| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 11:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 7:35 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
| 7:35 pm - 9:30 pm | Alternative Fuels: Fuel Cells |
| Discussion Leader: Guido Pez (Air Products) |
| 7:35 pm - 8:05 pm | Tom Baker (Los Alamos National Lab)
"Chemical Hydrogen Storage: Mechanistic Studies of Catalyzed Ammonia-Borane Dehydrogenation" |
| 8:05 pm - 8:14 pm | Discussion |
| 8:15 pm - 8:45 pm | Viola Birss (Univ. of Calgary)
"Oxygen reduction electrocatalysis in fuel cells - Challenges and Solutions" |
| 8:45 pm - 8:53 pm | Discussion |
| 8:53 pm - 9:23 pm | Fred Wagner (GM)
"Pathways to Durable, Low-Cost Oxygen Reduction Catalysts for PEM Fuel Cells" |
| 9:23 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Catalysis |
| Discussion Leader: John Lockemeyer (CRI/Shell) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Manos Mavrikakis (Univ. of Wisconsin)
"Inorganic Synthesis for the Next-Generation Heterogeneous Catalysts" |
| 9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Bert Chandler (Trinity Univ.)
"Dendrimer Templates for Supported Nanoparticle Catalysts" |
| 10:15 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break / Group Photo |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Matt Neurock (Univ. of Virginia)
"Elucidating and Controlling Catalytically Active Centers and their Environments" |
| 11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
| 11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Tobin Marks (Northwestern)
"Harnessing Cooperative Effects in Multi-Centered Catalysis for the Synthesis of New Materials" |
| 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 (Group #1) |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Inorganic Materials |
| Discussion Leader: Martha Greenblatt (Rutgers) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Andy Maverick (Louisiana State Univ.)
"Porous Inorganic-Organic Molecules and Solids, and Their Host-Guest Reactions" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Stacey Zones (Chevron Energy and Technology Company)
"New Avenues in the Synthesis of High Silica Zeolites and the Catalysis and Adsorbent Opportunities Created" |
| 8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
| 8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Thomas Albrecht-Schmitt (Auburn)
"Structure-Property Relationships in Neptunium and Plutonium Materials" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Catalysis - Polymerization |
| Discussion Leader: Tom Peterson (DOW) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Soley Kristjansdottir (DuPont)
"A Commercially Viable Thermormorphic Catalyst for Controlled Free Radical Polymerization" |
| 9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Eugene Chen (Colorado State Univ.)
"Single-Site Cationic, Anionic, Ion-Pairing, and Asymmetric Polymerizations of Polar Vinyl Monomers" |
| 10:15 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Susannah Scott (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara)
"Metallasiloxane Ring Size Effects in Silica-Supported Polymerization Catalysts" |
| 11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
| 11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Tim Wenzel (DOW)
"Chain Shuttling Polymerization" |
| 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 (Group #1) |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Inorganic Chemistry |
| Discussion Leader: Al Sattelberger (Argonne National Lab) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:20 pm | Jeremy Smith (New Mexico State Univ.)
"Terminal Iron Nitridos" |
| 8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 9:20 pm | Mark Jensen (Argonne National Lab)
"Hijacking Proteins with Plutonium" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 9:20 pm | Rick Finke (Colorado State Univ.)
"An Ockham's Razor-Based Nucleation and Growth Mechanism with Applications to Nanocluster, Organometallic, Solid-State and Neurological Protein Aggregation Chemistries" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Bioinorganic / Bioinspired Chemistry |
| Discussion Leader: Bahram Moasser (Georgetown Univ.) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Peter Ford (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara)
"Reactivity and Mechanisms of Heme Coordinated NOx" |
| 9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Ken Karlin (Johns Hopkins)
"Dioxygen Binding and Activation Chemistry at Mononuclear Copper Ion Centers" |
| 10:15 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Tom Rauchfuss (Univ. of Illinois)
"Redox Chemistry of Metal-Hydrogen Complexes: New and Ancient Innovations" |
| 11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
| 11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Chad Mirkin (Northwestern)
"Allosteric Supramolecular Enzyme Mimics" |
| 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 (Group #2) |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:00 pm - 7:30 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) |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Alternative Fuels: Biorenewables |
| Discussion Leader: Keith Watson (DOW) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Brent Shanks (Iowa State Univ.)
"Design of Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Materials for Use in Converting Biorenewables" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | John Holladay (Pacific Northwest National Lab)
"Liquid transportation fuels from renewables" |
| 8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
| 8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Lanny Schmidt (Univ. of Minnesota)
"Biomass to Biofuels by Catalytic Autothermal Reforming" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Environmental / Green Chemistry |
| Discussion Leader: Stephen Koch (SUNY, Stony Brook) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Kris McNeill (Univ. of Minnesota)
"Transition Metal-Promoted Environmentally Relevant Dechlorination and Defluorination Reactions" |
| 9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Terry Collins (Carnegie Mellon)
"Iron-TAML Activators: Highly Successful Mimics of Peroxidase Enzymes" |
| 10:15 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Ged Parkin (Columbia)
"Cleaving Mercury-Alkyl Bonds: A Functional Model for Mercury Detoxificaton" |
| 11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
| 11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Jim Hutchison (Univ. of Oregon)
"Green Nanotechnology: Lessons from the Design and Production of Ligand-stabilized Nanoparticles" |
| 12:20 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 (Group #2) |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 8:45 pm | Conference Wrap-up / Poster talks |
| Discussion Leader: Greg Girolami (Univ. of Illinois) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Conference Wrap-up |
| 8:00 pm - 8:15 pm | Poster Talk #1 (TBA) |
| 8:15 pm - 8:20 pm | Discussion |
| 8:20 pm - 8:35 pm | Poster Talk #2 (TBA) |
| 8:35 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
| 8:45 pm - 9:30 pm | Hydrogen Initiative |
| 8:45 pm - 9:15 pm | Nancy Garland (DOE)
"The DOE Hydrogen Program" |
| 9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Depart |
