COST D30 Registration to Mid Term Evaluation Meeting

Mid term evaluation meeting

COST Action 30 "High pressure tuning of chemical and biochemical transformations"

16-18 February 2006, Warsaw.

Institute of High Pressure Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences

Programme

COST ACTION D30

"HIGH PRESSURE TUNING OF CHEMICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL PROCESSES"

MID TERM EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE MEETING

Warsaw, Poland

16 February, 13.00 - 18.00 Working Group Meeting WG 002: "High Pressure Synthesis and Processing of Nanopowders"

17 February, 9.00 - 18.30 COST Action Mid Term Evaluation Meeting, Presentation of Working Groups Results

18 February, 9.00 - 13.00 Management Committee Meeting.

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Thursday, 16 February
WG Meeting
Thursday afternoon, 16 February, 13:00
13:00 Oral Gérard M. Demazeau SOLVOTHERMAL REACTIONS IN MATERIALS CHEMISTRY
13:45 Oral Natalia L. Klyachko Surfactant aggregates as nanocontainers of variable size and properties: pressure tuning of enzymes
14:15 Oral Roxana M. Piticescu Hydrothermal synhtesis of inorganic/organic hybrid nanomaterials
14:45 Oral Robert R. Piticescu Hydrothermal synthesis: opportunities for technology transfer in advanced materials
Coffe Break
Thursday afternoon, 16 February, 15:15
15:45 Oral Witold Lojkowski SWOT analysis of various reactors used for synthesis of nanopwoders in our Working Group
16:35 Oral Roman Pielaszek Accuracy of XRD size measurements of nanocrystals
16:45 Oral Janusz D. Fidelus Preliminary research on zirconia based optical oxygen sensor
16:55 Oral Tadeusz Chudoba The comparison of the properties of YAG obtained by coprecipitation and SCR method
17:05 Oral Robert Fedyk Difference between solvothermal and hydrothermal reactors.
17:15 Oral Tomasz Strachowski Morphology of Al-Doped Zinc Oxide Obtained by the Vapour Condensation Methods
Friday, 17 February
Welcome coffee (Prof. Witold Lojkowski, Prof. Gabor Laurenczy)
Friday morning, 17 February, 9:00
COST Action Mid Term Evaluation Meeting, Presentation of Working Groups Results
Friday morning, 17 February, 9:10
9:10 Oral 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
10:10 Oral Witold Lojkowski Synthesis of nanopowders at elevated pressure and their characterisation - summary of work of the WG-002
Coffee break
Friday morning, 17 February, 11:10
11:30 Oral Gérard M. Demazeau Development of Materials Chemistry under High Pressures
Lunch
Friday afternoon, 17 February, 12:30
Visiting the laboratories
Friday afternoon, 17 February, 13:30
14:30 Oral Reinhard Lange High Pressure Tuning of Biochemical Processes: Protein folding and molecular diseases
15:30 Oral Laszlo Smeller High Pressure Tuning of Biochemical Processes: Protein dynamics and aggregation
Coffee break
Friday afternoon, 17 February, 16:30
17:00 Oral Rudi F. Vogel "High Pressure Tuning of Biochemical Processes: Macromolecular Interactions and Cellular Physiology"
18:00 Oral David J. Walton Overview of COST D32 Action "Chemistry in high energy microenvironments"
Saturday, 18 February
5 th Management Committee Meeting, COST Action D30
Saturday morning, 18 February, 9:00
9:00 Oral Marie Zarevúcka Enzymic catalysis in supercritical carbon dioxide

Organisers

Dr. Gábor LAURENCZY
Maître d'enseignement et de recherche
EPFL
Faculté des Sciences de Basel

Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques (ISIC)
LCOM BCH
CH-1015 Lausanne SUISSE

Tel: +4121-6939858
Fax: +4121-6939780
Email: Gabor.Laurenczy@epfl.ch
Web: http://isic.epfl.ch/laurenczy_e.htm

Local organisers:
Witold Lojkowski
Email: wl@unipress.waw.pl
Phone: +48 22 888 00 06,

Malgorzata Chmielecka
Email: malchmiel@unipress.waw.pl
Phone: +48 22 632 43 02

Sponsors

COST : European Cooperation in the Field of Scientific and Technical Reseaerch

COST ACTION D30

Polish Ministry of Science and Information Technology - project SPUB COST

Deadlines and fees

There is no particpation fee

Travel

Warsaw can be reached by plane also using cheap airlines. Please, see a list of them:

SkyEurope

WizzAir

Germanwings

Centralwings

LOT - Polish Airlines

Venue


Accommodation

We can recommend you the MDM Hotel. It is not very expensive (approx. 65 Euro with breakfast and tax included). Hotel is located close to the city center.

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