Dear Colleagues:
Welcome to the 61st 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 program of activities for the 2009-10 season that seeks to provide a variety of stimulating and enjoyable technical programs. We hope that you will join us by registering as a member of the club for the new season and enjoy the presentations.
Our technical programs, coordinated by Raul Lobo (University of Delaware), will get off to a strong start with Ted Oyama, winner of the Catalysis Club of Philadelphia 2009 award joining us in September. Our annual student poster session will be coordinated by Elizabeth Ross-Medgaarden (LyondellBasell Industries) and held in March. Dion Vlachos (University of Delaware) will organize the Spring Symposium in May. As introduced in the past couple of years, 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 2009-10 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 company representatives is available at catalysisclubphilly.org/compRep.php.
The cost of the dinner will again be $30.00 for members, $15.00 for students/retirees and will include one drink during the social hour. Walk-ins and non-members dinner fees will be $35.00. We strongly encourage advance reservations for the meetings.
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 our Membership Director, Wei Huang (Air Liquide) at wei.huang@airliquide.com.
The strength of our club has always revolved around our monthly meetings, a stimulating mix of fellowship with scientific colleagues and first rate presentations from the finest scientists in our field; I look forward to seeing you at as many of them as possible. Support the club and bring a friend! Finally, please do not hesitate to contact me, or any of the other officers, throughout the year with any comments or suggestions for the club.
Best regards,
Michael A Smith
Chair
610–519-5968
michael.a.smith@villanova.edu