American Chemical Society
Division of Physical Chemistry
Spring 2008 Newsletter

• Officers
• Remarks from Chair
• Election Information and Ballot
• Notes from the Secretary
• Biophysical Subdivision
• Theoretical Subdivision
• Councilor's Report
• Poster Session Awards
• Request for Symposia Topics and Speakers
• Recent Symposia Topics
• Fall 2008 Meeting, Technical Program, Philadelphia, PA
• Restrictions for Speakers for PHYS Symposia
• Submission of Abstracts
• General Information for Contributed Papers
• Future ACS Meetings
• Announcements:
• Membership Information
• Membership Application

Remarks from the Division Chair
Spring, 2008

Gregory A. Voth

Welcome to the Centennial Year of the ACS Division of Physical Chemistry! The PHYS Division has never been more healthy in terms of our membership, or science, and our future opportunities.

The recent Spring National ACS meeting was a great success for the Division. It was wonderful to see the city of New Orleans alive and well again. Program Chair Laurie Butler provided us with a superb PHYS program, with symposium topics including: Physical Chemistry of Atmospheric Processes; Computational Spectroscopy; Emergence of Function in Molecular Assemblies; Nanostructured Materials; Multiscale Modeling in Biophysics; Electronic Structure and Reaction Dynamics of Open-Shell Species; and, Spectroscopy, Chemistry and Imaging through Nanophotonics. We also honored our distinguished colleagues who won National ACS Awards. Please watch for the announcements of next year's ACS award winners later this year. We should all thank Laurie for her exceptional efforts in putting together a great Spring meeting for our division.

The Physical Chemistry Division also gives awards for the best student posters at each meeting. The awardees for the Spring 2008 meeting in New Orleans are given later in this newsletter and their pictures can be found on the web.

The 2009 Fall National ACS Meeting in Philadelphia is coming up August 16-21. Here again Program Chair Laurie Butler has done a great job. The PHYS Symposia in Philadelphia include: Water Mediated Interactions; Protein Folding Dynamics: Experiments and Theory; Advances in the Electronic Structure of Transition Metal Systems and Organometallics; Recent Advances in Biophysical Chemistry of Transport by Biomolecular Motors and Machines; Spectroscopic Probes of Chemical Dynamics in Gaseous and Condensed Phases; Fundamental Advances in Contemporary NMR Spectroscopy. George Schatz and Steve Sibener have also organized a very special symposium entitled Centennial of the Physical Division: Celebrating the Past, Embracing the Future. This exciting Centennial symposium will feature many of our most distinguished PHYS colleagues, including several Nobel Laureates.

The PHYS Division continues to prosper because of our outstanding volunteers. We invite all PHYS members to become more active in our Division, as officers, executive committee members, or as symposium organizers. If you are interested in being an officer or being on the Executive Committee, please contact me and I will forward your name to the Nominating Committee. If you would like to organize a symposium, Mark Johnson (mark.johnson@yale.edu) is Program Chair for 2010. The PHYS Division will soon embark on a Strategic Planning exercise within the next year or so. If you have ideas on how the Division can better serve its members and/or expand its influence, please feel free to contact me.

I am also very pleased to announce a new ACS Physical Division Summer School Program in Theoretical Chemistry to be held every other year in Telluride, Colorado, beginning in the Summer of 2009. These summer schools are a result of the remarkable vision and generosity of Jack Simons, who created an endowment with his own substantial personal contribution along with a matching contribution from the PHYS Division. We are hopeful that Jack's effort can serve as an example for other endowed programs and/or awards within the Division, and that other PHYS members will consider endowing or contributing funds to help our division grow and continue to prosper. Please feel free to contact me if you are interested in this possibility. I know that many of you care deeply about our field and may be in the position to consider such an act of generosity.

I also should add that it is very important for all of our members to become involved in promoting and supporting our profession. Please encourage others to join our division in order to keep our membership numbers within the ACS strong and growing. Please also get involved with governmental issues such as advocating increased Federal research funding. One way to do this is by joining the ACS Legislative Action Network (go to www.acs.org and click the "Policy" link for more information). The present fiscal year has been a very difficult one for Federal research funding. Scientists cannot take it for granted that our profession will prosper and that increased funding for research will be appropriated by Congress unless we provide a strong level of advocacy for our field.

Finally, I thank all the officers and staff of the Physical Division for their excellence, dedication, and hard work. The past two Chairs, Bruce Kay and Barbara Garrison, have provided me with invaluable advice, help, and encouragement. Our Secretary/Treasurer, Anne McCoy, and her assistant, Betsy Foran, do an exceptional job for the Division and their efforts are without parallel.

I look forward to the remainder of my 2008 term as PHYS Chair. We have an exceptionally vigorous, broad, and intellectually stimulating division. There is every reason to optimistic about our future together.

Call for Nominations for the Executive Committee

The nominations committee, comprised of Bruce Kay, Greg Voth and John Tully, is seeking nominations for opened positions on the executive committee. The positions include:

• Vice-chair elect
• two openings for councilorsone alternate councilor
• two members of the executive committee

  The vice-chair elect is a multi-year position as an officer in the division. The vice-chair elect in 2009 will be the vice chair in 2010; chair elect and program chair in 2011; chair in 2012 and immediate past chair in 2012. Following our tradition of alternating between experimentalists and theorists in the executive committee, the next vice-chair elect will be a theorist.

  Please send suggestions directly to Bruce Kay, bruce.kay@pnl.gov at your earliest convenience but not later than June 6, 2008.

  Election Information and Ballot

  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 5,500). 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 six physical chemistry officers assumed their respective offices at the close of the national meeting in Boston, MA. The Councilors and vice-councilors began their terms of service on January 1, 2008.

  • Gregory Voth, Chair 1 year
  • Laurie Butler, Chair Elect 1 year
  • Martin Head-Gordon, Vice Chair 1 year
  • Mark Johnson, Vice-Chair Elect 1 year
  • C. David Sherrill, Executive Committee 3 years
  • Paul Jagodzinski, Councilor 3 years
  • Gang-yu Liu, Alternate Councilor 3 years

  The Physical Chemistry Division thanks outgoing officers Bruce Kay (Chair), Gregory Voth (Chair-Elect), Laurie Butler (Vice-Chair), Martin Head-Gordon (Vice-Chair Elect), Branka M. Ladanyi (Executive Committee), Mark Johnson (Executive Committee), William Schneider (Executive Committee), John Yates (Councilor), Peter Armentrout (Alternate Councilor), Edwin Heilweil (Alternate Councilor) and Anne Meyers Kelley (Alternate Councilor) for their service to the Division.

  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 August 1 and March 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 am pleased to have the opportunity to review the significant actions of the ACS Council at the recent national meeting in New Orleans and to report on other items that may be of interest to PHYS members.

  1. The Council selected Joseph Francisco (Purdue) and Josef Michl (Colorado) to stand for election to the office of President-Elect of the ACS this fall. Both gentlemen are members of PHYS. The winner of the election will serve as President-Elect in 2009, President in 2010, and Past President in 2011.
  2. The Council voted to approve a petition to amend the ACS Bylaws that institutes a system of preferential balloting when elections for President-Elect or District Director involve more than two candidates. With this amendment of the Bylaws, the Society avoids expensive and time-consuming run-off elections when no candidate receives an absolute majority of the votes cast.
  3. Not without considerable debate and histrionics, the Council approved a petition that amends the Bylaws to change the numbers of signatures needed to place an individual's name on the ballot for President-Elect or Director-at-Large by petition from absolute numbers to percentages of the eligible voters. As amended, the Bylaws will require a petition candidate for President-Elect to obtain signatures from 0.5% of the membership (roughly 750 signatures, an increase over the previous requirement of 300); they will require a petition candidate for Director-at-Large to obtain signatures from 0.25% of the membership (roughly 375 signatures, an increase over the previous requirement of 300).
  4. The Council also approved after considerable discussion, only some of which made sense, a lengthy petition to change the Constitution and Bylaws so as to,
     • a. eliminate the Associate Member category,
     • b. create a new membership category of Student Member, and
     • c. broaden the criteria by which one qualifies for membership in ACS.
     Because a change in the Constitution is involved, you will have the opportunity to vote on these changes this fall. (Approval by Council and the membership is necessary for changes to the Constitution; Bylaw changes require only approval by the Council and confirmation by the Board of Directors.)
  5. We saw a petition on which we will vote in Philadelphia at the fall national meeting that would set the dues paid by Society Affiliates equal to those paid by full members of ACS. It is unlikely that this measure, when it comes to the floor of Council, will generate much, if any, opposition.
  6. Member dues for 2009 will be $140, a sum equal to the 2008 dues increased by inflation. Even with this dues increase, member dues will only fund a small percentage (less than 20%) of ACS program costs. (Please note that two-thirds of your dues go to pay for your C&EN subscription, to support Local Sections and Divisions, and to cover expenses directly related to member services.) The remainder is funded from revenues generated by the Society's business units, Publications and Chem Abstracts, and from investment of the Society's reserves. This heavy reliance on the success of the business units is one of the topics that will be addressed at a financial planning conference that will be held in Baltimore in June. Two of your Councilors (Paul Jagodzinski and I) will be attending that conference.
  7. The Committee on Budget and Finance wants to make ACS finances more transparent to the membership. You are invited to visit the B&F web page at www.acs.org to learn more about the financial health of the Society. (The results of the 2007 audit are now posted.) A subcommittee of B&F is also dealing with the problem of making the route to this financial information more obvious to the membership.
  8. The Council did not act on a recommendation from the Committee on Divisional Activities to approve a revised formula for distributing funding to Divisions. The information about the recommendation apparently was not transmitted to the Divisions with sufficient detail so that the impact of the change could be assessed, and thus the issue was deferred to Philadelphia. The revised formula would give Divisions credit for significant co-sponsorship of meeting programming and would eliminate archaic provisions for distributing some funding based on the number of Division members who attended the Exposition at the national meeting. At this point, though, it is difficult to tell whether the revised formula would have a significant impact on PHYS.

  As always, my fellow Councilors and I are happy to field inquiries from members of PHYS about Council actions or about issues that are expected to come before the Council in the future.

  Biophysical Subdivision

  Cecilia Clemente

  Subdivision membership is free to dues-paying members or affiliates of the Division of Physical Chemistry. To join the Biophysical Subdivision, notify the chair, Cecilia Clemente, 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

  Todd Martinez

  Upcoming Conferences in Theoretical Chemistry:

  The Department of Chemistry at Michigan State University is an organizer of the 13th International Workshop "Quantum Systems in Chemistry and Physics" (QSCP-XIII). Professor Piotr Piecuch chairs the workshop. For more information about the workshop, confirmed speakers, registration, abstract submission, room reservation, and the history of the QSCP series, please see the web site www.chemistry.msu.edu/qscp13.

  Northwestern University will host the 2008 American Conference on Theoretical Chemistry (ACTC) from July 19-24. For more information about registration, speakers, and abstract submission, please see the web site at www.actc.chem.northwestern.edu.

  Subdivision membership is free to dues-paying members or affiliates of the Division of Physical Chemistry. To join the Theoretical Subdivision, notify the chair, Todd Martinez, 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.

  Student Poster Awards

  Laurie J. Butler

  The winners of the Physical Chemistry Student Poster Award Competition at the Spring 2008 ACS meeting in New Orleans, LA were:

  • Benjamin L. FitzPatrick: "Probing the O(3P) + allyl radical product channels via unimolecular Photodissociation"
  • Jeffrey R. Gour: "Active-space equation-of-motion coupled-cluster methods for ground and excited states of radicals and other open-shell species"
  • Sri Ram G Naraharisetty: "Novel labeling strategy for structural measurements in proteins via 2-D IR spectroscopy"
  • Han Sung Kim: " 3-D Structure of helical and zig-zagged nanowires using electron tomography"
  • Erika L Derro: "Infrared action spectroscopy of HOOO radical: Atmospheric reservoir for OH radical"
  • Tammy Y. Olson: "Hollow gold-silver double shell nanospheres: Structure, optical absorption, and surface-enhanced Raman scattering"

  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 anonymous and impartial judges.

  Request for Symposia Topics and Speakers

  Martin Head-Gordon

  The Executive Committee solicits formal suggestions for symposia and speakers for the meetings to be held in future years. The Executive Committee met in New Orleans, LA in April, 2008, to plan the programs for 2009. We will finalize the prgrams during the ACS meeting in Philadelphia, PA in August 2008. Please send your suggestions to the 2009 Program Chair, Martin Head-Gordon, or the 2010 Program Chair, Mark A. Johnson, at the address in the table of officers. The deadline for receipt of suggestions is July 1 of the preceding year. 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

  229th ACS National Meeting San Diego, CA March 13-17, 2005	Applications of Physical Chemistry to Environmental & Biogeochemical Research Biophysical Aspects of Protein & Peptide Aggregation: Experiment & Theory Dynamics & Conductivity of Nanoparticles & Their Assemblies Growth & Catalysis of Metal Overlays Hydrogen Bonds: Developments in Experiment & Theory NMR Research Developments in Magnetic Resonance: Liquid & Solid State Applications, Theoretical Methodology, & Emerging Techniques Novel Directions in Photonics: Nanophotonics & Biophotonics Water: Structure Dynamics & Reactions Across the Phase Diagram
  230th ACS National Meeting Washington, DC Aug 28 – Sept 1, 2005	Charge Transfer Processes: Making Connections Chemical Control of Oxide Material Response Computational Exploration of Energy Landscapes: Challenges & Solutions Influence of Local Structure & Reagent Energy on Chemical Reactions at Solid Surfaces Frontiers in Photobiology Physical Chemistry Curriculum Reform Update: Where are We & Where are We Going? Structures & Properties of Small Clusters   Symposium on Ions in Complex Physical, Chemical, & Biological Systems
  231st ACS National Meeting Atlanta, GA March 29-30, 2006	Emerging Issues in Atmospheric Science: A Physical Chemistry Perspective Interactions of Peptides & Proteins with Membrane Surfaces Molecular & Molecular-Scale Electronics Molecules in Space Quantum Molecular Dynamics in the Condensed Phase: Towards Bridging the Gap Between Theory & Experiment Spectroscopy of Interfaces Theoretical & Experimental Advances in the Study of Low-Energy Electron-Induced Processes In Complex Systems
  232nd ACS National Meeting San Francisco, CA Sept 10-14, 2006	Chemistry in Extreme Environments Cyber Science, Chemistry Fundamentals of Metal Oxide Catalysis Physical Chemical Foundations of Biological Membrane Phenomenon Fifty Years of Electron Transfer & RRKM Theories Frontiers in Single-Molecule Biophysical Chemistry and Imaging Frontiers in Molecular Dynamics: Experiment & Theory Theory of Rare Events & Accelerated Dynamics Physical Chemistry of Ionic Liquids
  233rd ACS National Meeting Chicago, IL March 25-29, 2007	Capturing Complexity in Physical Sciences Simulations Dynamics on the Nanoscale Measure of Accuracy and Reliability in Molecular Simulation Structure and Dynamics at the Liquid-Liquid Interface The Biophysics of DNA Vibrational Spectroscopy as a Probe of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics: Theory and Experiment Implications and Applications of Chirality in Physical Chemistry
  234th ACS National Meeting Boston, MA August 19-23, 2007	Single Molecule Spectroscopy and Novel Imaging Techniques for Biomlecular Systems Emergence of Function in Molecular Assemblies Computational Electrochemistry for New Energybr> Hydration: From Clusters to Aqueous Solution Structural Determination, Refinement, and Modeling of Large Biomolecular Complexes Excited Electronic States in Chemistry and Biology- Theory and Experiment Quantum Mechanics and Statistical Mechanics: Can One Avoid the Other? Biological Ion Channels: From Molecular Structure to Cellular Function
  235th ACS National Meeting New Orleans, LA April 6-10, 2008	Physical Chemistry of Atmospheric Processes Optical Probes of Dynamics in Complex Environments Multiscale Modeling in Biophysics Computational Spectroscopy Nanostructured Materials Electronic Structure and Reaction Dynamics of Open-Shell Species Spectroscopy, Chemistry and Imaging Through Nanophotonics

  VERY IMPORTANT NOTICE
  A significant portion of the Division's annual income is provided by the ACS, based in part on Division members' attendance at the national meetings. On the advance meeting registration form, you will see a question such as that given below. If you list the Physical Division, you will contribute to our income and allow the Division to offer better symposia.

  Fall 2008 Meeting
  August 17-21, 2008 Philadelphia, PA

  Program Chair: Laurie J. Butler, Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637 (773) 702-7206, L-butler@uchicago.edu

  The planned symposia and their organizers are:

  • Water Mediated Interactions, Dor Ben-Amotz (Purdue University) and Hank Ashbaugh (Tulane University)
  • Advances in the Electronic Structure of Transition Metal Systems and Organometallics, Mu-Hyun Baik (Indiana University) and Christopher Cramer (University of Minnesota)
  • Spectroscopic Probes of Chemical Dynamics in Gaseous and Condensed Phases, Steven Corcelli (University of Notre Dame) and Mark Johnson (Yale University)
  • Centennial of the Physical Division: Celebrating the Past, Embracing the Future, George C. Schatz (Northwestern University) and Steven J. Sibener (University of Chicago)
  • Protein Folding Dynamics: Experiments and Theory, Feng Gai (University of Pennsylvania) and Angel Garcia (Renesselaer Polytechnic Institute)
  • Recent Advances in Biophysical Chemistry of Transport by Biomolecular Motors and Machines, Alan J. Hunt (University of Michigan) and Anatoly B. Kolomeisky (Rice University)
  • Fundamental Advances in Contemporary NMR Spectroscopy, Mei Hong (Iowa State University) and Lucio Frydman (Weizmann Institute)

  Co-sponsored symposia with other divisions:

  • Award symposium for Sir John Shipley Rowlinson, (HIST) Fellow of Exeter College at Oxford, 2008 Sidney M. Edelstein Award for Outstanding Achievement in the History of Chemistry. http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/~mainzv/HIST/awards/edelstein.php
  • ACS Award for Creative Invention: Honoring Adam Heller. (ANAL)
  • Visualizing Chemistry: Advances in Chemical Imaging. (ANAL)

  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

  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.

  Future National ACS Meetings

  Philadelphia, PA, August 17-21, 2008 Program Chair: Laurie J. Butler University of Chicago Chicago, IL 60637 L-Butler@uchicago.edu	Salt Lake City, UT, March 22-26, 2009 Program Chair: Martin Head-Gordon University of California, Berkeley mhg@bastille.cchem.berkeley.edu
  Washington, DC, August 16-20, 2009 Program Chair: Martin Head-Gordon University of California, Berkeley mhg@bastille.cchem.berkeley.edu	San Francisco, CA, March 21-25, 2010 Program Chair:Mark A. Johnson Yale University New Haven, CT 06520 mark.johnson@yale.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. 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 ˝ 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.
  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.

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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:

  1. Members receive, in advance, abstracts of the papers to be delivered in the Division of Physical Chemistry programs at national meetings of the ACS
  2. Members receive a newsletter with the abstracts of the National meetings listing future symposia and divisional meetings and giving the deadlines for submission of papers to be presented at these meetings. The newsletter is included with the abstracts of papers for convenience.
  3. Members receive discounts on the purchase price of the complete bound books of meeting abstracts. Discounts for other books and journals are also available, and new arrangements are negotiated from time to time.
  4. The Division of Physical Chemistry is an affiliate of the American Institute of Physics, and members of the Division are eligible for a discount on various AIP publications including The Journal of Chemical Physics.
  5. The Division holds 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.
  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. 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.
  10. 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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