The Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York held their annual Spring Symposium on March 16, 2011 at Rutgers University and it was a great success. We had 7 invited speakers led by Ciapetta Award winner Dr. Jeffery Miller of ANL and two presentations from students. We had 105 attendees and 47 poster presentations. During the symposium we had poster judging that resulted in the awards shown below.
Post Doctoral Poster Winner
Amrita Pal
"Investigation of BPE adsorption on metallic and oxidized silver nanoparticles with Raman Spectroscopy and DFT calculations"
(Stevens Institute of Technology)
Advisor: Professor Simon Podkolzin.
Graduate Student - 1st Place
Julie Molinari
“Bridging the Gap between Heterogeneous and Enzyme Catalysis: In Situ Spectroscopic Study of Vanadium Haloperoxidase Enzyme Functional Mimics”
Lehigh University
Advisor: Professor Israel E. Wachs
Graduate Student - 2nd Place
Brian Moreno
“Automated Reaction Network Generation for Lignocellulosic Biomass Pyrolysis”
University of Delaware
Advisor: Michael T. Klein
Graduate Student - 3rd Place Tie
Tian Zheng
“Hierarchical Engineering of Tunable Nanoparticles and Templated Porous Films”
Lehigh University
Advisor: Mark A. Snyder
Ankush Biradar
“Synthesis of Supported Gold Nanoparticles and their Oxidation Catalytic Activities”
Rutgers University
Advisor: Tewodros Asefa
