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[Press release] The 2016 International Society of Electrochemistry will be held in Gwangju
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- REG_DATE : 2016.03.08
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The 2016 International Society of Electrochemistry will be held in Gwangju
and attended by over 300 people from 25 countries
The 2016 International Society of Electrochemistry will be held in Gwangju from March 8 to 11, 2016, and is jointly being organized by the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) and the Ertl Center for Electrochemistry and Catalysis. The meeting"s organizing committee is being chaired by GIST Professor Jaeyoung Lee and Co-Chaired by GIST Professor Bongjin Simon Mun.
The International Society of Electrochemistry began in 1949 in Switzerland to promote scientific exchanges between countries and industry regarding. Today, the society has more than 3,000 individual members from over 70 countries as well as 20 corporate members. The society meets every spring of each year, and this is the first time for the society to meet in Korea. Next year in April, the society will meet in New Zealand.
The current meeting in Gwangju has over 300 participants from 25 countries. The key theme of this year"s meeting is on environmentally friendly renewable energy, including fuel cells and oxygen electrocatalysis.
Keynote speakers include Professor Robert Schlögl from the Max Planck Institute in Germany, Professor Hubert Girault from the Switzerland Lausanne/Lyon Energy Research Center, Dr. Piotr Zelenay from the Los Alamos Laboratory in the United States, Professor Dangsheng Su from the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Shenyang People"s Republic of China), and other expert from various fields. More information can be found here: http://topical18.ise-online.org/
GIST Professor Jaeyoung Lee who is the chair for the meeting said, "Through this event, we expect to to lay a foundation for a global network to expand international collaboration for researchers in Korea."