The 2006 Gordon Conference on Catalysis
The Gordon Conference on Catalysis will be held at Colby-Sawyer College on June 25 - June 30, 2006. The invited speakers are:
- Fraser Armstrong (Oxford University)
- Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Cycling by Enzymes on Electrodes: Implications for Future Energy Technologies
- Andreas Bommarius (Georgia Institute of Technology)
- Biocatalysts Towards Chiral Compounds: Status and Potential
- Avelino Corma (Instituto de Tecnología Química)
- New Reactions Catalyzed by Gold. Relating Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis
- D. Wayne Goodman (Texas A&M University)
- The Promotional Effect of Gold in Catalysis by Palladium-Gold
- Shimshon Gottesfeld (MTI MicroFuel Cells)
- Electrocatalysis and Other Challenges in the Development of Direct Methanol Fuel Cells (DMFCs) for Portable Power Application
- Christopher Jones (Georgia Institute of Technology)
- Isolated Sites vs. Complexes that Cluster -- Rationally Immobilizing Metal Complexes for Catalytic Applications
- Alexander Katz (University of California at Berkeley)
- Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Interfaces for Enhancing Heterogeneous Catalysis
- Jochen Lauterbach (University of Delaware)
- High-Throughput Catalysis
- Johannes Lercher (Technische Universität München)
- Low Temperature Catalytic Alkane Activation and Conversion
- Matthew Neurock (University of Virginia)
- Catalysis from First Principles
- Susannah Scott (University of California at Santa Barbara)
- Reengineering Heterogeneous Olefin Metathesis Catalysts: The Roles of Bronsted and Lewis Acidity
- Peter Stair (Northwestern University)
- Nanostructured Membrane Catalysis
- Karl Strohmaier (ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company)
- Enhancement of Catalytic Activity in SAPO Materials
- Rutger van Santen (Eindhoven University of Technology)
- Mechanistic Aspects of the Reactivity of Cation Containing Zeolites
- Bert Weckhuysen (Utrecht University)
- Snapshots of Catalysts at Work: Probing Heterogeneous Catalysts with Spectroscopy and Microscopy
- Todd Werpy (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
- Chemical Transformations of Three Carbon Chemical Building Blocks from Renewable Feedstocks
For additional information about the meeting and the application to attend, please see the Gordon Conference web site at www.grc.org.
