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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Emily Weiss*Quantum-dot queen,

Northwestern

Plenary:Peter Kareiva

Clean water promoter, Nature Conservancy

Plenary:Carolyn Koh

Gas hydrate guru, Colorado School of

Mines

Plenary:Paul Bryan

Advanced biofuels advocate, UC Berkeley

WHAT TO DO IN DENVER: TOURIST SITES

Adam Cohen*Master of membrane

measurements, Harvard

Cathy TwayEnergy-savings expert,

Dow Chemical

Chady StephanNanotech risk

evaluator who’s gotta wear shades, PerkinElmer

Christopher Austin*Translational science

champion, NIH

Claire WhiteCarbon storage

strategist, Princeton

Craig HawkerRadical polymerizer,

UC Santa Barbara

Donald TruhlarDynamical calculation

dynamo, U of Minnesota

Guihua Yu2-D materials

master, UT Austin

Marc HillmyerMacromolecular

machinist, U of Minnesota

Gary Molander*Boron baron,

UPenn

Larry BowersCSO of the U.S.

Anti-Doping Agency to discuss testing

athletes

Richmond Sarpong*Complex alkaloid

synthesizer, UC Berkeley

F. Dean Toste*Catalyst explorer, UC

Berkeley

Stephen Boyer“Big data” manager,

IBM Research

Floyd Romesberg*Genetic alphabet expander, Scripps

James LiebermanProtecting marijuana workers everywhere,

Environmental Information Services

Sunney Xie*Single-molecule

sage, Harvard

Theodore BetleyCatalytic converter,

Harvard

Laura KiesslingCell surface surveyor,

U of Wisconsin

Coors Brewery TourSample some beer on Sunday or Monday.

Dinosaur RidgeTake the family to snap a photo of dinosaur tracks.

Buffalo Herd OverlookIt’s a 20-mile drive west of the city to see the herd hangout.

Denver MintSee how coins are made, and take a gander at some gold bars.

Red = Natural Resources

(meeting theme)

* 2015 ACS National Award

Winner

Note: This list is not comprehensive.

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DENVER NATIONAL MEETING MANIA!

C&EN reviews who’s who at chemistry’s MILE-HIGH SHINDIGMITCH ANDRÉ GARCIA, C&EN WASHINGTON

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UP & COMING SKI LIFT

Douglas WeibelDestroyer of

pathogenic bacteria,U of Wisconsin

WHAT TO DO IN DENVER: LOCALS’ PICKS

Benjamin DavisCarbohydrate

constructor, U of Oxford

Neil Garg*Trendsetting teacher of organic chemistry,

UCLA

Karen WooleyCopolymer conqueror,

Texas A&M

Jaqueline Kiplinger*Actinide architect, Los Alamos National Lab

Daniel AlessiWizard of wastewater

management, U of Alberta

Seth RasmussenMaterials science historian, North Dakota State U

William DichtelSupramolecular builder, Cornell

Michael Marletta*Former Scripps CEO

to discuss partnership between chemistry

and biology

Jeffery KovacChemical weapons

historian, U of Tennessee

Spencer DreherHigh-throughput

enthusiast, Merck & Co.

Véronique Gouverneur*Fluorination phenom,

U of OxfordDarleane HoffmanHeavy-element chaser,

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Jotham Coe*Chantix inventor,

Pfizer

Emmanuel Ohene AfoakwaCuckoo for cocoa-bean processing, U of Ghana

Kenneth HansonSolar-energy

converter, Florida State

Zev GartnerDecipherer of cell-cell interactions, UC San

FranciscoEmily BalskusMicrobe maven,

Harvard

Keith VillaBlue Moon’s beer

master and founder will talk about running a craft

brewery

Ruth Wexler*Executive director at Bristol-Myers Squibb to share

lessons learned in cardiovascular drug

discovery

Thomas Colacot*Discovering catalysts at

Johnson Matthey since 1995

Larimer SquareA historic neighborhood with a lively nightlife.

Stranahan’s Colorado WhiskeyVisit the first microdistillery to make whiskey in Colorado.

Little Man Ice CreamCome enjoy scoops of unique flavors of ice cream until midnight.

Museum of Contemporary ArtA small museum with a rooftop bar and café.

William MoernerStanford

Ahmed ZewailCaltech

Arieh WarshelUSC

Richard SchrockMIT

Robert GrubbsCaltech

El-ichi NegishiPurdue

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For dates, times, locations for speakers, visit http://cenm.ag/denver15. Or find “C&EN Must-See

Presenters” on the ACS meeting mobile app, coming soon!

WHO, WHAT, WHERENotable ACS Denver speakers to check out, along with talk title, time, and location

NAME DAY DATE TIME HOTEL ROOM TALK TITLE

Adam Cohen Tuesday 3/24 10:05 AM Colorado Convention Center Room 607 Bringing bioelectricity to light

Ahmed Zewail Tuesday 3/24 3:00 PM Colorado Convention Center Room 607 4D electron microscopy: Developments and applications

Arieh Warshel Monday 3/23 1:30 PM Colorado Convention Center Room 507 Modeling the function of molecular motors and other challenging biological systems

Benjamin Davis Monday 3/23 1:30 PM Colorado Convention Center Room 407 Sugars and proteins: Exploring and exploiting sugar chemical biology

Benjamin Davis Tuesday 3/24 9:15 AM Colorado Convention Center Mile High Ballroom 1C

Sugars and proteins: Building glycoproteins

Carolyn Koh Sunday 3/22 3:05 PM Colorado Convention Center Bellco Theatre Fundamentals of gas hydrates and their role in energy transportation and storage

Carolyn Koh Sunday 3/22 1:30 PM Colorado Convention Center Room 401 Molecular studies of gas clathrate hydrates

Cathy Tway Wednesday 3/25 8:00 AM Colorado Convention Center Room 607 Global energy and emissions reduction poten-tial of new materials development

Chady Stephan Wednesday 3/25 10:40 AM Colorado Convention Center Room 711 Single particle ICP-MS (SP-ICP-MS) for the detection of metal-based nanoparticles in environmental matrices

Chady Stephan Wednesday 3/25 8:25 AM Embassy Suites Denver - Downtown Convention Center

Aspen Room B SP-ICP-MS for nanoparticle detection and size distribution determinations: Current state of the art and future perspectives

Christopher Austin Wednesday 3/25 4:15 PM Colorado Convention Center Mile High Blrm 1A/1B

Getting The Chemistry Right: Catalyzing trans-lational innovation at NIH

Claire White Wednesday 3/25 1:30 PM Colorado Convention Center Room 712 Uncovering the local atomic structure of a hy-drated amorphous magnesium carbonate: The computational chemistry and total scattering iterative methodology

Craig Hawker Tuesday 3/24 3:30 PM Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel

Governor's Square 14

New approaches to designer polymers

Craig Hawker Sunday 3/22 10:15 AM Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel

Governor's Square 16

New strategies for living radical polymerization

Daniel Alessi Tuesday 3/24 2:50 PM Colorado Convention Center Room 709 Identifying gaps in hydraulic fracturing wastewater management practices across four North American basins

Darleane Hoffman Tuesday 3/24 8:30 AM Embassy Suites Denver - Downtown Convention Center

Crestone Blrm A

Division of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology (1990-2015)

F. Dean Toste Tuesday 3/24 11:05 AM Colorado Convention Center Four Seasons Blrm 2&3

Concepts and catalysts for enantioselective reactions of carbon-carbon multiple bonds

Donald Truhlar Sunday 3/22 8:00 AM Colorado Convention Center Room 503 Potential energy surfaces for dynamics calcula-tions

Douglas Weibel Sunday 3/22 3:20 PM Colorado Convention Center Room 304 Exploring the mechanism of small molecule metal ion chelators as chemotherapeutic agents against pathogenic bacteria

Ei-ichi Negishi Monday 3/23 1:25 PM Embassy Suites Denver - Downtown Convention Center

Crystal Ball-room B/C

On the magical power of d-block transition metals as exemplified by ZACA (Zr-catalyzed asymmetric carboalumination of alkenes) – lipase-catalyzed acetylation – transition metal-catalyzed cross-coupling for highly enantioselective synthesis of various types of chiral organic compounds

Emily Balskus Sunday 3/22 9:00 AM Colorado Convention Center Mile High Blrm 1A/1B

Gut reactions: Understanding and manipulat-ing chemistry from the human microbiota

Emily Balskus Sunday 3/22 2:30 PM Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center

Capitol Blrm 4 Gut reactions: Understanding radical enzymes from the human microbiota

Emily Weiss Monday 3/23 11:15 AM Colorado Convention Center Bellco Theatre Colloidal quantum dots: Where d10 ions go to glow

NAME DAY DATE TIME HOTEL ROOM TALK TITLE

Emmanuel Ohene Afoakwa

Tuesday 3/24 1:25 PM Colorado Convention Center Room 112 Effects of pod storage and fermentation dura-tion on total polyphenols, o-diphenols, and anthocyanin concentrations in cocoa (Theo-broma cacao) beans

Floyd Romesberg Sunday 3/22 8:30 AM Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center

Capitol Blrm 4 Expansion of the genetic alphabet

Gary Molander Monday 3/23 4:10 PM Colorado Convention Center Four Seasons Blrm 2&3

Novel mechanistic paradigm for organoboron cross-coupling

Guihua Yu Wednesday 3/25 1:05 PM Colorado Convention Center Mile High Ballroom, 4B

Chemically integrated graphene/inorganic hybrid 2D materials as advanced energy stor-age electrodes

Guihua Yu Monday 3/23 1:30 PM Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel

Directors Row H

Hierarchically porous conductive hydrogels as a novel material platform for energy storage and biosensor technologies

James Lieberman Monday 3/23 1:40 PM Embassy Suites Denver - Downtown Convention Center

Silverton Blrm 1

Taking care of Mary Jane’s workers

Jaqueline Kiplinger Wednesday 3/25 1:20 PM Embassy Suites Denver - Downtown Convention Center

Crestone Blrm A

Advances in organometallic chemistry at the bottom of the periodic table

Jaqueline Kiplinger Monday 3/23 8:30 AM Colorado Convention Center Bellco Theatre Understanding and predicting the behavior of the actinides through organometallic chemistry

Jeffrey Kovac Tuesday 3/24 3:45 PM Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel

Tower Court D Ethics of chemical weapons research

Jotham Coe Tuesday 3/24 11:10 AM Colorado Convention Center Four Seasons Blrm 1

Discovery of Chantix (varenicline tartrate), an aid to smoking cessation

Karen Wooley Sunday 3/22 1:30 PM Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel

Governor's Square 16

Targeted applications as inspirations to develop strategies toward polymer materials and nanoscopic devices derived from natural products

Karen Wooley Tuesday 3/24 9:00 AM Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel

Governor's Square 15

Advance of sequential controlled polymeriza-tions for the design of molecular brush block copolymers: Sophisticated functional single molecule materials and hierarchically-assem-bled cluster properties

Karen Wooley Tuesday 3/24 10:35 AM Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel

Governor's Square 14

Importance of the intricate linkage of the needs of particular biomedical applications to the design characteristics of functionally-sophisticated nanoscopic macromolecules to achieve efficacy

Keith Villa Sunday 3/22 3:40 PM Grand Hyatt Denver Mt. Elbert B Operation of a craft brewery within a major brewery: An overview of Blue Moon Brewing Company

Kenneth Hanson Sunday 3/22 4:45 PM Colorado Convention Center Room 203 Photon upconversion and photocurrent gen-eration via self-assembled bilayers on metal oxide surfaces

Larry Bowers Monday 3/23 1:55 PM Embassy Suites Denver - Downtown Convention Center

Cripple Creek Blrm 1

Deterring performance-enhancing drug use in sports: The role of science

Laura Kiessling Monday 3/23 5:35 PM Colorado Convention Center Bellco Theatre Us vs. them: Distinguishing humans from microbes with carbohydrate

Laura Kiessling Tuesday 3/24 9:05 AM Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center

Capitol Blrm 4 Chemistry-directed stem cell pluripotency and differentiation

Marc Hillmyer Sunday 3/22 8:05 AM Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel

Governor's Square 12

Poly(β-methyl δ-valerolactone) as a scalable and renewable soft segment for aliphatic poly-ester block polymers

Marc Hillmyer Sunday 3/22 11:15 AM Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel

Governor's Square 16

Controlling sequence, stereochemistry, and functionality in linear polymers prepared by ring-opening metathesis polymerization

Marc Hillmyer Wednesday 3/25 4:30 PM Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel

Governor's Square 15

Nanostructured membranes by in situ block polymer synthesis

Michael Marletta Sunday 3/22 7:00 PM Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center

Capitol Blrm 4 At the interface between chemistry and biol-ogy: Two examples

NAME DAY DATE TIME HOTEL ROOM TALK TITLE

Neil Garg Wednesday 3/25 9:35 AM Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel

Silver Nickel-catalyzed Suzuki–Miyaura cross-coupling in a green alcohol solvent for an undergraduate organic chemistry laboratory

Paul Bryan Sunday 3/22 3:45 PM Colorado Convention Center Bellco Theatre Four horsemen of the advanced biofuels apocalypse: Sustainability, technology, profit-ability, and politics

Peter Kareiva Sunday 3/22 4:25 PM Colorado Convention Center Bellco Theatre Water in the Anthropocene: too much, too little, too dirty

Richard Schrock Monday 3/23 1:40 PM Colorado Convention Center Room 207 Synthesis of stereoregular polymers through ROMP

Richmond Sarpong Tuesday 3/24 2:20 PM Colorado Convention Center Four Seasons Blrm 2&3

Strategies and tactics for chemical synthesis inspired by complex alkaloids

Robert Grubbs Sunday 3/22 3:45 PM Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel

Governor's Square 16

Synthesis of functional materials using ROMP initiators

Robert Grubbs Monday 3/23 3:30 PM Colorado Convention Center Room 207 Selective reactions of olefins

Ruth Wexler Tuesday 3/24 11:20 AM Colorado Convention Center Mile High Blrm 2A/2B

Adventures in cardiovascular drug discovery: New frontiers and lessons learned

Seth Rasmussen Monday 3/23 10:15 AM Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel

Tower Court D From honey wine to cultivation of the grape: An early history of fermented beverages

Seth Rasmussen Monday 3/23 4:00 PM Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel

Tower Court D Modern materials in antiquity: An early history of the art and technology of glass

Spencer Dreher Monday 3/23 10:20 AM Colorado Convention Center Four Seasons Blrm 1

Nanomolar scale high throughput chemistry for complex molecules synthesis

Stephen Boyer Tuesday 3/24 9:05 AM Colorado Convention Center Room 110 Globalization of Big Data: Access, integration, and quality control issues

Sunney Xie Tuesday 3/24 8:05 AM Colorado Convention Center Room 607 Single molecule biophysical chemistry: Life at the single molecule level

Theodore Betley Monday 3/23 4:05 PM Colorado Convention Center Bellco Theatre Radical frontiers in catalysis

Thomas Colacot Monday 3/23 4:40 PM Embassy Suites Denver - Downtown Convention Center

Crystal Ball-room B/C

Story of Pd-catalyzed coupling: The reactions of the 21st century

Véronique Gouverneur Sunday 3/22 4:20 PM Embassy Suites Denver - Downtown Convention Center

Silverton Blrm 1

Expanding the range of 18F-tags for PET ap-plications

William Dichtel Monday 3/23 10:20 AM Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel

Governor's Square 11

Design principles for charge storage within redox-active covalent organic frameworks

William Dichtel Sunday 3/22 2:00 PM Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel

Governor's Square 15

Synthesis of novel aromatic architectures through the benzannulation of aryl acetylenes

William Dichtel Sunday 3/22 3:15 PM Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel

Governor's Square 16

Polymerization in 2- and 3D

William Moerner Wednesday 3/25 8:30 AM Marriott City Center Denver Colorado I/J Detecting biomolecular interactions and photodynamics in solution by suppression of Brownian motion

Zev Gartner Tuesday 3/24 10:15 AM Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center

Capitol Blrm 4 Nucleic acids as chemical probes of cell-cell interactions

NOTE: Dates, times, and rooms are subject to change.