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Program

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.

MCGRATH LECTURER
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Geoffrey W. Coates - Cornell University

Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Invited Speakers

  • Umang Agarwal (Shell)

  • Amanda Brandao (Pontifícia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro)

  • Dongmei Cui (Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  • Christopher Ellison (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)

  • Sharon Elyashiv-Barad (US Food and Drug Administration)

  • Daniela Ferrari (Dow)

  • Robert Froese (Dow)

  • Markus Gahleitner (Borealis)

  • LaShanda Korley (University of Delaware)

  • Ronald Larson (University of Michigan)

  • Frank Liebfarth (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

  • Timothy McKenna (ESCPE Lyon/CNRS UMR)

  • Stefan Mecking (Universitat Konstanz)

  • Sara Orski (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

  • Francisco Perez Valencia (SABIC)

  • Lina Prada (SABIC)

  • Michael Shaver (University of Manchester)

  • Margaret Sobkowitz-Klein (University of Massachusetts, Lowell)

  • Vasileos Touloupidis (Borealis)

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