Virtual Symposium on
Solid-State Organic Chemistry

Dates: October 16-17, 2023
Time: 1-5 pm EST

 
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The NYU Molecular Design Institute and Merck & Co. are hosting the Fourth Annual Virtual Symposium in Solid-State Organic Chemistry (VS3OC). VS3OC provides a platform for faculty, students, postdocs, industrial research scientists, and national lab investigators to convene informally and stay connected without burdening travel budgets and busy calendars.

The global pandemic catapulted us into a new reality, a virtual reality, but with all its challenges, it also provided an opportunity to adapt to a new way of learning and thinking. Change is a means of fostering innovative and creative ideas, and at the heart of it, that is what science is all about. Merck & Co., and NYU teamed up in May 2020 to organize a virtual symposium in the area of organic solid-state chemistry whereby graduate students and postdocs were invited to share their research with their peers from other institutions. This marked the inception of VS3OC, an event we held annually in May 2021 and 2022, and continued in spirit with the spin-off Bimonthly Symposium on Solid-State Organic Chemistry (BOSSs), a series of virtual bi-monthly mini-meetings. We are delighted to be able to continue this new tradition as we gear up for the Fourth Annual 2023 VS3OC, featuring two exciting days of talks and an insight to the expansive pot of organic solid-state research happening globally. We look forward to seeing you all very soon!

 The symposium is grateful for support from the GOALI program of the National Science Foundation, Divisions of Materials Research under Award DMR-2002964.

 
 

VS3OC Organizing Committee 

Alexandra Dillon (New York University)

Chunhua Hu (New York University, USA)

Hafsah Khan (New York University)

Alfred Lee (Merck & Co., Inc., USA)

Justin Newman (Merck & Co., Inc., USA)

Michael Ward (New York University, USA)

Anna Yusov (New York University)

 Past Participating Institutions