The American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society, will hold its 55^th Southeast regional meeting, Nov. 16-17, in Atlanta, Ga., at the Renaissance Atlanta Hotel Downtown (590 West Peachtree Street, NW, 404-881-6000). Approximately 1100 scientific presentations will be made to more than 1500 scientists and students. Topics include the following:

• Analytical chemistry
• Biochemical chemistry
• Chemical education
• Computational chemistry
• Environmental chemistry
• Industrial chemistry
• Inorganic chemistry
• Materials chemistry
• Medicinal chemistry
• Nuclear chemistry
• Organic chemistry
• Organometallic chemistry
• Physical chemistry
• Polymer chemistry

Meeting highlights include the following special symposia:

• Chemical education symposium, "Teaching chemistry as the core molecular science"
  Nov. 17, 9 a.m., Atlanta Ballroom A

  Morton Hoffman, professor of chemistry, Boston University
  Glenn Crosby, retired ACS board member, inorganic chemist and professor emeritus, Washington State University, Pullman, Wash.
  George McLendon, chair, department of chemistry, Princeton University
  Arthur Ellis, head, chemistry division, National Science Foundation, and chemistry professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisc.

• Federal science, education and technology policy symposium
  Nov. 17, 4 p.m., Atlanta Ballrooms A and B

  G. Wayne Clough, president, Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), Atlanta
  Neal Lane, member, U.S. Civilian Research Development Foundation and former Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and form
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Contact: Sharon Worthy
s_worthy@acs.org
202-872-4371
American Chemical Society
13-Nov-2003


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