Spring 2005 Newsletter

Officers

Remarks from Chair

Election Information and Ballot

Notes from the Secretary

Biophysical Subdivision

Poster Session Awards

Request for Symposia Topics andSpeakers

Recent Symposia Topics

Call for Papers — 230^th National Meeting — Washington, DC

Submission of Abstracts

General Information for Contributed Papers

Future ACS Meetings

Membership Information

Membership Application

Remarks from the Division Chair
Spring, 2005

David J. Nesbitt

The Spring National ACS Meeting in San Diego is coming up soon, and as Division Chair I am most grateful for the excellent job Barbara Garrison has done as Program Chair in putting together a diverse and exciting program. In San Diego, Barbara has organized 8 oral symposia, addressing key areas ranging from 1) water dynamics (Water: Structure, Dynamics and Reactions Across the Phase Diagram, Greg Kimmel and Teresa Head-Gordon), 2) hydrogen bonding (Hydrogen Bonds: Developments in Experiment and Theory, Tim Zwier and Ken Jordan), 3) photonics (Novel Directions in Photonics: Nanophotonics and Biophotonics, Paras Prasad and George Schatz), 4) nanocrystals (Dynamics and Conductivity of Nanoparticles and their Assemblies, Greg Hartland and Tianquin Lian), 5) metal catalysis (Growth and Catalysis of Metal Overlayers, Hannes Jonsson and Donna Chen), 6) biomolecular interactions (Biophysical Aspects of Protein and Peptide Aggregation: Experiment and Theory, John Straub and Devarajan Thirumalai), 7) environmental chemical physics (Applications of Physical Chemistry to Environmental and Biogeochemical Research, Karl Mueller and Peggy O'Day), as well as 8) novel developments in NMR (NMR Recent Developments in Magnetic Resonance: Liquid and Solid State Applications, Theoretical Methodology, and Emerging Techniques, Matthew Augustine, Leonard J. Mueller, and Ruth Stark).

When it is of mutual scientific interest, the Physical Division also traditionally cosponsors a few symposia organized by other divisions. This spring we will cosponsor one symposium honoring John Pople (John Pople Memorial Symposium, Bernie Schlegel and Leo Radom, Division of Computers in Chemistry), and another on chlorofluorocarbon chemistry (The Rise and Fall of Chlorofluorocarbons, Carmen J. Giunta, History of Chemistry Division).

Most importantly, the spring meeting is also a time when we get to honor colleagues who have won National ACS Awards. This year, as a continuing testament to the vigor and diversity of physical chemistry, we have been blessed with seven award-winners claiming the Physical Division as the venue in which to present their award addresses. In addition, we also have an eighth award winner (Robert Hamers), who will be presenting his award address in an award symposium cosponsored by both the Physical and Colloid and Surface Chemistry Divisions.

• Eric J. Heller, ACS Award in Theoretical Chemistry, IBM Corporation
• Louis Brus, ACS Award in the Chemistry of Materials, sponsored by E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company
• Stephen R. Leone, Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company
• Eizi Hirota, E. Bright Wilson Award in Spectroscopy, Rohm and Haas

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 mailing of the fall newsletter shall be allowed for additional nominations to be received by the Secretary/Treasurer. All valid nominations received within that period shall be accepted and no others.

If no valid nominations are forthcoming from the membership, the nominees submitted by the Nominating Committee for Vice-Chair-Elect, Secretary/Treasurer, and membership on the Executive Committee are declared elected.

Regardless of whether petition nominees are validated or not, the Bylaws require the Secretary/Treasurer to mail to every PHYS division member a ballot that bears at a minimum the names and biographical sketches of the single candidates for each Councilor and Alternate Councilor vacancy submitted by the Nominating Committee.

New Officers for the PHYS division follow. The first seven physical chemistry officers assumed their respective offices at the close of the national meeting in Philadelphia, PA. The Councilors and vice-councilors begin their terms of service on January 1, 2005.

• David Nesbitt, Chair - 1 year
• Barbara J. Garrison, Chair-Elect - 1 year
• Bruce D. Kay, Vice Chair - 1 year
• Gregory A. Voth, Vice-Chair Elect - 1 year
• Bill Schneider, Executive Committee - 3 years
• Branka Ladanyi, Executive Committee - 3 years
• John T. Yates, Councilor - 3 years
• Anne Meyers Kelley, Alternate Councilor - 3 years
• Peter Armentrout, Alternate Councilor - 3 years

The Physical Chemistry Division thanks outgoing officers James L. Skinner (Chair), David Nesbitt (Chair-Elect), Barbara Garrison (Vice-Chair), Bruce D. Kay (Vice-Chair-Elect), Anne McCoy (Executive Committee), David Norris (Executive Committee) Michael Bowers (Councilor), Joe Golab (Alternate Councilor), and Marsha I. Lester (Alternate Councilor) for their service to the Division.

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.)

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.

Student Poster Awards

David Nesbitt

The winners of the Physical Chemistry Student Poster Award Competition at the Fall 2004 ACS meeting in Philadelphia, PA, were:

• Deborah D. Zorn, Iowa State University, “Group III atomic wires on Si(00)-(2x1) reconstructed surfaces”
• Patricia S. Schaefer, University of Wisconsin, “QM/MM approach to treating long-range electrostatics”
• Katharine Willets, Stanford University, “Single molecule sensors of local environment”
• David J. Castro, University of Wisconsin, Madison, “Collisions of alcohols and D₂O with molten NaOH/KOH”
• Annalise L. Van Wyngarden, University of California, Berkeley, “Dynamics of CO₂ +O(¹D) and implications for isotope exchange between O₃ and CO₂”
• Anna Wozniak, Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf, “Single-molecule FRET as a tool for absolute distance measurements”

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 San Diego in March, 2005, to plan the programs for 2006. Please send your suggestions to the 2006 Program Chair, Bruce D. Kay, at the address in the table of officers. The deadline for receipt of suggestions is November 1, 2004. 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

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), 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 & Solutions, c. David Sherril (Georgia Institute of Technology) and Anna I. Krylov (University of Southern California)
• Influence of Local Structure & 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 & Where are We Going?, Tracy A. Schoolcraft (Shippensburg University) and Mark D. Ellison (Wittenberg University)
• Structures & Properties of Small Clusters, Caroline Chick Jarrold (Indiana University) and J. V. Ortiz (Kansas State University)
• Symposium on Ions in Complex Physical, Chemical, & Biological Systems, Benoit Roux (Cornell University) and Susan B. Rempe (Sandia National Laboratory)

Online abstract submission for this meeting begins approximately in March. 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 February. 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 Garrison 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.

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. 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. 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.
11. Do NOT mount illustrations on heavy stock, which is difficult to mount on the poster boards.
12. Each author is responsible for mounting his or her material at least 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.
13. Do provide sign-up sheets to record names and addresses of attendees who wish more information.
14. Do bring duplicates of data and conclusions. Duplicating facilities are unavailable through ACS.
15. ACS provides a modest supply of 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.
16. Admission to poster sessions will be by ACS meeting badge only.
17. A poster paper submitted to the Program Chair (before the deadline) for presentation at a national meeting should be considered accepted unless the author is specifically notified to the contrary by the Division of Physical Chemistry Program Chair.

Future National ACS Meetings

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Division of Physical Chemistry
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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:

Members receive, in advance, abstracts of the papers to be delivered in the Division of Physical Chemistry programs at national meetings of the ACS

1. Members receive a newsletter with the abstracts of the National meetings listing future symposia and divisional meetings and giving the deadlines for submission of papers to be presented at these meetings. The newsletter is included with the abstracts of papers for convenience.
2. Members receive discounts on the purchase price of the complete bound books of meeting abstracts. Discounts for other books and journals are also available, and new arrangements are negotiated from time to time.
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. 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.
li>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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