Programme

All symposium lectures are in Lecture Room A of the Aula.
Roger Sheldon's valedictory address is in the Auditorium, in the same building.

December 6

09:30 - 10:30     Registration (Entrance hall)
                         Coffee (Frans van Hasseltzaal)

10:30 - 11:00     Opening by Isabel Arends (Delft University of Technology):
                        '40 years of catalysis' (Lecture room A)

                         Session 1: Green Media - Chair: Manfred Schneider

11:00 - 11:50     Ken Seddon (The Queen’s Univ. of Belfast, Belfast):
                        'Green industrial applications of ionic liquids'
11:50 - 12:40     Martyn Poliakoff (Univ. Nottingham, Nottingham):
                        'Two E’s or not two E’s? That is the question'

12:40 - 14:00     Lunch (Frans van Hasseltzaal)

                         Session 2: Chemocatalysis - Chair: Herman van Bekkum

14:00 - 14:50     Avelino Corma (Universidad Politécnica, Valencia):
                        'Well defined structured solids for selective catalysis'
14:50 - 15:40     Ilya Moiseev (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow):
                        'Reductive dehydration of alcohols. A new route towards green fuel'

15:40 - 16:00     Coffee/tea (Frans van Hasseltzaal)

16:00 - 16:50     Istvan Horvath (Eotvos Univ., Budapest)
                        'Homogeneous catalysis, the E-factor, and the last 1%'
16:50 - 17:40     Shun-Ichi Murahashi (Okayama Univ., Okayama):
                        'Green catalytic reactions for sustainable development'

19.00                 Symposium dinner in 'De Schaapskooi', Korftlaan 3, Delft

December 7
                         Session 3: Biocatalysis - Chair: Vytas Svedas

09:30 - 10:20     Gjalt Huisman (Codexis, Redwood City):
                        'A guided-tour through enzyme optimization space: Moving from blind 
                        evolution to intelligent exploration of sequence-function space'
10:20 - 11:10     Lutz Fischer (Univ. Hohenheim, Stuttgart):
                        'Enzymes as versatile tools in green chemistry and food technology'

11:10 - 11:40     Coffee (Foyer)

11:40 - 12:30     Manfred Reetz (Max-Planck-Inst. für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim):
                        'Iterative saturation mutagenesis for accelerated directed evolution'
12:30 - 12:45     Concluding remarks

12:45                Lunch (Foyer)


Roger Sheldon's valedictory lecture ('uittreerede'), entitled:
"E Factors, Green Chemistry & Catalysis: Records of the Travelling Chemist"
is open to all and will take place in the Auditorium of the Aula, 7 December 15:00 - 16:00. Please be seated by 14:45.
The reception afterwards is in the Foyer, 16:00 - 17:00.