| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 11:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | KEYNOTE LECTURE |
| 7:30 pm - 8:15 pm | Prof. D. Wayne Goodman (Texas A&M University)
"The Promotional Effect of Gold in Catalysis by Palladium-Gold" |
| 8:15 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | CATALYSIS FUNDAMENTALS I |
| 9:00 am - 9:45 am | Prof. Matthew Neurock (University of Virginia)
"Catalysis from First Principles" |
| 9:45 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break / Group Photo |
| 10:30 am - 11:15 am | Prof. Bert Weckhuysen (Utrecht University)
"Snapshots of Catalysts at Work: Probing Heterogeneous Catalysts with Spectroscopy and Microscopy" |
| 11:15 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:15 pm | Prof. Jochen Lauterbach (University of Delaware)
"High-Throughput Catalysis" |
| 12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | CATALYSIS FUNDAMENTALS II |
| 7:30 pm - 8:15 pm | Prof. Rutger van Santen (Eindhoven University of Technology)
"Mechanistic Aspects of the Reactivity of Cation Containing Zeolites" |
| 8:15 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm | Poster Session |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | BIOCATALYSIS AND BIORENEWABLE RESOURCES |
| 9:00 am - 9:45 am | Prof. Fraser Armstrong (Oxford University)
"Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Cycling by Enzymes on Electrodes: Implications for Future Energy Technologies" |
| 9:45 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:15 am | Dr. John Holladay (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
"Chemical Transformations of Three Carbon Chemical Building Blocks from Renewable Feedstocks" |
| 11:15 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:15 pm | Prof. Andreas Bommarius (Georgia Institute of Technology)
"Biocatalysts Towards Chiral Compounds: Status and Potential" |
| 12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | FUEL CELLS |
| 7:30 pm - 8:15 pm | Dr. Shimshon Gottesfeld (MTI MicroFuel Cells)
"Electrocatalysis and Other Challenges in the Development of Direct Methanol Fuel Cells (DMFCs) for Portable Power Application" |
| 8:15 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm | Poster Session |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | CATALYTIC CONVERSION OF HYDROCARBONS I |
| 9:00 am - 9:45 am | Prof. Susannah Scott (University of California at Santa Barbara)
"Reengineering Heterogeneous Olefin Metathesis Catalysts: The Roles of Bronsted and Lewis Acidity" |
| 9:45 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:15 am | Prof. Peter Stair (Northwestern University)
"Nanostructured Membrane Catalysis" |
| 11:15 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Business Meeting |
| (Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair) |
| 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm | KEYNOTE LECTURE |
| 8:00 pm - 8:45 pm | Prof. Avelino Corma (Instituto de Tecnología Química)
"New Reactions Catalyzed by Gold. Relating Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis" |
| 8:45 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | NOVEL CATALYTIC MATERIALS |
| 9:00 am - 9:45 am | Prof. Christopher Jones (Georgia Institute of Technology)
"Isolated Sites vs. Complexes that Cluster -- Rationally Immobilizing Metal Complexes for Catalytic Applications" |
| 9:45 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:15 am | Prof. Alexander Katz (University of California at Berkeley)
"Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Interfaces for Enhancing Heterogeneous Catalysis" |
| 11:15 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:15 pm | Dr. Karl Strohmaier (ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company)
"Enhancement of Catalytic Activity in SAPO Materials" |
| 12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | CATALYTIC CONVERSION OF HYDROCARBONS II |
| 7:30 pm - 8:15 pm | Prof. Johannes Lercher (Technische Universität München)
"Low Temperature Catalytic Alkane Activation and Conversion" |
| 8:15 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Depart |
