The following contributions will be scheduled:

1. 5 early morning plenary lectures (60 min).
2. 1 afternoon plenary lecture (Boudart lecture, 60 min).
3. 28 keynote lectures (40 min: 30 min presentation plus 10 min discussion).
4. 188 “good quality” oral presentations, in four parallel sessions (20 min: 15 min presentation plus 5 min discussion).
5. Three sessions of "good quality" posters (120x90 cm Portrait).

With the following time schedule:

Confirmed Plenary Lecturers

1. M. S. Rigutto, Shell Research and Technology Centre Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Topic: Present and future challenges in refining and petrochemistry)
2. Gabriele Centi, University of Messina, Italy (Topic: Catalysis for Sustainable Industrial Chemistry)
3. Boudart Award Lecture
4. E. Iglesia, University of California at Berkeley, USA (Topic: Kinetics, reaction mechanisms and active sites)
5. J. Lercher, Technical University of Munich, Germany (Topic: Activation of alkanes)
6. P. Gallezot, IRCELYON, France (Topic: Biomass to chemicals)

1. Catalysis by Design:

• M. Scheffler (Fritz Haber Inst., Germany)
• J.M. Basset (Univ. Lyon 1, France)


2. Catalysis for Chemicals and Fine Chemicals

• C. Freire (Univ. Porto, Portugal)
• A. Vaccari (Univ. degli Studi di Bologna, Italy)
• R. Sheldon (Delft Univ. Technol., The Netherlands)


3. Selective Catalytic Oxidation using Environmentally Friendly Oxidants

• J.M. López Nieto (Inst. Tecnol. Quím., UPV-CSIC, Spain)
• F. Cavani (Univ. degli Studi di Bologna, Italy)


4. Upgrading Oils and Improving Fuel Quality

• J.L.G. Fierro (Inst. Catal. & Petr., CSIC, Spain)
• J. Santiesteban (Exxon-Mobil, USA)
• Th. Maessen (Chevron, USA)


5. Purification and Elimination of Pollutants: Chemical and Photochemical Catalysis Processes

• D. Duprez (Univ. Poitiers, France)


6. Chemicals and Fuels from Biomass

• D.Yu. Murzin (Åbo Akad. Univ., Finland)


7. Coal and Gas to Liquids

• E. Falabella (CENPES/Petrobrás, Brazil)
• A. De Klerk (Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada)


8. Hydrogen Production, Purification and Storage

• M. Flytzani-Stephanopoulos (Tufts Univ., USA)


9. Electocatalysis and Fuel Cells

• J. Kilner (Univ. London, UK)
• M. Stoukides (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)


10. Synthesis of Nanostructured Catalysts

• J. Cejka (Acad. Sci. Praha, Czech Republic)
• C. Sanchez (Univ. Paris 06, France)
• C. Christensen (Tech. Univ. Denmark, Denmark)


11. Catalyst at Work

• B.M. Weckhuysen (Utrecht Univ., The Netherlands)
• A. Brückner (Univ. Rostock, Germany)


12. Single and Multisites Catalysis: Homogeneous, Enzimatic and Cascade Reaction

• M. Reetz (Max Planck Inst. for Coal Res., Germany)


13. Catalytic Processes, Catalyst Decay and Regeneration

• M.S. Spencer (Univ. Cardiff Wales, UK)
• H. Cerqueira (KiOR Inc., USA)


14. High-Throughput Technologies

• C. Mirodatos (Univ. Lyon 1, France)
• S. Schunk (hte Aktiengesellschaft, Germany)