Dear Col­leagues:

Wel­come to the new sea­son of the Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia. Since the club was found­ed in 1949, we con­tin­ue the tra­di­tion of hold­ing reg­u­lar meet­ings to stim­u­late dis­cus­sions among our fel­low catal­y­sis sci­en­tists. Your offi­cers, list­ed on the left, have assem­bled a stim­u­lat­ing pro­gram of activ­i­ties for the 2010-11 sea­son. We hope that you will join us by reg­is­ter­ing as a mem­ber of the club for the new sea­son and enjoy our month­ly tech­ni­cal pro­gram.

Our tech­ni­cal pro­grams, coor­di­nat­ed by Bob Cochran will start with Dr. Chuck Coe, pre­vi­ous­ly at Air­Prod­ucts and cur­rent­ly at Vil­lano­va Uni­ver­si­ty, win­ner of the Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia 2009-10 award in Sep­tem­ber. Dr. Coe was rec­og­nized for his out­stand­ing con­tri­bu­tion to adsorp­tion sci­ence, catal­y­sis, and appli­ca­tions of cat­a­lysts for organ­ic syn­the­ses. The Award was announced at the 2010 Spring Sym­po­sium.

Our annu­al stu­dent poster ses­sion will be coor­di­nat­ed by Eliz­a­beth Ross-Megaar­den (Lyon­dell­Basell Indus­tries) and held in Octo­ber. Joe Fedeyko of John­son Matthey will orga­nize the Spring Sym­po­sium in May. We will con­tin­ue to have a brief pre­sen­ta­tion by a local grad­u­ate stu­dent or post-doc pri­or to the main lec­ture at some of the month­ly meet­ings.

Dues for the new sea­son will remain at $10.00 ($5.00 for the local club and $5.00 to the nation­al club). Dues for stu­dents will be $6.00. You can pay your dues to your com­pa­ny rep­re­sen­ta­tive, to our trea­sur­er (Steve Har­ris), or at the month­ly meet­ings. A list of rep­re­sen­ta­tives is avail­able at catal​y​sis​clubphilly​.org/​c​o​m​p​R​e​p​.​php.

The cost of the din­ner will be $35.00 for mem­bers, $20.00 for students/retirees and will include one drink dur­ing the social hour. Walk-ins and non-mem­bers din­ner fees will be $40.00. We strong­ly encour­age advance reser­va­tions for the meet­ings.

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, Wei Huang (Air Liq­uide) at wei.​huang@​airliquide.​com.

The strength of our club has always revolved around our mem­bers and our month­ly meet­ings. Your par­tic­i­pa­tion in our month­ly meet­ings is essen­tial to the well being of our club.

I am look­ing for­ward to see­ing you at our month­ly meet­ings. Do not hes­i­tate to con­tact us with any com­ments or sug­ges­tions for the club.

Best regards,

Dion G. Vla­chos
Chair
302–831-2830
vlachos@​udel.​edu