On the 12th of November 2015 CSIRO sponsored and hosted a workshop at their Clayton site to reinvigorate the Catalysis Society of Australia (CSA). This workshop co-chaired by Danielle Kennedy (CSIRO) and Rachel Caruso (UMelb) on behalf of the CSA brought together researchers in chemical catalysis to build networks and promote interdisciplinary collaboration.
It was an extremely productive and useful day for all who attended. The quality of presentations on a wide variety of topics in catalysis has excellent and the papers were extremely well received with a lot of useful discussion. Also a number of collaborative ideas were seeded in the room.
In the program below if you click on the name of the speaker or chair you will see an image captured during their presentation. Welcome slides presented by Dr Kennedy are also accessible through the link in the program.
A gallery of networking images during the day is being collated and will be published on the CSA facebook account.
Program
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9:30
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Networking Tea and Coffee
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10:00
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Opening and Welcome from CSA
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Michael Stockenhuber
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10:05
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Welcome from CSIRO
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Danielle Kennedy
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Session 1
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10:10
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Heterogeneous catalysis for sustainable chemical processes
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Jun Huang, University of Sydney
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10:30
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Recent Progress in Direct Photocatalysis of Supported Metal Nanoparticles for organic synthesis
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Huai-Yong Zhu, Queensland University of Technology
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10:40
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Conversion of Biomass to Feedstock Molecules
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Leigh Aldous, University of New South Wales
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11:00-11:30 - Morning Tea
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Session 2
Chair: Rachel Caruso, University of Melbourne
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11:30
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Carbon-based Ru catalysts for hydrogen production |
Li Li, University of Queensland
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11:50
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1D and 3D MnO2 for catalytic oxidation of organic pollutants in water
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Shaobin Wang, Curtin University
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12:10
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Heterogeneous Catalysts for CO2 utilisation
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Alan Chaffee, Monash University
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12:30-1:20 - Lunch
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Session 3
Chair: Thomas Maschmeyer University of Sydney
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1:20
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Catalysts for treatment of environmental pollutants
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Jason Scott, University of New South Wales
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1:40
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Photocatalysis with mesoporous titania
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Xingdong Wang, CSIRO Manufacturing
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2:00
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Catalysis research in CSIRO Energy
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Ken Chiang, CSIRO Energy
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2:30
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Catalysis Society of Australia
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Committee Meeting
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3:30
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Tour of CSIRO RAMP high-throughput catalysis laboratory
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Danielle Kennedy and Christian Vogt
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