Networking and Chemistry
2014 Spring Term
Zheng xin Building
Room 201
Professor Douglas Loy
My lecture notes will be available in “Harbin
Network chemistry” under “courses” at
loyresearchgroup.com
Email: daloy@mse.arizona.edu
Curriculum Vitae: Professor Douglas A. Loy
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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
Email: daloy@mse.arizona.edu
Part 1: About the course (syllabus)
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 is written in English, the course is
scheduled to be taught in English
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Internet is powerful tool for
chemists
• Hardware and software architecture of the
internet.
• Finding scientific information
• Faster communication than letter writing
• Writing papers for publication
• Professional networking
• Professional society information
• Conferences and presentations
About the class:
(I) First, my 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) Friday’s
lectures
4) Summation of course, June 11th.
(II) The remainder of the lectures will be student
symposia (presentations).
Student presentations start on Wednesday, May 21st.
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Course Schedule
Lecture 1: About the course
Lecture 2: Giving good presentations and
introduction to the internet & Chemistry
Lecture 3: Searching the internet, scientific literature
Lecture 4:Scientific Literature, Paper, patents, Professional Meetings
& Societies & getting a job.
Quiz 1
Lecture 5:Student presentations & discussion
Lecture 6: Student presentations & discussion
Lecture 7:Student presentations & discussion
Lecture 8: Student presentations & discussion
Lecture 9: Student presentations & discussion
Lecture 10: Student presentations & discussion
Quiz 2
Lecture 11: Student presentations & discussion
Lecture 12: Student presentations & discussion
Lecture 13: Student presentations & discussion
Lecture 14: Student presentations & discussion
Lecture 15: Student presentations & discussion
Lecture 16: Student presentations & discussion
Quiz 3
Lecture 16 : Make-up presentations, last lecture
Lecture 17: End of class ceremony
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May 14
May 14
May 16
May 16
May 16
May 21
May 21
May 23
May 23
May 28
May 28
May 28
May 30
May 30
June 4
June 4
June 6
June 6
June 6
June 11
June 11
Course grading:
10%
20%
10%
15%
20%
25%
Attendance
Presentations
Participation (discussion questions)
Three quizzes (5% each)
Computer Lab
Final exam
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Signing papers & quizzes:
Please sign your class number (1,2,3…32)
& student identification number (e.g 1110700101)
on quizes or any written assignments
I cannot read Chinese written language, so please
sign your class number and student identification
number
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Student class # 1
Student identification #: 1110700101
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Quiz 1
May 23, 2014
Attendance
• Student leader takes each day
• 10% of grade!!!
• You must notify me by email (include student
#) if you cannot make it to class or if you
missed because of illness or other excusable
reason.
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Presentation requirements (20%)
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Presentations start on Wednesday May 21st.
We will provide titles for presentations.
Presentation in Powerpoint (In English)
10 minutes long, 2 minutes for questions
Must tell a logical story
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Grading presentations
– Quality of slides: titles, conclusion at base of each,
bullets no sentences
– Quality of graphics (not pixelated)
– Talk structure: introduction,
– Subject matter
– Presentation skill (voice, English, not reading
notes)
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Audience (team) participation (10%)
• After two or three talks (1 lecture), you will
work in teams on discussion questions
(provided by me).
• Five teams (6 or 7 students in each)
• Write down discussion question
• You will write down your teams’ conclusions
• All students must sign their’s teams paper
• This will count for your participation
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Audience (team) participation
(Examples)
• How would you use the internet to find out if
a chemical is commercially available?
• How would you discover all of the scientific
papers of Professor Zhiping Zheng (from the
University of Arizona) using the internet?
Your team would discuss and write an short
answer to questions, sign the paper and turn in.
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Quizzes (15% of grade)
• Three quizzes
• You will have 30 minutes to take.
• I will provide a Study quide for you to prepare
with.
• NOT a team effort. Work by yourselves. No
copying of your neighbor’s quiz answers.
• Quizes will be during 1) 4th period on Friday,
May 16th, 2) 4th period on Monday, May 28th
and 4th period on June 6th.
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Example Quiz 1
1) What is the internet?
1) What is a router and what does it do?
3) What is an http and what is it used for?
4) What is an ISP and what does it do?
5) What is the WWW and what is it for?
6) Name a chemistry search engine.
7) Name three different places can you find chemical keywords?
8) What kind of chemical search is the best at finding all of the
citations?
Email: daloy@mse.arizona.edu
Example Quiz 1
1) What is the internet? A global network of computer networks
2) What is a router and what does it do? An electronic gateway device that
connects networks together and helps direct data traffic.
3) What is an http and what is it used for? Hypertext Transfer Protocol is an
application protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information
systems.
4) What is an ISP and what does it do? Internet service provider (ISP) is an
organization that provides access to the Internet.
5) What is the WWW and what is it for? World wide web- a collection of data
servers around the world.
6) Name a chemistry search engine. Scifinder, reaxys, web of science
7) Name three different places can you find chemical keywords?
Encyclopedias, search engines, textbooks, papers, patents
8) What kind of chemical search is the best at finding all of the citations?
Structure search
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First week Presentation Topics: May 21 & 23rd
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Explain how the internet works.
Presentation of history of internet.
How search engines work
Describe search engines available to you here in China.
Describe how a VPN works
Explain how to build a complete list of publications for a
scientist..
7. Discovering where a scientist has worked (company or
government lab or University).
8. Conducting author searches (how do you know you have
the right Professor Zhe Li??).
9. Chemical searching: How do you use the internet to tell
you if a chemical compound is new and has not been
reported before?
10.Research topic searching.
11.Finding a chemical reactions or formulation using
chemical search engines
Part 2. Giving effective
presentations
Douglas Loy
Networking
and Chemistry
Email: daloy@mse.arizona.edu
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 Email: daloy@mse.arizona.edu
9-11 Slides should do it.
Title: Giving
presentations
is easy
Presenting is
easy because,
On your slides.
Introduction/bac
kground:
It is just telling
a story.
Leave some
things for the
audience to
ask about.
Organize your
information
Logical
sequence of
information
Conclusion:
repeat thesis
from first slide.
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Don’t put
everything you
know
Acknowledgments
The title slide
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Introduce yourself
Paraphrase title of talk if possible
Introduce thesis during title slide.
Presenter must explain why this talk is
important or interesting to audience.
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The proper use of the title is to
inform the reader of the talk’s
thesis
Douglas Loy
HIT, Harbin, Heilongjong, PRC
Email: daloy@mse.arizona.edu
Presentations tell a story
Beginning of talk: tell audience
what they should learn (thesis)
Middle of talk: explain &
defend thesis and reinforce
End of talk: repeat
thesis clearly
People like to hear a logical story with a satisfying conclusion
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Applying the KISS (Keep It Simple Silly)
Principle
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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
This is an awful graphic!!!!!
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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
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For historical background, use a time line
graphic
Bridged polysilsesquioxane sol-gel
Solid state NMR
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Surfactant templated
F. S. Kipping
Eugene Rochow (GE)
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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
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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 slides your audience will not remember your
message, only your lackEmail:
of preparation
daloy@mse.arizona.edu
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.
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Responsibilities of Audience during
presentation
• NO talking, eating, cell phones ringing,
texting, writing on computers unless its about
the presentation
• Listen, because test material will be included
in presentations.
• Clap when speaker is finished.
• Raise hand to ask question. Stand and
introduce yourself then ask question.
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Speaker answering questions
• Design slides to direct audience to questions
you want asked.
• Don’t put everything you know on your slides,
leave off things so you can answer questions.
• Repeat question back to audience:
• “The question is….”
• If you don’t know, ask the speaker to rephrase
question or tell them you do not understand
the question.
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Part 3: The Internet
Email: daloy@mse.arizona.edu
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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?
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The internet: global computer
network
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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 (email)
• No central administration
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History of Internet
• 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 Email, video calls, blogs
social networking, WWW, etc.
(> 10 Gib/s).
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One more how the internet works slide
Packets are the data
fragment your request or
answer is broken into for
transit through the internet
Client is
your
phone,
ipad,
computer
nodes interconnection points Servers store information
routers are
the brains of
the
internet:joins
networks.
insures info
only goes
where it is
needed and
that it does
get there.
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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
Some are free others cost to buy license.
Email: daloy@mse.arizona.edu
Part 4. Searching for chemical
information on the internet
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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.
Email: daloy@mse.arizona.edu
Internet is powerful tool for chemists
• Hardware and software architecture of the
internet.
• Finding scientific information
• Faster communication than letter writing
• Writing papers for publication
• Professional networking
• Professional society information
• Conferences and presentations
Scientific information: Search Engines
• Chemspider1,2
• Web of science2
• Scifinder2 (Chinese Academic Library and
Information System: CALIS Universities)
• reaxys
• Trademark and Patent office of PRC patent search
engine1,2
• US Patent office search engine1,2
1) Free resources
2) Resources available in China
Scientific information: Chemicals
Chemical Abstract Number and Structure searching
• Chemical information from chemical catalogs
• Chem Frog free database with millions of
chemicals.
• emolecules-structure search
• web of science structure search
• Scifinder structure searching
• Search Google or Baidu with CAS number
Continued on Friday