San Diego hosts ACS Spring 2022

Abstract

The American Chemical Society held its second hybrid meeting March 20–24 with both virtual and in-person sessions in San Diego. As of March 18, 12,566 people had registered. In a reverse from ACS Fall 2021, the society’s first hybrid meeting, most of those registered attended in person: 74% traveled to San Diego, and 26% attended virtually. The meeting included 11,359 oral and poster presentations on the theme “Bonding through Chemistry.” The opening session featured talks by Anastassia N. Alexandrova of the University of California, Los Angeles, on quantum information science; Danna E. Freedman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on chemistry for the second quantum revolution; and Tyrel M. McQueen of Johns Hopkins University on quantum materials. Y. Shrike Zhang of Harvard Medical School presented the Kavli Foundation Emerging Leader in Chemistry Lecture, titled “3D Bioprinting for Functional Tissue Fabrication.” Alán Aspuru-Guzik of the University of Toronto presented the Fred