Announcement: Southeastern Catalysis Society Annual Symposium

The 2026 SECS Annu­al Sym­po­sium will be held in Blacks­burg, VA, on March 9–10, 2026. This will be a 1.5 day in-per­son sym­po­sium, last­ing from Mon­day AM until Tues­day midday.

The keynote speak­er is Dr. Yong Wang (Wash­ing­ton State Uni­ver­si­ty), the recip­i­ent of the 2025 Bur­well Lec­ture­ship in Catal­y­sis; Dr. Wang’s lec­ture is sched­uled for Mon­day, March 9th. We will also have two invit­ed speak­ers; from out­side of the region, Prof. Gina Noh (Penn State) and from the SECS, Emma Hu (Geor­gia Tech).

Spon­sor­ship at the sil­ver ($500), gold ($1000), and plat­inum ($1500) lev­els is still wel­come! Con­tact Tibor Szil­vási (tibor.szilvasi@ua.edu) for more information.

Look­ing for­ward to see­ing you in March!

The cur­rent SECS Offi­cers are:

Past President/Past Chairperson
James Harris
Uni­ver­si­ty of Alabama
james.harris@eng.ua.edu

President/Chairperson
Tibor Szilvási
Uni­ver­si­ty of Alabama
tibor.szilvasi@ua.edu

Vice-Pres­i­den­t/Pres­i­dent-Elect
Guox­i­ang (Emma) Hu
Geor­gia Insti­tute of Technology
emma.hu@mse.gatech.edu

Sec­re­tary
Jason Bates
Uni­ver­si­ty of Virginia
jsb9vw@virginia.edu

Direc­tors
Fanx­ing Li
North Car­oli­na State University
fli5@ncsu.edu
John Kuhn
Uni­ver­si­ty of South Florida
jnkuhn@usf.edu

Trea­sur­er
Sreshtha Sin­ha Majumdar
Oak Ridge Nation­al Laboratory
sinhamajumds@ornl.gov

Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Manager
Md Masudur Rahman
Oak Ridge Nation­al Laboratory
rahmanm@ornl.gov

Director/Rep. to NACS
Andreas Heyden
Uni­ver­si­ty of South Carolina
heyden@cec.sc.edu