Comic Competition by ChemistryViews

Following our very successful photo competition last year, ChemistryViews.org invites you to submit a cartoon showing the challenges, pitfalls, fun, and excitement related to chemistry in a creative way. It does not matter how good your drawing skills are, but how good your idea is.

Submit your cartoon telling a humorous story related to chemistry. All comics will be published at ChemistryViews.org and the best three will receive an award.

Your cartoon might, for example,

• tell a mishap in the lab,
• vividly illustrate a chemical concept,
• portray the day-to-day life of a chemist in a humorous way,
• satirize academic policy,
• poke fun at lab culture.
  
  

Deadline for entries is Midnight of October 13, 2014

Voting will go on till Midnight of November 2nd, 2014.

The cartoons must be your own work and you must own the rights to each picture. Please do not use more than ten individual pictures or ten scenes in your comic.

Three winners will be chosen from all the submitted cartoons by a panel of judges. Winning cartoons will be announced on November 10, 2014.
All cartoons will be posted on ChemistryViews.org for everyone to admire. The best three cartoons will receive an award.

Prizes

• 1st Prize: iPad (MD510FD/A 16 GB black)
• 2nd Prize: books for up to 250 EUR from Wiley/Wiley-VCH
• 3rd Prize: books for up to 100 EUR  from Wiley/Wiley-VCH

Additionally, the comic receiving most likes will receive a book prize: Molecules That Changed The World by K. C. Nicolaou and T. Montagnon

Competition Rules

By entering the competition you are agreeing to abide by the competition rules. Please read these before submitting images.
In particular, the rules relate to key copyright issues and the requirement for all images to be the original work of the person submitting them. Full Rules & Guidelines and Terms of Use.

>> More Details on the ChemistryViews website.

David Spichiger, SCS
178.08.2014

NRP Resource Wood Summer School is looking for a key not speaker

The National Research Program NPR 66 "Resource Wood" is organizing it's summer school in Zäziwil from Sep 1-3, 2014 and is looking for a key note speaker for the workshop "Innovative wood-based materials for new applications".

The organizers are looking for a person from  industry who could give some inputs from his/her daily business and formulate some assumptions to the workshop topic, that can be discussed afterwards in the working groups. The goal of the speech is not to give a scientific lecture but to stimulate the participants to think about the topic in an innovative way.

The lecture is planed on September 2, 08.30-09.00 in the Hotel Appenberg in Zäziwil. The workshop ends at 11.00 and it would be great if the key note speaker could also participate in the discussions. 

If you are interested, please contact Thomas Bernhard, Jörn Kohlschmitt oder Enrico Bellini from IC Infraconsult AG.

Thomas Bernhard, Dipl. pol.
Leiter WTT NFP 66 Ressource Holz
IC Infraconsult AG
Kasernenstrasse 27
CH-3013 Bern

Tel. +41 31 359 24 34 (direkt)
Tel. +41 31 359 24 24 (Sekretariat)
Fax +41 31 359 24 25

www.infraconsult.ch

David Spichiger, SCS
22.07.14

SCS Fall Meeting 2014

University of Zurich, Irchel Campus
11 September 2014, 09.00-18.30
scg.ch/fallmeeting2014

More than 570 scientific contributions will be presented either as poster or as oral presentation in one of the nine sessions. The quantity and qualtiy of the contributions underlines again the importance of this event.   

The deadline for pre-registration was 28 August 2014. For the on-site registration please come to the registratin desk on September 11. 

Apart from scientific papers presented as a poster or as an oral contribution in eight parallel sessions, there will also be lectures from distinguished scientists, including a Nobel Laureate.

Prizes will be awarded for the best oral presentations and posters. There is also a Commercial Exhibition.

The Meeting will take place on Thursday, 11 September 2014 and will be hosted jointly by the ETH Zürich and the University of Zürich (Irchel Campus). For more information, please visit scg.ch/fallmeeting2014.

We are looking forward to see you at this year’s Fall Meeting!

Hans Peter Lüthi and Ferdinand Wild
Co-chairmen of the Organizing Committee

David Spichiger, SCS
17.07.2014

EuCheMS Brussels News Update, Jul 2014

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