Saturday, May 17, 2008: 6:00 PM-10:00 PM
Oakland Building (Queensborough Community College)
Spring Meeting of the United States Section of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Members of the Royal Society of Chemistry, friends, families and colleagues are invited to participate in an evening which will be instructive, entertaining and a chance to meet old and new friends. Prof. Yorke E. Rhodes of NYU will give the after dinner talk. All are welcome. 6:00 PM Social Hour and Networking Reception, Open Bar 7:00 PM Dinner 8:15 PM "What's New In Astrochemistry?", Prof. Yorke E. Rhodes, New York University "If the physical world we know and the universe are described by the same Physics, i.e., if Physics is universal, is Chemistry also universal? Before 1960 that question was rarely raised. Yes, water, CO and CO2 were in Earth's atmosphere, around other planets, and even in spectra of some stars. The spectra were used to measure physical properties of the stars, and one didn't think of those molecules as chemistry. 50 years since Sputnik and with the explorations of the 1960's and on, what discoveries have been made! There are now known over 130 molecules off-earth - extra-solar, interstellar, intergalactic. Is the chemistry similar to Earth's? Three quarters of these molecules are what we would call organic - some are similar to earth chemistry, some exotic - all follow rules of structure/energy that we know. Many are different with unusual structures not found in our more temperate surroundings. Come see what's new and what we can predict."
Organizer:	Les McQuire

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