SERMACS 2009 - Program Overview

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General Program Overview

Wednesday, October 21

Symposia
13:00 – 17:00 pm

New Trends in Boron Chemistry
Bioorganic Chemistry Session I
Chemical Scholarship via Education
Analytical Chemistry Symposium I - Applied Analytical Chemistry
General Inorganic Chemistry Session I
General Analytical Session I
Patent Law Developments
Small Business Startups – A Guide

Workshops
8:30 am – 17:00 pm

Writing better NSF research and Education Proposals
Ethics Workshop
Laboratory Waste Management (cancelled)
Chemical Reactivity Hazards (cancelled)

Opening Ceremony
17:00 – 18:00 pm

Exhibition Opening - Poster Sessions
18:00 – 20:30 pm

General Organic Chemistry Session I
General Inorganic Chemistry Session II
General Analytical Chemistry Session II
General Biochemistry Session
General Chemical Education Session

Thursday, October 22

ACS District Director's Breakfast
7:00 - 8:00 am

Nobel Laureate Lecture I
8:30 – 9:30 am

Exhibition
9:00 am - 19:00 pm

Graduate School Fair
9:00 am - 17:00 pm

Symposia
10:00 am – 17:30 pm

Chemical Education Research
Preparing the 21st Century Chemistry Workforce: Opportunities and Challenges for the Student and Faculty
Current Trends in Inorganic Chemistry
Process Technologies in Bio-Pharmaceutical Industry
New Polymeric Materials and Applications
Analytical Chemistry Symposium – Session II
Physical Chemistry Symposium I
Frontiers in Nucleic Acid Chemistry I

Undergraduate Poster Session I
10:00 am -12:00 pm

Undergraduate Oral presentation I and II, V
10:00 am -12:00 pm

Workshops
9:30 am – 12:30 pm

ACS Career Services Workshops, Planning Your Job Search
ACS Career Services Workshops, Preparing a Resume

Nobel Laureate Luncheon
12:00 – 13:30 pm

Nobel Laureate Lecture II
13:30 – 14:30 pm

Symposia
15:00 – 17:00 pm

General Organic Chemistry Session I
Nanotechnology: From Energy to Medicine I

Undergraduate Oral Presentations III
Undergraduate Oral Presentations IV
15:00 pm -17:00 pm

Workshops
15:00 am – 17:00 pm

ACS Career Services Workshops, Effective Interviewing

Undergraduate Poster Session II
17:00 – 19:00 pm

Puerto Rican Night
19:30 – 23:00 pm

Friday, October 23

Exhibition
9:00 am – 16:00 pm

Symposia
8:30 am – 17:30 pm

General Organic Chemistry Session II
Frontiers in Nucleic Acid Chemistry II
Biochemistry Symposium
Bioenergy: Fuels, Chemicals, and Power
Physical Chemistry Symposium II
Current Trends in Environmental Chemistry
Nanotechnology: From Energy to Medicine II
Supramolecular Science and Self-Assembly
High School Teachers Day

Workshops
8:30 am – 17:00 pm

How to be a More Efficient Chemical Hygiene Officer
Laboratory Safety (cancelled)
Laboratory Scale, Recognition and Control

High School Teacher Day
8:30 am - 17:00 pm

NCW Events
8:30 - 12:00 am

8:30 - 12:00 am - Festival de Química-Paseo la Fuente
9:00 - 10:30 am - Session I
Coloring with Carbon Chemistry Workshop for Kids (4th – 6th Grades)
10:30 - 12:00 am - Session II
Coloring with Carbon Chemistry Workshop for Kids (4th – 6th Grades)

Awards Luncheon
12:00 – 13:30 pm

Symposia
13:30 – 17:00 pm

Current Interdisciplinary Trends in Organic Chemistry
General Inorganic Chemistry Session III
History, Chemistry, and Art of the Elements

Sci-Mix Poster Session I
General Physical Chemistry Poster Session
14:00 – 17:00 pm

Saturday, October 24

Symposia
8:30 am – 12:30 pm

Nanotechnology: From Energy to Medicine III
General Organic Chemistry Session III
AAAS-Caribbean Division Annual Conference-Plenary Lecture
AAAS-Caribbean Division Annual Conference-General Science Session

Workshops
9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Connecting Resources, Connecting Others:
Supercomputing in the Global Age

AAAS Workshops
10:30 am - 12:30 pm
AAAS - Teachers’ Workshops
AAAS - Student Workshops

AAAS Student Workshop: Chemistry-It’s Elemental (Elementary School)- Going green
AAAS Student Workshop: Chemistry-It’s Elemental (Middle School) - Green sculptures
AAAS Student Workshop: Chemistry-It’s Elemental (High School) - The green initiative

Sci-Mix Poster Session II
10-30 am - 12:30 pm

AAAS-Astronomy Session
13:30 – 15:30 pm
Kepler and the International Year of Astronomy

For more information please contact:
General Chair Dr. Ingrid Montes: imontes@sermacs2009.org
Program Chair: Dr. Néstor Carballeira: nmcarballeira@sermacs2009.org
Undergraduate Program Chair: jsuarez@sermacs2009.org
Treasurer: Dr. Jorge Colón: jlcolon@sermacs2009.org