We are pleased to announce that par­tial reg­is­tra­tion sup­port ($400), which will cov­er 50% of the reg­is­tra­tion fee, will be avail­able for grad­u­ate stu­dents, post-docs and ear­ly career fac­ul­ty. Approx­i­mate­ly 40–50 par­tic­i­pants will receive sup­port depend­ing on avail­able fund­ing. This sup­port is made pos­si­ble by grants from the Nation­al Sci­ence Foun­da­tion — Catal­y­sis and Kinet­ics Pro­gram, Depart­ment of Ener­gy — Office of Sci­ence, the North Amer­i­can Catal­y­sis Soci­ety, and indus­try con­trib­u­tors (see the GRC web­site for an updat­ed list as this sup­port becomes available).

Request for sup­port should be sent by apply­ing to the con­fer­ence chair via email to datye@unm.edu and by ensur­ing that the fol­low­ing text appears in the sub­ject head­ing of your email GRC 2010 Catal­y­sis. Please sub­mit your appli­ca­tion before March 31, 2010, and include as an attach­ment one pdf doc­u­ment that includes a short one page CV, a state­ment of your research inter­ests, and one page let­ter of endorse­ment from your research advi­sor (for stu­dents and post-docs) or one page let­ter of cur­rent and pend­ing sup­port (in case of junior fac­ul­ty). Sup­port will be allo­cat­ed to one stu­dent or post-doc per research group (unless addi­tion­al sup­port becomes avail­able) and to junior fac­ul­ty who are at the ear­ly career stage (with min­i­mal extra­mur­al fund­ing). The par­tic­i­pants who receive sup­port are required to present a poster at the meet­ing. Fur­ther infor­ma­tion on the con­fer­ence and trav­el sup­port can be obtained from Prof. Datye’s web site: http://www.unm.edu/~cmem/labs/catalysis/index.html

To attend the GRC, you must apply via the fol­low­ing web site: http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2010&program=catalysis

For fur­ther infor­ma­tion, please con­tact the con­fer­ence organizers:
 
Abhaya K. Datye
Chair
Dis­tin­guished Professor
Uni­ver­si­ty of New Mexico
Albu­querque, NM, 87131–0001
505–277-0477
datye@unm.edu
 
Bruce Cook
Vice–Chair
Advanced Refin­ing Manager
BP Prod­ucts N.A.
Naperville, IL, 60563–8460
630–420-3833