Professional Societies, Attending Conferences and Presenting talks (papers)

Professional Societies, Attending Conferences and Presenting talks (papers)

Patents on the Internet
Official documentation of an inventionInvention means a new material or a new process, or a new application, or a new deviceIt must be significantly different from any other patents to be grantedPatent applications are sent into government patent office and reviewed by patent examinersPatent may be granted or not depending on how well you write you applicationPatent must be carefully written to prevent others from copying your idea with slight changes not described in you patent.Patents are granted in China, US, Europe and in most countries. International patents are by treaty between countries.

Patents by country
China: The Patent office of the Peoples Republic of China (more patents than any other country in 2012)United States: www.uspto.govInternational Patents (WPO)

Patents on the Internet
China patents: search at http://www.chinatrademarkoffice.com/index.php/ptsearchUS patents: search patents at http://patft.uspto.gov/ or with Web of Science or Scifinder.European patents: search at www.epo.org

Searching patents & papers
Patent applications must have documented search of prior art Prior art is patent(s) or paper(s) that publically describe the invention. You cannot get a patent if it has already been patented or published in the literature (even presentations can kill a patent application)Search to avoid wasting your time and money.

Sharing data on Internet
Rapid movement of informationWhat used to take days or weeks, now takes secondsEmail, dropboxes, videoconferences, websites, social networking sites can all be used to share data

Dropboxes for large file transfers
Email often is limited by file sizeDropboxes allow convenient sharing with selected audience (good for backing up too)All of the co-authors on a paper can work on same manuscriptwww.Dropbox.comwww.owncloud.comIcloudwww.zumodrive.comwww.Spideroak.com (encrypted)www.Wuala.com (encrypted)

Building your professional website
Communication of resultsEducation of publicTraining and teaching studentsDescription of expertiseMarketing of work
A well designed website improves group productivity and helps attract funding for research and development

Building your own website
Software that makes it easy:

My research group website:
Provide information for my students in lab

Easy organization of class notes, practice exams etc.

Recruitment of new students to Arizona and my group

Professional Social Networks
Linkedin (www.linkedin.com/)Ushi asias answer to LinkedinYahoo! Kickstart is a professional network created by Yahoo! for college students, recent graduates, employers and alumni. The aim of the service is to help students find internships or jobs, or solicit career development advice and mentorship.Green Chemistry Network Asian Analytical Chemistry Network (AACN)Chemical Consultants NetworkResearchGate.com

Job Hunting

Professional Meetings
American chemical SocietyMaterials Research SocietyInternational Union of Pure and Applied Royal Chemical SocietyPacifichemGordon ConferencesZing conferences
Each org. has meeting calendars online

ACS Meetings
Two National Meetings (one in Spring, one in late summer: San Francisco this year) each year5 or 6 regional meetings each yearA dozen or more workshops each yearJoint international meetings (e.g. Pacifichem)Find calls for talks by division (e.g. polymer division)Typically, deadline is in April for summer meeting and Oct-Nov. for spring meeting

248th ACS National Meeting & ExpositionAugust 10-14, 2014San Francisco, CaliforniaProgram Theme: Chemistryand Global Stewardship

249th ACS National Meeting & ExpositionMarch 22-26, 2015Denver, ColoradoProgram Theme:Chemistry of Natural Resources

250th ACS National Meeting & ExpositionAugust 16-20, 2015Boston, Massachusetts Program Theme:Innovation from Discovery to Application

251st ACS National Meeting & ExpositionMarch 13-17, 2016San Diego, California

MRS Meetings
Two National Meetings (San francisco Meeting in Spring Phoenix, AZ starting in 2016, Boston in late November)International MRS meetings (Europe, Asia,etc.)See MRS calendar at http://www.mrs.org/meetings-calendar/Online submission of abstract to symposium (due now for Fall Meeting).

International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC)
http://www.iupac.org/
11th International Conference on Advanced Polymers via Macromolecular Engineering (APME-2015)October 18-22, 2015

Pacifichem 2015
Honolulu, HawaiiDecember 15 - 20, 2015

http://www.pacifichem.org/sponsored jointly by the American Chemical Society, the Canadian Society for Chemistry, the Chemical Society of Japan, the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry, the Royal Australian Chemical Institute, the Korean Chemical Society, and the Chinese Chemical Society.

Gordon Conferences
500 small, intense topical meetings (e.g. organic synthesis, organometallic chemistry, fuel cells)Nobel prize winners & graduates mix togetherMost during summer in small New England Colleges (apply in January)One week long. Morning, afternoon and evening sessions.
http://www.grc.org/

How to get a presentation at a Meeting
Two ways to be able to present at a meeting.Invited talks (someone you know or somebody who heard you speak asks you)contributed talks (you submit an abstract)

Summary
Many resources on net for communicationTailored for chemistsPowerful opportunities to help your careerUseful tools for not only conducting research, but:Publishing scientific papersPresenting your work at international conferences

Study guide
Name three conferences you could present at. ACS National Meetings, Gordon Conferences, Zing Conferences, MRS National Meetings and MRS Asia meetings, IUPAC conferencesName Professional chemical associations: ACS, CCS, IUPAC, RCS...etc.Three reasons for joining a professional society? Networking with scientists. Learning new science. Telling others about your work. All of these help you get funding, get invitations to conferences, to be an editor, to get a good job.How do you get to present at a conference? One way is to contribute a paper to an announced meeting. Six months before a meeting there will be a call for papers (presentations). You send in your title and abstract and if accepted you can go to conference.