International Symposium on Advanced Catalysis and Material Science-7th international symposium of Institute for CatalysisDate: July 30 th (Tuesday), 2019
Venue: Conference room at 5th floor, Institute for Catalysis, Hokkaido University
Organizer: Institute for catalysis, Hokkaido University
Program (tentative)
8:30-9:00 Registration
9:25-9:30 Opening remark by Prof. Jun-ya Hasegawa
Session A1 (Chair: Dr. Zhiyi Song)
9:30-10:10 Keynote Lecture 1 (Prof. Kotohiro Nomura, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan)
Title: Olefin Metathesis: Efficient Methods for Precise Synthesis of New Advanced
Conjugated Polymers by Exclusive End-Modification
10:10-10:30 Tea BreakSession A2 (Chair: Prof. Tamaki Nakano)
10:30-11:10 Keynote Lecture 2 (Prof. Qiuling Song, Huaqiao University, China)
Title: Synthesis, Reactivities and Synthetic Applications of Organoboron Compounds
11:10-11:50 Keynote Lecture 3 (Prof. Adriana Pietropaolo, University of Catanzaro, Italy)
Title: Tuning the properties of chiral photoswitches jumping through their free-energy
pathways
11:50-12:55 Group Photo
12:00-13:00 Lunch, 4F seminar room A
Session B1 (Chair: Prof. Shinya Furukawa )13:10-13:30 Invited Lecture 1 (Prof. Jun-ya Hasegawa, ICAT, Japan)
Title: A DFT Mechanistic Study of Dehydrogenative Methane Coupling by Liquid Metal
Indium
13:30-13:50 Invited Lecture 2 (Prof. Makoto Ogawa, VISTEC, Thai)
Title: Characterization of titania nanoparticles in a mesoporous silica (SBA-15)
13:50-14:10 Invited Lecture 3 (Dr. Sareeya Bureekaew, VISTEC, Thai)
Title: Mn-based Metal–Organic Framework with Strong Water Binding Ability and Its Potential
for Dehydration of Ethanol/Water Mixture
14:10-14:30 Tea break
Session B2 (Chair: Prof. Ken-ichi Shimizu )14:30-14:50 Invited Lecture 4 (Dr. Chularat Wattanakit, VISTEC, Thai)
Title: Potential of sustainable hierarchical zeolites in catalytic upgrading of biomass-derived
compounds

14:50-15:10 Invited Lecture 5 (Prof. Bunsho Ohtani, ICAT, Japan)
Title: Fundamental Studies on Heterogeneous Photocatalysis to Go beyond Band-structureModel
15:10-16:40 Poster Presentation (In front of the Conference room)
Session A3 (Chair: Prof. Kiyotaka Nakajima)
16:40-17:10 Keynote Lecture 4 (Prof. Fa-Kuen Shieh, National Central University (NCU), Taiwan)
Title: Insights into MOF Chemical Biology
17:10-17:40 Keynote Lecture 5 (Dr. Ivo Filot, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands)
Title: Hierarchical Multiscale Catalytic Modelling: From the active site to the reactor
17:40-17:50 closing remarks
18:30-20:00 Banquet, Restaurant Popura, 1F of Sousei HallRegistration:
Please send e-mail to Kiyotaka Nakajima or Zhiyi Song with your name, full affiliation, phone number,email address, and whether or not to attend the banquet. Deadline for registration of banquet is July 10 th.

Conference fee: Free of charge
Banquet fee: 5,000JPY for professors; 1,000JPY for students; 4,000JPY for others.

Correspondence to:
Kiyotaka Nakajima (Dr.)
Associate Professor
Institute for Catalysis, Hokkaido University
Kita 21 Nishi 10, Kita-ku, Sapporo 0010021, Japan
Phone: +81-11-706-9136
e-mail: nakajima@cat.hokudai.ac.jp
Zhiyi Song (Dr.)
Associate Professor
Institute for Catalysis, Hokkaido University
Kita 21 Nishi 10, Kita-ku, Sapporo 0010021, Japan
Phone: +81-11-706-9157
e-mail: songzhiyi@cat.hokudai.ac.jp