June Meeting

1:30 pm Saturday, June 6, 2009
UCSB Chemistry Seminar Room PSBN 4606

This is a Free Lecture

Light refreshments will be provided.

The Featured Speaker will be

Ian D. Parker,PhD.
Technical Fellow and Manager, Materials and Advanced Development DuPont Displays Inc.,Santa Barbara, CA

 

“Organic Light-Emitting Displays -A New Technology for Low Power, High Performance Displays”

Abstract:

OLEDs are currently under active development as a new display technology for consumer applications, ranging from mobile phones to large screen TVs. These displays have a high resolution, a large color range and have a very rapid response so their viewing characteristics are excellent. Moreover they are very thin (currently ~ 2mm) and have the potential to be made on flexible plastic substrates. DuPont has developed a unique printing technology to manufacture these displays.

This presentation will give an overview of the fabrication process and discuss the underlying science and the technical and economic reasons behind pursuing this technology.
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The CALPSACS Executive Committee will conduct a business meeting at the same venue beginning at 11:30 am on June 6. All members are welcome to attend the business meeting.

For more information, email us at calpacs@chem.ucsb.edu, or call James Pavlovich at 805-893-4252.

Please note that parking permits are required at all times on UCSB Campus. For Parking information

Fall Dinner Meeting

6:45 p.m. Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Camarillo Library Community Room
4101 Las Posas Road, Camarillo

with ACS Tour Speaker

Dr. Thomas C. Werner
Professor Emeritus
Union College, Schenectady, NY

Speaking on

Doping in Sports: How chemists catch the “cheaters” (sometimes)

“Doping is to sport what criminality is to society, and there will always be criminality in society.”
–Jacques Rogge, President,International Olympic Committee

The alleged use of performance-enhancing drugs is increasingly tainting athletic accomplishment. Examples of this sports “doping” problem appear almost daily in the news: pro cycling is brought to its knees by doping allegations, resulting in the loss of sponsorship, the BALCO case and the Mitchell Report pummel Major League Baseball with evidence of steroid use and drug testing concerns become a higher profile issue at the Olympics. The talk will focus on the methods that chemists use to detect sports doping with substances such as amphetamine, steroids, human growth hormone and EPO.

Limitations of these methods will be discussed, along with a listing of some of the enormous challenges facing chemists as newer doping substances and methods become available. The talk is based on a course entitled Chemistry and Athletic Performance, which was developed by the speaker with the aid of Dr. Don Catlin and staff at the UCLA Olympic Analytical Laboratory and Anti-Doping Research,Inc.

Biographical Sketch:

Tom Werner received a B.S. in chemistry from Juniata College and a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from MIT. After postdocs at Harvard and Tufts Medical Schools, he taught for 36 years at Union College (Schenectady, NY), retiring as Florence B. Sherwood Professor of Physical Sciences Emeritus in December, 2007. Werner has served as Principal Investigator on several external grants awarded for the support of undergraduate research including funding from Petroleum Research Fund, Research Corporation, NSF-ILI, NSF-AIRE and the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation. Werner served as Chair of the Board of Governors of the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR), as Director of the NCUR/LANCY Initiative and as a NCUR Board Member. In 2002, he received the American Chemical Society Award for Research at an Undergraduate Institution. Over the past three years, he has developed a course entitled Chemistry and Athletic Performance that combines his expertise in analytical chemistry, his interest in sports and his goal to teach chemistry with more social relevance. The course syllabus was developed with input from Dr. Don Catlin and his staff at the UCLA Olympic Analytical Lab and Anti-Doping Research.

The cost for the event will be $20 per person, $10 for students.

A Mexican Buffet Dinner will be served.

Send in this Form by Friday, Sept. 11, 2009

Flyer

Directions

The Fall Luncheon and Recognition of 50-Year Members

12 Noon, Saturday, October 3, 2009
Stella Mare’s Event Center
3302 McCaw Avenue, Santa Barbara

The cost for the event will be $25 per person, $15 for students.

Members of more than 50 years in ACS are invited to attend at a discounted rate of $15 per person.

The menu will includea choice of entrée ~ herb crusted chicken breast, bay shrimp salad, or a vegetarian option and chocolate torte for dessert.

The Featured Speaker will be

Mark H. Norman, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry Research Discovery
Amgen, Thousand Oaks

Speaking on

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Recipes for the Treatment of Pain

Vanilloid receptor-1 (VR1 or TRPV1) is an ion channel expressed predominantly on pain-sensing neurons and is a therapeutic target for the management of pain. The goal of our research program has been to identify and develop potent and selective small molecule TRPV1 antagonists. This presentation will describe the results of these investigations, which started from an initial high throughput screening hit and culminated in the identification of our first TRPV1 clinical candidate, AMG 517.

Dr. Norman received his B.S. in chemistry from the University of New Hampshire in 1982 and his PhD in synthetic organic chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1987, under the direction of Clayton Heathcock where he studied synthetic methodology and natural product synthesis. He has over 22 years of drug discovery and development experience in the Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology sector with Amgen, Glaxo Wellcome, and Burroughs Wellcome. In 1996 he was recruited to Amgen to participate in the building of their small molecule drug discovery department and is currently a Director of Medicinal Chemistry there.

Directions to Stella Mare’s Event Center, 3302 McCaw Ave. Santa Barbara

From the South: Take Highway 101 North to Santa Barbara. Exit at Las Positas Road. Turn Right onto Las Positas Road and go ~0.5 miles. Turn Left onto McCaw Avenue just past the golf course. Stella Mare’s is immediately on the Right.

From the North:Take Highway 101 South to Santa Barbara. Exit at Las Positas Road. Turn Left onto Las Positas Road and go ~0.5 miles.Turn Left onto McCaw Avenue just past the golf course. Stella Mare’s is immediately onthe Right.

Fill out and return this form by Monday, September 28, 2009

The Flyer can be found here in a pdf

For more information, email us at calpacs@chem.ucsb.edu,or call John Hagen at 805-756-1651

Sandra Lamb Award winner for 2009 is Dr. Richard Hurst, Past President of CALPACS

For more pictures follow the link

THE ANNUAL CALPACS HOLIDAY WINE TASTING

JUSTIN VINEYARDS & WINERY

11680 Chimney Rock Road
Paso Robles, California
11:30 am Saturday,December 5, 2009

 Website for the Winery

Pictures

JUSTIN Winery is a family owned and operated winery making estate grown and produced wines. The property was founded in 1981 by Justin and Deborah Baldwin when they planted their 160 acre property in the major Bordeaux varietals and created their Estate vineyard.
The winery is located in the Paso Robles appellation of California’s Central Coast. The region’s first grapes were planted in 1779 by Franciscan missionaries and today the area is home to the third highest concentration of wineries in the United States.The Baldwins’ desire is to make world class wines that reflect the unique soils and climate of their California Central Coast property. Emphasis is placed on making Bordeaux-style blends and single varietals, combining Old World tradition with New World techniques.

The cost for the event: $15 per person

Food was served including our traditional assortment of gourmet cheeses and soups.

A reservation form can be found at the link and it is due by Wednesday, December 2nd.

Directions

For more information email calpacs@chem.ucsb.edu, or call James Pavlovich at 805-893-4252.

Please download a pdf version of the flyer.

Spring Luncheon Meeting

12 noon, Saturday, April 17, 2010
Camarillo Library Community Room
4101 Las Posas Road, Camarillo

Featured Speaker

Dr. Joseph S. Francisco
President of the ACS
W.E. Moore Distinguished Professor of Chemistry
Purdue University

Speaking on

Designing Global Warming Friendly Molecules

Biography for Dr. Francisco

Flyer for this event can be found here

The cost for the event will be $20 per person, $10 for students.

A Greek Style Buffet Luncheon will be served.

For more info email us at calpacs@chem.ucsb.edu or call Simone Aloisio at805-437-8999.

This is due by Monday, April 12, 2010
Form to be used for Reservations can be found here.

Directions

 

ACS Tour Speaker

Thursday, May 6, 2010 at 7:30pm

The talk is open to the general public. No reservations are required.

Dr. Thomas Parliment

Will be speaking on

“A Chemist’s View of Food Aromas”

at the San Luis Obispo Botanical Garden Oak Glen Pavilion

 

The aromas of food products are quite complex with typically hundreds of volatile components present. This talk will discuss the thermal as well as biochemical origin of compounds found in aromas and will explore the contribution of these chemicals to the overall character of the food. Examples of characterizing aroma chemicals in foods will be presented. The aromatic composition of selected foods will be discussed in detail and used to demonstrate how aroma research is conducted.

Dr. Parliment received a BS degree in Chemistry from Lehigh University and a Ph.D. in Food Science from the University of Massachusetts. In his career at Kraft Foods, he studied the aromatic composition of numerous foods such as meat, coffee, baked goods, seafood, fruits, and he has more than 20 US patents and numerous publications in these and related areas. He is a member of a number of professional societies, including the American Chemical Society (ACS), Sigma Xi and the New York Institute of Food Technology. He is currently a consultant to the flavor industry.

Tom is past chairman of the New York Chromatography Society, the Flavor Subdivision of the ACS, and the Rockland Chemical Society. He is the co-organizer of four national American Chemical Society Symposia, covering biologically and thermally derived aromas. He has co-edited six flavor-related books.

 

Dessert and Coffee will be served and a donation of $5 will be collected at the door.

The talk is aimed at a general audience and should be rewarding for students and laypeople as well as professional scientists.

For more information email calpacs@chem.ucsb.edu, or call James Pavlovich at 805-893-4252.
Directions to the SLO Botanical Garden can be found at

A Tour of Veeco Instruments, Inc.

2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Thursday,October 7, 2010

112 Robin Hill Road
Goleta, California

Veeco provides the tools to make,measure, and visualize today’s world-changing technologies. Veeco is in the business of LED and solar process equipment, data storage process equipment, and metrology instrumentation. In 1998 Veeco bought Digital Instruments, a company founded by UC Santa Barbara Professor Virgil Elings, and that acquisition became Veeco’s Goleta-based Atomic Force Microscope (AFM)business. Veeco is a leading provider of AFMs, scanning probe microscopes (SPMs) and fast 3D optical microscopes to the research and industrial community

Refreshments will be served.

The cost for the event is $5 per person.

Space is limited. Attendees must be pre-registered by Monday, October 4, 2010.

Please bring valid ID with you for check-in.

Veeco requests that all attendees list their professional affiliation.

If you have questions, please call James Pavlovich at 805-893-4252.

Directions

Flyer

Form to be used for registering for the tour.

Celebrate Mole Day

The Annual Fall Luncheon Student Event and Recognition of 50-Year Members

12 Noon,Saturday, October 23, 2010
Winter Hall for Science and Mathematics, Room 210
Westmont College
955 La Paz Road
Santa Barbara, CA

(directions on this link

 

The Featured Speaker will be

 Dr.Peter F. Rusch
Chair of the ACS Committee on Nomenclature, Terminology and Symbols

Speaking on

Redefining the Kilogram

Implications for Avogadro’s Number and the Mole

Several decades ago it was proposed that all of the SI Base Units be defined on “invariants of nature.”

The first of these redefinitions was the meter whose definition was based on the defined speed of light. Next came the second whose definition was based on the defined hyperfine splitting of the ¹³³Cs atom.

Presently,the kilogram is defined as the mass of a century-old Pt-Ir alloy cylinder stored under vacuum in a vault near Paris. Periodic comparisons with secondary standards show that over time each of them is either gaining or losing mass. This talk will deal with current efforts to base the definition of the kilogram on some invariant of nature, eliminating the platinum artifact that serves as a mass standard. Implications for Avogadro’s number, and the definition of the mole will also be explored.

Dr. Rusch received his B.S. in 1965 from Southern Methodist University and his M.S. in 1966. He received the Ph.D. in 1971 from the University of Texas at Aus tin. He is currently an electronic information consultant and, from 1975 to 1995, he held various positions with DIALOG Information and Technical Services,Inc.From 1973 to 1975, he was with the Chemical Abstracts Service as an Information Scientist. Dr. Rusch has served in various committees and offices for the National ACS, the Division of Chemical Information, and the Santa Clara Valley Section. He currently serves as Chair for the ACS Nomenclature,Terminology and Symbols Committee.

Dr. Rusch, Dr. Hagen and Dr. Censullo

The cost for the event will be $15 per person, $5 for students.

Members of more than 50 years in ACS are invited to attend at a discounted rate of $5 per person.

A light luncheon of Sandwiches and Salads will be served

Return the form by Monday, October 18, 2010

Flyer can be found here.

For more informatione mailcalpacs@chem.ucsb.edu or call James Pavlovich at 805-893-4252

The Annual CALPSACS Holiday Wine Tasting

12:30 pm Saturday, December 4, 2010
Firestone Vineyard And Winery
5000 Zaca Station Road
Los Olivos CA

Web page for Firestone Winery

Pictures

The cost for the event will be $15 per person

Food will be served including an assortment of gourmet cheeses and soups.

reservation form can be found at the link and it is due by Wednesday,December 1st.

The Flyer is available at this link.

Student Welcome Event

Saturday,January 30, 2010

Noon to 3 pm

at the Elephant Bar in Goleta.

All undergraduate students working toward a degree in Chemistry, Biochemistry, or Chemical Engineering are invited to attend this event for FREE

The cost for non-students will be $20 per person, or $10 for grad students (and non majors).

The event will include Lunch (a Fajita Bar, soft drinks and dessert).

The American Chemical Society by-laws have recently been amended to allow undergraduates to join the society as members. The California Los Padres Section would, therefore, like to take an opportunity to welcome these new potential members to join us at this section event as our guests.

The afternoon program will feature speaker

James L. Roberts

Firearm Toolmark Examiner

Ventura County Sheriff’s Lab

speaking on

“Instrumental Analysis in the Ventura County Sheriff’s Forensic Science Laboratory”

Reserve your seat early as space is limited. Undergrads may make reservations directly by email to calpacs@chem.ucsb.edu.
Please indicate your Name, School and Major.
 

For others who want to attend, please fill out the form and return with payment to Dr. Pavlovich at UCSB by Saturday, January 23, 2010.

Directions to the Elephant Bar