32. Midwest Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society
Tan-Tar-A Resort at Lake of the Ozarks, Osage Beach, Missouri
Wednesday, October 29, to Friday, October 31, 1997.

Symposium on "Nonlinear Optics"
Thursday, October 30.

Rainer Glaser, Organizer

Professor Stephen G. DiMagno Department of Chemistry University of Nebraska, Lincoln E-mail: sdimagno@unlinfo.unl.edu	Morning Session "Nonlinear Optics: Materials."
Professor Braja Mandal Dept. of Bio., Chem. and Phys. Sciences Illinois Institute of Technology E-mail: chemmandal@minna.cns.iit.edu	Novel Tetracyclones - A New Look at Nonlinear Optics.
Professor Michael Therien Department of Chemistry University of Pennsylvania E-mail: therien@a.chem.upenn.edu	New Porphyrin-Based Chromophores With Exceptional Nonlinear Optical Properties.
Professor Rainer Glaser Department of Chemistry University of Missouri-Columbia E-mail: chemrg@showme.missouri.edu	Dipole Alignment in Crystalline Organic Materials for Nonlinear Optics.
Professor Robert J. McMahon Department of Chemistry University of Wisconsin-Madison E-mail: mcmahon@chem.wisc.edu	Structure - Property Relationships in Organic Nonlinear Optical Materials.
	Lunch Break
Professor William J. Welsh Department of Chemistry University of Missouri-St. Louis E-mail: wwelsh@jinx.umsl.edu	Afternoon Session "Nonlinear Optics: Applications and Devices."
Professor Zhi Xu Department of Chemistry University of Missouri-St. Louis E-mail: zhixu@slvaxa.umsl.edu	Study of Solid-Liquid Interfacial Chemistry Using Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy.
Professor Nicholas Leventis Department of Chemistry University of Missouri-Rolla E-mail: leventis@umr.edu	Dopants and Films Based on Phenotriazine Dyes Analogous to Methlene Blue with Potential Use in NLO Materials.
Dr. Gary Wiederrecht Chemistry Division Argonne National Laboratory E-mail: wiederrecht@anlchm.chm.anl.gov	New Photorefractive Liquid Crystal Composites.
Professor Robert R. Krchnavek Department of Electrical Engineering Washington University, St. Louis E-mail: rrk@ee.wustl.edu	Hectorite Based Polymer Self-Assembly for Preferred Chromophore Alignment in NLO Materials.