Dear Colleagues:
The Catalysis Club of Philadelphia would like to announce the opening of our upcoming season on September 22nd, 2011 at the Doubletree Hotel in Wilmington, DE. For over 50 years, the Catalysis ClubCatalysis Club of Philadelphia award, Professor Chunshan Song from Penn State University. Prof. Song was recognized at the 2011 Spring Symposium for his accomplishments to the field of catalysis on sulfur removal from hydrocarbon mixtures and hydrocarbon conversion for energy oriented processes. His award seminar will be titled “Oxygen Enhanced Water Gas Shift Over Bimetallic Catalysts for More Efficient Hydrogen Production”. Our program will then continue on October 13th and will feature Roy Periana from the Scripps Research Institute and in April will feature the Burwell Award winner Johannes Lercher from TU Müchen. Be sure to check our website for the full schedule in September.
Also in October, we will hold our annual student poster competition, coordinated by Michael Smith of Villanova University, an announcement will follow shortly with the call for abstracts. As in the past, the poster competition will be open to all undergraduate, graduate and post-doctoral studies with the top graduate student poster speaking at the Spring Symposium.
This year we have already experienced two significant changes to our monthly meetings. The first is a change in venue. Meetings will now be held at the Doubletree Hotel in Wilmington, DE off of US202 North. Directions to the location are in a separate attachment and will be provided with each meeting notification this year. By moving, we have been able to maintain our meal costs. 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.
Additionally, the National Club has increased standard club dues for this season. For club members, dues will increase to $25.00 ($5.00 for the local club and $20.00 to the national club). Dues for students will increase to $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 (Steve Harris), or at the monthly meetings. A list of representatives is available at catalysisclubphilly.org/compRep.php.
Please visit our website at catalysisclubphilly.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 Agnes Kovacs, DERECSA@airproducts.com, or your company representative.
The strength of our club has always revolved around our members and our monthly meetings. Your participation in our monthly meetings is essential, so I hope to see you all there on September 22nd to kick off another great year.
Sincerely,
Joe Fedeyko
Chair
610–341-8218
fedeyjm@jmusa.com