Dear Col­leagues,

Wel­come to the 64th sea­son of the Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia. Since the club was found­ed in 1949, we con­tin­ue the tra­di­tion of hold­ing meet­ings to stim­u­late dis­cus­sions among the aca­d­e­m­ic and indus­tri­al catal­y­sis sci­en­tists in the greater Philadel­phia area. We hope that you will join us by attend­ing the broad range of talks that have been arranged for this sea­son.

The speak­er line­up for our month­ly meet­ings has been coor­di­nat­ed by Yaritza Lopez of John­son Matthey. As has been our recent tra­di­tion, the first meet­ing of the sea­son will be the Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia Award Lec­ture. We are pleased to have the 2012 Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia Award win­ner Ros­tam Madon of BASF present his work on Sep­tem­ber 20, 2012. Below is the speak­er sched­ule for the 2012–13 sea­son along with any spe­cial event that will occur through­out the year.

• 9/20/12 — Ros­tam Madon, BASF — CCP Award Lec­ture
• 10/18/12 — Israel Wachs, Lehigh Uni­ver­si­ty
• 10/18/12 — Poster Ses­sion
• 11/15/12 — To be announced
• 1/17/13 — Stu­art Soled, Exxon­Mo­bil
• 2/21/13 — Anne Gaffney, INVISTA
• 2/21/13 — Offi­cer Nom­i­na­tions
• 3/21/13 — Jim Miller, Carnegie Mel­lon
• 4/18/13 — John Kitchin, Carnegie Mel­lon
• 4/18/13 — Offi­cer Elec­tions
• May 13 — CCP Spring Sym­po­sium

Our annu­al stu­dent poster com­pe­ti­tion will take place in Octo­ber and will be coor­di­nat­ed by Vladimiris Niko­lakis of Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware. The poster ses­sion pro­vides a great oppor­tu­ni­ty for local grad­u­ate stu­dents to present their work to a broad catal­y­sis audi­ence and for com­pa­nies to look for poten­tial can­di­dates. The nom­i­na­tions of CCP offi­cers for the 2013–14 sea­son will take place in Feb­ru­ary with elec­tions sched­uled for April. Carl Men­ning of DuPont will orga­nize the CCP Spring Sym­po­sium in May. We will also con­tin­ue to have a brief pre­sen­ta­tion by a local grad­u­ate stu­dent pri­or to the main lec­ture at some of the month­ly meet­ings.

The month­ly meet­ings will again be held at the Dou­ble­tree Hotel on US-202 in Wilm­ing­ton, DE. The cost of the din­ner will remain at $35.00 for mem­bers, $20.00 for students/retirees and will include one drink dur­ing the social hour. The fees for walk-ins and non-mem­bers will be $40.00. We strong­ly encour­age advance reser­va­tions for the meet­ings.

Dues for the 2012–13 sea­son will remain at $25.00 ($5.00 for the local club and $20.00 to the nation­al club). Dues for stu­dents, post­docs and retirees will be $10.00 ($5.00 for the local club and $5.00 to the nation­al club). You can pay your dues to your com­pa­ny rep­re­sen­ta­tive, to our trea­sur­er Hai-Ying Chen of John­son Matthey, or at the month­ly meet­ings. A list of com­pa­ny rep­re­sen­ta­tives is avail­able in our web­site.

Please vis­it our web­site at catal​y​sis​clubphilly​.org to receive lat­est infor­ma­tion on month­ly meet­ings. If you would like to receive our month­ly announce­ments or need to update your con­tact infor­ma­tion, please con­tact our Mem­ber­ship Direc­tor, Parag Shah of PQ Cor­po­ra­tion at parag.​shah@​pqcorp.​com.

The strength of our club has always revolved around our mem­bers and our month­ly meet­ings. Please con­tin­ue to sup­port CCP by attend­ing the meet­ings and by invit­ing your col­leagues. I am look­ing for­ward to see­ing you all on Sep­tem­ber 20 to start off anoth­er great sea­son.

Please also feel free to con­tact me or the oth­er offi­cers through­out the sea­son with any com­ments or sug­ges­tions for how we can improve the club.

Bjorn Mod­en
Chair
(610)651‑4679
bjorn.​moden@​pqcorp.​com