Networking and Chemistry

1. Networking and Chemistry 2013 Spring Term Zheng xin Building Professor Douglas Loy

2. Curriculum Vitae: Professor Douglas A. Loy • BS Chemistry, University of Arizona, 1983 • MS Chemistry, Northern Arizona University, 1986 • Ph.D. Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, 1991 • Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Labs • Team Leader, NanoSynthesis, Los Alamos National Lab • Professor of Materials Science & Engineering and Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona • 11 patents, over 150 papers and proceedings

3. About the class: Purpose: study and master the knowledge of networking and skill to search chemical information in the Internet. • Since the most advanced information in the Internet are written in English, the course is scheduled to teach in English

4. About the class: (I) Course will include my four lectures: 1) Introduction to course & notes on good presentations, plus background on internet, 1st hour today 2) Searching chemical information on web 2nd hour today 3) Attending International conferences and preparing scientific papers for publication (using web) Next week 4) Summation of course, June 14th. (II) The remainder of the lectures will be student symposia.

5. Course grading: 10% Attendance 20% Computer Lab 25% Presentations 45% Open Exam Website: www.126.com hulijiang2006@126.com Password: it’s a secret

6. Presentation requirements • Powerpoint • In English • 13 minutes long, 4 minutes for questions

7. Part 1. Giving effective presentations Douglas Loy Networking and Chemistry

8. Presentations tell a story Beginning: tell audience what they should learn Middle: convince them End: Reinforce message People like to hear a logical sequence of events leading to a satisfying conclusion

9. Story telling tools • Visual-graphics • Strong load voice & eye contact • Slide title is a thesis for slide • Reinforced with bullets of information • Finish each slide with conclusion or transition Together these grab your audience’s attention and deliver your message more effectively

10. Applying the KISS Principle • One concept or theme per slide • Try to keep it to 4 or 5 bullets max per slide • Simple, easy to understand graphics • Font greater than 18. Simple, easy to understand slides that focus will leave your audience with your message more effectively awful graphic

11. No outlines in short talks • Absolutely useless for short talks (& most long ones) • Waste of time at best, Insulting at worst • If you must, make it a map for complicated presentations Boring!!! Talks can be “outlined” on the first slide But don’t waste your time or the audience with a special outline slide

12. For historical background, use a time line graphic Bridged polysilsesquioxane sol-gel Solid state NMR 1860 1990 2010 1900 1930 1950 1970 2000 1880 1920 1940 1960 1980 Surfactant templated F. S. Kipping Eugene Rochow (GE)

13. Don’t go overboard with details • Leave fine details for audience questions • Do not set yourself up for questions you can’t answer • Keep presentation at higher level (not the dreaded “graduate student seminar”) The corollary is that you should be identifying potential questions and organizing your answers before you present

14. Keep your talk length under control • Start with one slide per minute • Practice and determine how many you will actually will need If you have too many your audience will not remember your message only your lack of preparation

15. Conclusion slide is where you revisit key points from presentation • Do not save important points until conclusion • Paraphrase those points after introducing them earlier. • Can be the conclusion bullets from slides You can often end your summarizing the talks take home points by speculating about the future.

16. Part 2: The Internet

17. What you need to know about the internet: • Definition of internet • Computer architecture of internet • What are protocols; what do they do? • What POP, ISP and IP are; what do they do? • What are routers; what do they do? • What is a LAN ; what does it do? • What is an http ; what does it do? • How a browser and search engine are similar and different • What is a url ; what is it for? • What is the backbone of the internet ; what does it do? • What is the world wide web? • What is a firewall ; what does it do? • What is a VPN; what does it do?

19. Part 3. Searching for chemical information on the internet

20. What you need to know about searching for chemical information on the internet You need to know 1) what search engines are available (Scifinder, web of science, reaxys, Google scholar). 2) how to find Chemical Abstracts System numbers- they are assigned to each and every chemical. 3) how to search by author names and find all of their publications 4) how to find out where people worked by finding their resume or curriculum vita online. 5) how to search with keywords 6) that structure searching can be the best way to find a CAS number or all of the references there are for that compound. 7) How to find CAS #, alternative names, and citations for polymers. 8) How to search for reactions 9) How to search for patents 10) How to sort or down select citation lists by where, when, and for whom it was done 11) How to export citation lists to bibliographic software 12) How to find companies selling chemicals and their prices 13) How to find the first time something was done. 14) Sort by document type.