The scientific program will consist of plenary lectures, keynote presentations, oral and poster contributions. It will comprise the follwing sessions. The session chairs, listed below, will be responsible for review of abstracts and coordinating presentations.

PETROLEUM

• PETROLEUM PROCESSING: Rostam Madon* of Engelhard, USA and Francisco H. Beltran* of IMP, Mexico
• GAS TO LIQUIDS: Cal Bartholomew of BYU, USA
• SULFUR REMOVAL FROM LIQUIDS AND GASEOUS HYDROCARBONS: Flora Ng of U of Waterloo, Canada

ENVIRONMENTAL

• MOBILE SOURCES: GASOLINE: Bob McCabe* of Ford, USA and Galen Fisher, Delphi, USA
• MOBILE SOURCES: DIESEL: Barry Cooper* of Johnson Matthey USA, Paul Park, Caterpillar, USA, Aleksey Yezerets of Cummins, USA and Bill Epling of Cummins, USA C)
• STATIONARY POLLUTION ABATEMENT: Rob Becker of Environex Ron Heck of RMH Consulting USA.
• PHOTOCATALYSIS: Panagiotis Smirniotis* of U of Cinn, USA

CHEMICAL

• SELECTIVE CATALYTIC OXIDATIONS: Vadim Guliants of U of Cinn., USA, Sudhakar Jale of Catalytic Solutions, USA, John Monnier, Eastman Chemical, USA, Joe Zoeller* of Eastman
• CATALYSTS FOR PHARMACEUTICALS, SPECIALTIES, AND BIORENEWABLES. Steve Jacobson* of Dupont, USA, Brent Shanks of Iowa State USA and Dennis Miller of Michigan State USA
• POLYMERS: Garry Rempel*: U. of Waterloo, Canada
• MEMBRANE REACTORS: J. Lin of U of Cinn., USA
• HYDROGENATIONS: Alan Allgeier of Amgen, USA and Daniel Ostgard of Degussa AG, Germany
• CATALYSIS IN SUPERCRITICAL MEDIA: Phil Savage of U of Michigan, USA and G. Roberts of North Carolina State U, USA
• COMPUTIONAL CHEMISTRY AND THEORY:Manos Mavrikakis of U. of Wisconsin, USA
  

FUEL CELLS AND FUEL PROCESSING

• ELECTROCATALYSTS FOR FUEL CELLS: John Van Zee of University of South Carolina, USA, David Artrip of BASF, USA, Anca Faur-Ghenciu of Johnson Matthey USA, Budge, SOFCO, USA and Costas Vayenas of U of Patras, Greece
• FUEL REFORMING (PROCESSING): Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos* of Tufts University USA, Levi Thompson of University of Michigan, USA and Jon Wagner of Sud Chemie, Germany and USA, Ray Gorte, U of Penn, USA ,
• HYDROGEN GENERATION FROM ALTERNATIVE SOURCES:
  Chunshan Song of Penn State University, USA

EMERGING CATALYTIC TECHNOLOGY

• OPERANDO SPECTROSCOPY Israel Wachs* of Lehigh University
• SURFACE SCIENCE IN INDUSTRIAL CATALYSIS
  Francesco Zaera* of University of California, Riverside, USA and Matthias Duisberg of Umicore, Germany
• NANO TECHNOLGY AS APPLIED TO CATALYSIS
  Dan Resasco of U of Oklahoma, USA and Gustavo Larsen of U of Nebraska, USA,
• NOVEL CATALYTIC REACTION ENGINEERING:
  Fabio Ribeiro* of Purdue, USA,
• NOVEL COMPACT CATALYTIC REACTORS: Yong Wang of Pacific Northwest National Labs, USA

Topics such as Catalyst Preparation and Characterization will be included in each topic of its application.

The Technical Program is being coordinated by Dr. Robert Farrauto of Engelhard. He can be reached at technicalprogram@19nam.org or see the Contact Us page for more details.

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Joe Zoeller: Eastman Chemical, USA
Francesco Zaera: U or Cal at Riverside, USA
Rostam Madon : Engelhard USA
Maria Flytzan-Stephanopoulos: Tufts University USA
Steve Jacobson: Dupont USA
Barry Cooper: Johnson Matthey USA
Garry Rempel : University of Waterloo, CA
Francesco H. Beltran: IMP, Mexico
John Armor : Air Products, USA
Fabio Ribeiro : Purdue University USA
Bob McCabe: Ford, USA