SUNDAY |
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Micro and Nanoengineering of Membranes |
| Discussion Leader: Matthias Wessling (University of Twente) |
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Cees J.M. van Rijn (Aquamarijin Micro Filtration B.V.) "Nano and Micro Engineered Membrane Technology" |
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Werner A. Goedel (University of Ulm & BASF Ludwigshafen) "From Particle-Assisted Wetting to Thin Membranes with Uniform Pores" |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Membranes for Water Treatment I |
| Discussion Leader: Ingo Pinnau (Membrane Technology and Research, Inc.) |
9:00 am - 10:00 am | Menachem Elimelech (Yale University)
"Organic Fouling and Chemical Cleaning of Polymeric Membranes: Measurements and Mechanisms" |
10:00 am | Coffee Break / Photo |
10:30 am - 11:30 am | Yoram Cohen (University of California, Los Angeles)
"Low Pressure Membrane Desalting of Brackish Water - The Quest Toward High Product Water Recovery" |
11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Dibakar Bhattacharyya (University of Kentucky)
"Functionalized Membranes/Materials for Water and Wastewater Treatment" |
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 - 9:30 pm | Fundamentals of Membrane Science and Membranes |
| Discussion Leader: Willem Kools (Millipore Corp.) |
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Dmytro Nykypanchuk (University of Massachusetts Amherst) "Single Molecule Study of Macromolecular Diffusion in Model Porous Materials" |
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Molly S. Shoichet (University of Toronto)
"Porous structures in Tissue Engineering" |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Biotechnology Applications of Membranes |
| Discussion Leader: Andrew Zydney (The Pennsylvania State University) |
9:00 am - 10:00 am | Bernd Krause (Gambro Dialysatoren GmbH & Co. KG) "Applications of Membranes in the Medical Field" |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:30 am | Z.F. Cui (Oxford University) "Membranes for tissue engineering applications" |
11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Vassiliki Tegoulia (Genentech Inc.)
"Charged membrane filtration applications for human therapeutics" |
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 - 9:30 pm | Membranes for Water Treatment II |
| Discussion Leader: Ingo Pinnau (Membrane Technology and Research, Inc.) |
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Joseph G. Jacangelo (MWH and The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health)
"Applications and Research Directions of Membrane Filtration for Drinking Water Treatment" |
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Pierre Cote (Zenon Environmental Inc) "Current practice and trend in MF/UF for wastewater treatment" |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Fuel Cell Membranes I |
| Discussion Leader: Peter Pintauro (Case Western Reserve University) |
9:00 am - 10:00 am | Giulio Alberti (University of Perugia) "New composite membranes for medium temperature fuel cells" |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:30 am | Steve Holdcroft (Simon Fraser University) "Investigations of the role of molecular structure and morphology on proton conductivity using polymers of controlled architecture" |
11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Clovis A. Linkous (University of Central Florida and the Florida Solar Energy Center) "Low Cost Membranes for PEM Fuel Cells" |
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 - 9:30 pm | Fuel Cell Membranes II |
| Discussion Leader: Peter Pintauro (Case Western Reserve University) |
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | James E. McGrath (Virginia Tech) "Advances in proton exchange membranes for fuel cells" |
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Montgomery T. Shaw (University of Connecticut) "Structured proton exchange membranes based on sulfonated poly(ether ketone ketone)" |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Membranes for Water Treatment III |
| Discussion Leader: Glenn Lipscomb (University of Toledo) |
9:00 am - 10:00 am | Charles Linder (The Institutes of Applied Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) "Structure-Performance Correlations in New Nanofiltration Membranes for Water Treatment" |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:30 am | James (Chip) Kilduff (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) "Fouling by Natural Organic Matter (NOM): the Role of NOM Properties, Membrane Properties, and Modeling" |
11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Isabel Escobar (University of Toledo) "Improving membrane filtration for drinking water treatment - Material modifications and process configurations" |
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 - 9:00 pm | KEYNOTE SESSION |
| Discussion Leader: Benny Freeman (The University of Texas at Austin) |
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm | Georges Belfort (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) "Impact of Interfacial Phenomena on Membrane Processes" |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Depart |