Northeast Corridor Zeolite Association — NECZA 2011

Date: Decem­ber 9th, 2011
Loca­tion: Lynch Sem­i­nar Room, Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia Chem­istry Depart­ment
Pre-reg­is­tra­tion Dead­line: Decem­ber 1, 2011
Abstract Sub­mis­sion Dead­line: Novem­ber 30, 2011

History and Meeting Philosophy

 
NECZA is an out­growth of dis­cus­sions held after ses­sions at the 1997 Zeo­lite and Lay­ered Mate­ri­als Gor­don Con­fer­ence, Chaired by Charles Kres­ge. NECZA seeks to max­i­mize dis­cus­sion and inter­ac­tions between the sci­en­tists who are attend­ing the meet­ing. As such, the tech­ni­cal pro­gram tends to be a bit flex­i­ble with con­tri­bu­tions from a vari­ety of back­grounds.

Tra­di­tion­al­ly, speak­ers are encour­aged to pre­pare “provoca­tive” talks and to rig­or­ous­ly keep the time for their talk which includes 5 to 10 min­utes dis­cus­sion time. The audi­ence is STRONGLY encour­aged to “par­tic­i­pate” (even, for exam­ple, by bring­ing 1 — 2 over­heads relat­ed to the talks to open up dis­cus­sion). The abstracts of pre­sen­ta­tions are attached.
The poster ses­sion and grad­u­ate stu­dent talks have been a sta­ple of NECZA meet­ings. This is a won­der­ful oppor­tu­ni­ty for stu­dents to ‘get their feet wet’ in a rel­a­tive­ly friend­ly set­ting.

We very much look for­ward to anoth­er fruit­ful and engag­ing NECZA meet­ing, made pos­si­ble by your par­tic­i­pa­tion. The NECZA meet­ing serves as a nice cap to the year’s activ­i­ties and we look for­ward to catch­ing up with you all and hear­ing about your nice work at this Decem­ber tra­di­tion.

Please for­ward this note on to your col­leagues, or any oth­ers you feel might have inter­est, and don’t hes­i­tate to con­tact us if you have ques­tions. Vis­it our web­site at www​.necza​.org. for reg­is­tra­tion infor­ma­tion, direc­tions to the meet­ing place and abstract sub­mis­sion.

We hope to see you at the NECZA meet­ing on Fri­day, Decem­ber 9th, 2011.
 
Charles G. Coe, PhD
Vis­it­ing Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor
Depart­ment of Chem­i­cal Engi­neer­ing
220 White Hall
Vil­lano­va Uni­ver­si­ty
800 Lan­cast­er Ave.
Vil­lano­va, PA 19085–1699

Organizing Committee

  • Pro­gram Chair: Charles Coe, Vil­lano­va Uni­ver­si­ty
  • Pro­gram Co-Chair: Michael A. Smith, Vil­lano­va Uni­ver­si­ty
  • Poster Chair: Haim­ing Liu, Arke­ma
  • Poster Co-Chair: Michael A. Smith, Vil­lano­va Uni­ver­si­ty
  • Local Chair: David H. Olson, Rut­gers Uni­ver­si­ty
  • Local Co-Chair: Ray Gorte, Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia
  • Trea­sur­er: Ned Cor­co­ran, Exxon­Mo­bil Cor­po­ra­tion
  • Web­mas­ter: Kirk Schmitt, Exxon­Mo­bil Cor­po­ra­tion