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Virtual Symposium Agenda
Wednesday, May 24th, 2023
Time (Eastern) | Speaker and Title |
8:00 AM | Breakfast and social hour |
9:00 AM | Opening remarks |
9:10 AM | Keynote, Prof. Robert Farrauto, Columbia University Dual Function Materials (DFM) for direct air capture of CO2 and its’ catalytic conversion to CH4: Engineering a solution towards mitigating climate change |
9:55 AM | Dr. Haiying Chen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Monolith Supported Multifunctional Catalysts for the Direct Conversion of CO2 to Dimethyl Ether |
10:25 AM | Tea break |
10:40 AM | Prof. Huiyuan Zhu, University of Virginia Well-Defined, Atomically Precise Catalysts for Sustainable Chemistry |
11:10 AM | Dr. Paulami Majumdar, Dow Discovery of Novel Catalysts for the Selective Vapor-Phase Methoxycarbonylation of Ethylene |
11:40 AM | Lunch (Buffet) |
13:00 PM | Afternoon program opening remarks |
13:05 PM | Keynote, Dr. Prof. Dionisios Vlachos, University of Delaware Catalytic Upcycling Technologies for Sustainability and Circularity |
13:50 PM | Dr. John R. Lockemeyer, Shell The Shell Ethylene Oxide Catalyst Journey |
14:20 PM | Tea break |
14:35 PM | Dr. Basudeb Saha, Rikarbon Recycling Plastics for a Cleaner Planet |
15:05 PM | Student talk, Kai Shen, University of Pennsylvania Reversible perovskite-fluorite phase transition in alumina-supported CeFeOx films and their use as Pt support |
15:25 PM | Symposium closing remarks and Student Poster Session introduction |
15:30 PM | Student Poster Session and social hour |
17:00 PM | Conference closing |