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CombiCat2001
Third Annual Conference & Exhibition
November 15-16, 2001 - Philadelphia, PA USA

Speaker Lineup

Keynote Address:

  • SYMYX : Mr. Isy Goldwasser - "An Industry Strategic Overview: The Business View in Combinatorial Catalysis 2000 to 2005"

SESSION I: Industrial Challenges of Combinatorial and HTS Catalysis

  • UOP LLC: Dr. Jennifer Holmgren - "Heterogeneous Catalysis: Applications of Combinatorial Methods and High Throughput Screening"
  • GE CORPORATE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT: Dr. William P. Flanagan - "High Throughput Catalyst Screening: Global Infrastructure and Workflow"
  • THE DUPONT COMPANY: Dr. George Y. Li - "Recent Advances in Homogeneous Combinatorial Catalysis"
  • ARGONAUT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.: Dr. Gregor Hsiao - "The Impact of Commercial Productivity Tools in Catalysis"
  • EXXONMOBIL: Dr. Thomas F. Degnan - "High Throughput Experimentation in the Petroleum and Petrochemical Industries - Challenges and Opportunities"
  • JOHNSON MATTHEY: Dr. Thomas J. Colacot - "High Throughput Screening of Homo - and Heterogeneous Catalysts for Coupling and Hydrogenations"

SESSION II: New HTS Methods and Improvements to Existing Systems

  • HARVARD UNIVERSITY: Mr. Gregory Alan Korbel - "Reaction Microarrays: A New Direction for Enantioselective Reaction Discovery""
  • SINTEF: Dr. Duncan Akporiaye - "Integrated Combinatorial Screening of Heterogeneous Catalysts: Case Studies"
  • SYMYX: Mr. Jonah R. Troth - "Rapid Optimization of Catalyst and Catalyst Components Using PPR Technology"
  • AVANTIUM: Dr. Ian Maxwell - "Enhanced Catalyst Innovation Through High Speed Experimentation & Simulation Technology"
  • DSM RESEARCH: Dr. André H.M. de Vries - "HTE Homogeneous Catalysis for Fine Chemical Synthesis"
  • ALBEMARLE : Dr. Hélène Shea - "Ligand Effects in Palladium Mediated C-C Coupling Chemistry: Improved Reactivity, Selectivity and Versatility"
  • NIST: Dr. John D. Hewes - "Combinatorial Methods at the National Institute of Standards and Technology"
  • CHEMSPEED: Dr. Josef Schroer - "Automation of Catalytic Reactions at Elevated Pressure Featuring a Parallel Set-up of Reactors"

SESSION III: Advances in Compatible Instrumentation and Software/Expert Systems

  • ZETON ALTAMIRA: Dr. George Marcelin - "The CELERO Fixed Bed Reactor: High Throughput Screening of Heterogeneous Catalysts"
  • PDVSA INTEVEP: Dr. Magdalena Ramirez - "Artificial Intelligence for Managing Large Amounts of Data"
  • NIST: Dr. Steven A. Buntin - "Multispectral Probes for Materials and Chemical Analysis"
  • NANOSTREAM INC.: Dr. Hugh McManus - "Microfluidic Systems: Applications in Chemistry and Biotechnology"
  • CPC CELLULAR PROCESS CHEMISTRY GMBH: Dr. Axel Kleemann - "Microreaction Technology and its Application in Organic Chemistry"
  • SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES: Dr. Al Sylwester - "Sandia's µChemLab as an Environment for High Throughput Analysis"
  • INSTITUTO MEXICANO DEL PETROLEO: Dr. J.M. Dominguez - "High Throughput Synthesis and Evaluation of New Catalytic Materials by Combinatorial Methods"

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