MEETINGS AND PANELS


Chaired Meetings

•Co-Chair, Gordon Research Conference on Atomically Precise Nanochemistry, Galveston, TX, Feb. 9 - 14, 2020.

•Co-Chair, U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES) Separations and Analysis Research PI Meeting, Gaithersburg, MD, April 27 – April 29, 2014. 


Invited Panels

•Invited panelist, the DOE-BES workshop of Basic Research Needs for Next Generation Electrical Energy Storage, March 27-29, 2017, Gaithersburg, Maryland.

•Invited panelist, the DOE-BES Roundtable on Foundational Science to Accelerate Nuclear Energy Innovation, July 20-22, 2022, Virtual.

•Invited panelist, the NSF Nanochemistry Workshop, June 22-23, 2023, Arlington, VA.


Organized Symposia and Workshops

•27. Symposium A05: Electrochemical Interfaces in Energy Storage: Theory Meets Experiment. the 244th Electrochemical Society Meeting, October 8 - 12, 2023, Gothenburg, Sweden. (Co-organizer)

•27. “Separations Chemistry for Critical Materials”, 266th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, August 13-17, 2023, San Francisco, California. (lead organizer)

•26. "Computational Materials Chemistry", Telluride Workshop, July 17 - July 21, 2023, Telluride, CO; lead organizer. (2023 focus: modeling consensed phase reactions).

•25. Inaugural VU-ORNL Collaborative Workshop on nanoscience, Nov. 21, 2022, Nashillve, TN. (lead organizer)

•24. “Rare Earth Separations: From Fundamentals to Advanced Processes”, 263rd ACS National Meeting & Exposition, March 20-24, 2022, San Diego, California. (lead organizer)

•23. "Computational Materials Chemistry", Telluride Workshop, June 26 - July 1, 12021, Telluride, CO; lead organizer. (2021 focus: machine learning)

•22. "Computational Materials Chemistry", Telluride Workshop, July 16-20, 2019, Telluride, CO; lead organizer. (2019 focus: electrochemical interfaces)

•21. “Catalytic Chemistry over Metal Oxides” symposium, 257th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, Orlando, FL, March 31 - April 4, 2019; co-organizer.

•20. ACS Award in Separations Science and Technology symposium in honor of Sheng Dai, 257th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, Orlando, FL, March 31 - April 4, 2019; co-organizer.

•19. “Nanometal: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications” Symposium, 2018 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, Nov. 25-30, 2018; lead organizer.

•18. “Fundamental Understandings of Interfaces in Catalysis”, 256th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, Boston, MA, Aug. 19 - 23, 2018; organizer.

•17. “Advanced Materials for Carbon Capture and Other Important Separations” symposium, 2018 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, April 2-6, 2018; lead organizer.

•16. “Interplay between theory and experimental in nanocatalysis”, Mesilla Workshop, Feb. 3-7, 2018, Mesilla, NM; lead organizer.

•15. "Computational Materials Chemistry", Telluride Workshop, Aug. 7-11, 2017, Telluride, CO; lead organizer. Focus is on 2D materials for 2017.

•14. “In Silico Materials Chemistry”, 2016 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Nov. 27 - Dec. 2, 2016 Boston, MA; lead organizer; programming.

•13. “Computational Materials Chemistry”, 251st ACS National Meeting & Exposition, March 13-17, 2016, San Diego, CA; organizer.

•12. “Nanometal: Synthesis, Structure, Property, and Application”, 251st ACS National Meeting & Exposition, March 13-17, 2016, San Diego, CA; lead organizer.

•11. “Catalytic Materials for Energy“, 2015 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, November 29 - December 4, 2015; co-organizer.

•10. “Porous materials for energy and sustainability”, Energy & Fuels Division symposium, 250th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, August 16-20, 2015, Boston, MA; co-organizer.

•9. “The Physical Chemistry of Clusters and Nanoparticles”, Physical Chemistry Division symposium, 250th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, August 16-20, 2015, Boston, MA; co-organizer.

•8. "Computational Materials Chemistry", Telluride Workshop, June 23-27, 2015, Telluride, CO; lead organizer. Focus is on structure prediction for 2015.

•7. “Gold-based Materials and Applications“, 2015 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 6-10 2015; lead organizer.

•6. “Applications of Theoretical Chemistry for Energy and Fuel Production”, an Energy & Fuels Division symposium, 248th American Chemical Society National Meeting, Aug. 10-14, 2014, San Francisco, CA; lead organizer.

•5. “Materials for Carbon Capture“,  Symposium I, 2014 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 21-25, 2014; lead organizer.

•4. “Electrolyte Systems and Interfacial Processes in Energy Storage and Conversion“, an Energy & Fuels Division symposium, 247th American Chemical Society National Meeting, March 16-20, 2014, Dallas, Texas; lead organizer.

•3. “Catalytic Nanomaterials for Energy and Environment”, Symposium AA, 2013 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, December 1 – 6, 2013; co-organizer.

•2. “Carbon-Based Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage”, an Energy & Fuels Division symposium, 245th American Chemical Society National Meeting, April 7-11, 2013, New Orleans, LA; lead organizer.

•1. “Materials for Catalysis in Energy”, Symposium U, 2012 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 9-13, 2012; lead organizer.


Chaired Sessions

• 2/5/2024: Discussion leader, Gordon Research Conference on Atomically Precise Nanochemistry, Galveston, Texas, Feb. 4-9, 2024.

• 9/18/2023: One session at 2nd ORNL-VU Collaborative Workshop, at ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN, Sept. 18-19, 2023.

• 9/8/2023: One session at the 5th Conference of Theory and Applications of Computational Chemistry (TACC), Sapporo, Japan, Sept. 4-9, 2023.

• 8/13-17/2023: two sessions in “Separations Chemistry for Critical Materials” symposium, 266th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, August 13-17, 2023, San Francisco, California.

•3/2/2023: Discussion leader, Gordon Research Conference on Nanomaterials for Applications in Energy Technology, Feb. 28 - March 3, 2023, Ventura, CA.

•3/21/2022: One session at ACS National Meeting, San Diego, Mar. 20-24, 2022, in person.

•12/20/2021: One session at Pacifichem, Dec. 16-21, 2021, virtual.

•6/26/2021: One session at the Telluride Workshop on Computational Materials Chemistry, 6/27-7/1/2021, Telluride, CO.

•12/05/2019: one session in the MRS Fall meeting, Dec. 1-6, Boston, MA.

•9/21/2019: one session in the International Symposium on Monolayer-Protected Clusters (ISMPC’19), Sep. 21-23, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China.

•7/16/2019: one session in "Computational Materials Chemistry", Telluride Workshop, July 16-20, 2019, Telluride, CO.

•3/31/2019: one session in the ACS Award in Separations Science and Technology symposium in honor of Sheng Dai, 257th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, Orlando, FL, March 31 - April 4, 2019; co-organizer.

•11/26/2018-11/29/2018: four sessions in “Nanometal: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications” Symposium, 2018 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, Nov. 25-30, 2018.

•8/19/2018-8/23/2018: four sessions in the symposium “Fundamental Understandings of Interfaces in Catalysis”, 256th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, Boston, MA, Aug. 19 - 23, 2018.

•7/13/2018-7/178/2018: one session in the Interface Conference on Chemical Bonding (ICCB-2018), Kauai, HI.

•4/3/2018-4/5/2018: three sessions in the “Advanced Materials for Carbon Capture and Other Important Separations” Symposium, 2018 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, April 2-6, 2018.

•2/3/2018-2/7/2018: one session in Mesilla Workshop on “Interplay between theory and experimental in nanocatalysis”, Mesilla, NM.

•9/17/2017-9/22/2017: One session in the 8th International Conference on Theory of Atomic & Molecular Clusters, Beijing, China.

•8/13/2017-8/16/2017: One session in the International Symposium on Monolayer-Protected Clusters (ISMPC17) at Monte Verita, Switzerland.

•8/07/2017-8/11/2017: one session in "Computational Materials Chemistry", Telluride Workshop, Aug. 7-11, 2017, Telluride, CO.

•4/17/2017-4/21/2017: One session of the “Novel Catalytic Materials for Energy and Environment” symposium at the MRS 2017 Spring Meeting, Phoenix, AZ.

•11/29/2016-12/1/2016: Three sessions of the “In Silico Materials Chemistry” symposium, 2016 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, MA.

•7/25/2016-7/29/2016: One session at the Telluride Workshop on Interfacial Chemistry and Charge Transfer for Energy Storage and Conversion, Telluride, CO.

•7/2/2016-7/9/2016: One session at Australian symposium on Computationally Enhanced Materials Design – ACEMD, UNSW, Sydney.

•3/13/2016-3/16/2016: Two sessions in the “Computational Materials Chemistry” symposium in COMP division; two sessions in the “Nanometal” symposium in COLL division, in the 251st ACS National Meeting & Exposition, March 13-17, 2016, San Diego, CA; organizer.

•1/31/2016-2/2/2016: One Session in Mesilla Workshop, Mesilla, NM.

•8/16/2015-8/21/2015: Two sessions in “Porous materials for energy and sustainability” symposium; two sessions in “The Physical Chemistry of Clusters and Nanoparticles”; one session in “Innovative Electrochemical Energy Storage”, at the 250th American Chemical Society National Meeting, Aug. 16-21, 2015, Boston, MA.

•7/14/2015: One session in the International Symposium on Monolayer-Protected Clusters (ISMPC15), July 14-16, 2015, Yamanashi, Japan.

•4/7/2015-4/9/2015: Four sessions in: “Gold-Based Materials and Applications”, Symposium PP, 2015 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 6-10, 2014.

•11/18/2014: One session in Symposium S21 “Introduction to Computational Materials Methods and Applications”, International Conference of Electronic Materials and Nanotechnology for Green Environment 2014, Jeju, Korea.

•10/26/2014: One session in Symposium H1 “Computational Materials Methods, Design and Applications” of the Second International Conference of Young Researchers on Advanced Materials, Haikou, China.

•08/13/2014: One session in “Modeling and simulations of electrochemical interfaces and materials for energy storage”, a Computer in Chemistry Division symposium, 248th American Chemical Society National Meeting, Aug. 10-14, 2014, San Francisco, CA.

•08/10/2014-08/14/2014: Three sessions in “Applications of Theoretical Chemistry for Energy and Fuel Production”, an Energy & Fuels Division symposium, 248th American Chemical Society National Meeting, Aug. 10-14, 2014, San Francisco, CA.

•04/22/2014-04/24/2014: Two sessions in “Materials for Carbon Capture“,  Symposium I, 2014 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 21-25, 2014.

•03/16/2014-03/19/2014: Five sessions in “Electrolyte Systems and Interfacial Processes in Energy Storage and Conversion“, an Energy & Fuels Division symposium, 247th American Chemical Society National Meeting, March 16-20, 2014, Dallas.

•03/18/2014-03/20/2014: Two sessions in “Molecular-Like Metal Nanoparticles: New Opportunities for Energy and Healthcare Technologies”, Colloidal and Surface Chemistry Division symposium, 247th American Chemical Society National Meeting, March 16-20, 2014, Dallas.

•12/02/2013 – 12/05/2013 : Three sessions in Symposium AA: “Catalytic Nanomaterials for Energy and Environment”, 2013 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, December 1 – 6, 201.

•10/25/2013: One session on materials design in “International Symposium of Nanostructures and their Applications in Renewable Energy (ISNARE)”, Beijing, China.

•10/22/2013: One session on simulation of materials in “The 12th National Symposium of Computational Chemistry in China”, Suzhou, China.

•9/12/2013: One session in “Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Catalysis from Surface Science Point of View: Ex-Situ, In-Situ, and Operando Studies”, an Energy & Fuels Division symposium, 246th ACS National Meeting, Indianapolis, IN.

•4/8/2013 – 4/11/2013: Six sessions in “Carbon-Based Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage”, an Energy & Fuels Division symposium,245th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA.

•4/3/2013, Session VV4 in “Materials Applications of Ionic Liquids” symposium, the 2013 MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

•4/10/2012 – 4/13/2012: Five sessions in “Materials for Catalysis in Energy” Symposium, the 2012 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

•11/2/2011, Session 1.4.3 Nano Materials, Conference on Computational Physics (CCP) 2011, Gatlinburg, TN.

•5/29/2011, Session 1, 11th National Conference of Quantum Chemistry, Hefei, China.