OCTOBER 21-24, 2009 - SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO
Think Positive, Think Global, Think Chemistry
ACS SOUTHEASTERN REGIONAL MEETING
OCTOBER 21-24, 2009 - SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO
Think Positive, Think Global, Think Chemistry
SERMACS 2009 - ProgramWorkshopsWriting Better NSF Research and Education Proposals ACS Career Services Workshops Career Workshops and Individual Résumé Reviews will be offered that will give members a unique insight into the job market. The workshops are designed to help chemical professionals and students at all levels understand the current workplace and take advantage of employment opportunities. The workshops and résumé reviews will be held on Thursday, October 22, in room 208-B/C. Planning Your Job Search: 9:30 AM Preparing a Resume: 11:00 AM Effective Interviewing: 3:00 PM An ACS Career Consultant will be available to provide individual résumé reviews and career assistance. You must bring a copy of your résumé. Sign-up will be available at the meeting registration desk. Ethics Workshop (click for more information) The workshop consists of a series of case studies that are designed to provoke audience discussion. Electronic clickers are given to the audience members to provide for anonymous responses to multiple-choice questions that follow each case study. The workshop facilitators use the audience responses to foster further discussion. ACS Ethics Committee: http://www.acs.org/ethics, Collective X Site: http://acsethics.collectivex.com CHAS - Chemical Reactivity Hazards, Laboratory Scale, Recognition & Control (CANCELLED) The Process Safety Alliance, in cooperation with U.S. OSHA is presenting a workshop titled CHEMICAL REACTIVITY HAZARDS: Laboratory Scale Recognition & Control. The objective of the workshop is to provide participants with the knowledge and skill to screen processes for potential hazards, recognize when reactive hazards are present, and implement appropriate controls to reduce the risk of an incident associated with the hazards. Workshop attendees will review case studies of actual incidents and do screening examples in order to understand the screening and recognition process. Group discussions of control methods will allow participants to share their experiences and to evaluate methods for controlling reactivity risks. CHAS - Laboratory Waste Management 2009 (CANCELLED) This classic presentation on laboratory safety by the Laboratory Safety Institute (LSI) has been attended by thousands of safety professions. With experience in both industrial and academic laboratories, Jim and Jack give a "real world" approach to safety issues in the laboratory. Their stories are both interesting and pertinent. Interactive demonstrations help you deal with everything from creative wiring in the lab to administrators without a vision of what it means to have safe workplace. Highly entertaining, and an excellent forum to speak openly about safety problems in your workplace CHAS - Laboratory Safety Workshop (CANCELLED) This classic presentation on laboratory safety by the Laboratory Safety Institute (LSI) has been attended by thousands of safety professions. With experience in both industrial and academic laboratories, Jim and Jack give a "real world" approach to safety issues in the laboratory. Their stories are both interesting and pertinent. Interactive demonstrations help you deal with everything from creative wiring in the lab to administrators without a vision of what it means to have safe workplace. Highly entertaining, and an excellent forum to speak openly about safety problems in your workplace. CHAS - How to be a More Effective Chemical Hygiene Officer Take a close look at the Chemical Hygiene Officer position, and prepare at the same time for the "CHO" Certification exam to be held the next day. Kaufman, Phifer and Wahl give a different slant to safety issues in the laboratory, focusing on what you do and how you can do it better. The presenters bring a wide variety of experience to the table, but the real stars of the workshop are you - past attendees note the interactive approach focusing on their problems, from getting administrators involved in safety to dealing with regulatory concerns. The course covers all of the content areas of the certification exam (presented on Sunday through NRCC), including a sample test in the same format as the real one. Whether you are a new Chemical Hygiene Officer or an "old" one, you will find something to put to real use in this fast-paced presentation. You can request an application packet for the Chemical Hygiene Officer certification examination by National Registry of Certified Chemists online at http://www.nrcc6.org. ACS High School Teachers Workshops (Click for Final HSTW Program) A series of activities, workshops and interactive lectures have been prepared for high school teachers. Connecting Resources, Connecting Others: Supercomputing in the Global Age Please join the Computers in Chemistry (COMP) division and the Auburn local section for our hands-on “Instant Supercomputer!” workshop. Volunteers are encouraged to bring their laptops to build a one-day instant supercomputer using custom bootable CDs that allow them to work in parallel. The workshop presents a unique opportunity to do “public science” to solve a current research problem with a real time audience, rather than disseminating prior results. Short presentations will introduce the concept behind large-scale computational chemistry and ad hoc cluster building. All attendees are welcomed to keep the CD to build their own personal clusters. |
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