
Program
APO-2019 PROUDLY ANNOUNCES 2nd
"PROFESSOR JAMES MCGRATH MEMORIAL LECTURESHIP"

THE MCGRATH MEMORIAL LECTURESHIP
In honor of the many contributions of Prof. James E. McGrath, including the creation of the "Advances in Polyolefins" workshop series in 1997, APO 2017 introduced a lectureship in his honor. Prof. McGrath was the University Distinguished Professor and Ethyl Corp. Professor of Chemistry at Virginia Tech. He wrote more than 400 articles and was a co-inventor of 40 patents. Prof. McGrath was the recipient of many awards in recognition of his scientific contributions.
PARTIAL LIST OF INVITED SPEAKERS
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Rufina Alamo (Florida State University)
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Finizia Auriemma (Università Federico II, Napoli)
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Cristophe Boisson (CNRS, France)
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Eugene Chen (Colorado State University)
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Paul Chirik (Princeton University)
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Dongmei Cui (ChangChun Institute of Applied Chemistry)
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Phil Fontaine (Dow)
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​Leon Govaert (Eindhoven University of Technology)
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Damien Guironnet (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
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Julia Ham (U.S. Naval Academy)
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Ken Kearns (Dow)
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Clark Landis (University of Wisconsin)
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Carlos Lopez-Barron (ExxonMobil)
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Alceo Macchioni (University of Perugia)
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Bob Maughon (Sabic)
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Scott McIndoe (University of Victoria)
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Kalman Migler (NIST)
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Alejandro Mueller, (University of Basque Country, Spain)
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Alberto Ortin (Polymer Char)
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Christian Paulik (Johannes Kepler University)
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Marcia Pires (Nova Chemicals)
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Kim Ragaert (Maastricht University)
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Jay Reimers (ExxonMobil)
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Aaron Sadow (Iowa State University)
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Roland Schmidt (Arlanxeo)
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Susannah Scott (University of California, Santa Barbara)
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Ken-ichi Seno (Sumitomo)
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Fabio Sofri (Braskem)
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Maria Soliman (Sabic)
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Theo Tervoort (ETH)
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