Submit your Symposium Proposal
Symposium Proposal Round Two is now open for submissions. The extended deadline for symposium proposals is May 1, 2024, 11:59 PM ET.
Symposium Guidelines
Symposium proposals will be reviewed based on the following guidelines:
- The Pacifichem 2025 scientific program will be scheduled during the period Monday, December 15 through Saturday, December 20, 2025.
- Each symposium must have a minimum of three co-organizers who are from different Pacific Rim countries AND are members of the Pacifichem 2025 Cosponsoring Societies or Official Participating Organizations . One shall be designated as the “Corresponding Symposium Organizer (CSO),” and all correspondence (e-mail) relating to the symposium will be directed to this contact person. It is the responsibility of the CSO to keep all other co-organizers informed.
- All symposia are managed through the Pacifichem 2025 Abstracts System.
- A symposium should have a title and a 150-300 word description of the topics to be covered in the technical sessions.
- Symposium will have no more than five half-day daytime oral sessions. Additional oral and/or poster sessions may be considered by the Organizing Committee to be scheduled in the evenings.
- Because there will be no oral General Sessions, organizers are requested to accommodate as many contributed oral papers as possible. At least 40% of symposium time should be allotted to contributed oral presentations. We recommend no more than 4 invited speakers per half- day session.
- Each half-day oral session will have a maximum duration of 4 hours. Evening sessions, if available, will be 2 hours in duration.
- An individual speaker may deliver no more than 2 invited presentations or 3 presentations (2 invited plus 1 contributed) during the congress. Co-authorship has no limit.
- Pacifichem 2025 will provide voucher codes for 2 complimentary speaker registrations per approved half-day session, with a maximum of 4 per symposium. Symposia organizers are encouraged to dedicate at least one complimentary registration code to a member of an underrepresented community and/or an early career chemist. Organizers are encouraged to solicit sponsorships for additional support.
- Organizers are expected to adhere to the Pacifichem diversity and inclusion statement goals:
- Include a minimum of 30% of under-represented groups in science
- Incorporate expertise from a range of Pacific Rim countries
- Include speakers from all stages of career
The Pacifichem organizing committee has identified these topics for potential round two submissions:
Analytical
- Micro/nanofluidics
- Mass spectrometry
- Vibrational spectroscopy
- NMR
- LIBS
- Chemometrics
- Analytical application of synchrotron radiation
- Analytical X-ray spectroscopy
- Proteomics
- Metabolomics
- Lipidomics
- Optical imaging
- Symposia devoted to specific analytes / classes of analytes, including but not limited to:
- Techniques for analysis of toxins, proteins, microplastics, trace elements
- Biomarkers for diagnostics
Biological
- Biocatalysis
- Nucleic acids
- Extracellular vesicle
- Bioorganic reaction mechanisms
- Genetic code expansion and reprogramming
- Electron transfer in biological systems
- Biophysics of lipids and membranes
Chemistry and Engineering for Sustainability
- Nitrogen cycle, including NOx reduction catalysis
- Natural products, uses of biomass
- Solar energy conversions, solar fuels
- Materials from natural sources such as lignin or nano-crystal cellulose
- Life cycle analysis
- Bioplastics
Chemistry for Life Science and Health Care
- in vivo click chemistry
- Theranostics
- Chemistry for vaccine design and development
- Drug repurposing for pandemics or neglected tropical diseases
- Tissue regeneration
- Diagnostics: small molecule
- Food chemistry
- Medicinal chemistry
- AI and machine learning for drug discovery
Computational and Theoretical
- Computational modeling design of 2D materials., porous materials, catalysts, biomaterials etc. specifically AI and ML aspects
- Autonomous chemistry
- Generative AI
- Large language models in chemistry
- Computational drug repurposing
Educate, Communicate, Translate
- Indigenous engagement
- K-12
- Outreach
- Scientific journalism (would it be similar to science communication)
- Systems thinking
- AI and large language models in chemical education – uses, risks and benefits
Inorganic
- Molecular assembly (cages;receptors;sensors;switches;molecular machings;host-guest)
- Polymer catalysis
- Solid-state electrolytes, li-ion
- Luminescence
- Magnetic
- Supramolecular chemistry w/ inorganic flavor
- Organic-inorganic hybrid
- Qubits
- Ammonia for energy applications
- Solid electrolytes for battery applications
- Main group elements mimicking transition metals
- Synthetic and Structural Advances in Solid State Chemistry
Macromolecular
- Fundamental polymer science from chemistry to physics
- Experimental rheology
- More functional materials for energy & sustainability
- New methods/synthesis for energy & sustainability
Materials
- Magnetic materials
- Next generation biomaterials
Organic
- P-block chemistry in organic chemistry
- Heterocycles
- C–H functionalization
- “Other” fields of catalysis, such as main group (e.g., frustrated Lewis pair)
- Catalysis in carbohydrate chemistry
- Supramolecular; non-covalent assembly
- Medicinal chemistry (“discovery”, rather than “process”, aspect)
- Electrocatalysis
- Ring opening/closing
- Aromaticity
- Physical chemistry/excited state chemistry
- Total synthesis
- Catalysis in total synthesis
- Mechanistic investigations of organic reactions
- Non-traditional bonding for reaction control
- Structural characterization of complex molecules/assemblies
- Natural products isolation
- Organic chemistry/synthesis on surfaces
- Organic chemistry in confined spaces
- Synthetic biology for small molecules
Physical
- Application of Materials chemistry, most submissions are fundamentals of Chemistry
- Excitons (missing)
- Nanodots
- Catalysis topics (in general)
- Low-dimensional nanomaterials
- Thermodynamics
- Functional solid-state materials may have overlap
- Physical: Interfaces [not missing but I think this area could be expanded.]
- Plasmon Spectroscopy.
- Surface spectroscopy
- Upconversion / Fission