Upcoming Events
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June 2025
Chemical Consultants Network Meeting
June 11, 2025, 6:00 pm
The Crown Tavern, 451 Wilmington West Chester Pike, Glen Mills, PA 19342
SUMMER SOCIAL - ALL ABOUT CHEMICAL CONSULTING
To support Federal and industry chemists impacted by recent government layoffs and to present a different career path for those interested, the Chemical Consultants Network (CCN) is organizing a timely event, “All About Chemical Consulting”, sponsored by CCN, ACS Philadelphia, ACS Delaware ACS and CEPA (ACS National) on June 11th 2025. Flyer with more info and registration link.
Green Chemistry & Engineering
GC&E 2025
Pittsburgh, June 23-26
The GC&E Conference, hosted by the ACS Green Chemistry Institute®, is the premier global event for green chemistry and engineering. As the first and longest-running conference on this topic, GC&E attracts scientists, educators, industry professionals, and advocates to explore advancements, share best practices, inspire innovation, and build community dedicated to sustainable solutions. Each year, the conference evolves, incorporating new ideas while maintaining its legacy. Its vision is for green and sustainable chemistry to be integral to all scientific endeavors, providing solutions that balance human well-being with planetary health. For this reason, the 2025 conference theme will be Good Health and Well-Being Through Sustainable Chemistry to align with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3. GC&E 2025 will showcase innovative research and cross-cutting topics in green and sustainable chemistry and engineering, with an emphasis on symposia that highlight thematic topics such as medical breakthroughs, new technologies, and efforts to eliminate or reduce hazardous chemical pollution promoting longer and healthier lives. The American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Institute (ACS GCI) invites you to register for our 29th annual scientific meeting on June 23-26, 2025, in Pittsburgh, PA. Explore how chemistry and chemical engineering support good health and well-being, the interface of toxicology and chemistry, and advances in pharmaceutical chemistries and processes ensure life-saving medicines are produced in harmony with the planet.
The ACID Series:
Starts June 17th on Zoom
Welcome to the ACID series, where Amazing Chemistry Insights and Discussions occur twice weekly during the summer of 2025!
Zoom sessions will be held on Tuesdays & Thursdays from 3 - 4 PM EST. These are FREE experiences oriented towards undergraduate students in the chemical sciences, but all are welcome. Sign up today to receive the link. Each session will include an interview with a leader in the field and some time to explore software packages. There is no commitment required: you may visit once or join us every time. While the topics cover several aspects of theoretical and computational chemistry, each talk is independent of the rest. Start with us on June 17 or jump in later!
See our webpage for more opportunities
Check out additional FREE programming to keep your chemical curiosity reacting!
May 28 - 30, in person - Lehigh Quantum Chemistry Workshop: Molecules & Materials: Registration (recurring yearly)
June 11, 8 AM - 5 PM MST - Electronic Structure Workshop 2025: Registration
Are you aware of a free educational/networking event in computational chemistry? Let us know so we can share it.
Acknowledgments
A huge thank you to the community of speakers without whom this series would not exist! We acknowledge the MoleCVUE Consortium for providing website resources and Penn State Berks for the use of Zoom. Wolfram GPT helped design the series name.
Organizers
Two mid-career, chemical educators with a passion for aiding the next cohort of chemists and applied chemical scientists.
Lorena Tribe - Penn State Berks
Jason Sonnenberg - Sunny Hill Consulting
Keep watching this page for timely announcements of our next events!
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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