The ACID Series

Welcome to the ACID series, where Amazing Chemistry Insights and Discussions occur twice weekly during the summer of 2025.

When?

Tuesdays & Thursdays from 3 - 4 PM EDT over Zoom

Cost?

None! That's right, these are FREE experiences.

Who?

Undergraduate students in the chemical sciences

Series Programming

June 17 - Heidi Hendrickson - Using WebMO

June 19 - Holiday (no discussion)

June 24 - Mario Villalobos - Surface chemistry of natural nanoparticles and colloids

June 26 - James Kubicki - Using molecular modeling to understand experimental and analytical data.

July 1 - Stephanie Hare - Molecular Dynamics Simulations for Drug Discovery

July 3 - Holiday (no discussion)

July 8 - Aurora Clark - Identifying and encoding patterns in chemical data

July 10 - Berny Schlegel - Potential Energy Surfaces (PESs)

July 15 - Rigoberto Hernandez - Non-equilibrium systems

July 17 - John Herbert - DFT orbitals and energy levels for ground and excited states

July 22 - Francesco Paesani - Many-body models

July 24 - Kerri Taylor - Art and environmental chemistry with spectroscopic analysis: Chemical Investigations & Restoration of Pasaquan

July 29 - Jason Sonnenberg - Wolfram Language for Computational Chemistry

July 31 - Ashley Ringer McDonald - MolSSI

August 5 - Carl Salter - Computational chemistry in the undergraduate classroom using WebMO

August 7 - Joseph Bennett - How to Setup, Run, and Analyze Calculations in the Solid State

Software mentions

An alphabetical list of software mentioned in the discussions.

More Opportunities

Check out additional FREE programming to keep your chemical curiosity reacting!

May 28 - 30, in person - Lehigh Quantum Chemistry Workshop: Molecules & Materials: Registration

June 11, 8 AM - 5 PM MST - Electronic Structure Workshop 2025: Registration

June 20, 9:30 - 11:30 AM EDT - ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering Lectureship Award Keynotes

June 25, 11 AM EDT Global Inorganic Virtual Seminar: June - Marcetta Darensbourg & Miquel Costas

August 1, 8 AM EDT Global Inorganic Virtual Seminar: August - Prashant Kamat & G. D. Yadav

Acknowledgments

MoleCVUE Consortium

provided website resources

Penn State Berks

provided Zoom resources

Wolfram

provided 30 day trial licenses

Wolfram GPT

helped design the series name

Organizers

Two mid-career, chemical educators with a passion for aiding the next cohort of chemists and applied chemical scientists.

Lorena Tribe - Penn State Berks

Jason Sonnenberg - Sunny Hill Consulting