The Institute for Theoretical Sciences will organize a 4-day Workshop, "Catalytic Materials by Design," to be held in McKenna Hall at the University of Notre Dame January 27-30, 2010.

Topics include:
Heterogeneous catalysis
Electrocatalysis
Novel approaches to rational catalyst design
Catalyst screening techniques
Synthesis of novel catalyst architectures
Catalyst design workbench
Computational nanocatalysis
In-situ catalyst characterization

Invited Speakers and Discussion Leaders:
Matthias Arenz (Munich), Alex Ball (UC Berkeley), Thomas Bligaard (Denmark), Jingguang Chen (Delaware), Larry Curtiss (Argonne), Hubert Gasteiger (MIT), William Goddard III (Caltech), Wayne Goodman (Texas A&M), Jeffrey Greeley (Argonne), Axel Gross (Ulm), Peijun Hu (Belfast), Nenad Markovic (Argonne), Horia Metiu (Santa Barbara), Matthew Neurock (Virginia), Jens Nørskov (Denmark), Jan Rossmeisl (Denmark), Robert Schlögl (Fritz Haber Institute), William Schneider (Notre Dame), Peter Stair (Northwestern), Vojislav Stamenkovic (Argonne), Stefan Vajda (Argonne), Peter Zapol (Argonne).

Organizing Committee:
George Crabtree (Argonne), Larry Curtiss (Argonne), Jeffrey Greeley (Argonne), Boldizsar Janko (Notre Dame), Nenad Markovic (Argonne), Jens Nørskov (Denmark), Michael Pellin (Argonne).

For more information visit:
The Institute for Theoretical Sciences
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
Email: its@nd.edu
Phone: (574) 631-2668