Pacifichem 2010

Symposium Proposals

The Pacifichem 2010 Congress will present the latest research in the core topic areas of chemistry, feature multidisciplinary programming, and highlight chemistry's impact on society.

The 1st round of symposium proposals was open from January 1 - April 15, 2008.
The 2nd round of proposals will open in late summer or early fall, 2008.

	Call for Symposium Proposals
	Congress Themes & Topic Areas
	Symposium Proposal Guidelines
	Symposium Financial Support
	Submit a Symposium Proposal << A second round of proposals will open by early fall
	Topical Program Advisors and Coordinators

Congress Themes & Topic Areas

I. The Core Areas of Chemistry
1.	Analytical Symposia are invited in all areas of analytical methodology and theory as applied, for example, to bioanalysis, data and sample treatment, chemometrics, detecting/sensing systems, electrochemistry, environmental analysis, instrumentation, microscale systems, and separations.
2.	Inorganic Symposia are invited in all areas of experimental and theoretical inorganic chemistry, including geochemistry and nuclear chemistry, as applied, for example, to bioinorganics, catalysis, coordination compounds, electron transfer reactions, kinetics, magnetic and bonding properties, mechanisms, molecular structures, organometallics, reactivity, solid-states, spectroscopy, structures, synthesis, theory, and thermodynamics.
3.	Macromolecular Symposia are invited in all areas of organic, inorganic, and naturally occurring polymeric systems as applied, for example, to characterizations, modifications, kinetics, mechanisms, polymerizations, properties, poly-peptides, synthesis, simulation/theoretical developments, structure analysis, RNA/DNA, and solution/surface/solid-state properties of macromolecules.
4.	Organic Symposia are invited in all areas of organic and bioorganic chemistry as applied, for example, to amino acids, aromatic/heterocyclic compounds, asymmetric systems, peptides, synthesis, natural products, molecular recognition, and self-assembly.
5.	Physical, Theoretical & Computational Symposia are invited in all areas of physical, theoretical, computational chemistry and information science as applied, for example, to chemometrics, dynamical systems, excited states, informatics, imaging, modeling, molecular assemblies/processes, quantum/statistical mechanics, and visualizations.

II. Multi- and Cross-Disciplinary Areas of Chemistry
6.	Agrochemistry Symposia are invited in all areas of agriculture and food chemistry and biochemistry as applied, for example, to aromatics and flavorings, composition and processing, environmental fate, feeds, flavinoids, fumigants, genomics, glycosides, pesticides, plant growth regulators, plant and food safety and toxicology, fertilizers, nutricuticals/nutrition/phytonutrients, and veterinary drugs.
7.	Biological Chemistry Symposia in all areas in which chemistry, biochemistry, and molecular and cell biology intersect and apply, for example, to ADMET properties, antimicrobials, biocomplexity, bioenergetics, bioinformatics, biologically active molecules, biological networks, biosynthesis, chemical biology, chemical evolution, chemical expressions of gene structure, cheminformatics, drug design and discovery, enzymes, genomics, glycomics and glycobiology, immunochemistry, medicinal chemistry, metabolomics, membrane structure-function relationships, natural products and bioinspired chemistry, mimicry, molecular mechanisms of biological phenomena, peptides and proteins, protein and antibody engineering, protein dynamics, proteomics, pharmaceuticals, and systems biology.
8.	Environmental Chemistry Symposia are invited in all areas of environmental chemistry, for example, in atmospheric processes, biodegradable materials, environmentally induced illness, environmental transport phenomena and fate, geochemistry, green chemistry, process modifications for pollution prevention or improved energy efficiency, remediation, and toxicology.
9.	Materials & Nanotechnology Symposia are invited in all areas of the chemistry of materials and nanotechnology as applied, for example, to biotechnology, characterizations, chemical devices and switches, carbon nanotubes and fullerenes, clusters, directed and self assembly, emergent technologies; fabrication of materials with novel and/or useful optical, electrical, magnetic, catalytic, and mechanical properties; microarray technologies, synthesis, and theory.

III. Challenges and Opportunities for Chemistry
10.	Alternate Energy Technology Symposia are invited in areas of chemistry addressing a sustainable energy future as applied, for example, to biofuels, catalysis/kinetics, climate change, energy storage, fuel cells, hydrogen storage, limited resources, modeling, solar energy, energy-efficient processes, and renewables.
11.	Chemistry Outreach to the Community Symposia are invited in outreach and community efforts related to, for example, career and professional issues; chemical education, community-based service organizations on the local, state, national, or international level; public understanding of chemistry, contributions of chemistry to society, industry-based outreach programs, public policy implementation, professional practices, regulatory initiatives, strategic partnerships and projects in the application of chemistry to societal issues, technology transfer, and volunteer and service initiatives.
12.	Health & Technology Symposia are invited in all areas in which chemistry impacts health and medicine, for example, in bio-templated chemistry, biological networks, biomaterials, bioreactors, diagnostics, disease modifying therapies, emergent diseases, ethical issues in health and medicine, food and nutrition, immunology, implantable materials, medical devices, medical imaging, nanosafety, nutraceuticals, new biomedical technologies, organ printing, regenerative medicine, stem cell therapies, tissue engineering, and toxicology.
13.	Security Symposia are invited in all areas of chemistry related to security and protection, for example, in detection of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, or explosive (CBRNE) threats; food safety, forensic tools and methods for CBRNE materials, imaging technologies applications, intellectual property and licensing, materials, methods, and systems for enhanced response and consequence management; risk analysis and assessment, novel materials for security applications, operational integration and data fusion of threat detection systems, and patent issues.
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Symposium Proposal Guidelines

The scientific program will be scheduled during the period Wednesday, December 15 through Monday, December 20, 2010. All symposium proposals must be submitted online, through an Internet Symposium Proposal application (webSymposia) which will open on January 1, 2008. Each proposed symposium must have three (3) co-organizers who are from different Pacific Rim countries. One shall be designated as the "Corresponding Co-organizer", and all correspondence (e-mail, FAX, letters) relating to the symposium will be directed to this contact person. It is the responsibility of the corresponding co-organizer to keep all other co-organizers informed. Symposium proposals will consist of the name of the Corresponding Symposium Organizer (CSO), and at least 2 additional co-organizers. All three co-organizers must be from different Pacific Rim countries. In addition the proposal should contain the symposium title, and an estimated number of speakers and sessions. The proposal will also contain a brief 150-300 word description of the symposium subject and a list of proposed invited speakers and their affiliations. In the event that there is a change in the corresponding co-organizer, the remaining organizers should contact the Congress Secretariat as soon as possible. Each symposium is expected to include contributed papers, either oral or poster or both. Because there will be no oral General Sessions, organizers are requested to accommodate as many contributed oral papers as possible. Except for special circumstances, a symposium will have no more than five (5) half-day daytime oral sessions. Some additional oral and/or poster sessions will be scheduled in the evenings. Each half-day oral session will have a maximum duration of 4 hours and should contain at least five (5) presentations. There will be NO coffee breaks, although a short (5 min ) introduction slot can be incorporated. Evening sessions will be 2 hours duration. Each half-day oral session should have speakers from more than one country. Limits on oral presentations: Maximum of 2 invited presentations per delegate. Maximum of 3 presentations (invited plus contributed) per delegate. (There is no limit on co-authorship on non-presented papers.) All contributed oral papers are of 20 min duration. The duration of invited oral papers (e.g., 20 min, 30 min, 40 min) is at the discretion of the symposium organizers. Organizers are reminded that shorter invited talks (e.g. 30 min) allow for greater flexibility with scheduling.
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Symposium Financial Support

Fee Waivers: The Congress will provide two (2) registration waivers for each 1/2-day daytime oral session of an accepted symposium (there are no fee waivers for evening sessions). Fee waivers cannot be sub-divided so as to provide partial support for two or more speakers (i.e., there are no 1/2 or 1/4 waivers). The waivers - in the form of electronic codes - can be redeemed through the electronic registration system at the time of delegate registration. The necessary codes will be forwarded to symposium organizers for distribution to selected speakers prior to the opening of registration. No other financial support can be made available from the Congress budget. Symposium organizers may seek and accept any other contributions directly in support of their individual symposia. Organizers are indeed encouraged to pursue additional funding for their programs. Sposnshorships: Because of the administrative structure of the US Congress and US Tax laws governing nonprofit contributions, it is not possible for symposium sponsorships to be processed through the Pacifichem Congress budget. Organizers will need to collect and administer sponsorship funds independently of the Congress finances, through their individual society or society-affiliate support resources. All sponsorships will be acknowledged on the Pacifichem web site and the on-site program book.
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Submit a Proposal

The first round of symposium proposals occurred between January 1 - April 15, 2008. All submitted proposals were reviewed during the Pacifichem 2010 Organizing Committee Meeting, May 13 & 14, 2008. The Organizing Committee informed the Corresponding Symposium Organizers of the results of the reviews in late May. The second round of symposium proposals will begin in late summer or early fall, 2008. Please send any questions about the proposal submission process to pacifichem@acs.org.
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Topical Program Advisors and Coordinators

Submitted proposals will be reviewed by Topical Program Advisors who are appointed from each of the co-sponsoring societies (Canada, Japan, US, Australia, New Zealand, Korea, and China) to help the Program Subcommittee of Pacifichem 2010 in its development of the symposium program. For each of the 13 Program Topic Areas, one of the Topical Program Advisors will be designated as the Topical Program Coordinator...>> more
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Last update: July 1, 2008