2012 Pacific Coast Catalysis Society Meeting
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The 2012 Pacific Coast Catalysis meeting will be held in Santa Barbara at the Marine Science Building auditorium on the campus of UC Santa Barbara on September 24, 2012. |
Meeting Schedule
| 7:00 | Registration/Continental Breakfast | MSB Patio |
| 8:00 | Opening Remarks | Marine Science Auditorium 1302 |
| 8:10 | NACS Ciapetta Lecturer | Tom Degnan, Exxon: "Catalysis in a Pocket: The MCM-22 Story" |
| 8:50 | Contributed Talk | Tapan Das, Chevron: "Chevron's gas conversion catalysis - Hybrid catalysts for wax-free Fischer-Tropsch synthesis" |
| 9:10 | Invited Talk | Joy Andrews, SSRL/SLAC: "Watching Catalysts at Work: In Operando Nanoscale Chemical Imaging of Fischer-Tropsch Catalysis" |
| 9:40 | Contributed Talk | Ilke Arslan, UC Davis/PNNL: "Layering in zeolites: Microscopic characterization in 2 and 3 dimensions" |
| 10:00 | Contributed Talk | Maryam Ebrahimi, UC Riverside: "Catalytic hydrogenation of ethylene: Reducing the gap between high pressure and ultra-high vacuum conditions by employing a molecular beam doser" |
| 10:20 | Coffee break | MSB Patio |
| 10:40 | Contributed Talk | Raj Gounder, CalTech: "Effects of zeolite framework and metal active site structures on the rates and mechanisms of glucose isomerization" |
| 11:00 | Invited Talk | Baron Peters, UCSB: "A sequential quadratic programming framework for ab initio structure property relationships in amorphous catalysts and supports" |
| 11:30 | First 5 Minute Poster Talk Session | (7 Talks, 35 minutes) |
| 12:10 | Lunch | MSB Patio |
| 1:00 | Contributed Talk | M.S. Shaama, UC Berkeley: "Kinetics of alkane cracking and dehydrogenation in H-MFI: Mechanisms and influence of acid site location" |
| 1:20 | NACS Boudart Lecturer | Johannes Lercher, TUM/PNNL: "From biomass to tailored energy carriers via selective catalysis in aqueous phase" |
| 2:00 | Contributed Talk | CY Chen, Chevron: "Characterization of shape selective properties of zeolites via hydrocarbon adsorption and hydroisomerization of normal alkanes" |
| 2:20 | Contributed Talk | Robert Carr, UC Berkeley: "How do reactions sense catalysts? - Developing structure-function relations for catalysis by solid acids" |
| 2:40 | Contributed Talk | Alex Katz, UC Berkeley: "Design, synthesis, and characterization of open sites for catalysis with solids" |
| 3:00 | Contributed Talk | Katie Pickrahn, Stanford University: "ALD of earth-abundant catalysts for oxygen electrochemistry" |
| 3:20 | Coffee break | MSB Patio |
| 3:40 | Invited Talk | Jenny Yang, Cal Tech: "Molecular catalysis at JCAP" TENTATIVE TITLE |
| 4:10 | Contributed Talk | Heine Hanson, SUNCAT (Stanford/SLAC): "Understanding trends in activity for CO2 electro-reduction to CO" |
| 4:30 | Contributed Talk | Feng Gao, PNNL: "Probing structure-activity relationships in NH3-SCR over Cu-SSZ-13: reaction kinetics and EPR studies" |
| 4:50 | Second 5 Minute Poster Talk Session | (7 Talks, 35 minutes) |
| 5:30 | Poster session (and drinks) | MSB Patio |
| 6:30 | Dinner | UCSB Faculty Club |