This year, in celebration of AIChE's centennial, the AIChE Annual Meeting will feature special sessions that highlight chemical engineering innovations over the past 100 years, as well as a look into the future. It will also include 15 Core Programming Areas and 17 Topical Conferences focused on the latest developments in areas ranging from core chemical engineering fundamentals to emerging technologies in energy, sustainability, pharmaceuticals, bioengineering and nanotechnology. .

event link: http://www.aiche.org/Conferences/AnnualMeeting/index.aspx

Quantachrome's Director of Applied Science, Dr Matthias Thommes, will co-chair session: #526 - Characterization of Adsorbents (02E10) to be held on Wednesday, November 19, 2008: 3:15 PM-5:45 PM see http://aiche.confex.com/aiche/2008/techprogram/S5357.HTM . Dr Thommes will also give the talk entitled "Textural Characterization of Native and N-Alky-Bonded Silica Monoliths by Mercury Intrusion/extrusion, Inverse Size Exclusion Chromatography and Nitrogen Adsorption" co-authored with Romas Skudas, Klaus K. Unger and Dieter Lubda on Wednesday, November 19, 2008: 5 pm, in session #526 (see above). Dr Thommes is co-author with Christopher Rasmussen, Aleksey Vishnyakov and Alexander V. Neimark of a poster entitled "Molecular Simulation Study of Spontaneous Desorption In Cage-Like Mesoporous Adsorbents" to be presented by Chris Rasmussen from Rutgers University in Poster Session:#719 - Fundamentals and Applications of Adsorption and Ion Exchange (02E09).

Starting on: November 16, 2008
And Running Until: November 21, 2008
Located at: Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Philadelphia Marriott Downtown & Pennsylvania Convention Center Philadelphia, PA
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