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 |