Upcoming Events
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November 2024
Section Meeting/2nd Ned Heindel Annual Lecture
Wednesday, November 20th, 5-9 pm
Lehigh University, Iacocca Hall
Speaker: Allen Reitz, Fox Chase Therapeutics Discovery, Inc.
2024 Ned Heindel Lecture: “A research career: Make what you love benefit the world!”
- 5-6 pm - social hour/appetizers/open bar
- 6-7 pm - buffet dinner
- 7-7:15 - LVACS meeting
- 7:15-7:30 - remembrance
- 7:30-8:30 - talk
REGISTER to attend social/dinner [$20 members/$10 students|retirees|unemployed] or meeting/talk only
POST FLYER EVERYWHERE!
MEETING CONTACTS: Chester Crane, crane@musselpolymers.com; Sherri Young, sherriyoung@muhlenberg.edu
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The LVACS Younger Chemists Committee (YCC) Invites You to:
BINGO NIGHT!
Thursday, November 21st, 8:30-9:30 pm
FREE! Prizes include ACS Swag!
Event will be held through Zoom
>>>REGISTER<<<
Post Flyer everywhere!
CONTACT: Jeanne Berk, jrberk@cedarcrest.edu
December 2024
The LVACS Women Chemists Committee (WCC) Invites You to:
Master Michelangelo Pottery Painting Party
“Engage, Advance, and Advocate for Women Chemists”
Wednesday, December 18th, 4:00-5:30pm
Color Me Mine Lehigh Valley
25 E 3rd Street, Bethlehem, PA 18015
What is included: pottery (wine glasses, trinket boxes,
dinnerware, decorative pieces, etc.), all paint and
supplies, firing, finishing pieces wrapped/bagged in a
week, a free coupon for future painting!
The event is FREE but please register.
To register, please RSVP to Yi Du, WCC Chair at duyidoit@gmail.com
https://youtu.be/MN5hxD3d7MM
Wolfram|Alpha's Jason Sonnenberg's talk with LVACS in January 2024 "Chemical Superpowers with ChatGPT + Wolfram" explored how ChatGPT is a much smarter “chemistry assistant” when given access to Wolfram|Alpha and Wolfram Language. The resulting Wolfram GPT can generate chemical structures in two- and three-dimensions which the ChatGPT 3.5 and ChatGPT 4 can not. Additionally it can also pull from expert-curated chemical data and propagate experimental uncertainty in chemical conversions and computations. Wolfram|Alpha & ChatGPT 3.5 are both free resources, while Wolfram GPT & ChatGPT 4 require a subscription from OpenAI.
A lecture by Lauren Zarzar of Penn State University entitled “Color from Colorless Materials.” Lauren is an assistant professor of chemistry and an affiliate of the Materials Research Institute. The Zarzar Lab studies stimuli-responsive materials, the behavior of active matter, and laser fabrication methods to synthesize and pattern both inorganic and organic materials. https://www.zarzarlab.com/. In this lecture, Lauren explained why interference (structural) color can arise from even microscale structures (~ 100 microns) by Total Internal Reflection, such as when water droplets of different sizes form by condensation on a clean, low energy surface.
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