TO: NACS Mem­ber­ship
FR: Enrique Igle­sia
 
Sub­ject: Atten­dance and abstract sub­mis­sion; ICC 2016 Bei­jing, Chi­na
 
Pro­fes­sor Can Li (Chair, 16th Inter­na­tion­al Catal­y­sis Con­gress, http://www.icc2016china.com) has con­tact­ed me to request that I encour­age the sub­mis­sion of abstracts from the NACS mem­ber­ship to this meet­ing.

The ICC meet­ings pro­vide the broad­est inter­na­tion­al forum for the dis­sem­i­na­tion of research in het­ero­ge­neous catal­y­sis and relat­ed fields. These meet­ings start­ed in the U.S. in 1956 and the NACS will be pre­sent­ing a bid to hold the 17th ICC in North Amer­i­ca, for the first time since 1996.

It is impor­tant, both to demon­strate the excel­lence of the sci­en­tif­ic enter­prise in catal­y­sis with­in North Amer­i­ca and to ensure the suc­cess of the NACS bid, that our NACS com­mu­ni­ty be rep­re­sent­ed in the sci­en­tif­ic pro­gram with num­bers and qual­i­ty con­sis­tent with prece­dents and with the strength of the on-going research activ­i­ties.

Please con­sid­er sub­mit­ting abstracts and attend­ing.

The sub­mis­sion dead­line has been extend­ed until Decem­ber 20 (http://www.icc2016china.com/en/page.asp?hid=&pageid=86.html)
 
With regards,
 
Enrique Igle­sia
Pres­i­dent, North Amer­i­can Catal­y­sis Soci­ety