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

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

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

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

Course grading: 10% Attendance 20% Computer Lab 25%Presentations 45% Final Website: Password:

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

Part 1. Giving effective presentations Douglas Loy Networking and Chemistry

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

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

Applying the KISS (Keep It Simple Silly) 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

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 Talks can be “outlined” on the first slide But don’t waste your time or the audience with a special outline slide Boring!!!

For historical background, use a time line graphic Surfactant templated Bridged polysilsesquioxane sol-gel Eugene Rochow (GE) F. S. Kipping Solid state NMR

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

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

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.

Part 2: The Internet

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?

The internet Network of computer systems spanning the globe. Network of networks Share a common protocol suite (TCP/IP) > 2 billion users Internet Engineering Task Force Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers Access to data (WWW) and communication ( ) No central administration

Internet History Packet research in 1960’s ARPANET (DARPA-US), NPL (UK), CYCLADES (FR), Telenet (US), Tymnet (US) in early 1970’s Computer Science Network (NSF, US,1982) 1980’s TCP/IP standardization – NSFNET 1986 (10-50 kb/s) ARPANET & NSFNET replaced by commercial internet corp.’s 1990’s since 1990’s , video calls, blogs social networking, WWW, etc. (> 10 Gib/s).

One more how the internet works slide Servers store information Client is your phone, ipad, computer nodes interconnection points routers are the brains of the internet:joins networks. insures info only goes where it is needed and that it does get there. Packets are the data fragment your request or answer is broken into for transit through the internet

Search engines Software designed to find (search) information on world wide web Use webcrawler and indexing algorithms to keep up to data directory of data Many commercial search engines (Google (89%),Yahoo, Baidu (62% in China)) Scientific search engines: Web of Science, SciFinder, Google Scholar

Part 3. Searching for chemical information on the internet

What you need to know about searching for chemical information on the internet 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. You need to know