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University of California, Department of Chemistry 237 Hildebrand Berkeley, CA 94720 (510) 642-3502, fax (510) 642-3635 dan@radon.ccchem.berkely.edu Vice-Chair (8/00-01) John C. Hemminger
Secretary-Treasurer (8/96-01) Mark Gordon
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Brown University, Department of Chemistry 324 Brook Street Providence, RI 02912 (401) 863-3418, fax (401) 863-2594 richard_stratt@brown.edu Vice-Chair-Elect (8/00-01) James L. Skinner
Past Chair (8/00-01) George Schatz
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Steven A. Buntin (99-02) NIST Barbara Garrison (00-03) Penn. State Univ. |
Alexander L. Harris (99-02) Bell Labs Arthur Nozik (00-03) NREL |
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Edward M. (Ted) Eyring (00-02) University of Utah |
Ellen Stechel (01-03) Ford Motor Co. |
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Paul L. Houston (00-02) Cornell University |
A. Welford Castleman, Jr. (01-03) Penn. State |
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Lab of Chem Physics, NIH, Bldg 5, Room 104 Bethesda MD 20892-0520 (301) 496-6030 Vice-Chair (8/00-01) Peter G. Wolynes
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Dept. of Chemistry, University of Southern California Los Angeles CA 90033-1062 (213) 740-4114 Secretary
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Dept. of Chemistry, University of California, Davis Davis CA 95616 (530) 752-2203 Vice-Chair (8/00-01) Martin Head-Gordon
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Dept. of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin Madison WI 53706 (608)262-0265 Secretary (8/00-03) Anne M. Chaka
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The Division of Physical Chemistry represents all areas of physical chemistry, and this broad representation is reflected in the diverse program that Rich Stratt has assembled in Chicago.Symposium topics include: Dissociative Recombination of Molecules with Electrons, First-Principles Simulation of Chemical Dynamics, Molecular Electronics, Physical Chemistry of Gas-Particle Interactions, Signal Processing in Chemistry, Stereochemistry in Aligned Environments, Three-Dimensional Silicon-Oxygen Cages, What Can We Really Learn About Condensed Phases from Clusters, and Computational Chemistry in the Undergraduate Curriculum. These symposia originate from suggestions made by the physical chemistry community; more participation from the community results in more vital and representative conference programs. If you have an idea for a symposium, please contact John Hemminger (jchemmin@uci.edu) or Mark Gordon (mark@si.fi.ameslab.gov).
I would like to alert members of the Division to a likely change in our policy regarding graduate student support at ACS meetings. Instead of awarding partial travel support to a small number (3-5) of graduate students, the Division may institute "Poster Awards" for graduate students presenting the best posters at the Wednesday evening poster session. Our hope is that this will increase graduate student participation in the poster session and membership in the Division. Details will be worked out at the Executive Committee meeting in Chicago.
The Physical Chemistry Division is continuing to work with the Chemistry Division at NSF. At each national meeting, the current chair and past chair meet with NSF administrators in order to pass along the concerns of the community and to keep abreast of new policies and initiatives at NSF. One key issue is the balance between individual investigator awards and multi-P.I. initiatives, a particularly serious concern given the uncertain budget outlook for NSF. Another ongoing issue is the need for rotators at NSF in the fields of experimental and (particularly) theoretical chemistry. NSF is interested in high quality scientists who would like to perform an invaluable service to the community by spending a year in Washington. I encourage anyone interested in serving in such a position to contact George Schatz, Mark Gordon, or me.
I look forward to seeing all of you in Chicago!
The Bylaws of the Division of Physical Chemistry, approved in 1997, 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 (which is part of the abstract separates for the fall meeting).
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 3,500). 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.
Biographical sketches of all the nominees are found below. This year the Nominating Committee consisted of George Schatz, Dan Neumark, and Joel Bowman. They have chosen the following candidates for election.
DAVID NESBITT: Born 1953. B.A. Harvard University (1975), University of Colorado Ph.D. (1981), Nobel Laureate Signature Award (1981), National Research Council Fellow (1981-82), Miller Fellow, UC Berkeley (1982-84), JILA/University of Colorado, Assistant Professor (1984-87), Associate Professor (1987-90), Full Professor (1990-present). Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Award (1984), Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (1987), Wilson Prize Lecture (1989), Arthur S. Flemming Award (1991), American Physical Society Fellow, (1991-present), Department of Commerce Medal (1992), Edward Uhler Condon Award (1995), Earle K. Plyler Prize (1997), Reilly Lecture (1997), William F. Meggers Award (1999), Alexander von Humboldt Fellow (1999-present).
Nesbitt’s research experimental/theoretical interests range from high sensitivity IR laser absorption techniques, high resolution spectroscopy of clusters, radicals and molecular ions in slit supersonic jet expansions, frequency domain studies of unimolecular energy flow, time resolved kinetics of atmospheric radicals, state-to-state reaction dynamics in crossed beams, stereochemistry with vibrationally aligned molecules, apertureless near field scanning optical microscopy, single molecule photophyics of semiconductor quantum dots, and confocal fluorescence studies of biomolecular binding kinetics. He is a member of ACS, APS and Sigma Xi and coauthor of over 150 publications in chemical physics.
KENNETH JORDAN: Born 1948. B.S, Northeastern University (1970), Ph.D., MIT (1974). J. Willard Gibbs Instructor, Yale Univ. (1974-1976); Assistant Professor, Yale Univ. (1976-1978). Assistant Professor, Univ. of Pittsburgh (1978-1980). Associate Professor, Univ. of Pittsburgh (1980-1985). Professor, Univ. of Pittsburgh (1985-present). Program Director for Theoretical Chemical Physics, National Science Foundation (1984-1985). Chair, Vice Chair, Vice Chair Elect, Theoretical Chemistry Subdivision, Physical Chemistry Division, ACS (1988?1991, 1997-2000). Affiliate Staff Scientist. Pacific Northwest Laboratories (1994-1997). Adjunct Professor, Carnegie Mellon University (1988-present). Visiting Professor, University of Utah (1994-1995). Visiting Fellow, Australian National University (1992). Promotion of Chemistry, Visiting Professor (Taiwan) (1995). Director, Center for Molecular and Materials Simulations, Univ. of Pittsburgh (1999 -present).
Awards: Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar (1977-1982). Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (1977-1979). Guggenheim Fellow (1981-1982). Fellow, American Physical Society (1993). Visiting Fellow, JILA (1997). University of Pittsburgh's Chancellor's Research Award (1995). Pittsburgh ACS Award (2000).
Research Interests: Theoretical and Computational Chemistry. Chemical reactions on semiconductor surfaces. Theoretical studies of the electronic structure of molecules. Characterization of temporary anion states. Long-range through-space and through-bond interactions. Mechanisms for electron and excitation transfer. Properties of atomic and molecular clusters. Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics simulations. Applications of parallel-processing techniques.
Member: APS, ACS, Sigma Xi
Kenneth Jordan has co-authored approximately 210 publications in experimental and theoretical physical chemistry.< He is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Chemical Physics and of Theoretical Chemistry Accounts.
DAVID J. NORRIS: Born 1968. University of Chicago, B.S., Chemistry (1990); MIT, Ph.D., Physical Chemistry (1995); NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, UCSD (1995-97). NEC Research Institute, Research Scientist (1997-2001). University of Minnesota, Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Associate Professor (2002-).
Research Interests: Experimental physical chemistry of materials; in particular, understanding how the properties of a material can be tailored by controlling its size, shape, and/or structure; the optical properties of photonic crystals and photonic band gap solids; the physical properties of colloidal nanocrystals.
Member: AAAS, ACS, APS, and MRS.
MICHAEL T. BOWERS: Born 1939. University of Illinois, Ph.D. (1966). University of California at Santa Barbara, Assistant Professor (1968-73), Associate Professor (1973-76), Professor (1976-91), Professor Abovescale (1991-Present). American Physical Society Fellow (Elected 1987), Nobel Laureate Signature Award, ACS (1989), Faculty Research Lecturer Award, UCSB (1994), Guggenheim Fellow (1995), Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1994), Field and Franklin Award for Outstanding Achievement in Mass Spectrometry, ACS (1996); Thomson Gold Medal, International Mass Spectrometry Society (1997); Editor, International Journal of Mass Spectrometry (1986-Present), Associate Editor, Journal of the American Chemical Society (1989-Present).
Research Interests: Generation, structure, energetics and reactivity of semiconductor and metallic clusters; development and applications of gas phase ion chromatography; reaction mechanisms and energetics of transition state metal ions and simple molecules; structure and energetics of synthetic and biopolymers in the gas phase.
Member: Alpha Chi Sigma, ACS, APS, ASMS, AAAS
Michael Bowers has co-authored more than 300 publications in the fields of physical chemistry and mass spectrometry.
ANNE B. McCOY: Born 1965. Haverford College, B.S. (1987), University of Wisconsin Madison, Ph.D. (1992), Postdoctoral Fellow, Hebrew University in Jerusalem and University of California, Irvine (1992-1994). The Ohio State University, Assistant Professor (1994-2000), Associate Professor (2000-present). Golda Meir Postdoctoral Fellow (1993-1994). Bergmann Memorial Award (1998). Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar (1999-2004).
Research Interests: Theoretical chemistry, focusing on vibrational spectroscopy and dynamics of weakly bound complexes. Developing general approaches that enable accurate treatments of the spectroscopy and dynamics of these systems, in particular extending the range of applications and the accuracy of diffusion Monte Carlo and mixed quantum/classical treatments. Understanding the role of non-adiabtic effects in spectroscopy and dynamics of open-shell systems.
Member: APS, ACS, Sigma Xi
Anne McCoy has co-authored approximately 50 publications in physical chemistry.
JOSEPH GOLAB: Born 1959. Texas A&M, Ph.D. (1986). Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University (1986-89). National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Research Scientist and Leader of the Computational Chemistry Group (1989-91). Amoco Chemicals, Research Scientist (1991-96), Amoco Corporation, Staff Research Scientist, (1996-97), Amoco Corporation, Senior Research Scientist, (1997-98), BP Amoco p.l.c., Associate Chemist, (1998-99), BP Chemicals, Technology Manager, Chemistry Modeling (1999-present). Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Affiliate Staff Scientist, Theory, Modeling, and Simulation Group, W. R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Science Laboratory (1996-present).
Research Interests: Theoretical Chemistry, mainly applying and developing accurate, quantitative, computational techniques and methods for problems of industrial interest, especially molecular properties, thermochemistry, and kinetics.
Member: ACS, AIChE
Joe Golab has co-authored over 28 refereed journal articles, several
book chapters, and one book and has spoken on industrial applications of
molecular modeling worldwide. He is a core member of BP's Modeling &
Simulation Network and has served on several Vision 2020 panels as well
as NSF Review panels.
Subdivision membership is free to dues-paying members or affiliates
of the Division of Physical Chemistry. To join the Biophysical Subdivision,
please notify one of the officers of the division located on the second
page of this newsletter. 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.
CALL FOR APPLICANTS FOR IBM 2001 AWARDS! (Deadline is October 20, 2001)
There are two Awards in Computational Chemistry that are open to current graduate students. We are grateful to IBM and the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute for their support of these awards. Last year’s winners are announced below.
Let me urge you to encourage your graduate students to apply. The competition is open to any graduate student (regardless of citizenship) who began graduate study after August 1, 1998 and who is an ACS member (or whose advisor is an ACS member). These awards are designed to encourage graduate work in computational chemistry, to recognize research accomplishments, and to stimulate interest in the Subdivision of Theoretical Chemistry and the Physical Chemistry Division of the ACS.
An Awards Committee will consider all the applicants. The awards applications should be sent to Professor Ned Sibert at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Note that the deadline for applications is October 20, 2001.
These two awards, supported by IBM, will provide one-time cash stipends of $2500 and $1000 as supplements to normal financial aid to doctoral candidates in the research-dissertation stage in the 2001-2002 academic year. The Minnesota Supercomputing Institute will provide each awardee up to 1000 node-hours on an IBM SP2 cluster for the awardees to actually carry out a portion of the awarded research. The awardees will have access to the consulting services of the Institute normally available to all users. Awardee selection will be made on a competitive basis. Applicants should be working on new and innovative computational chemistry methods or applications in theoretical chemistry.
Applicants should prepare a written description of a computational chemistry research project that requires high performance computing, with an explanation of the scientific importance of the project. Proposals need to include an estimate of the computing resources required in SP2 cpu-hours. Applicants should explain how they plan to use the grant funds. Two letters of recommendation, including one from the student's advisor, along with a vita and transcript, are required. The proposal, including the vita, should not exceed five double-spaced pages. In addition, a faculty person (typically the applicant's research advisor) responsible for the applicant's use of the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute resources must be identified.
Forward applications by October 20, 2001 to:
The awardees will be announced in the Fall 2001 Theoretical Subdivision
newsletter and Spring 2002 division newsletter.
2nd Prize: Sidney P. Elmer
Subdivision membership is free to dues-paying members or affiliates of the Division of Physical Chemistry. To join the Theoretical Subdivision notify the secretary, Anne Chaka, 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 Chemistry Subdivision by completing the application form at the end of this newsletter.
Theoretical Chemistry News is mailed semiannually to all members
of the Theoretical Chemistry Subdivision. It includes news of symposia
at national meetings as well as information about the Theoretical Chemistry
Postdoctoral Position Clearinghouse.
The usual items of business at the council meetings (held on Wednesday mornings at the twice-a-year national meeting) are the reports of the ACS President, Board Chair and various committee chairs. Most of the information is contained in the minutes of the Executive Committee and committee reports
Normally, one of the first items of business at the spring meeting is to vote on the candidates for president elect.< This year the four candidates were from industry (industry and academic candidates are placed on the ballot in alternate years). They were:
The immediate past president is Daryle Busch; the current president is Attila Pavlath ; and the president elect is Eli Pearce. The president elect takes over as president on January 1 for one calendar year.
Members are encouraged to propose candidates for president of the society. We have not had an academic physical chemist for some time. (Ed Wasserman from Dupont was the most recent president from industry with a physical chemistry connection.) The recent effort by the Division to get Dick Zare on the ballot was not successful. Any suggestions for candidates should be sent to the Division chair.
Another item of business taken up by the ACS this past year dealt with the use of membership lists. Historically, if another organization requests the use of the DPC membership list, it must be approved by the ACS Executive Director and the DPC Executive Committee. Typical examples where the Division would approve release of the list would be to
The Annual Reviews of Physical Chemistry or to the Division of Chemical Physics of the American Physical Society. Only those requests that in the eyes of the Executive Committee would have a high degree of interest on the part of the DPC membership are approved. The issue that came up this year was how to handle the release of information in the web directories. The ACS extended the above policy on membership lists to information in web directories.
The Division has four councilors and four alternate councilors.
Councilors: Edward M. Eyring (00-02), Alvin L. Kwiram (00-02), Michael Bowers (99-01), Ellen Stechel (01-03)
Alternate Councilors: Joseph Jasinski (99-01), Paul Houston (00-02), Gregory Voth (00-02), A. Welford Castleman, Jr. (01-03)
In other news, the ACS is making $65,000 available this year for innovative projects proposed by Divisions that might help improve programming, service to members or in other ways improve the operations of the Society. If you have suggestions, you may want to convey them to the Secretary-Treasurer.
An ethics task force has been formed to determine whether there should be a new governance unit formed in ACS to help members understand more fully the importance of high ethical standards in the pursuit of professional goals. Any thoughts on this matter would be welcome.
The other major activity of interest to the divisions, is the discussion about the need to increase the financial support that the ACS provides to the divisions. Currently, the DPC receives about $18K a year from the ACS to support programming and some membership service costs. In total, Divisions received just over $300K in 1999. On the other hand, local sections receive nearly four times as much support as divisions do. No one argues that the local sections should receive less, but the divisions have made a strong case for several years that divisions need more support in order for them to mount effective programs at the national meetings. As a result, then President Ed Wasserman formed a Presidential Task Force to review this matter. There is some prospect that the allocation to Divisions may be raised at a cost of some $250K a year. Currently the allocation to divisions consists of a base allocation of $564 (1999), plus an amount based on the number of members in the division ($1.12 per member), the number of attendees at the national meetings and at DPC symposia, the number of posters and so on. The total received by DPC from ACS in 2000 was $17,960.
Let me take this opportunity to invite any DPC members who have well defined views on how graduate education needs to change might to communicate them to me. I am a member of the newly formed ACS Graduate Education Advisory Board which is charged with the task of reviewing the current practices in graduate education and recommending changes that might address some of the main concerns about this aspect of higher education. Many of the issues are well known: time to degree; inadequate preparation for work in careers other than research universities; inadequate career counselling; inadequate preparation for needed skills like team work and public speaking. How should PhD physical chemists, for example, be educated for work in industry, in high schools or community colleges, so that they are well prepared and can "hit the ground running"? If you have views on these matters please feel free to share them with me or with Margerie Caserio who heads the new ACS office and is guiding the Advisory Board in its deliberations. Paul Anderson is the chair of the joint SOCED/CPT Advisory Board.
These are some of the main topics that might be of interest to DPC members.
I have not reported on operational issues like realigning boundaries of
sections or creating new ones; changing the name of "region" to "district";
modifying the requirements for membership in the ACS for those with less
than a bachelors degree in the chemical sciences; approval of the 3rd edition
of "Academic Professional Guidelines"; or the new dues level. But you know
which way they went.
| Fall 2000 Recipients
Jun Deng, University of Memphis
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Spring 2001 Recipients
Wei Cheng, Brown University
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Congratulations on receiving this award!
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Boston, MA August 23-27, 1998 |
Special Topics in High Resolution Spectroscopy
Structure and Reactivity of Complex Metal Oxide A Celebration of 20 Years of the Subdivision of Theoretical Chemistry Physical Properties of Polymeric Materials and Molecular Thin Films Innovations in Teaching Physical Chemistry Concepts and Courses Molecular and Supramolecular Photochemistry and Photophysics Biophysical Program: Oxygen Activation in Metalloenzymes Biophysical Program: Frontiers of Theory in Biophysical Chemistry Biophysical Program: Ultrafast Protein Responses |
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Anaheim, CA March 21-25, 1999 |
Liquids and interfaces (in honor of Doug Henderson)
Free radicals in condensed phases Unimolecular reactions and intramolecular dynamics Physical chemistry of sol-gel materials Frontiers of statistical mechanics: in honor of Ben Widom Linear conjugated polyenes: A celebration of the scientific career of Bryan Earl Kohler Structures of electrochemical interfaces by new spectroscopic probes and approaches |
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New Orleans, LA August 22-26, 1999 |
Water and Water Clusters
Chemical Waves, Fronts and Patterns Chromophore Aggregates Electronically Nonadiabatic Processes in Gaseous, Cluster and Condensed Media Imaging in Chemical Dynamics Modern Electronic Structure Theory: Celebrating the 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
| 219th ACS National Meeting
San Francisco, CA March 26-31, 2000 |
Aperiodic Metals and Metallic Glasses: Surface Properties
Patterning, Functionalization, and Reactivity of Complex Solid Surfaces Proteins 2000: Frontiers of Protein Structure and Function Potential Energy Surfaces: From Polyatomics to Macromolecules Physical Chemistry of Chirality Physical Chemistry at High Pressure and Temperature Atmospheric Chemistry (Harold Johnston Festschrift) |
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Washington D.C. August 20-24, 2000 |
Chemistry Under Extreme Conditions
Very Low Temperature Dynamics and Spectroscopy Chemical Applications of Neutrons Industrial Applications of Theoretical Chemistry Frontiers in Biophysical Theory Proton Transport in Liquids, Solids and Proteins Quantum Computing for the Next Millennium Dynamics in Liquids Physical Chemistry of Nucleic Acids: In Memory of Matt Petersheim Femtochemistry: 1999 Nobel Prize Symposium |
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San Diego, CA April 1-5, 2001 |
Probing Molecular Aqueous Environments in Chemistry and
Biology
Strong-Field Chemistry: Molecules and Clusters in Intense Laser Fields Chemical Approaches to Photonic Crystals Accurate Description of Low-Lying Molecular States and Potential Energy Surfaces Optical Studies of Single Molecules and Molecular Assemblies in Chemical Physics and Biophysics Molecular Photoelectron Spectroscopy Energy Landscapes of Proteins, Dynamics, Folding, Function and Prediction |
"Please list ALL of the division(s) to which you belong:__________________________"
Please see http://www.acs.org/meetings/abstract/abinfo.html 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.
Request for contributed oral presentation: 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.
| Boston MA August 18-22, 2002
Program Chair: Professor John C. Hemminger
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New York City NY September 7-11, 2003
Program Chair: Professor James L. Skinner
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| New Orleans LA March 23-27, 2003
Program Chair: Professor James L. Skinner
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Anaheim CA March 28-April 1, 2004
Program Chair: Professor David J. Nesbitt
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By participating in this program, you have the opportunity to
| NIH Peer Review
The National Institutes of Health's (NIH) Center for Scientific Review (CSR) has started to implement changes to NIH's peer-review process. CSR, which manages the peer-review process for the majority of grant applications submitted to NIH, established a working group in 1998 to comprehensively examine the NIH peer-review system. CSR chose to review the system because of concerns about its ability to respond effectively to the rapid changes in biomedical research. The working group, the Panel on Scientific Boundaries for Review (PSBR), having heard public concerns, issued a report in the spring of 2000. Many ACS concerns were addressed in this report. The current phase involves establishing new integrated review groups (IRG) to review grant applications. The new IRGs will be generally organized around organ systems, specific problems, and basic science. More information on the implementation of the second phase can be found at http://www.csr.nih.gov/events.htm. |