2023 Spring Symposium and Poster Session

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Virtual Symposium Agenda
Wednesday, May 24th, 2023

Time (East­ern)Speak­er and Title
8:00 AMBreak­fast and social hour
9:00 AMOpen­ing remarks
9:10 AMKeynote, Prof. Robert Far­rauto, Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty
Dual Func­tion Mate­ri­als (DFM) for direct air cap­ture of CO2 and its’ cat­alyt­ic con­ver­sion to CH4: Engi­neer­ing a solu­tion towards mit­i­gat­ing cli­mate change
9:55 AMDr. Haiy­ing Chen, Oak Ridge Nation­al Lab­o­ra­to­ry
Mono­lith Sup­port­ed Mul­ti­func­tion­al Cat­a­lysts for the Direct Con­ver­sion of CO2 to Dimethyl Ether
10:25 AMTea break
10:40 AMProf. Huiyuan Zhu, Uni­ver­si­ty of Vir­ginia
Well-Defined, Atom­i­cal­ly Pre­cise Cat­a­lysts for Sus­tain­able Chem­istry
11:10 AMDr. Paula­mi Majum­dar, Dow
Dis­cov­ery of Nov­el Cat­a­lysts for the Selec­tive Vapor-Phase Methoxy­car­bony­la­tion of Eth­yl­ene
11:40 AMLunch (Buf­fet)
13:00 PMAfter­noon pro­gram open­ing remarks
13:05 PMKeynote, Dr. Prof. Dion­i­sios Vla­chos, Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware
Cat­alyt­ic Upcy­cling Tech­nolo­gies for Sus­tain­abil­i­ty and Cir­cu­lar­i­ty
13:50 PMDr. John R. Lock­e­mey­er, Shell
The Shell Eth­yl­ene Oxide Cat­a­lyst Jour­ney
14:20 PMTea break
14:35 PMDr. Basudeb Saha, Rikar­bon
Recy­cling Plas­tics for a Clean­er Plan­et
15:05 PMStu­dent talk, Kai Shen, Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia
Reversible per­ovskite-flu­o­rite phase tran­si­tion in alu­mi­na-sup­port­ed CeFeOx films and their use as Pt sup­port
15:25 PMSym­po­sium clos­ing remarks and Stu­dent Poster Ses­sion intro­duc­tion
15:30 PMStu­dent Poster Ses­sion and social hour
17:00 PMCon­fer­ence clos­ing