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Travel Grants for Participation in the 15th International Congress on Catalysis

The North Amer­i­can Catal­y­sis Soci­ety will pro­vide sup­ple­men­tal fund­ing for sup­port of atten­dance at the 15th Inter­na­tion­al Con­gress on Catal­y­sis (15th ICC) to be held in Munich, Ger­many, July 1–6, 2012.

Fund­ing for this pro­gram has been pro­vid­ed by fed­er­al agen­cies (NSF, DOE) and indus­try (Dow Chem­i­cal Co., BASF, BP, Sud­Chemie). These funds will be used to pro­vide par­tial reim­burse­ment of trav­el, lodg­ing and reg­is­tra­tion expens­es for atten­dees with pri­or­i­ty giv­en to:

  1. Fac­ul­ty mem­bers in their first four years of appoint­ment to lad­der-rank posi­tions and cur­rent­ly active in catal­y­sis research at U.S. insti­tu­tions.
  2. Post­doc­tor­al and grad­u­ate stu­dent pre­sent­ing oral or poster con­tri­bu­tions at the 15th ICC.
  3. Invit­ed chairs of ses­sion at the 15th ICC meet­ing.
  4. Oth­er appli­cants, as funds per­mit.

Appli­ca­tions should be sub­mit­ted to Pro­fes­sor Jing­guang Chen (NACS Direc­tor-at-Large, and coor­di­na­tor of this grant pro­gram) no lat­er than March 30, 2012 in elec­tron­ic form (jgchen@​udel.​edu). This appli­ca­tion should be no longer than one page and include your qual­i­fi­ca­tions in the con­text of items 1–3 list­ed above.

This one-page appli­ca­tion should clear­ly state:

  1. Your posi­tion, includ­ing years in present posi­tion and activ­i­ty in catal­y­sis research since 2007 (pub­li­ca­tions and patents in the catal­y­sis area). Please indi­cate if your aca­d­e­m­ic research group is cur­rent­ly fund­ed by DOE-BES or NSF
  2. Your accept­ed pre­sen­ta­tion in the 15th ICC (title, ses­sion, and oral or poster venue. Include accep­tance let­ter as a sec­ond page).
  3. Ses­sions that you are chair­ing (include invi­ta­tion to chair as a sec­ond page).
  4. Any oth­er data that the selec­tion pan­el should con­sid­er.

The pan­el deci­sion will be com­mu­ni­cat­ed to all appli­cants no lat­er than May 15, 2012 via email. Orig­i­nal receipts will be required for reim­burse­ment and trav­el must be booked via U.S. car­ri­ers.

15th International Congress on Catalysis

Munich, Ger­many, July 1 – 6, 2012

The 15th ICC is the catal­y­sis event in 2012! More than 2,000 par­tic­i­pants from all over the world will exchange new ideas and dis­cuss devel­op­ments in all areas of catal­y­sis. Ple­nary and keynote speak­ers will present overviews of recent devel­op­ments. The con­gress will be held at the Inter­na­tion­al Con­gress Cen­tre in Munich, a world-class facil­i­ty offer­ing the flex­i­ble infra­struc­ture required to accom­mo­date audi­ences of any size.

In four par­al­lel oral ses­sions and two gen­er­al poster ses­sions all rel­e­vant areas from fun­da­men­tal under­stand­ing to cat­a­lyst design and nov­el process­es will be cov­ered. The ses­sions are com­ple­ment­ed by cross dis­ci­pli­nary ses­sions, orga­nized to share excit­ing new results at the bound­aries between estab­lished fields with­in catal­y­sis. Poster pre­sen­ters will be able to orga­nize up to four par­al­lel half-day work­shops to max­i­mize direct par­tic­i­pa­tion by the con­fer­ence atten­dees and to stim­u­late dis­cus­sions in more spe­cial­ized areas.

A social pro­gram rich in var­i­ous aspects of the local cul­ture will give you the oppor­tu­ni­ty to meet your col­leagues and friends in a more relaxed atmos­phere.

On behalf of the Orga­niz­ing Com­mit­tee, I invite you to attend the 15th ICC in Munich and to con­tribute by pre­sent­ing your lat­est results and by shar­ing your find­ings with col­leagues in dis­cus­sions. The call for papers is open until Novem­ber 1. For more infor­ma­tion please vis­it the con­gress web­site www​.icc2012​.org.

I all look for­ward to your con­tri­bu­tion to the exit­ing sci­en­tif­ic pro­gram of the 15th ICC and to meet you in 2012 in Munich.
 
Johannes A. Lercher
Chair­man, Orga­niz­ing Com­mit­tee
15th Inter­na­tion­al Con­gress on Catal­y­sis

Catalysis Scientists recognized with Institute Awards by AIChE

Dion Vla­chos of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware has received the Richard H. Wil­helm Award in Chem­i­cal Reac­tion Engi­neer­ing for “pio­neer­ing work on mul­ti­scale mod­el­ing and appli­ca­tion to devel­op­ment, design, and elu­ci­da­tion of cat­alyt­ic reac­tion mech­a­nisms, com­pu­ta­tion­al mate­ri­als design, and renew­able ener­gy”.

Enrique Igle­sia of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia at Berke­ley has received the Alpha Chi Sig­ma Award for Excel­lence in Chem­i­cal Engi­neer­ing Research for ” his out­stand­ing con­tri­bu­tions to the sci­ence and devel­op­ment of cat­a­lysts and for his lead­er­ship in the field of catal­y­sis”.

Please use the link below to view the award announce­ment.

Nominations open for Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Catalysis

The Award for Dis­tin­guished Ser­vice in the Advance­ment of Catal­y­sis is spon­sored by the North Amer­i­can Catal­y­sis Soci­ety. It is award­ed bien­ni­al­ly in even num­bered years. The Award con­sists of a plaque, an hon­o­rar­i­um of $5,000, and par­tial sup­port ($1000) for trav­el to the meet­ing where the award is pre­sent­ed. The Award will be pre­sent­ed for the first time at the 2011 North Amer­i­can Meet­ing of the Catal­y­sis Soci­ety.

The Award rec­og­nizes an indi­vid­ual who has advanced cat­alyt­ic chem­istry or engi­neer­ing through a com­bi­na­tion of sig­nif­i­cant ser­vice to the catal­y­sis com­mu­ni­ty and tech­ni­cal accom­plish­ments. Ser­vice may include teach­ing, men­tor­ing, edi­to­r­i­al, and orga­ni­za­tion­al activ­i­ties, as well as lead­er­ship in the orga­ni­za­tion of con­fer­ences and work­shops. These activ­i­ties must have ben­e­fit­ed specif­i­cal­ly the North Amer­i­can catal­y­sis com­mu­ni­ty and more gen­er­al­ly the field at large.

Elec­tion of the awardee will be made with­out regard to age, sex, nation­al­i­ty, or affil­i­a­tion. The nom­i­na­tion must con­tain a crit­i­cal eval­u­a­tion of the sig­nif­i­cance of candidate’s achieve­ments and a spe­cif­ic state­ment about the ser­vice and tech­ni­cal con­tri­bu­tions on which the nom­i­na­tion is based. Nom­i­na­tion doc­u­ments (short sum­ma­ry state­ment of the con­tri­bu­tions (300 words); cur­ricu­lum vitae; one nom­i­nat­ing let­ter and no more than two let­ters of sup­port) must be sent as a sin­gle elec­tron­ic PDF file to the Pres­i­dent of the Soci­ety (Enrique Igle­sia; iglesia@​berkeley.​edu). Nom­i­na­tions for the 2010 Award for Dis­tin­guished Ser­vice will close on Novem­ber 24, 2009. Receipt of the nom­i­na­tion will be acknowl­edged by return email with­in 48 hours.

Results from the 2009 Directors-at-Large Elections

The elec­tion for Direc­tors-at-Large for the NACS was con­clud­ed on Feb­ru­ary 27th, 2009. Four mem­bers from North Amer­i­ca are elect­ed every 4 years by the mem­ber­ship resid­ing in North Amer­i­ca to serve as nation­al rep­re­sen­ta­tives to the Board of Direc­tors. The 4 per­sons receiv­ing the most votes for Direc­tors-at-Large will begin serv­ing imme­di­ate­ly. The new Direc­tors-at-Large are:

  • Jing­guang Chen, Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware
  • Robert Davis, Uni­ver­si­ty of Vir­ginia
  • Bruce Gates, Uni­ver­si­ty Of Cal­i­for­nia at Davis
  • Stu­art Soled, Exxon Mobil Research and Engi­neer­ing Co.

Travel Grants for Participation in the 14th ICC

The North Amer­i­can Catal­y­sis Soci­ety, NACS, will dis­perse fund­ing from the Nation­al Sci­ence Foun­da­tion and the Depart­ment of Ener­gy to sup­port par­tic­i­pa­tion by US cat­alyt­ic sci­en­tist and engi­neers in the 14th Inter­na­tion­al Con­gress on Catal­y­sis, 14th ICC, to be held in Seoul, Korea from 13–18 July 2008. We hope to sup­port the air trav­el by US car­ri­ers for at least two dozen par­tic­i­pants.

Appli­ca­tions will be cho­sen based on sev­er­al cri­te­ria:

  • Young US fac­ul­ty and/or mem­bers of under­rep­re­sent­ed or minor­i­ty par­tic­i­pants active in catal­y­sis research.
  • Cho­sen pre­sen­ters of oral or poster pre­sen­ta­tions at the 14th ICC.
  • Par­tic­i­pants as ses­sion chairs or oth­er ICC or NACS pro­ceed­ings in Seoul.

Please apply to Wm. Cur­tis Con­ner (For­eign Sec­re­tary of NACS) before 15 May 2008 by email at wconner@​ecs.​umass.​edu, or by Fax to 413–545-0316 or by postal mail to:

Wm. Cur­tiss Con­nerx
For­eign Sec­re­tary of NACS
Dept. Chem. Engi­neer­ing
Uni­ver­si­ty of Mass­a­chu­setts
Amherst, MA 01003

Your one page appli­ca­tion should doc­u­ment your qual­i­fi­ca­tions as spec­i­fied in the cri­te­ria, 1–3, above and include:

  • Your posi­tion, includ­ing years in present posi­tion and activ­i­ty in catal­y­sis research in the last four years (pub­li­ca­tions, grants and pre­sen­ta­tions in catal­y­sis).
  • Your accept­ed par­tic­i­pa­tion in the 14th ICC: oral pre­sen­ta­tions and/or poster(s).
  • Oth­er par­tic­i­pa­tion such as ses­sion chair.
  • Any oth­er fac­tors the inde­pen­dent pan­el should con­sid­er.

The Inde­pen­dent pan­el will inform the appli­cants of their trav­el grants before 1 June 2008.

Again, young fac­ul­ty, par­tic­i­pat­ing stu­dents and under rep­re­sent­ed groups are encour­aged to apply and will be con­sid­ered pos­i­tive­ly! How­ev­er, these grants are restrict­ed pri­mar­i­ly to trav­el expens­es by US car­ri­er. Reg­is­tra­tion and hotel costs are not gen­er­al­ly to be cov­ered by these grants (oth­er spec­i­fied funds are required).