Catalysis Training Course 2013

Lyon & Villeurbanne
August 28-31 2013

Website of the Training course
Program

Scientific Committee:

• Tivadar CSERI – IFPEn
• Anne GIROIR-FENDLER – IRCELYON UCBL1
• Michel LACROIX – IRCELYON CNRS
• Leonarda LIOTTA – ISMN CNR (Italy)
• Carine MICHEL – ENS Lyon
• Catherine PINEL – IRCELYON CNRS
• Alessandra QUADRELLI – CPE CNRS
• Jose Luis VALVERDE – UCLM (Spain)
• Philippe VERNOUX – IRCELYON CNRS

Organising Committee:

• Tivadar CSERI – IFPEn
• Anne GIROIR-FENDLER – IRCELYON UCBL1
• Liliane GOMMET – DR7 CNRS
• Michel LACROIX – IRCELYON CNRS
• Carine MICHEL – ENS Lyon
• Solange PERREL – UCBL1 Congress Department
• Audrey PHILIPPE-SABOUL – IRCELYON
• Alessandra QUADRELLI – CPE CNRS

The workshop is supported by:

• Université Claude Bernard
• École normale supérieure de Lyon
• CNRS
• CPE Lyon
• IFP Énergies nouvelles
• IRCE Lyon
• Institut de Chimie de Lyon
• Université de Lyon
• ARC Énergies
• Centre Blaise Pascal

The search for new reactions that are economical in terms of atoms, steps required, energy used and waste produced, and that are also more efficient and more selective, while involving safer reagents, is a major thrust for today’s chemistry laboratories. Catalysis plays an essential role in the orientation of these new chemical reactions and leads to many new developments. For these reasons, catalysis training sessions of the highest possible calibre are of fundamental importance. During the week prior to the Europacat 2013 Congress organised in Lyon, France, we are hosting a catalysis training course on the Doua scientific campus, in nearby Villeurbanne, aimed at young researchers who are beginning their career in the domain of catalysis.

Catalysis is a recent science that has undergone great developments since the 1950s, with many tools that have been invented since that time to better understand the mechanisms that govern catalytic reactions. This catalysis school will present these developments and new methodologies that make it possible to carry out high quality research in catalysis.

Even though catalysis as a subject is taught in a general way within various Master’s programs in France and abroad, it is important that new researchers in catalysis benefit from a training program that is completely focused on this discipline. Only the highest level researchers in catalysis are in a position to provide such specialised training.

Lyon is the only city in France that possesses a centre of excellence for catalysis. This Lyon centre is internationally recognised, with research teams in all domains of catalysis that can provide top quality teaching enriched with practical examples based on their current research.

Our educational team, which is based principally in Lyon, comprises internationally recognised researchers and lecturer-researchers in catalysis who will offer course content addressing all of the most recent developments in their respective sub-disciplines.

Anne GIROIR-FENDLER
Chairwoman of the Organising Comittee