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Invited Speakers
The Organiser's are pleased to announce the first confirmed invited speakers for GOLD2009.
The conference will begin on Sunday 26th July with three general interest plenary presentations:
Peter Kondos, Barrick Gold 'An Overview of Modern Mining' Christian Hagelüken, Umicore 'Recycling of gold from electronics'
Christiane Eluère, Musee De France, 'The earliest story of gold and goldwork in continental Europe'
Main Conference Sessions (27-29th July):
Plenaries:
Richard Puddephatt, University of Western Ontario, 'The Chemistry of Gold'
Paul Mulvaney, University of Melbourne, 'Gold Nanocrystals - From Plasmonics to Catalysis'
Pietro Cavallotti, Politechnico Milano, 'Gold plating: from a timeless art to an evergreen technology'
Wayne Goodman, Texas A & M University, 'Catalysis by Gold - Palladium Alloys: The role of Isolated Palladium Sites'
Masatake Haruta, Tokyo Metropolitan University 'Chemical Innovation by Gold Catalysts'
Dean Toste, UC Berkeley 'Homogenous Catalysis with Gold: Development, Applications and Enantioselective Catalysis'
Graham Hutchings, Cardiff University ‘Nanocrystalline Gold and Gold Palladium Alloy Catalysts: a Reflection on Catalyst Discovery and the Nature of Active Sites’
Keynotes:
Luigi Messori, University of Florence ‘Gold compounds as anticancer agents’
Alan Balch, University of California ‘Remarkable Aspects of the Chemistry and Luminescence of Crystalline Gold(I) Complexes’
Boonrat Lohwangwatana, Chulalongkorn University ‘Design and Synthesis of Gold Metallic Glass and its Applications’
Eugen Milke, W. C. Heraeus GmbH ‘Gold wire bonding in microelectronics - an overview’
Brahim Lounis, Université Bordeaux ‘Optical detection of individual Gold Nanoparticles’
Ulrich Heiz, Technische Universität München ‘Catalysis of Nanoscale Gold’
Didier Astruc, Université Bordeaux, ‘Interplay between Gold Nanoparticles and Dendrimers’
Vincent Rotello, University of Massachusetts, ‘Gold Nanoparticles as Diagnostics and Therapeutics’
Mikael Käll, Chalmers University of Technology, ‘SPR goes nano : using gold nanostructures for efficient refractive index sensing’
Avelino Corma, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia ‘Gold (III)-Metal organic frameworks for bridging the gap between homogeneous and heterogeneous gold catalysts’
Pekka Pyykkö, University of Helsinki ‘Theoretical chemistry of gold: Aurophilicity, new species and precision spectroscopy’
Seunghoon Shin, Hanyang University, Seoul, ‘Gold-Catalyzed Azomethine Ylide Generation and [3+2]-Dipolar Cycloaddition via Internal Redox between Nitrone and Alkyne: Examples of Gold-Carbenoid’
Jeroen A. van Bokhoven, ETH Zürich, ‘Catalytically active species in gold catalysts’
Further invited talks will be confirmed in due course.
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