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SILICON VALLEY CHEMIST
April Meeting & Seminar
Chair's Message
Outstanding Local Section
Science Fairs
Chemistry Quiz
ACS Editors Choice
New Members
Ottenberg Award Nominations
Communication Guide
Photos from Zare Event
Future Events Calendar
advantage of numerous benefits that the ACSprovides to the membership. (A great deal oninternal ACS governance takes place as well,but I’ll elaborate upon that in a futureMessage). These ACS benefits are targetedtowards students, professionals, and retireesalike, with specific programs and resources forevery group. From personal experience, I’d say that everyNational Meeting seems to take on a characterof its own. I remember my first ACS meeting inSalt Lake City, Utah, where I had a chance topresent a poster on my M.S. research.
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April Meeting Info.
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M A R C H 2 0 2 0VOLUME 42 NO. 3
TABLE OF CONTENTS April Dinner Meeting and Seminar:Production Redefined: Carbon’s Digital Light Synthesis Platform
Chair's MessageMatt Greaney
This month brings the SpringACS National Meeting inPhiladelphia, PA, fromMarch 22-26 with the theme“Macromolecular Chemistry:The Second Century”. Like all
recent National Meetings, a robust attendance ofover 10,000 is expected. The annual Spring and FallACS National Meetings provide nearly a week forscientists from around the world to present theirlatest research, network with peers, and take
Each year in February, the local sections arerequired to submit a report to National ACS on ouractivities and financial health. We also get anopportunity to self-nominate for Chemluminaryawards. The Chemluminary awards are given eachyear at the Fall national meeting, which will be inSan Francisco in August. We have nominatedourselves for multiple awards for individualactivities as well as the “big” award: "OutstandingSection of the Year." Here is the nomination wesubmitted.
2019 was an excellent year for Silicon Valley section. We have a very active section. In 2019, we conducted35 overall events. This included 8 dinner meetings, 8public outreach activities, 3 activities run by the YCCcommittee, presented two “teach the teacher”symposia, administered a grant program to supportscience education in middle schools, participated inchemistry Olympiad, and honored 4 chemists withlocal section awards. In addition to the above, we added 4 new eventsthat we have not done before:
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Bay Area ACS symposium, cosponsored bythe California Local section, and localindustries such as Merck, Gilead,Cytokinetics and many other companiesChemistry Escape room, which was a novelevent involving the chemistry clubs atSanta Clara University and San Jose StateUniversityYCC sponsored chemistry trivia nightHigh school chemistry mentoring
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Dr. JasonRolland, SVP of
Materials atCarbon
Dr. Rolland will provide an overviewof the Carbon Digital Light Synthesis™(DLS™) technology and DigitalManufacturing Platform. We willdiscuss how DLS provides the keyelements of speed, materials, andsoftware to enable true digitalmanufacturing at scale. Carbon’s dual-cure materials enable a broad portfolioof high performance resins for a varietyof production applications. By combining light-curable chemistrywith thermally-curable chemistry,
high resolution parts with outstandingmechanical and thermal performanceare now possible. Finally, he willpresent a variety of productionapplications enabled by DLS across arange of industries includingconsumer, automotive, dental, andmedical. As SVP of Materials at Carbon,Dr. Jason Rolland leads thedevelopment of new polymermaterials for use with
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Tuesday, April 7, 2020, 6-9pm (6-7pm social, 7-8pm dinner, 8-9pm seminar)
Michael’s at Shoreline: 2960 N. Shoreline Blvd
Mountain View, CA $20 for students • $35 for non-students
Register at: http://svacs.org/events
Chair's Message, continued from front page Intimidated and over stimulated by hundredsof pages of programming, I made a point to takecomplete advantage of the opportunity and bepresent for the full day, every day, waking up by6:30 am to ensure I had a good seat for the 8 ammorning session start, staying through the lasttalk of the day, and then grabbing a quickbreather and bite prior to taking in the eveningposter sessions. For those who still have energyafter such a busy day, there always seems to beplenty of attendees ready to go out, enjoy thetown, and make new friends. The Salt Lake CityNational Meeting was my first of many thatserved as the moment I realized how massive,rich, and dynamic the chemistry communityreally is. It helped shape my future decisions ona PhD program and eventual job. If you’ve neverbeen to an ACS National Meeting, I’d stronglyencourage you to add it on the “To Do” list. Thismay be an easy item to soon check offconsidering that the Fall 2020 ACS NationalMeeting will be held at Moscone Center in SanFrancisco from Sunday August 16-20. All of that said, attending a National Meetingcan be somewhat cost/time-prohibitive. Enteryour local section. Part of the appeal of NationalMeetings is the rich lineup of technicalpresentations as well as the networkingopportunities that occur when 10,000+ scientistsoccupy the same square mile. Luckily for us, thegeographical boundaries of the Silicon Valleysection (as well as the California section)encompass a plethora of cutting-edge sciencecompanies. As your local sectionrepresentatives, we’ve made recent efforts totake advantage of our geographical proximity tothis portion of the technical sector by featuringheads of local companies at our monthly dinnermeetings, arranging tours of local laboratoriesand R&D centers, and organizing symposiahighlighting new developments from academiaand industry. You don’t have to pay to fly to andstay in another state to regularly attendtechnical ACS gatherings!
One example of this is the recently held BayArea Chemistry Symposium (BACS), where over200 local scientists converged upon the newMerck Research Laboratories in South SF for afull day symposium on the latest and greatest onthe field of Chemical Biology, Process Chemistry,Medicinal Chemistry, and ComputationalChemistry. The feedback from this event was sooverwhelmingly positive that we’ve begun theplanning efforts for the 2020 BACS to be held atGilead Sciences in Foster City on Friday,November 6, 2020. A similar effort is underwayto organize an Energy and Materials BACS. I’dencourage anyone interested in helpingorganize such an event to contact me directly [email protected] or [email protected]. Details on the 2020 BACS will be posted in thisnewsletter and on the SVACS.org website asthey develop. In addition to the 2020 BACS, ourApril 7, 2020 dinner meeting will feature Dr.Jason Rolland, Senior Vice President of Materialat Carbon. Carbon has revolutionized 3-Dprinting and was recently named the C&EN2020 “Top Start-Up To Watch”. This will surelybe an interesting presentation. Additionaldinner meetings and outreach events areplanned for 2020, so be sure to check ourwebsite and this monthly newsletter for moredetails. While ACS National Meetings are absolutelyworth your time and efforts to attend, your localsection provides programming offering aconvenient alternative for scientific stimulationand networking. I sincerely hope you have thechance to attend both types of meetings. Onething’s for certain, you’ll never have a shortage ofpotential friends to make, colleagues to catch upwith, or interesting science to learn when youattend a local or national ACS meeting. Matt Greaney is the 2020 Chair of the SiliconValley section as well as a Councilor for the2020-2022 term. Please reach out to Matt withany comments, requests, or suggestions [email protected].
Question of the Month:How many allotropes of phosphorus are knownto exist? What are they?
Organic chemistry: 574 Medicinal Chemistry: 86
Last Month's Chemistry Quiz Answer:The NSF Survey of Earned Doctorates publishedat the end of 2019 reports that 2,810 Doctoraldegrees in Chemistry were awarded in 2018.Which sub-diciplines had the highest and lowestnumber of Doctoral degrees?
https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf20301/data-tables#group3
Chemistry Quiz
Synopsys Championship: March 12, San JoseConvention Center, San Jose
(https://science-fair.org/judges-3/category-judges/judging-registration/)
Golden Gate STEM Fair: March 13, U.S. ArmyCorps of Engineers Bay Model VisitorsCenter, Sausalito
(https://ggstemfair.org/login)Santa Cruz County Science and EngineeringFair: March 14, Santa Cruz County FairGrounds, Watsonville
(https://ca-scc.zfairs.com/?f=7482c7e8-ffce-4b54-8ef3-3919bccafddd)
San Mateo County Science, Math,&Technology Fair: March 15, San MateoEvents Center, Fiesta Pavilion, San Mateo
(https://www.stemfair.net/judges-and-volunteers) Monterey County Science & EngineeringFair: March 29, California StateUniversity, Monterey Bay, UniversityCenter, Bldg. 29 Seasidewww.montereycountysciencefair.info
This month is your last chance to judge at one ofthis year’s county science fairs, all qualifiers forstudent advancement to the InternationalScience and Engineering Fair, ISEF. While thecost is minimal (a day of your time judging atyour local science fair), the return is great(encouraging middle and high school studentsto participate in the world of STEM – science,technology, engineering, and math). We needadditional members for our SVACS sponsoredspecial awards judging team at the SynopsysChampionship on March 12th (contact me [email protected] to join us). Our dedicatedteam of chemists judge about 200 projects inthe fields of biochemistry, chemistry, and earthand environmental science. Or sign up as acategory judge for one the following regionalscience fairs -and ask professionals you know inbotany, biology, and the behavioral/socialsciences to judge, too. The interaction between the students andjudges is the heart of each and every science fair.The encouragement, gentle critique, andinterest we as judges share with the studentsbenefit all of the participants. No matter whichfair is closer to home, please volunteer now!
*Many students at these competitions are first timescience fair participants.
Local Science FairsSusan Oldham-Fritts
With ACS Editors' Choice, ACS offers free publicaccess to new research of importance to theglobal scientific community. These peer-reviewed, open access articles consist of researchthat exemplifies the Society's commitment toimproving people's lives through thetransforming power of chemistry. The selection of these articles is based onrecommendations by the scientific editors ofACS journals from around the world; all ACSPublications articles published in 2014 andforward are eligible to be recommended for ACSEditors' Choice. Useful hyperlinks:
ACS Editor's Choice—Open Access to Important
New Research
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we sponsored the highly successful NoBellesplay at 4 different college venues in the BayArea. This play showcased the importance thatwomen have made in the sciences. In 2017, weinstituted a Beer brewing contest at a localbrewery, where the home brew winner wasoffered the opportunity to brew a commercialscale batch of their beer and sell it through thelocal brewer organization. The beer contest isnow in its third year. In addition to all the outreach and publicactivities, the Silicon Valley section is also payingattention to local section governance. We havestarted a Strategic goals task force to create amission and strategic plan for the future. Wehave also re-energized our nominationscommittee to make sure whenever possible thatwe have contested elections and that we bringnew people into the section governance. In2019, two of our 7 councilors are relatively new tothe section as well as 4 of the 7 alternatecouncilors. This provides a good balance ofexperience and new enthusiasm to the ExecutiveCommittee. We have also started a METT grantfunded effort to revitalize our website andnewsletter and posting more events on socialmedia. Lastly, our financial health is good. Wehave an annual budget of about $80,000, and abalance sheet of approximately $250,000. Wedo run with a small annual shortfall ($8,000 in2019) but are in a good overall financial position.
SV Section Nomination, continued from front pageThe inaugural Bay Area ACS symposium (BACS)was attended by 203 Northern Californiachemistry professionals and learners cametogether for an all-day event on November 8,2019 in South San Francisco. The growingnumber of pharmaceutical, high tech, start-upand other scientist-employing businesses in theSan Francisco Bay area translates into a growingdemand to showcase both employers andpotential employees who are local to northernCalifornia. While individual educationalinstitutions hold career events for their ownstudents, the Bay Area Chemistry Symposiumprovided a forum for candidates at all stages oftheir careers. BACS was designed to serve thelocal chemistry community by providing anenvironment for interaction betweenprofessionals, students, & established chemistryenterprises of academia, government &industry. It succeeded, reflected in the responsesto a feedback survey afterwards (attached). Thesuccess of BACS 2019 sets good precedence forBACS becoming a sustainable, annual event. Infact, BACS 2020 has already held its firstorganizational meeting in February 2020. Theday-long program included presentations fromindustry and academia, and grad student &post-doc short talks & posters. These three talkswere delivered by Carolyn Bertozzi (Stanford),Richmond Sarpong (UC Berkeley), & BillDeGrado (UCSF). Topics covered synthetic,medicinal, & process chemistry; future years willdiversify the choice of subjects, with feedbacksuggesting computational chemistry, codingacademy, advanced analytical methods,materials & energy. Attendees came from 8universities and 31 companies, from start-ups tomajor industrial research labs. Overwhelmingsupport for an event of this kind was evidencedwith financing from the local industries ofGilead, Novartis, Merck, AbbVie, Genentech,Millipore Sigma, Google, Cytokinetics,Pharmaron, Schrodinger, TheravanceBiopharma, Chemical Computing Group, Maze,Arcus Biosciences, Nurix, Cambridge IsotopeLaboratories, and Ideaya Biosciences. From thedemand for attendee slots and from thefeedback received in our follow-up survey, welearned the magnitude of the hunger amongscientists, students, grad students, post-docsand institutions for a regular event to bringtogether chemists in our region. While we had toclose registration at 200 due to facility capacity,demand would have doubled that number. The chemistry escape room was a new eventconducted at Santa Clara University and San Jose
State University. This event was funded by agrant from the Senior chemist committee, andwas designed to promote interaction betweenYCC and SCC. We ran the escape room for thechemistry clubs at Santa Clara University andSan Jose State University. At each university,teams of 4-6 students would work together tosolve the challenges and figure out what hadhappened to Dr. Quicksilver, a fictional localprofessor who has gone missing. One of thefeatures of a typical escape room is that thereare no explanations for what to do, how to do it,or even what constitutes a component of apuzzles. The participant is simply expected touse observation, general knowledge andcuriosity to solve the puzzle. On July 17th, the YCCs of the Silicon Valley andCalifornia sections hosted our first ChemistryTrivia Night at Freewheel Brewing Company inRedwood City. The event drew attendees of allages from around the Bay and 10 teamscompeted for the moniker of Chemistry TriviaChampion. The four rounds highlightedknowledge of general chemistry, localchemistry, chemistry tools (a picture round), andchemistry-related trivia. It was a highlycompetitive evening of play with several teamsneck-in-neck, though Team Galway camethrough at the end to win it all, scoring 26 out ofthe possible 32 points (edging out Team East BayCollective by a single point)! Overall a fun night— special thanks to Freewheel Brewery and toour YCC officers for planning and hosting theevent. The Chemistry Trivia night was well-received and fun to run. We plan to connect withthe California Section YCC again (as well asAIChE Northern California) to do at least oneevent again this summer. Because FreewheelBrewery was so generous with us, we will likelyreach out to them again (as well as look for othervenues). The YCC also conducted a studentnetworking speed dating night and the 3rdAnnual beer brewing contest.2 SVACS members, Avni Gandhi representingbiological chemistry and Jane Frommerrepresenting nanochemistry, visited San JoseLeigh High School Oct 31,2019. They wereinvited by the student president of the chemistryclub, students who chose to attend ourchemistry session did so at the expense ofHalloween festivities in the gym! The dedicationfilter yielded lively & productive Q&A. A nationalchemistry week event was also held at the LosAltos High School. These first-time events build on a long traditionat Silicon Valley local section of trying newapproaches to reach our constituents. In 2018,
April meeting, continued from front pageCarbon Digital Light SynthesisTM (DLSTM)technology to address product needs across awide range of industries. He co-inventedCarbon’s dual-cure materials platform, whichhas led to the subsequent development of abroad range of high-performance materials,including rigid and flexible polyurethanes,polyurethane elastomers, high-temperaturecyanate ester and epoxy-based resins, dentalresins, and silicone-based materials. Previously,he was Senior Director of Research atDiagnostics for All, and co-founder and Directorof R&D at Liquidia Technologies. Dr. Rollandholds a B.S. in chemistry from Virginia Tech anda Ph.D. in chemistry from UNC Chapel Hill. Anamed inventor on over 25 issued patents andover 40 pending patents, Dr. Rolland hasreceived numerous awards recognizing hisachievements, including the American ChemicalSociety (ACS) 2014 Kathryn C. Hach Award forEntrepreneurial Success. In 2019 he was namedthe recipient of the prestigious ACS POLY YoungIndustrial Polymer Scientist Award.
Each month, the section receives a spreadsheet from national ACS with the names of members newto our section. The members are either new to ACS, have transferred in from other areas, or are thenewest members -- students. To welcome you to the section and get to know you, the ExecutiveCommittee offers new members a free dinner! To encourage you to attend a monthly section seminarmeeting, we would like you to be our guest. When you register, make certain to mention that you area new member and you and a friend will be our guests. The seminar meetings are held at a number oflocal venues. If you are unable to attend in the evening, perhaps you would join us for an outreachevent, like judging a science fair, proctoring the Chemistry Olympiad or participating in a NationalChemistry Week event in October. Then, there is our annual beer & wine tasting and awards picnic inJuly. The local section is a volunteer organization. Please attend an event, volunteer to help and get toknow your local fellow chemists. Welcome!
Kelly SullivanDr. Doris TangDr. Jacob Timmerman Debra A. Timmers Stephen Van Wyck William Gura Walls IIIMark Ware Dr. Katherine Paige Weber David Wright Qiaoyin Wu Dr. Yan Xia
Welcome to the Silicon Valley Section of ACS
Dr. Deb Bharadwaj Dr. Wangjun Cui Susan Darling Laura Dassama Julia Dayton Dr. Polly Fordyce Mr. James Gamlen Dr. Timothy Gould Shengchun Guo Dr. Russell D. Haynes Aditya Hindupur
New SVACS MembersMr. Timothy F. Hom Jingli Hu Dr. Zhushou Luo Riki McDaniel Dr. Gilles Muller Ellen Parker Dr. Stanley Qi Dr. Spencer Robbins Dr. Corinne M. Sadlowski Elizabeth Sendil
Ihab Darwish2017 Ottenberg Service Awardee
2020 Abraham Ottenberg Service AwardCall for Nominations: Silicon Valley Section
Please send your nomination beforeJune 1, 2020, to: Peter Rusch, ChairOttenberg Award Selection CommitteeSilicon Valley SectionAmerican Chemical SocietyP.O. Box 395Palo Alto, CA 94302-0395E-mail: [email protected]: 650-961-8120
The Ottenberg Award is presentedannually to a member of our localsection for outstanding service to thesection. Previous recipients are noteligible to receive it again.Nominations should include thenominee's biography, a description ofthe service(s) for which the member isnominated, and a evaluation of theservice to be recognized by the award.Nominations are not retained forsubsequent years but re-nominationsare accepted for consideration.
Connect with ChemistsAn early morning chat with fellow chemists
Thursday, Mar. 19th, 2020, at 7-8 amCoupa Café, 538 Ramona Street, Palo Alto
Contact Ean Warren ([email protected]) formore information or ask for ACS at Coupa.
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Richard Zare TalkPicture Album
Dick Zare talking about “Chemistry in theKitchen: Promoting Appreciation ofChemistry and Science” at the ACS SiliconValley Dinner Meeting held on February 19,2020 at Michael’s at Shoreline in MountainView, California. It was a great talk thatincluded an edible treat for attendees. Source: Personal photo taken by GeorgeLechner.
Richard Neil Zare. “I gave a presentation on mycourse at the Silicon Valley Chapter of theAmerican Chemical Society. I loved the shirt JoeEvans was wearing.” Facebook, February 21,2020. https://www.facebook.com/richard.zare(accessed February 23, 2020).
Stanford Chemistry. “Dick Zare and RichardPhan in the Chemistry in the Kitchen cookinglab making pasta from scratch!”@StanfordUChem, Twitter, February 19,2020. https://twitter.com/StanfordUChem(accessed February 23, 2020).
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Spring ACS National Meeting & ExpoPhiladelphia, PA Annual Stauffer LectureshipProf. Jacqueline BartonStanford Chemistry Dept.https://tinyurl.com/25thlectureship Dr. Jason RobardsVP of Materials, Carbon 3DCarbon's Digital Light Synthesis PlatformMichael's at Shoreline, Mountain View, CA Monterey Bay Aquarium Institute visitSouth Bay [email protected] Meeting w/ Golden Gate Polymer ForumMichael's at Shoreline, Mountain view, CA Annual Picnic, Awards, & WinetastingStanford Chemistry Dept.
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SILICON VALLEY SECTION2020 Section OfficersChair Matt Greaney 510-410-0195 [email protected] Jigisha Shah 315-289-5115 [email protected] Grace Baysinger 650-725-1039 [email protected] Laura Yeager 626-826-3145 [email protected] Ihab Darwish 650-624-1389 [email protected] Councilors2018-2020 Ean Warren 650-714-5133 [email protected] Natalie McClure 650-906-7831 [email protected] Linda Brunauer 408-554-6947 [email protected] Jane Frommer 408-927-2225 [email protected] Sally Peters 650-447-3027 [email protected] 2020-2022 Matt Greaney 510-410-0195 [email protected] Madalyn Radlauer 408-924-5482 [email protected] Alternate Councilors2019-2021 Sogol Teschler 408-896-2367 [email protected] Laura Yeager 626-826-3145 [email protected] Todd Eberspacher 650-723-2505 [email protected] 2020-2022 Avni Gandhi 626-831-8230 [email protected] 2020-2022 Heddie Nichols 310-435-2133 [email protected] Howard Peters 650-447-3027 [email protected] Peter Rusch 650-961-8120 [email protected] NewsletterEditor Kevin Greenman 408-634-2309 [email protected]. Ed Partha P. Bera 650-604-2028 [email protected] ChemPloyment AbstractsDirector Liang Cao [email protected]