2011 Spring Symposium
The Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York

Wednesday, March 16th, 2011

Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey
Fiber Optics Auditorium, McLaren Ceramics Building, Busch Campus

8:00 - 8:45 AM Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:45 AM Opening Remarks
Marco J. Castaldi
Columbia University

8:50 AM Welcome Remarks
Professor Paul Falkowski
Board of Governors Professor and the Director of our Rutgers Energy Institute (REI)

9:00 AM Plenary Presentation - Determination of CO, H2 and H2O Coverage by XANES on Pt and Au During Water Gas Shift Reaction: Experiment and DFT Modeling
Dr. Jeffery Miller
Argonne National Laboratory, Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division

9:45 AM Alternative catalysts for H2 production through thermochemical and electrochemical reactions
Professor Jingguang Chen
University of Deleware

10:15 AM Multifunctional Nanocatalysts: From New Synthetic Routes to Applications
Professor Tewodros Asefa
Rutgers University

10:45 AM Coffee Break

11:15 AM Dehydrogenation and Related Reactions of Alkanes Catalyzed by Pincer iridium Complexes
Professor Alan Goldman
Rutgers University

11:45 AM Challenges and Solutions for Steam Reforming Realistic LPG in Generating Hydrogen for Fuel Cell Applications
Dr. Lucas Dorazio
BASF Catalysts, LLC

12:15 PM Lunch

1:30 - 3:00 PM Poster Session

3:00 PM Alternative Anode Electrocatalysts for Direct Hydrocarbon Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
Professor Steven McIntosh
Lehigh University

3:30 PM Hierarchical engineering of porous inorganic nanomaterials towards reaction and separations applications
Professor Mark Snyder
Lehigh University

4:00 PM The interaction between Transport Processes and Chemical Kinetics in the Preferential Oxidation of CO on Pt/gAl2O3.
Dr. Federico Barrai
Columbia University

4:20 PM Identification of oxygen species active in ethylene epoxidation on silver catalysts with Raman spectroscopy and DFT calculations
Tao Chen
Stevens Institute of Technology

4:45 PM Poster Awards

5:00 PM Final Remarks

5:15 PM Adjourn

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Call for Abstracts

The Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York invites you to submit abstracts of papers for oral or poster presentation at the annual 2011 Spring Symposium. As a heading of the abstract please list the title, author(s) (the speaker underlined), and affiliation. The length of the abstract should not exceed one page, single-spaced. Approximately twenty minutes will be allotted for each oral presentation, followed by a short discussion period. Times will be strictly monitored as to encourage a thorough discussion. *In addition awards will be given to the best posters. Graduated students will be awarded a first prize of $125, a second prize of $75 and a third prize of $50 for their poster presentations. *Post-doctoral fellows will be awarded a first prize of $125 for their poster presentation. Please reserve the date and participate in the Spring Symposium.

The deadline for receipt of abstracts is Friday, January 28, 2011. You will be notified of consideration for the Symposium by February 12, 2011.

Those submitting paper(s)/poster(s) for consideration for the Spring Symposium should send or email them to:

Dr. Changkun Liu
HTI, a Headwaters Company
1501 New York Ave.
Lawrenceville, NJ 08648
cliu@headwaters.com

*Award value and distribution may change based on the number of poster submissions in each category.

http://catalysis.rutgers.edu/content/2011-annual-spring-catalysis-symposium-0