PACIFICHEM 2010 will once again conduct a Student Poster Competition.

You must be a full time under-graduate student (pre-PhD) in order to enter the Student Poster Competition.

Participation in the Student Poster Competition is indicated by submitting an abstract to one of the symposia within the technical program and marking the option to participate in the Student Poster Competition.  An abstract must be accepted first into the technical program as a poster presentation by the symposium organizers before it can be considered for the Student Poster Competition.  The Pacifichem 2010 abstract submission system is open and closes on April 5, 2010. 

Because of the large number of Student Poster Competition submissions expected for the meeting, a limited number of posters will be preselected based on the merits of the research and written abstract.  Judges will be appointed by the Pacifichem Organizing Committee from a prestigious group of chemical scientists attending the conference.  There will be two periods in which judges review the submissions:

Review Round I:  Prior to the meeting, judges will select a maximum 200 posters from all submissions for the onsite competition event at the meeting; the winners in Round I will be notified at least one month before the meeting. 

Review Round II:  Applicants who were selected in Round I should show up with their posters at the competition event on Sunday, December 16, 2010, from 12:00 noon – 2:00 pm [location to be determined.]  There will be no other poster sessions going on at the same time as the student poster competition.  Further information will be available on the website as we get closer to the meeting date.

An Awards Luncheon will be held on Sunday, December 19, 2010, for the winners of the Student Poster Competition, along with the Young Scholar Awardees, members of the Pacifichem 2010 Organizing Committee, Sponsors, and other invited guests of the Organizing Committee.  The location will be announced at a later time.

If your paper is selected for the Student Onsite Poster Competition, you are expected to present your poster twice, once at the Student Poster Competition, and again at the session that the paper was submitted in.

If your paper is not selected for the onsite competition, you should still present it during the session that it was submitted in.