{"id":2681,"date":"2010-03-21T20:15:45","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T20:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2010\/03\/acs-san-francisco-2010-the-week-ahead.html"},"modified":"2011-12-20T11:14:16","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T11:14:16","slug":"acs_san_francisco_2010_the_wee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2010\/03\/acs_san_francisco_2010_the_wee.html","title":{"rendered":"ACS San Francisco 2010: The week ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve arrived safe and sound in sunny San Francisco for the ACS<\/span> meeting. The journey here was trouble-free and actually quite pleasant. I managed to watch a film, read four manuscripts and see the stunning scenery<\/a> of Greenland<\/a>, the Rockies<\/a> and San<\/a> Francisco<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The meeting is underway and I spent the morning in a session dedicated to Bob Madix<\/a> (hopefully I’ll blog more about it later) but no amount of coffee is letting me break through the jetlag wall that I\u2019ve just hit. So I thought I\u2019d skip the afternoon sessions and retire to my hotel room to send some emails and write a quick blog entry.<\/p>\n

This is my third ACS<\/span> meeting in as many years and I think that I\u2019m learning how to cope with them. They\u2019re crazy meetings in that there are thousands of people here, tens of parallel sessions and just a phenomenal amount of chemistry being fired at you from all directions. I do enjoy them but I\u2019d be lying if I said it wasn\u2019t a tough week. My plan for this meeting is to catch up with a few people over lunch and dinner, chat to whoever swings by the Nature stand (booth #1000 \u2013 come say hi!) and maybe take in fewer sessions than I usually do i.e. I might miss a session here and there unlike in previous years when I\u2019ve been to all sessions possible. It does feel a little like cutting class though!<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve got a very loose plan for which sessions I\u2019m going to attend but the actual planning of where to go is a bit of a nightmare. To help out those of you who are unsure about who you should see speak, I thought I\u2019d mention a few sessions that I think are worth a visit. Firstly, there is a great line-up of speakers in a session on Tuesday that has been organised by a group of students (The Graduate Student Symposium Planning Committee – GSSPC<\/span>). They\u2019ve organized a symposium called \u2018Chemistry and the developing world\u2019 and have some top chemists giving presentations (Angela Belcher, Paul O\u2019Brien and Sean Cutler for example). For more info see here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Secondly, one of our very recent authors, Randy Goldsmith, is giving a presentation<\/a> tomorrow and he has the unenviable task of speaking at the same time as the Presidential event. The research he\u2019ll be talking about was published in, and is in fact on the cover of, our current issue<\/a> and it is very cool (single molecule spectroscopy of a fluorescent protein<\/a>) so do go along and see him talk.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll also be in the Physical Chemistry Awards Symposium<\/a> which is always great. This year\u2019s eclectic bunch of presentations sees, amongst other topics, some atmospheric chemistry from Kim Prather<\/a>, some computational nanoscience from George Schatz<\/a> and a presentation on the dynamics of electronic excited states from Peter Rossky<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And also don\u2019t miss Nature\u2019s very own Jason Wilde (he\u2019s the boss of my boss!) speaking on Tuesday in a session on the Future of Scholarly Communication<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Make sure you follow our tweets from @naturechemistry <\/a>and also the Twitter tag #acs_sf <\/a>during the week!<\/p>\n

Gavin (Associate Editor, Nature Chemistry<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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