Each year the Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia rec­og­nizes an out­stand­ing mem­ber of the catal­y­sis com­mu­nity, who has made sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tions to the advance­ment of Catal­y­sis. Such advance­ment can be sci­en­tific, tech­no­log­i­cal, or in orga­ni­za­tion lead­er­ship. The Award con­sists of a plaque and a $1000 cash prize.

We appre­ci­ate your help in sub­mit­ting nom­i­na­tions. The entire nom­i­na­tion pack­age, includ­ing a resume and rec­om­men­da­tion let­ters, should not be more than 10 pages and should include a ½ page ten­ta­tive award announce­ment. The dead­line for the receipt of nom­i­na­tions is April 19, 2013. Pri­or nom­i­na­tion pack­ages sent in 2011 or lat­er will auto­mat­i­cally be con­sid­ered for the 2013 Award.

Nom­i­na­tion let­ter along with sup­port­ing mate­ri­als should be emailed to fedeyjm@​jmusa.​com.

Joseph Fedeyko
John­son Matthey ECT
436 Devon Park Dri­ve
Wayne, PA 19087
Tel. 610–341‑8218
Fax 610–341‑3495

 
The Robert Bur­well Lec­ture­ship in Catal­y­sis is spon­sored by John­son Matthey Cat­a­lysts Divi­sion and admin­is­tered by The North Amer­i­can Catal­y­sis Soci­ety. It is to be award­ed bien­ni­al­ly in odd-num­bered years. The award con­sists of a plaque and an hon­o­rar­i­um of $5,000. An addi­tion­al $4,500 is avail­able to cov­er trav­el­ling expens­es in North Amer­i­ca. The awardee is expect­ed to lec­ture at many of the local catal­y­sis clubs.

The award is giv­en in recog­ni­tion of sub­stan­tial con­tri­bu­tions to one or more areas in the field of catal­y­sis with empha­sis on dis­cov­ery and under­stand­ing of cat­alyt­ic phe­nom­e­na, cat­alyt­ic reac­tion mech­a­nisms and iden­ti­fi­ca­tion and descrip­tion of cat­alyt­ic sites and species. The Awardee will be select­ed on the basis of his/her con­tri­bu­tions to the cat­alyt­ic lit­er­a­ture and the cur­rent time­li­ness of these research con­tri­bu­tions. The recip­i­ent may be invit­ed to (1) vis­it and lec­ture to each of the affil­i­at­ed Clubs/Societies with which mutu­al­ly sat­is­fac­to­ry arrange­ments can be made and (2) pre­pare a review paper(s) for pub­li­ca­tion cov­er­ing these lec­tures. Pub­li­ca­tion will be in an appro­pri­ate peri­od­i­cal.

Selec­tion of the Award win­ner will be made by a com­mit­tee of renowned sci­en­tists and engi­neers appoint­ed by the Pres­i­dent of The North Amer­i­can Catal­y­sis Soci­ety. Selec­tion shall be made with­out regard for age, sex, nation­al­i­ty or affil­i­a­tion. Posthu­mous awards will be made only when knowl­edge of the awardee’s death is received after announce­ment of the Award Committee’s deci­sion. Nom­i­na­tion pack­ages should indi­cate the nominee’s qual­i­fi­ca­tions, accom­plish­ments with CV, a nom­i­nat­ing let­ter, no more than two sec­ond­ing let­ters and a biog­ra­phy of the nom­i­nee. A crit­i­cal eval­u­a­tion of the sig­nif­i­cance of candidate’s qual­i­fi­ca­tions should be made as well as a state­ment of the par­tic­u­lar contribution(s) on which the nom­i­na­tion is based. Nom­i­na­tion pack­ages for the Award must be received by 1 April 2013 in one com­plete pack­age.

All nom­i­na­tion pack­ages (one ELECTRONIC COPY) for the Bur­well Award should be sent to Enrique Igle­sia, Pres­i­dent, North Amer­i­can Catal­y­sis Soci­ety; at iglesia@​berkeley.​edu. Receipt of any nom­i­na­tion, will be con­firmed by an email mes­sage sent to any nom­i­na­tor.

 
Advance Online Reg­is­tra­tion »

Web­site: 17th IZC

 
Web­site: http://​conf​.nsc​.ru/​C​R​S-2
 
The sci­en­tif­ic pro­gram will com­prise ple­nary invit­ed lec­tures, key-note pre­sen­ta­tions, oral pre­sen­ta­tions and posters.

Scientific trends of the conference

• Cat­alyt­ic process­es for valu­ables pro­duc­tion from bio­mass
• Cat­a­lyst appli­ca­tion for clean syn-gas and clean hydro­gen pro­duc­tion, pow­er and CHP via bio­mass gasi­fi­ca­tion
• Catal­y­sis in com­bus­tion and co-com­bus­­tion of renew­able sources
• Cat­alyt­ic inter­ester­i­fi­ca­tion and hydro­c­rack­ing of lipids to bio­fu­el
• Cat­alyt­ic approach to pro­duc­tion of bio­fu­els via bio­mass pyrol­y­sis
• Bio­catal­y­sis: Fer­men­ta­tion and enzy­mat­ic process­es for bio­fu­els pro­duc­tion

The Orga­niz­ing Com­mit­tee plans to offer the par­tic­i­pants the vis­its to the pow­er plants, as well as the objects on pro­duc­tion and obtain­ing of the bio­log­i­cal mate­ri­als, the prod­ucts of fine and organ­ic syn­the­sis from renew­able raw mate­ri­als dur­ing the con­fer­ence and post-con­fer­­ence peri­od.

The offi­cial lan­guage of the con­fer­ence is Eng­lish.

 
Weblink: http://​www​.europacat​ly​on2013​.fr/

 
Web­site: amw​c2013​.org/​w​e​l​c​o​m​e​—​1​4​.​h​tml
 
The goal of con­gress is to pro­vide a glob­al plat­form for researchers and engi­neers com­ing from acad­e­mia and indus­try to present their research results and activ­i­ties in the field of mate­ri­als sci­ence and engi­neer­ing with a spe­cial atten­tion on inter­dis­ci­pli­nary research of advanced mate­ri­als. The con­fer­ence will pro­vide oppor­tu­ni­ties for the del­e­gates to exchange their face-to-face nov­el ideas and expe­ri­ences with the inter­na­tion­al experts dur­ing ple­nary & invit­ed talks, oral pre­sen­ta­tions and poster ses­sions. We will set up ten ses­sions with keynote forum, pan­el dis­cus­sion, project nego­ti­a­tion along with wel­come cock­tail and gala din­ner.

 
First Cir­cu­lar: TOCAT7_1st.pdf
 
Key Dates
Dis­tri­b­u­tion of sec­ond cir­cu­lar: May 2013
Dead­line for extend­ed abstracts: October2013
Notice of accep­tance of papers: Jan­u­ary 2014
Dead­line for advanced reg­is­tra­tion: March 2014
Dead­line for full paper: June 2014
 
Catal­y­sis Soci­ety of Japan will orga­nize this meet­ing as a con­tin­u­a­tion of TOCAT (1990), TOCAT2 (1994), TOCAT3 (1998), TOCAT4 (2002), TOCAT5 (2006) and TOCAT6/APCAT5 (2010). The past six TOCAT con­fer­ences have earned a good rep­u­ta­tion as a new series of inter­na­tion­al con­fer­ences on catal­y­sis that has sig­nif­i­cant­ly filled the gap between research and tech­nol­o­gy in catal­y­sis.
 
Scope
Stim­u­lat­ing clos­er ties between acad­e­mia and indus­try and encour­ag­ing young researchers in the field of catal­y­sis are the cen­tral con­cept of this con­fer­ence. This con­fer­ence sould great­ly con­tribute to exchang­ing new ideas and tech­nolo­gies and pro­mot­ing devel­op­ments of new out­stand­ing cat­a­lysts and sys­tems under the scope that catal­y­sis is a high­ly and eager­ly demand­ed tech­nol­o­gy in indus­tries and for sus­tain­able soci­ety and dri­ves inno­va­tion in many oth­er fields.

Papers on the fol­low­ing top­ics are wel­come.
Gen­er­al Ses­sion

• New con­cepts for catal­y­sis
• Advanced mate­ri­als for catal­y­sis
• Fun­da­men­tals and char­ac­ter­i­za­tion
• Green and sus­tain­able catal­y­sis
• Envi­ron­men­tal catal­y­sis
• Catal­y­sis in ener­gy con­ver­sion
• Bio­catal­y­sis
• Pho­to­catal­y­sis
• Sol­id acids and bases
• Selec­tive oxi­da­tion
• Organometal­lic catal­y­sis
• Reac­tor engi­neer­ing

 
Indus­tri­al Ses­sion

• Intro­duc­tion of recent­ly devel­oped and/or com­mer­cial­ized indus­tri­al cat­a­lysts and process­es
• Emis­sion con­trol
• Green and sus­tain­able process­es
• Petro­le­um refin­ing and petro­chem­i­cals
• Fine and chi­ral syn­the­sis
• Poly­mer­iza­tion

 
Web­site: 11th Inter­na­tion­al Sym­po­sium: PREPA 11
 
It has become a tra­di­tion that every four years, the Uni­ver­sité catholique de Lou­vain and the Katholieke Uni­ver­siteit Leu­ven joint­ly orga­nize a sym­po­sium devot­ed to the sci­en­tif­ic bases for the prepa­ra­tion of het­ero­ge­neous cat­a­lysts. These meet­ings bring togeth­er researchers from acad­e­mia and indus­try and offer a forum for dis­cus­sions on the chem­istry involved in the prepa­ra­tion of indus­tri­al het­ero­ge­neous cat­a­lysts.
We cor­dial­ly invite all sci­en­tists active in the field of het­ero­ge­neous catal­y­sis to par­tic­i­pate in the 11th Inter­na­tion­al Sym­po­sium on Sci­en­tif­ic Bases for the Prepa­ra­tion of Het­ero­ge­neous Cat­a­lysts.

The sci­en­tif­ic pro­gram will con­sist of invit­ed lec­tures, oral and poster pre­sen­ta­tions.

Con­tri­bu­tions are solicit­ed that focus on the aspects of cat­a­lyst prepa­ra­tion. Reports on physi­­co-chem­i­­cal char­ac­ter­is­tics of cat­a­lysts and cat­alyt­ic per­for­mances should be lim­it­ed to cor­re­la­tions with the prepa­ra­tion para­me­ters.

Papers will be select­ed by a sci­en­tif­ic com­mit­tee, con­sist­ing of rep­re­sen­ta­tives from indus­try of catal­y­sis (man­u­fac­tur­ers and users), based on the sci­en­tif­ic val­ue of the abstract, nov­el­ty and the com­pli­ance of the sub­ject to the sym­po­sium top­ics.

Main Topics

• Inno­v­a­tive approach­es in cat­a­lyst prepa­ra­tion for spe­cif­ic per­for­mances and pur­pos­es
• Advanced prepa­ra­tions of cat­a­lysts and sup­ports
• Key con­cepts and tools in cat­a­lyst prepa­ra­tion