Welcome

COST ACTION D30
„HIGH PRESSURE TUNING OF CHEMICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL PROCESSES” FINAL EVALUATION MEETING AND Management Committee MEETING
Bordeaux, France, 26-27 October 2007

Preliminary programme

Thursday (25/10/2007)

15.00-18.00: Arrival
19.00- Registration

Friday (26/10/2007)

9.00-9.10 Opening remarks

9.10-10.10 Invited lecture:
Prof. István HORVÁTH: Integration of Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalytic Processes for Sustainable Biomass Conversion

Working Group Presentations

10.10-11.10 Witold LOJKOWSKI: High Pressure Synthesis and Processing of Nano- powders

11.10-11.30: Coffee break

11.30-12.30:
Gérard Demazeau: Development of Materials Chemistry under High Pressures Development of Materials Chemistry under High Pressures

12.30-14.30: Lunch

14.30-15.30:
Piero FREDIANI: Homogeneously catalyzed high-pressure syntheses of chemicals using small molecules such as carbon monoxide, hydrogen, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, alkenes, or alkynes as reagents

15.30-16.30:
Reinhard LANGE: High Pressure Tuning of Biochemical Processes: Protein folding and molecular diseases

16.30-16.50: Coffee break

16.50-17.50:
László SMELLER: High Pressure Tuning of Biochemical Processes: Protein dynamics and aggregation

19.00: Diner

Saturday (27/10/2007)

8.45-9.45:
Rudi VOLLER: High Pressure Tuning of Biochemical Processes: Macromolecular Interactions and Cellular Physiology

9.45-10.45:
Marie Zarevucka: Enzymic catalysis in supercritical carbon dioxide

10.45-11.45:
Poster Section and Coffee break


11.45-12.45 Invited lecture:
Prof. Hubert HUPPERTZ: Structural transformations under High Pressure: an interesting class of oxides - the oxoborates

12.45-14.30: Lunch

14.30-18.30: 6th Management Committee Meeting, COST Action D30

Draft Agenda
1. Welcome to participants
- Adoption of the Agenda
2. Approval of the Minutes of the 5th MC meeting held in Warsaw
3. Conclusions from the evaluation of the Action and the Working Group projects
4. Report from the Science Officer
- News from the COST Office
- General information from the COST Chemistry
5. WG meetings and STSMs - Final report
6. Publications, final report and evaluation reports
7. Any other business

19.00 Diner

Sunday (28/10/2007)

From 08.00 Departure

Organisers

Prof. Gerard Demazeau
http://www.icmcb.u-bordeaux1.fr/services/lp-hp.html
Institut de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Bordeaux, CNRS - UPR 9048

Dr. Gabor LAURENCZY, Chairman of MC Committee Action D30
Maitre d'enseignement et de recherche, EPFL
Faculte des Sciences de Base, Institut des Sciences et Ing�nierie Chimiques (ISIC)
LCOM BCH
CH-1015 Lausanne SUISSE

Sponsors

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