COMBI 2000

FEATURING:

• 16 Talks in 3 concurrent tracks: 1) Catalysts, 2) Polymers, and 3) Electronic and Optical Materials
• 10 Talks in the General Session
• Over 40 International Speakers
• Over 20 Case Studies
• New Research Data
• Special Panel Discussion on: Brainstorming Targets of Opportunity
• 3 Pre-Conference Workshops: 1) Experimental Strategy, 2) Materials Informatics, and 3) Legal, Financing, and Partnering Strategies
• Multiple International Networking Opportunities
• Exhibits
• Poster Presentations

The use of automated parallel synthesis and high throughput screening makes it possible to simultaneously evaluate a large number of leads and to generate results in weeks which previously took years of research.

Since the 1999 Conference, research has moved forward faster than expected. New results that show the potential and capabilities of these methods are convincing even those who were initially skeptical. The Knowledge Foundation's 2nd annual program will focus on state of the art developments and next generation techniques for new materials discovery and applications, as well as feature all-new case studies and real life information on what it takes to implement a combinatorial program.

Early Registration Encouraged -- Last year's conference was sold out, and we anticipate this year's to do the same. Space is limited, so please be sure to REGISTER EARLY!

PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS INCLUDE:
E. I. DuPont de Nemours, & Co. -- Institute for Applied Chemistry Berlin-Adlershof, Germany -- Charybdis Technologies, Inc. -- GE Corporate R&D -- Symyx Technologies, Inc -- Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP -- HTE GmbH, Germany -- Glaxo Wellcome -- NIST Advanced Technology Program -- Avius Advisors -- The Scripps Research Institute -- SINTEF, Norway -- Molecular Simulations, Inc -- Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan -- UOP LLC -- Aperion Technologies -- Shell Research Technology Centre, The Netherlands -- Emory University -- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute -- Bell Laboratories/ Lucent Technologies -- Rohm & Haas Company -- Toth Information Systems, Inc. -- Institut Français du Petrole, France -- Fritz-Haber-Institut, Germany -- UC Berkeley -- University of Maryland, College Park -- SAS Institute, Inc -- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill -- National Renewable Energy Laboratory -- Merck & Co., Inc. -- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

CONFERENCE AGENDA

PRECONFERENCE WORKSHOP #1:
Experimental Strategy for Combinatorial Materials Discovery

9:00 Strategies for Sampling Combinatorial Space Workshop
Chair: Dr. James Cawse

9:50 Informed Discovery
Dr. Suresh Mahajan

10:35 Using Predictive Algorithms and Optimization Techniques in Chemical Experimentation
Steven Bush

11:20 Refreshment Break & Poster Viewing

11:35 Space-Filling Experimental Designs for Combinatorial Chemistry
Dr. Randall D. Tobias

12:20 to 12:30 Open Discussion & End of Workshop

PRECONFERENCE WORKSHOP #2:
Materials Informatics: Harnessing Information Technology for Combinatorial Materials Science

1:30 Integrating Materials Informatics in Combinatorial Materials Science Workshop
Chair: Dr. Krishna Rajan

2:10 Databases and Computational Methods: Tools for Combinatorial Materials Science
John R. Rodgers

2:45 Refreshment Break & Poster Viewing

3:10 Informatics Environment for Combinatorial Catalysis: Challenges and Opportunities
Dr. Dominic King-Smith

3:45 Experimental Design Issues in Combinatorial Synthesis and Screening of Novel Electronic Materials
Dr. Ichiro Takeuchi

4:20-5:00 Interactive Demonstrations & End of Workshop

PRECONFERENCE WORKSHOP #3:
Innovative Legal, Financing, and Partnering Strategies for the Scientific Entrepreneur

1:30 Chairperson’s Opening Remarks
Dr. John D. Hewes

2:00 Overview of the Enforcement of Patents
Charles B. Lyon, Esq.

2:25 Overview of Entity Choices
Philip M. Dawson, Esq.

2:50 Funding Options
John D. Wheeler, Esq.

3:15 Refreshment Break & Poster Viewing

3:35 Government Funding Programs for Combinatorial Methods for Materials R&D
Dr. John D. Hewes

4:00 Case Study - European Consortium
Dr. Laurent Savary

4:25 to 5:30 Open Discussion & End of Workshop

5:50 to 6:30 Cocktail Reception

6:30 End of Day One

MAIN CONFERENCE -- Monday, Jan. 24, 2000
(All delegates participate)

Catalyst Session
8:00 Registration, Poster Set-Up, Coffee and Danish

9:00 Chairperson’s Opening Remarks
Dr. Selim M. Senkan

9:05 High Speed Screening Technologies for New Product and Process Development
Dr. Ian Maxwell

9:40 Strategies in the Development of Heterogeneous Catalysts for the Partial Oxidation of Propane by Combinatorial and Evolutionary Methods
Dr. Manfred Baerns

10:15 Refreshment Break & Poster Viewing

10:35 High Throughput Approaches for the Development of Catalysts
Dr. Dirk Demuth

11:10 Approaches to Combinatorial Discovery of Hydrothermal Materials
Dr. Gregory J. Lewis

11:45 Lunch sponsored by The Knowledge Foundation

Polymer Session
1:15 Chairperson’s Remarks
Dr. Christopher Welch

1:20 Achieving Strategic Change Through Innovation - A Case Study in Implementing a Combinatorial and High Throughput Program in Materials Science
Peter E. Cohan

1:55 Combinatorial Libraries of Strictly Alternating A-B Copolymers: A Case Study Involving the Development of Biomaterials
Dr. Joachim Kohn

2:30 Combinatorial Polymeric Catalysis
Dr. Fredric M. Menge

3:05 Refreshment Break & Poster Viewing

Electronic and Optical Materials Session
3:25 Chairperson’s Remarks
Dr. Qi Wang

4:05 The Application of Continuous Compositional Phase Spread Approaches to Materials Discovery
Dr. Lynn Schneemeyer

4:40 Parallel Synthesis of Nano-Structured Thin Films and Devices
Dr. Hideomi Koinuma

5:15 Introduction to Panel Discussion: Combinatorial Chemistry - Past, Present, Future
Dr. H. Mario Geysen

5:35 Panel Discussion - Brainstorming Targets of Opportunity

6:00 End of Day Two

CONCURRENT BREAKOUT SESSIONS -- Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2000
(Choose your area of interest)

CATALYST SESSION
9:00 Chairperson’s Opening Remarks
Dr. Ian Maxwell

9:05 High Throughput, Parallel Testing of Heterogeneous Catalyst Libraries
Dr. Selim M. Senkan

9:40 Combinatorial Chemistry in Heterogeneous Catalysis: Materials Synthesis and Applications to Industrially Relevant Problems
Dr. Kostantinos Kourtakis

10:15 Selective Oxidation Catalysis: The Potential for Combinatorial Approaches
Professor Dr. Robert Schlögl

10:50 Refreshment Break & Poster Viewing

11:10 Combinatorial Automated Zeolite Synthesis
Professor Thomas Bein

11:45 Approaches to Combinatorial Screening of Heterogenous Catalysts Systems
Dr. Arne Karlsson

12:20 Approaches to High Throughput Catalyst Discovery - Developing the Technology for Homogeneous Processes
Dr. Elisabeth Hauptman

1:00 End of Conference

ELECTRONIC AND OPTICAL MATERIALS SESSION
9:00 Chairperson’s Opening Remarks
Dr. Xiao-Dong Xiang

9:05 Combinatorial Search for Advanced Luminescence and Catalyst Materials
Dr. Ted X. Sun

9:40 Thin-Film Metal Alloys for Contact Materials by Combinatorial Synthesis
Dr. Ainissa G. Ramirez

10:15 X-ray Microbeam Techniques for Materials Characterization
Dr. Wenbing Yun

10:50 Refreshment Break & Poster Viewing

11:10 Materials Transition from Amorphous to Microcrystalline Silicon Using Combinatorial HWCVD
Dr. Qi Wang

11:45 Combinatorial Synthesis and Characterization of Intermetallic Compounds by Molecular Beam Epitaxy
Dr. Frank Tsui

12:20-1:00 Open Discussion & End of Conference

POLYMER SESSION
9:00 Chairperson’s Opening Remarks
Dr. Joachim Kohn, Professor of Chemistry

9:05 “Reactive Filtration” Using Functionalized Polymer Monoliths: A New Approach to Solid-Phase Scavengers
Frantisek Svec

9:40 A CombiChem Approach to the Rapid Discovery of Process Adsorbents
Dr. Christopher Welch

10:15 New Soluble and Solid Supports for Organic Synthesis
Dr. Kim D. Janda

10:50 Refreshment Break & Poster Viewing

11:10 Designing Diverse and Focused Combinatorial Libraries of Synthetic Polymers
Dr. Charles H. Reynolds

11:45 Application of Combinatorial Chemistry Principles to the Development of New And Novel Polymers
Dr. Joseph C. Hogan Jr.

12:20 Combinatorial Methods for Measurements of Polymer Materials
Eric J. Amis

1:00 End of Conference

Allison Hale, Program Manager
The Knowledge Foundation, Inc.
101 Merrimac Street
Boston MA 02114
Tel: (617) 232-7400
Fax: (617) 367-7912
Email: ahale@knowledgefoundation.com

Sponsorships, Exhibits, Hospitality Suites & Advertisements
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