ACS Presidential Outreach Event - Exploring Our World

Through Chemistry
Cosponsored by CCA
Childrens Creativity Museum (across from the Moscone Center)
211 Fourth Street San Francisco, CA
10:00 AM 2:00 PM, Saturday
Fracking Where We Are and Where We Are Going
8:30 AM 11:30 AM, Monday (Moscone Center)
Photocatalytic Conversion of Water to Hydrogen and Oxygen
9:00 AM 5:30 PM, Tuesday (Moscone Center)
PRESIDENTIAL
SYMPOSIA AND
EVENTS
Sponsored and
Recommended by the
ACS President
Tom Barton
ACS President
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Sustain-Mix: Sustainability Across the Society
Sponsored by CHED and cosponsored by PRES, CEI, and MPPG
8:30 AM 5:10 PM, Sunday &
8:30 AM 12:30 PM, Monday (Moscone Center)
Advancing Chemistry and Communicating Chemistry:
Looking Around and Looking Ahead with
Bassam Z. Shakhashiri
Sponsored by CHED and cosponsored by PRES
8:00 AM 5:15 PM, Monday (Moscone Center)
Environmental Chemistry: 100 Years of Scientifc
Contribution for a Safer and Sustainable Environment
Sponsored by ENVR and cosponsored by PRES, CEI, DAC, MPPG,
and SCHB
8:05 AM 12:05 PM, Tuesday
(San Francisco Marriott Marquis)
E volving Science and Environmental Impacts of
Hydraulic Fracturing
Sponsored by ENVR and cosponsored by PRES and CEI
8:00 AM 4:40 PM, Tuesday & 8:00 AM 11:10 AM,
6:00 PM 8:00 PM, Wednesday
(San Francisco Marriott Marquis)
International Collaborations with International
Impact: Chemistry for Global Change
GSSPC Symposium
Sponsored by CHED and cosponsored by PRES, ANYL, COLL, ENFL,
ENVR, GPSO, MEDI, MPPG, PHYS, PROF, Puget, and WCC
8:30 AM 4:40 PM, Tuesday (Moscone Center)
Separation Science and Technology as a
Convergence Platform for SusChEM
Sponsored by ANYL and cosponsored by PRES
8:00 AM 5:20 PM, Tuesday &
8:00 AM 12:35 PM, Wednesday (Moscone Center)
Women Leaders of the Global Chemistry Enterprise
Sponsored by WCC and cosponsored by PRES, HIST, IAC, and PROF
8:30 AM 5:05 PM, Tuesday
(Hilton San Francisco Union Square)
Communicating Science to the Public
Sponsored by MPPG and cosponsored by PRES
1:00 PM 4:50 PM, Tuesday (Moscone Center)
OTHER SYMPOSIA AND EVENTS RECOMMENDED BY THE PRESIDENT
American Chemical Society
www.acs.org/sanfran2014
The ACS Board of Directors
Hosts Author Sam Kean
Sunday, August 10, 2014
Noon - 1:00 p.m.
Moscone Center Gateway Ballroom (South Hall)
The Disappearing Spoon
The wonders of the periodic table
Join the ACS Board of Directors at its Regular Session as they host a lunchtime
discussion with Sam Kean, author of The Disappearing Spoon and The Violinists
Thumb - both of which were national bestsellers and named Amazon Top 5 science
books of the year. His newest book, The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons, was
recently released and is receiving high acclaim.
Sams stories have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Mental Floss, Slate,
Psychology Today, and The New Scientist, among other places, and his work has been
featured on Radiolab and NPRs All Things Considered, among other shows.
Doors Open at 11:45 a.m.
Sandwiches and soft drinks will be available to the frst 200 persons
Please also join Sam as he speaks at the HIST symposium
Found and Lost: Incredible Tales of Spurious, Erroneous and Rehabilitated Elements
Monday, August 11
InterContinental San Francisco Hotel (Twin Peaks, 4th foor)