The orga­ni­za­tion of the 2009 NAM is pro­gress­ing on sched­ule. The meet­ing will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, locat­ed at the Embar­cadero water­front in San Fran­cis­co. The meet­ing co-chairs are Bruce Gates, Enrique Igle­sia, and Charles Wil­son. All avail­able details have been post­ed on the meet­ing web­site (www​.21nam​.org); inquiries should be direct­ed to nam21-​info@​pnl.​gov. The first cir­cu­lar will be mailed by the end of April 2008.

Catal­y­sis finds itself as the crit­i­cal dis­ci­pline as the world at large faces the chal­lenges of sus­tain­able devel­op­ment, clean ener­gy, and envi­ron­men­tal respon­si­bil­i­ty. The 2009 NAM will bring togeth­er lead­ing inter­na­tion­al researchers in catal­y­sis at a geo­graph­i­cal and his­tor­i­cal cross­roads between Asia and the world. Our aim is to pro­mote aca­d­e­m­ic and indus­tri­al con­nec­tions among emerg­ing and estab­lished com­mu­ni­ties of researchers and prac­ti­tion­ers of catal­y­sis in the world at large.

The planned ses­sion top­ics include:

• Catal­y­sis for Ener­gy
• Catal­y­sis for Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion
• Catal­y­sis for the Syn­the­sis of Chem­i­cals
• Fun­da­men­tals of Catal­y­sis
• Chem­i­cal Reac­tion Engi­neer­ing

The time table is a fol­low:

• August 1, 2008 — Call for papers and appli­ca­tions for Kokes Stu­dent Trav­el Awards
• Novem­ber 15, 2008 — Dead­line for sub­mis­sion of abstracts and Kokes appli­ca­tions, to be made via the meet­ing web site
• Feb­ru­ary 9, 2009 — Noti­fi­ca­tion of accept­ed abstracts for oral and poster pre­sen­ta­tions and award­ed Kokes grants
• April 1, 2009 — Dead­line for ear­ly reg­is­tra­tion