2016 Spring Symposium

8:00 AMReg­is­tra­tion / Break­fast
8:50 AMOpen­ing Remarks
9:00 AMSci­ence and Serendip­i­ty in Het­ero­ge­neous Catal­y­sis Research
Ive Her­mans, Uni­ver­si­ty of Wis­con­sin — Madi­son
9:40 AMHydro­gen Spillover to Car­bon Sup­ports: Bridg­ing the Gap Between Exper­i­ment and The­o­ry
Angela Luek­ing, Penn­syl­va­nia State Uni­ver­si­ty
10:20 AMCof­fee Break
10:40 AMDesign and Syn­the­sis of Nanos­truc­tured Car­bide and Nitride Based Cat­a­lysts
Levi Thomp­son, Uni­ver­si­ty of Michi­gan — Ann Arbor
11:20 AMMicrolith Coat­ed Mesh Sub­strates for Process Inten­si­fi­ca­tion
Jef­frey Weiss­man, Pre­ci­sion Com­bus­tion
12:00 PMLunch
1:20 PMCat­alyt­ic Con­ver­sion of Sour Nat­ur­al Gas into Val­ue Added Fuels and Chem­i­cals
Jonas Bal­tru­saitis, Lehigh Uni­ver­si­ty
2:00 PMSerendip­i­tous Dis­cov­ery of a Nano-struc­tured Yttri­um Oxy­chlo­ride Cat­a­lyst for the Selec­tive Dehy­dra­tion of Phe­nol
David Bar­ton, Dow Chem­i­cal Co.
2:40 PMCof­fee Break
3:00 PM Award Announce­ment
3:20 PMSta­bi­liza­tion of Metastable Oxides via Sur­face Mod­i­fi­ca­tion
Daniel Gre­go­ry, Lehigh Uni­ver­si­ty
3:40 PMCon­trol­ling the Al Dis­tri­b­u­tion and Cu Spe­ci­a­tion and Prox­im­i­ty in Cu-SSZ-13 Zeo­lites: Con­se­quences for NOx SCR Catal­y­sis
Raj Gounder, Pur­due Uni­ver­si­ty
4:20 PMClos­ing Remarks
4:30 PMCon­fer­ence Adjourns