I am pleased to announce the 2012 Catal­y­sis Gor­don Con­fer­ence to be held June 24–29, 2012 at Col­by-Sawyer Col­lege in New Lon­don, New Hamp­shire. As in pre­vi­ous years the Catal­y­sis GRC promis­es to be an excit­ing con­fer­ence in the nor­mal GRC for­mat focus­ing on high­light­ing and dis­cussing the lat­est often unpub­lished results in the hottest areas of catal­y­sis.

The 2012 GRC has a theme of “Catal­y­sis – From Fun­da­men­tals to Appli­ca­tion” and seeks to build bridges between the­o­ry and exper­i­ment as well as low pres­sure spec­troscopy and high pres­sure appli­ca­tion. This year the con­fer­ence will be held in the beau­ti­ful New Lon­don, New Hamp­shire at Col­by Sawyer Col­lege in new­ly upgrad­ed con­fer­ence facil­i­ties.
Oral Pre­sen­ters:

• Aveli­no Cor­ma – UPV
• Bert Weck­huy­sen – Utrecht
• Beat­riz Roldan – Cen­tral Flori­da
• Adri­ano Zecchi­na – Turin
• Jens Norskov – Stan­ford
• Karsten Reuter – TU Munich
• Christophe Cop­eret – ETH
• Justin Notestein – North­west­ern
• Edmund Car­na­han – Dow
• Fabio Ribeiro — Pur­due
• Manos Mavrikakis — Wis­con­sin
• Jing­guang Chen — Delaware
• Abhya Datye — New Mex­i­co
• Stig Helveg – Hal­dor Top­soe
• Jae Sung-Lee – Pohang
• Kazu­nari Domen – Tokyo
• Yang Shao-Horn – MIT
• Daniel Resas­co – Okla­homa
• Chris Mar­shall – Argonne
• Alex­is Bell – Cal-Berke­ley

Appli­ca­tions are now being accept­ed at http://​www​.grc​.org/​p​r​o​g​r​a​m​s​.​a​s​p​x​?​y​e​a​r​=​2​0​1​2​&​p​r​o​g​r​a​m​=​c​a​t​a​l​y​sis. Grad­u­ate stu­dents and post-docs are high­ly encour­aged to apply and present posters. Ques­tions about the con­fer­ence and finan­cial sup­port can be addressed to the con­fer­ence chair­man at bruce.​cook2@​bp.​com.
 
Bruce Cook
Chair­man, 2012 Catal­y­sis GRC

We are pleased to announce that par­tial reg­is­tra­tion sup­port ($400), which will cov­er 50% of the reg­is­tra­tion fee, will be avail­able for grad­u­ate stu­dents, post-docs and ear­ly career fac­ul­ty. Approx­i­mate­ly 40–50 par­tic­i­pants will receive sup­port depend­ing on avail­able fund­ing. This sup­port is made pos­si­ble by grants from the Nation­al Sci­ence Foun­da­tion- Catal­y­sis and Kinet­ics Pro­gram, Depart­ment of Ener­gy — Office of Sci­ence, the North Amer­i­can Catal­y­sis Soci­ety, and indus­try con­trib­u­tors (see the GRC web­site for an updat­ed list as this sup­port becomes avail­able).

Request for sup­port should be sent by apply­ing to the con­fer­ence chair via email to datye@​unm.​edu and by ensur­ing that the fol­low­ing text appears in the sub­ject head­ing of your email GRC 2010 Catal­y­sis. Please sub­mit your appli­ca­tion before March 31, 2010, and include as an attach­ment one pdf doc­u­ment that includes a short one page CV, a state­ment of your research inter­ests, and one page let­ter of endorse­ment from your research advi­sor (for stu­dents and post-docs) or one page let­ter of cur­rent and pend­ing sup­port (in case of junior fac­ul­ty). Sup­port will be allo­cat­ed to one stu­dent or post-doc per research group (unless addi­tion­al sup­port becomes avail­able) and to junior fac­ul­ty who are at the ear­ly career stage (with min­i­mal extra­mur­al fund­ing). The par­tic­i­pants who receive sup­port are required to present a poster at the meet­ing. Fur­ther infor­ma­tion on the con­fer­ence and trav­el sup­port can be obtained from Prof. Datye’s web site: http://www.unm.edu/~cmem/labs/catalysis/index.html.

To attend the GRC, you must apply via the fol­low­ing web site: http://​www​.grc​.org/​p​r​o​g​r​a​m​s​.​a​s​p​x​?​y​e​a​r​=​2​0​1​0​&​p​r​o​g​r​a​m​=​c​a​t​a​l​y​sis.

For fur­ther infor­ma­tion, please con­tact the con­fer­ence orga­niz­ers:

Abhaya K. Datye, Chair
Dis­tin­guished Pro­fes­sor
Uni­ver­si­ty of New Mex­i­co
Albu­querque, NM, 87131–0001
505–277-0477
datye@​unm.​edu

Bruce Cook, Vice–Chair
Advanced Refin­ing Man­ag­er
BP Prod­ucts N.A.
Naperville, IL, 60563–8460
630–420-3833
Bruce.​Cook2@​bp.​com

The 2010 GRC on Catal­y­sis will be held at Col­by Sawyer Col­lege, NH from June 27, 2010 through July 2, 2010. The meet­ing chair is Abhaya Datye (datye@​unm.​edu) from the Uni­ver­si­ty of New Mex­i­co in Albu­querque, NM and the Vice-chair is Bruce Cook (Bruce.​Cook2@​bp.​com) from BP Prod­ucts NA in Naperville, IL.

In 2010, the Catal­y­sis con­fer­ence will move to a new­ly-fur­bished con­fer­ence room with seat­ing for 150, a new poster ses­sion area that will allow 40 posters per ses­sion. The dorm rooms pro­vide sin­gle and dou­ble accom­mo­da­tions, free WIFI and the reg­is­tra­tion fee includes all meals and the famous lob­ster din­ner on Thurs­day night. After­noons are open to enjoy the New Eng­land ambiance with oppor­tu­ni­ties for hik­ing, sail­ing, golf and ten­nis to cre­ate an out­stand­ing con­fer­ence that will help you net­work with col­leagues, and make long last­ing con­nec­tions. Please vis­it the con­fer­ence web site for more details and to reg­is­ter for the meet­ing: 2010 GRC Pro­gram.

The 2010 GRC on Catal­y­sis will focus on sev­er­al areas that are of both fun­da­men­tal and prac­ti­cal impor­tance, (down­load pro­gram fly­er). The under­ly­ing theme is to high­light the role of catal­y­sis in meet­ing society’s needs for ener­gy and mate­ri­als. The con­fer­ence is orga­nized into 9 ses­sions:

1. Alter­na­tive Feed­stocks For Chem­i­cals And Fuels
2. Nov­el Cat­alyt­ic Mate­ri­als
3. 3D Imag­ing Of Cat­a­lysts
4. Spec­troscopy, With Spe­cial Empha­sis On Het­ero­ge­neous Catal­y­sis In The Liq­uid Phase
5. Mol­e­c­u­lar Insights Through The­o­ry
6. The Sci­ence Of Cat­a­lyst Syn­the­sis
7. Design Of Cat­a­lysts For Excep­tion­al Sta­bil­i­ty
8. Sur­face Sci­ence
9. Future Per­spec­tives On Catal­y­sis

The themes and the speak­ers have been cho­sen to inter­weave aca­d­e­m­ic and indus­tri­al inter­est, as has been the very effec­tive tra­di­tion of this long run­ning con­fer­ence, and to illus­trate broad, fore­front con­cepts in the field of het­ero­ge­neous catal­y­sis. By includ­ing senior sci­en­tists as dis­cus­sion lead­ers, we hope to add a diver­si­ty of per­spec­tive and enhance the lev­el of dis­cus­sions. A spe­cial effort was made to attract speak­ers and dis­cus­sion lead­ers from indus­try. Finan­cial sup­port will be avail­able for grad­u­ate stu­dents, post-docs and junior fac­ul­ty. Please vis­it the NACS web­site in Feb­ru­ary 2010 for more details.