Social
When registering for the Congress, don’t forget to sign up for the IUPAC-sponored social events. Download step-by-step instructions for registration.
Registrants can also add social event tickets to their registration:
- Open the email confirmation you received from ACS after you registered. The sender is “eventconfirmation@xpressreg.net”. The subject line will read: Registration Confirmation – 248th ACS National Meeting & Exposition to get your badge number.
- Go to the Registration Resource Center Login Page and enter the email that you used to register and your badge number.
- Click on the Blue Arrow Button to view all ticketed social events and other events at the ACS Meeting.
- Scroll down to the 13th IUPAC Congress of Pesticide Chemistry Events.
Choose tickets for the Gala Congress Banquet, the Post-Congress Agricultural Field Tour and select from sponsored Luncheon and Dinner Seminars. Delegates will be able to choose one luncheon/dinner seminar at no cost. Attendance for the luncheon/dinner seminars is limited. If you don’t see the IUPAC social events listed, you may have accidentally registered without using the IUPAC14 code. Please email either Ken Racke (kracke@dow.com) or Laura McConnell (laura.mcconnell@bayer.com) to have your registration changed to IUPAC. Or you can contact the Registration Customer Service Center for assistance
List of IUPAC-Sponsored Social Events
Sunday August 10
17:00 – 18:30 – Opening Ceremony and Reception – Free Event for all delegates, Marriott Marquis, Yerba Buena Salon 9
Monday August 11
11:40 – 13:00 – Luncheon Seminars – Registration Required
- An Evaluation of a Novel MS Interface For Rapid High-Throughput Pesticide Analysis: Warp Factor 1 (Sponsored by Smithers Viscient)
- Toxicology strategies for compound development (Sponsored by Huntingdon Life Sciences)
- Post-merger integration of R&D: Key steps to realizing its full potential (Sponsored by Battelle)
- Graduate Student and Post-Doc Luncheon. Contact Troy Anderson for more information.
18:00 – 21:00 -Dinner Seminar – Registration Required
- Crop Protection Research Director’s Forum (Sponsored by Syngenta)
Tuesday August 12
11:40 – 13:00 – Luncheon Seminars – Registration Required
- A case study why authentic reference standards are essential in unknown identification (Sponsored by Ricerca)
- A discussion on anaerobic conditions of soils during the conduct of a guideline laboratory anaerobic soil study (Sponsored by EAG)
- Leads from crop protection research against malaria and neglected diseases (Sponsored by BASF)
- A tale of two countries: Herbicide resistant weeds in USA –v– Australia. (Sponsored by Syngenta)
18:00 – 21:00 – AGRO Business Meeting – Open to all AGRO members. Contact Sharon Papeirnik for more information.
Wednesday August 13
11:40 – 13:00 – Luncheon Seminars – Registration Required
- From the laboratory to the field, enhancing the scope of e-fate studies to expand the range of endpoints (Huntingdon Life Sciences)
- Endocrine Active Substances and Disruptors: Global Policy Challenges and Promotion of Risk-Based Regulation (Sponsored by CropLife International)
- DuPont™ Zorvec™ (“DPX-QGU42”, “oxathiapiprolin”): The first member of a novel class of oomycete fungicides (Sponsored by DuPont)
18:00 – 21:30 – Gala Congress Banquet – Ticketed Event, $50 USD
Thursday August 14
15:30 – 17:00 – Congress Closing Ceremony and Poster Award Presentation – Open to all delegates, Marriott Marquis, Yerba Buena Salon 9
Friday August 15
07:00 – 17:45 – Post-Congress Agricultural Field Tour – Ticketed Event, $85 USD