Thank you for registering for the 53rd ACS-DFW Virtual Meeting-in-Miniature. You can download the Program Booklet by clicking the button below.
Keynote Lecture
Polymers containing redox-active functionalities: Synthetic approaches and applications
Dr. Nicolay V. Tsarevsky
Winner of 2020 Wilfred T. Doherty Award
Department of Chemistry
Southern Methodist University
3215 Daniel Ave., Dallas, TX 75275, USA
nvt@smu.edu
Bio. (click to expand)
Nick Tsarevsky obtained M.S. degree in theoretical chemistry and chemical physics in 1999 from the University of Sofia, Bulgaria, and Ph.D. degree in chemistry in 2005 from Carnegie Mellon University under the supervision of Prof. Kris Matyjaszewski. He was Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University (2005-6), and a member of the founding team of ATRP Solutions, Inc., of which he served as Chief Science Officer (2007-2010). He joined the Department of Chemistry at Southern Methodist University in the summer of 2010 as an assistant professor, and in 2016 he was promoted to associate professor with tenure.
He has authored and coauthored 102 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, 1 textbook, and has served as the co-editor of 7 books. He received several awards including, recently, an IUPAC Young Observer Fellowship, an NSF CAREER award, and the Wilfred T. Doherty Award (ACS, Dallas-Fort Worth Section). Research interests include polymerization techniques, functional materials, coordination chemistry and catalysis, and the chemistry hypervalent compounds, in addition to history of chemistry and chemical education. He served as Editor of Polymers for Advanced Technologies (Wiley) and has served as the the program chair of the Division for the History of Chemistry (HIST) of the ACS since 2018. Currently, he is Program Director at the Chemistry Division of NSF.
Presentations
The allotted time for each presentation is 15 minutes. Please prepare a 10 minutes presentation, 2 minutes for questions, and 3 minutes to allow the change to the next speaker. If you have questions about scheduling for individual sections, please email the host listed in the Program Booklet.
You can join the meeting by clicking the buttons below. The Greetings/Keynote Lecture starts at 8:30 am May 1st (Saturday), and the presentations in each section starts at 9:30 am and ends at 3:40 pm. Awards Ceremony will be held in the sections at 4:30 pm – 5:00 pm. Details are included in the Program Booklet. You can download the Program Booklet using the button above.
Blackboard Collaborate
The platform used for presentations is Blackboard Collaborate. Special thanks to our Blackboard Coordinator Michael Saenz.
Instructions and FAQs
- The talks will be hosted via Blackboard Collaborate. Blackboard Collaborate works in your browser and does NOT require any software to be downloaded or installed.
- Click this link to join a “Test Room” (open till Saturday evening): https://us.bbcollab.com/guest/2ee50fc4ce654267bd5d1e18799213b7. You can use this room to test out Blackboard and prepare for your presentation.
- A tutorial video for using blackboard can be found here: https://youtu.be/8grmGESmxgY?t=47.
- Please join using your first name, last name, and university abbreviation.
- The Safari browser is known to have issues interfacing with and sharing screens on Blackboard. So, if you are using Apple products, please use Google Chrome to join the room in Blackboard, not Safari.
- Due to the added security on Apple products, screen sharing and microphone/camera use requires explicit permission to be given on the first use, and requires you to restart the program after giving permission. This is done under the “Security & Privacy” section of the system preferences. So, if you have an Apple product, please take this into account and use the provided test room, or come early, to take care of this prior to your presentation.
- It is possible to upload presentations to Blackboard, but this often results in file corruption. We recommend using the “share screen” function for your presentations.
- If you have any questions, please email mike@utdallas.edu.
Awards
Certificates will be emailed to winners and prizes will be mailed, please check your email in the following days.
Melissa Anne Collini (University of North Texas) 1st prize
Kara Kassees (University of Texas at Dallas) 2nd prize
Moumita Singha Roy (University of Texas at Arlington) 3rd prize
Shashini D. Diwakara (University of Texas at Dallas) Special prize
Erika Lopez Calubaquib (University of Texas at Dallas) 1st prize
John Michael Cue (University of Texas at Dallas) 2nd prize
Alejandra Durand-Silva (University of Texas at Dallas) 3rd prize
Jeri LaNiece Gill (Tarleton State University) Special prize
Kapil Sayala (Southern Methodist University) 1st prize
Trent Kyrk (University of Texas at Dallas) 2nd prize
Juan Vizuet (University of Texas at Dallas) 3rd prize
Kurt Bodenstedt (University of North Texas) Special prize
Marie Mortensen (University of Texas at Dallas) Special prize
Jacob Fripp (University of North Texas) 1st prize
A K M Nur Alam Siddiki (University of Texas at Dallas) 2nd prize
Jennifer England (University of North Texas) 3rd prize
Yafen Tian (University of Texas at Dallas) Special prize
Samia Rifat (University of Texas at Dallas) Special prize
Lama Abu-Amara (University of North Texas) 1st prize
Leonel Varvelo (Southern Methodist University) 2nd prize
Madison Brandi Berger (University of North Texas) 3rd prize
Sadisha Manendri Nanayakkara (Southern Methodist University) Special prize
Fabian Castro Herbert (University of Texas at Dallas) 1st prize
Nisansala Sandamali Abeyrathna (University of Texas at Dallas) 2nd prize
Arezoo Shahrivarkevishahi (University of Texas at Dallas) 3rd prize
Yingyu Huang (University of Texas at Dallas) Special prize
Weike Chen (University of Texas at Arlington) Special prize
Andrew Duy Vu (University of Texas at Dallas) 1st prize
Samantha Martin (Tarleton State University) 2nd prize
Arun Kumar Raja (University of Texas at Dallas) 3rd prize
Yujin (Lisa) Kim (Southern Methodist University) Special prize
Jacob Lynd (University of Texas at Dallas) Special prize
Abigail Lewis (University of Texas at Dallas) Special prize