Southeastern Catalysis Society

A fantastic 25th SECS Symposium at Virginia Tech! 🎉 Record attendance, inspiring talks, posters, keynotes and speakers. Congrats to all awardees! Huge thanks to Prof. Khatib, VTChemE grad students & all sponsors. Thanks to @SzilvasiGroup for serving as President!

Invited speakers are: Prof. Gina Noh (Penn State) Emma Hu (Georgia Tech) Please register by December 19, 2025: secatsoc.wordpress.com/home/

The 2026 SECS Annual Symposium will take place in Blacksburg, Virginia, on March 9 - 10, 2026. Abstract submission is requested by December 19, 2025 The keynote speaker is Dr. Yong Wang (Washington State University), the recipient of the 2025 Burwell Lectureship in Catalysis.

Top Posters: Tristan Maxson - UA Mohan Shankar - UVA Arigaa Zolboot - UVA

The SECS held another successful Annual Symposium on Feb 10-11! Excellent talks and posters were given by our students. Several students were awarded "Top Oral Presentation" and "Top Poster", Top Oral Presentation: Sijie Guo - UTK Sara Haidar - VT Suchi Vijayaraghavan - GT

Social Media Chair: Jason Bates (@jasonsbates) Communication Manager: Md Masudur Rahman Directors: Fanxing Li and John Kuhn Representative to NACS: Andreas Heyden (@HeydenLab) Past President: Jamie Harris (@JWHarrisCatal)

New officers were elected at our Annual Symposium this February. Your SECS officers are: President: Tibor Szilvasi (@SzilvasiGroup) Vice President: Guoxiang (Emma) Hu (@GuoxiangH) Secretary: Jason Bates (@jasonsbates) Treasurer: Sreshtha Sinha Majumdar

Great scientific discussions at the SECS poster session!

Umit Ozkan delivered a fantastic Burwell Lecure on electrocatalysis with CNx materials!!

The SECS annual meeting is off to a great start!

The SECS annual symposium is ONE week away! Each week we are announcing our invited and keynote speakers. We are looking forward to Umit Ozkan's Burwell Lecture entitled "Electrocatalysis on Heteroatom-doped Carbon (CNx) Catalysts: Oxygen Reduction Reaction (ORR) and Beyond"!

The SECS annual symposium is 2 weeks away! Each week we are announcing our invited and keynote speakers. We are looking forward to Aleksey Yezerets's Ciapetta Lecture entitled "Catalysis for Clean Commercial Power"!

The SECS annual symposium is 3 weeks away! Each week we are announcing our invited and keynote speakers. We are looking forward to Hilal Ezgi Toraman's invited talk: "Enhancing Product Characterization and Catalysis Insights through Two-Dimensional Gas Chromatography (GC×GC)"!

The SECS annual symposium is 4 weeks away! Each week we will be announcing our invited and keynote speakers. We are looking forward to Tibor Szilvási's invited talk entitled "Modeling Supported Nanoparticles for Catalysis"!

The deadline for registration and abstract submission for the 2025 SECS Annual Symposium has been extended to 11:59 pm EST on Friday, 12/20/2024 (one week from now). More details about registration and abstract submission are provided below. We look forward to seeing you in Feb!

A reminder that the 2025 SECS Annual Symposium will be held in Clemson, SC on February 10-11, 2025! Please note that abstract submission is requested by December 13, 2024 (in <2 weeks).

The 2025 SECS Annual Symposium will be in Clemson, SC on February 10-11, 2025! The keynote speaker is Dr. Aleksey Yezerets (Cummins), the recipient of the 2024 F.G. Ciapetta Lectureship in Catalysis. Please register by December 13, 2024: secatsoc.wordpress.com/registration

We are excited to announce that abstract submission for NAM29 is open! Abstracts are due November 22, 2024. See aiche.confex.com/aiche/nams25/c… for more information. We look forward to seeing you in Atlanta!

We are pleased to announce the date and location for the 24th Annual SECS Symposium! The meeting will be held in Clemson, SC on February 10th-11th, 2025, at the Clemson University Conference Center and Inn. Please save the date on your calendars!

Congratulations to group member Sugandha Verma for winning an oral presentation award and group member Kelsey Levine for winning a poster award at the @secatsoc's Annual Symposium, held at @GeorgiaTech!