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Business of Purification: Critical Challenges, Responsible Solutions
April 18-20, 2010


Annual Meeting Program       

Sunday April 18, 2010

Chairs Meetings
               Chemical Engineering Chairs Session
               Eric W. Kaler, Stony Brook University
               Mark McCready, University of Notre Dame
               Alex Simonian, NSF

Sunday Evening
               First Timers Reception - Sponsored by The Dow Chemical Company
               Reception Poster session
               Buddy Dinners

Monday April 19, 2010

Opening  Session: What does it mean to be pure?
Hratch Semerjian for Willie May, Director, Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory, NIST 

Purification in Green Chemistry Applications
Jennifer Young, ACS Green Chemistry Institute

Government Panel of Research & Development Funding Agencies
Discussion of Longer Term (5 year) directions for the agency within the new political and economic environment in the USA.  Panelists include:

National Science Foundation
            Tom Peterson, Assistant Director, Engineering Directorate
            Janice Hicks, Executive Officer, Division of Chemistry
            (Peterson and Hicks joint presentation)
Department of Energy
            Eric A. Rohlfing, Div. Dir., Chemical Sciences, Geosciences & Biosciences  
            Doug Kaempf, Director of Energy Efficiency and Renewables           
            Arun Majumdar, Director ARPA-E
National Institutes of Health
            Miles Fabian, Program Dir., Nat'l Institute of General Medical Sciences
National Institute of Standards and Technology
            Marc Stanley, Technology Innovation Program
National Institute of Food and Agriculture
           Ramkishan Rao, National Program Leader

Breakouts for Government Agencies

Lunch

Afternoon Session:
Resource Extraction & Recovery and Recycling

Tim Nolen, Group Leader, Strat. Process Innovation & Eval. Research Lab, Eastman Chemical Co.
James A. Dirksen, Global Scientific Fellow, Cabot Microelectronics
Levi Thompson, Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan
Bill Koros, Georgia Institute of Technology


Breakouts for Action Networks
             Greaduate Education -
Responsible Conduct in Research

Monday Evening - Networking Event                         

Tuesday April 20, 2010

Morning Session: Pharma/Healthcare

Ruben Carbonell, Frank Hawkins Kenan Distinguished Prof. of Chem. Eng., NCSU
Matthew Yates, Eli Lilly and Company
Christopher Welch, Scientific Head, Separation & Purification Cntr of Excellence, Merck & Co., Inc
Suzanne Kalb, Centers for Disease Control


Breakouts for Action Networks


Lunch and Business Meeting

Afternoon Session - Food Safety and Security

David Klanecky, Global R&D Dir., Water Process Solutions Business, Dow Chemical Co.
John Hammerstone, Global Analytical Science Fellow, Mars Inc.
 
CTO Round Table Panel Discussion                   
Discussion at the highest levels of Government and Industry as to the future of the Chemical Industry in the US. 

Moderator:
Mary Good, Donaghey University Professor and Dean of Engineering and Information Technology at the University of Arkansas and President-ASTRA


Panelists:

Mark Allen, Senior Vice Provost, Georgia Institute of Technology
Gary Calabrese, VP Science and Technology, Corning, Inc.
Pat Confalone, VP Global R&D, E.I DuPont de Nemours & Co.
Linda Beth Schilling, Director, Chemistry and Life Sciences, NIST/Advanced Technology Program


Breakout Sessions for Action Networks

Pruitt Award Dinner

           *****

Annual Meeting Program Committee:
            Chair –
Terry Ring, University of Utah
            Mark Benvenuto, University of Detroit Mercy
            Christine Grant, North Carolina State University
            Louis Graziano, The Dow Chemical Company
            Charles Liotta, Georgia Institute of Technology
            Ron Rousseau, Georgia Institute of Technology
            Kelly Sullivan, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
            Matt Tarr, University of New Orleans