Sunday |
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | Paraffin Upgrading |
| Discussion Leader: Rajamani Gounder (Purdue University, USA) |
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm | Thomas Degnan (Notre Dame University, USA) "Challenges and Opportunities in the Catalytic Upgrading of Light Alkanes to Petrochemicals - A View to 2025" |
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
8:35 pm - 9:15 pm | Lars Grabow (University of Houston, USA) "Computational Design of Catalytic Materials for Natural Gas Upgrade" |
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Monday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Organometallic Routes to Heterogeneous Catalysts |
| Discussion Leader: Dongxia Liu (University of Maryland, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Alex Katz (University of California, Berkeley, USA) "Functional Organic-Inorganic Interfaces for Enhancing Catalysis" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Susannah Scott (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) "Synthesis of Heterogeneous Catalysts Using Organometallic Complexes" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Adam Hock (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA) "A Synthetic Approach to the Relationship Between As-Prepared, Steady-State, and Deactivated Single Site Catalysts" |
12:10 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 - 9:30 pm | Watching Working Catalysts |
| Discussion Leader: Rebecca Fushimi (Idaho National Laboratory, USA) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Ilke Arslan (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA) "3-D and Ex-Situ/In-Situ Characterization of Catalysts in the STEM" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Simon Bare (Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Light Source, USA) "XAFS: An Essential In Situ Catalyst Characterization Technique" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Tuesday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Model Catalyst Systems |
| Discussion Leader: Yu Lei (University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Hans-Joachim Freund (Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Germany) "Model Catalysts: Characterization and Function at the Atomic Scale" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Group Photo / Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Jeff Greeley (Purdue University, USA) "Structure and Reactivity of Multifunctional Catalytic Interfaces from First Principles" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Jochen Lauterbach (University of South Carolina, USA) "Discovery of New and Improved Catalysts: From Guided Nanoscale Synthesis to High Throughput Screening" |
12:10 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 - 9:30 pm | New Catalysts for Biomass Feedstocks |
| Discussion Leader: Jason Hicks (University of Notre Dame, USA) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Carsten Sievers (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) "Ceria-Based Catalysts for Hydrodeoxygenation of Bio-Oils and Selective Oxidation of Methane" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Yong Wang (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA) "Synergistic Catalysis of Fe Based Bimetallic Catalysts for Hydrodeoxygenation of Lignin Derived Compounds" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Wednesday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Elucidating Catalytic Mechanisms |
| Discussion Leader: Viviane Schwartz (Basic Energy Sciences, U.S. Department of Energy, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Ya-Huei (Cathy) Chin (University of Toronto, Canada) "Mechanistic Synergies in the Catalytic Oxidation of Alkane, Alkene, Alkanol, and CO on Dispersed Metal Clusters" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Cynthia Friend (Harvard University, USA) "Paradigms for Selective Oxidation Catalysis: Fundamental Studies to Catalytic Function" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Suljo Linic (University of Michigan, USA) "Analysis of the Mechanism of Electrochemical Oxygen Reduction and Development of Ag- and Pt-Alloy Catalysts for Low Temperature Fuel Cells" |
12:10 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 |
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Non-Traditional Catalyst Supports |
| Discussion Leader: Bin Liu (Kansas State University, USA) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Yuriy Roman-Leshkov (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) "Design Principles for the Synthesis of Transition Metal Carbide Nanoparticles and Their Application in Catalysis" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Laura Gagliardi (University of Minnesota, USA) "Catalysis in Metal-Organic Frameworks" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Thursday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | New Materials for Catalysis |
| Discussion Leader: Feng Gao (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | David Barton (Dow Chemical Company, USA) "Industrial Catalyst Discoveries Enabling Development of New Routes to 'Old' Chemicals" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Xiaofan Yang (BASF Corporation, USA) "SCR Catalyst Cu-CHA Design - From Application to Theory" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Axel Gross (Ulm University, Germany) "Catalyst Design - Contributions of a Rational Approach Based on First Principles Modeling" |
12:10 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 - 9:30 pm | Keynote Session: Surface Chemistry of Catalytic Systems |
| Discussion Leader: Fabio Ribeiro (Purdue University, USA) |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
7:45 pm - 8:45 pm | Charles Campbell (University of Washington, USA) "The Energetics of Catalytic Reaction Intermediates and Supported Metal Nanoparticles, and Their Use in Predicting Rates of Catalytic Reactions and Sintering" |
8:45 pm - 9:15 pm | Discussion |
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Closing Remarks |
Friday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |