners in experimental physical chemistry: Sean Roberts (USC; Bradforth/Benderskii group) and Christian
Blieholder(UCSB;
Bowers group). Each award winner
gave an invited talk at the Fall 2011 National ACS
meeting in Denver, CO, and they were honored at a reception that was held on
Tuesday. Nominations are being accepted
through November 1, 2011.
Request for Symposia Topics
Nancy Levinger
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 San Diego, CA in March, 2012 to plan the
programs for 2013. Please send your
suggestions to the 2013 Program Chair, Joel Bowman, at the address in the table
of officers. The deadline for receipt of suggestions is November 1, 2011.
These suggestions will be essential
input for organizing the programs of the meetings. For greatest effectiveness, follow these guidelines:
a) Recommend a symposium topic,
organizer, and list of suggested speakers (a list of recent PHYS symposia
follows
for informational purposes).
b) Provide a brief description of the
significance of the symposium.
Recent
Symposia Topics
235th ACS Physical
Chemistry of Atmospheric Processes
National Meeting Optical Probes of Dynamics
in Complex Environments
April 6-10, 2008 Computational
Spectroscopy
Nanostructured
Materials
Electronic
Structure and Reaction Dynamics of Open-Shell Species
Spectroscopy,
Chemistry and Imaging Through Nanophotonics
236th ACS Water Mediated
Interactions
National Meeting Advances in the Electronic
Structure of Transition Metal Systems and Organometallics
August 17-21, 2008 Protein Folding Dynamics:
Experiments and Theory
Recent
Advances in Biophysical Chemistry of Transport by Biomolecular
Motors and Machines
Fundamental
Advances in Contemporary NMR Spectroscopy
Centennial
of the Physical Division: Celebrating the Past, Embracing the Future
237th ACS New
Developments in Energy Conversion and Light-Harvesting
National Meeting Advances in Electronic
Structure Theory and First Principles Dynamics
March 22-26, 2009 Convergence Between
Theory and Experiment in Surface Chemistry and Catalysis
Functional
Motions in Enzyme Catalysis
Molecular
Hydrogen in Nanoporous Materials: Meeting Ground for
Theory and Experiment
From
Clusters to the Condensed Phase: Progress in Polarizable Force Fields and
Simulation
238th ACS Molecular
Basis of Protein Aggregation and Amyloid Fibril Formation
National Meeting New Developments in
Strongly Correlated Electrons
August
16-20, 2009 Protected
Metallic Clusters, Quantum Wells and Metal-Nanocrystal
Molecules in Fundamental and
Applied Chemistry
The
Physical Chemistry of Photon to Fuel Conversion
Graphitic
Materials
Fluorescence
Microscopy Beyond the Diffraction Limit
Chemical
Reaction Dynamics in Gaseous and Condensed Phases
Special
Symposium for Postdoctoral Presenters
239th ACS Multiscale Nanomaterials,
Polymer, and Biomolecular Dynamics
National Meeting Optical Science and
Emerging Energy Technologies
San Francisco, CA Dynamics in Clusters and
Floppy Systems: Theory and Experiment
March 21-25, 2010 Fluorescent Probes in
Biophysics and Chemistry
Recent
Advances in Observational and Experimental Astrochemistry
Measuring and Manipulating Condensed Phase
Chemistry in Time and Frequency: Celebrating 50 Years of the Laser
Physical Chemistry of Ionic Liquids
240th ACS Electrons in
Bio-Molecules
National Meeting Molecular Systems for
Efficient Solar Energy Conversion and Storage
Boston, MA Challenges for
Density Functional Theory
August 22-26, 2010 Physical Chemistry of Spectrochemical Analysis
Metals
in Biology
Physical
Chemistry of Hydrates, Interfaces and Aerosols and Their Relationship to
Climate
Recent
Advances in Ion Mobility for Analysis and Characterization of Macromolecules
Chemical
Computations on General Purpose Graphics Processing Units (GP-GPU’s)
241st ACS Membrane
Protein Structure and Function
National Meeting Fragment and Local Orbital
Methods in Electronic Structure Theory
Anaheim, CA 20 Years of
Tunneling Pathways
March 27-31, 2011 Chemical Reactions and
Dynamics at Surfaces: Advances in Experiment and Theory
Chemical
Carbon Mitigation: A Physiochemical Approach
Quantum
Information and Computation in Chemistry: Experiment and Theory
Infrared
Spectroscopy of Gas and Condensed Phase Biomolecules
242nd ACS From Ultrafast Electron Transfer to Single Molecule
Spectroscopy: Forces Driving Contemporary National Meeting Themes in
Physical Chemistry
Denver, CO Heterogeneous
Atmospheric Chemistry
August 28- Pushing the
Envelope: Computational Chemistry at the Petascale
and Beyond
September 1, 2011 Advances in SERS and Molecular Plasmonics
Symposium
in Honor of 100th Anniversary of Marie Curie’s Nobel Prize For International Year of Chemistry
Excited
State Dynamics: Theory and Experiment
Advanced
Microscopy Techniques for Biophysical Questions
Reduced
Density Matrices in Quantum Chemistry and Physics
Spring 2012 Meeting
Technical Program
March 25-29, 2012 San Diego, CA
The 243rd
American Chemical
Society National Meeting will take place in San Diego, CA during the week of March
25-29, 2012.
Martin Gruebele, 2012 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
window for abstract submission for this meeting is open until October 17th . The topical symposia and their organizers
are:
Water Mediated
Chemical Assembly,
Dor Ben-Amotz (Purdue University), Dmitry Matyushov (Arizona
State University)
Single Molecules:
Theory Meets Experiment, Robert Dickson (Georgia
Tech), Jianshu Cao (MIT)
From Geochemistry to
Biochemistry and the Origin of Life, Veronica Vaida (University of Colorado), Sheref Mansy (Universita di Trento), Ulrich Muller (UCSD)
Frontiers in
Heterogeneous Catalysis, Roger Rousseau (Pacific
Northwest Laboratory), Zdenek Dohnalek
(Pacific Northwest Laboratory)
Nonadiabatic Dynamics: Surface Hopping and Beyond, Oleg Prezhdo (University
of Rochester), Xiaosong Li (University of Washington)
Current Views on
Secondary Structure,
Angel Garcia (Renesellaer Polytechnic Institute), Feng Gai (University of Pennsylvania), Sean Decatur (Oberlin College)
Physical Chemistry of
CO2 Separation, William Schneider (University
of Notre Dame), Abhoyjit Bhown
(Electric Power Research Institute)
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 be asked your primary area of chemical research. If you check the Physical Chemistry, you will contribute to our income and allow the
Division to offer better symposia.
Fall 2012 Meeting
Call for Papers
August 19 – 23, 2012 Philadelphia, PA
Program
Chair: Martin Gruebele,
University of Illinois, mgruebel@illinois.edu
Online
abstract submission for this meeting opens in January or February, 2012.
Please see http://abstracts.acs.org for abstract submission access and
guidelines. Only electronic abstracts via
the ACS online submittal system will be accepted, except by special arrangement
with the ACS symposium organizers. You
can check the Division’s website for specific deadlines. The web page is http://phys-acs.org/.
Submit
your abstract online at the ACS website: http://abstracts.acs.org. Please see the following for more information
regarding submission. As is now customary, Program Chair Hammes-Schiffer 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.
Kinetics and mechanism in the Earth’s Atmosphere Ronald C. Cohen (UC Berkeley), Timothy H. Bertram (UC San Diego)
Bridging the Gap between ab ignition and Classical Simulations Laura Gagliardi
(University of MInnesota), Lyudmilla Slipchenko (Purdue)
Solvent Dynamics at Biomolecular
Interfaces: Experiment and Theory Casey Londergan (Haverford College), Steven Corcelli (University
of Notre Dame)
Dynamics and Jamming in Complex
Environments Laura
Kaufman (Columbia University), Vassiliy Lubchenko (University of Houston)
Electron and Energy Transfer Phenomena:
At the Intersection of Electronic Structure Theory and Chemical Dynamics Joseph Subotnik
(University of Pennsylvania), Robert
Cave (Harvey Mudd
College), Marshall Newton (Brookhaven
National Laboratory)
Synthesis, Spectroscopy, Theory and
Applications of Nanocrystals and Nanowires Yi Cui (Stanford University), Todd
Krauss (University of Rochester), Eran Rabani (Tel Aviv University)
Photochemistry in Biology Judy Kim (UC San Diego), Greg Engel (University
of Chicago)
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, abstracts.acs.org.
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.
Presentation Requirements : If you plan to use an
overhead projector for you presentation, please notify the symposium organizer
and the Secretary/Treasurer (Daniel Crawford, Virginia Tech) so we can ensure it is ordered.
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 abstract submission,
and the call for papers must be observed to allow the ACS to compile the
program and to print and to circulate the abstracts.
Future National ACS Meetings
San
Diego, CA March 25-29, 2012 New
Orleans, LA April 7-11, 2013
Program
Chair: Martin Gruebele Program
Chair: Joel Bowman
University of Illinois Emory
University
gruebele@scs.illinois.edu jbowma@emory.edu
Philadelphia, PA August 19-23, 2012 Indianapolis,
IN September 8-12, 2013
Program Chair: Martin Gruebele Program
Chair: Joel Bowman
University of Illinois Emory
University
gruebele@scs.illinois.edu jbowma@emory.edu
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-Elects 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 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.
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. Using
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.
11. Each
author is responsible for mounting his or her material at least ˝ hour prior to
the opening of the assigned poster session and removing it within ˝ hour after
the close of the session. ACS cannot
assume any responsibility for materials beyond those time limits.
12. Do
provide sign-up sheets to record names and addresses of attendees who wish more
information.
13. Do bring duplicates of data and
conclusions. Duplicating facilities are
unavailable through ACS.
14. 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.
15. Admission
to poster sessions will be by ACS meeting badge only.
16. 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.
17. Students
wishing to have their posters considered for the poster competition should
obtain a red star from the program chair to and post it next to the poster
number.
American Chemical Society, Division of Physical Chemistry
Subdivision of Theoretical Chemistry, Subdivision of Biophysical Chemistry and Subdivision of Energy 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, posters announcing the symposia that will be sponsored by the Division of Physical Chemistry programs at national meetings of the ACS.2. Members receive electronic notification of the posting of the electronic newsletters. These newsletters list future symposia and divisional meetings and provide the deadlines for submission of papers to be presented at these meetings. 3. 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.4. 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.5. Beginning in 2008, the division has co-sponsored receptions at the fall national meetings with the Journal of Physical Chemistry.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 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.9. The Division sponsors an award in Theoretical Chemistry.10. The Division sponsors an award in Experimental Physical Chemistry.11. The Division sponsors up to six awards given to presenters of posters at each of the national ACS meetings each year.12. The Division sponsors awards for Post Doctoral researchers, presented at the Fall national meeting each year.13. The Division sponsors special programming for a selected group of undergraduate chemistry majors at the fall National meeting. This program provides an introduction to the symposia and opportunities for the students to interact with faculty from other Universities.14. 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.15. 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.16. In 2009, the Division established the Subdivision of Energy. 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 related to issues, systems and processes related to energy.
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Subdivision Membership
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