22/12/2011
4th International IUPAC Conference on Green Chemistry
25 - 29 August, 2012
Foz do Iguaçu/PR, Brazil
Dear Colleagues,
The organizers of the 4th International IUPAC Conference on Green Chemistry (4th ICGC) invite researchers, educators, business representatives and policy experts from all over the world to participate in the most fundamental as well as innovative scientific advances in green chemistry at 4th ICGC.
The conference will focus on broad topics such as benign synthesis/process, green chemistry for energy/production, chemicals from renewable resources, green engineering, education in green chemistry, and engineering and policy.
Some of the confirmed speakers are Karl Barry Sharpless (The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001, Scripps Research Institute, USA), Paul Anastas (Assistant Administrator ORD/Science Advisor, US EPA, USA), James Clark (University of York, UK), Jairton Dupont (University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil), Buxing Han (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Adelio Machado (Porto University, Portugal), Anita Marsaioli (University of Campinas, Brazil), Robin Rogers (University of Alabama, USA) Roger Sheldon (Delft University, the Netherlands) and Rajender S. Varma (EPA, USA).
The 4th ICGC will bring together the academic, industrial, governmental, and nongovernmental sectors in order to promote a more profound and extensive discussion in this emerging scientific movement, especially in Latin America. The abstract submission opens on 1st January 2012 and closes on 30th April 2012.
The conference will be held in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, at the Mabu Thermas & Resort, a fine hotel very near the Iguaçu National Park. Iguaçu Falls were chosen as one of the provisional new natural Seven Wonders of the World and are one of the most beautiful tourist destinations in Latin America.
The large Centre for Congresses and Exhibitions greatest differential is the Mabu Thermas & Resort itself, which offers to event-focused guests all of its leisure facilities: restaurant, piano bar, brasseries, café, bar, as well as the thermal water fountains and a large area for sports and leisure, together with a specialized entertainment team.
For more information, please consult www.ufscar.br/icgc4
Fonte: Vânia Gomes Zuin (UFSCar) e Vitor Francisco Ferreira (UFF)
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