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SUMMARY:Chemistry in Art\, Art in Chemistry\, and the Spiritual Ground They Share
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Roald Hoffmann\, Cornell University\nSponsored by Stanford Chemistry Department\nOct. 14th\, 3:00-4:00 pm\, Online & in person\, Stanford Center for Teaching & Learning\, Sapp Center Auditorium 111\, Free\, Learn more\n\nAbstract\n“Chemistry is an essential tool for making art. We will begin by looking at the evolution of pigments for one color\, clearly an object of our desire\, in the artist’s palette\, from the Gate of Ishtar to Prussian blue and modern pigments.  And at photography\, a very chemical-enabling tool for artists. \nThen we will turn to art in chemistry.  The pages of my articles\, those of my colleagues\, are filled with drawings of molecules.  From a certain reality\, which\, like all reali­ties\, turns out to be on close examina­tion a representation of one\, the creators of these drawings try to abstract the essence.  Significant formal consid­erations—the relationship of the parts of a molecule to its whole—are essential. That sounds pretty close to art. \nOn to the spiritual ground which an art and a science that has creation at its heart share. Alchemy is one; I will discuss what attracts artists to alchemy\, and how alchemical goals resonate in modern chemistry. And then take a wild leap to modern times\, by posing a question that at first sight seems absurd: Is there an analogue in science to abstract art? \nIf abstraction wants to be seen as an alternative to naturalistic representation and the figurative\, what can chemistry possibly be against? Nature\, of course. With interesting consequences.  Another aspect of abstraction has been the concentration on one or another component of the artistic whole. Issues of form—at the center or the periphery\, inclusion or exclusion\, see-through or opaque\, balance\, color—are isolated.  Mark Rothko’s color fields are a fine example of this concentration. We’ll explore chemical analogues of such concentrated isolation\, also look at the way modern chemistry gives the aleatory its due. I will work against the caricature of abstract art and science as… cold. In chemistry and art both\, we create and discover meaning.” \n*Professor Roald Hoffman will be presenting remotely but the event will be in-person at the Sapp Center Auditorium (STLC 111) \nAbout the Speaker:\n“Roald Hoffmann was born in 1937 in Złoczów\, then Poland. He came to the US in 1949\, and has long been at Cornell\, active as a theoretical chemist. In chemistry\, he has taught his colleagues how to think about electrons influencing structure and reactivity\, and won most of the honors of his profession. \nHoffmann is also a writer\, carving out his own land between poetry\, philosophy\, and science. He has published six books of non-fiction\, three plays\, and seven volumes of poetry\, including two book-length selections of his poems in Spanish and Russian translations.”
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SUMMARY:Drug Discovery: How We Got Here & Where We Might Be Going
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Derek Lowe\, Novartis\nSponsored by Stanford Chemistry Department\nOct. 28th\, 3:00-4:00 pm\, In person at Stanford Center for Teaching & Learning\, Sapp Center Auditorium 111\, Free\, Learn more\n\nAbstract:\n“Over the past 35 years\, drug discovery has gone from carbon-paper forms and no email service to the modern environment of machine learning and AI. This talk will give an overview of how the process has changed\, and what parts of it have remained (stubbornly) the same – and why. \nAbout the Speaker:\nDerek Lowe received his PhD in 1988\, and after a post-doc year began his career in the drug industry at Schering-Plough\, working on central nervous system drugs. After eight years he moved to Bayer to do metabolic research\, and ten years later moved to Vertex Pharmaceuticals as a chemical biologist and specialist in new technologies\, where he also worked on antibacterial\, antiviral\, and oncology targets. Since 2017 he has been a Director in Chemical Biology at Novartis\, working on new discovery techniques.” \n 
URL:https://www.siliconvalleyacs.org/event/drug-discovery-how-we-got-here-where-we-might-be-going/
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