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Organizing Committee:
•  Chris Marshall (ANL)
•  Peter Stair (NWU)
•  Simon Bare (UOP)
•  Hoydoo You (ANL)
•  Randy Winans (ANL)
•  Steve Heald (PNNL)

Workshop on Catalysis Research Program

 

Day One, Conference Room E-1100
8:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:20 – 8:35 Welcome
Murray Gibson, Associate Laboratory Director APS
8:35 – 9:00 Introduction to the APS
Gabrielle Long, APS
9:00 – 9:50 Supported Metal Catalysts with Virtually Molecular Structures: Characterization by Spectroscopic Methods with Emphasis on X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy
Bruce Gates, U. of California at Davis
9:50 – 10:00 Break
10:10 – 11:00 XAFS Spectroscopy in Catalysis Research: Application to Au Catalysts
Jeff Miller, BP
11:00 – 11:50 Time-resolved X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy in Catalysis
Thorsten Ressler, Fritz-Haber-Institute
11:50 – 12:00 Charge to the working groups
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch (not hosted)
1:00 – 1:50 The Pair Distribution Function Method and its Application to Zeolite Catalysts
Raul Lobo, U. of Delaware
1:50 – 2:40 Structural and Surface Studies of Heterogeneous Catalysts using Small-Angle X-ray Scattering
Gregory Beaucage, U.of Cincinnati
2:40 – 3:00 Break
3:00 – 3:50 Opportunities in Catalysis Research using High Resolution Interfacial X-ray Scattering
Paul Fenter, ANL
3:50 – 4:40 How polychromatic microbeams can provide new tools for spatially-resolved materials studies
John Budai, ORNL
5:30 Poster Session/Reception – Gallery

 

Day Two , Conference Room E-1100
8:00 Continental Breakfast
8:30 – 9:20 Surface science studies of fuel cell reactions: from model systems to real catalysts
Nenad Markovic, ANL
9:20 – 10:10 Application of Advanced Hard X-ray Spectroscopy and Inelastic Scattering to Catalysis
Uwe Bergmann, SLAC
10:10 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – 12:00 Panel Discussion
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 2:30 Breakout Session
2:30 – 3:00 Summary of Reports