The Congress will continue its established role of providing participants with information about accomplishments in catalysis research and catalytic technologies required for the sustainable development of the future society.
Scope of the Congress
Plenary Speakers | |
1. | How to Prepare Thousands of Olefin Metathesis Catalysts that Have High Activities and that are Asymmetric at the Metal Prof. R.R. Schrock, MIT, USA |
2. | Heinemann Award Lecture: Catalytic Production of Liquid Fuels from Biomass-derived Oxygenated Hydrocarbons Prof. J.A. Dumesic, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, USA |
3. | New designs of zeolite catalysts for green chemical processes Prof. T. Tatsumi, Tokyo Inst. of Technology, Japan |
4. | A molecular view of heterogeneous catalysis Prof. J.K. Nørskov, TU of Denmark, Denmark |
5. | Does catalysis allow driving a car as well as having clean air? Prof. R. Prins ETH, Zurich, Switzerland |
6. | The development and commercialization of a supported cobalt Fischer-Tropsch synthesis catalyst for the gas-to-liquids process Dr. P. van Berge, SASOL, South Africa |
13-18 July 2008
COEX - Convention and Exhibition Center
World Trade Center
Samseong-dong, Gangnam-gu
Seoul 135-731, Korea
Contact:
Professor S.I. Woo
Department of Chemical Engineering
KAIST
Tel.: +82-42-869-3918
Fax: +82-42-869-3910,
e-mail: siwoo@kaist.ac.kr
[Organizer: Catalysis Division of the KIChE]