IN1 • Inorganic Solid State Chemistry (Joint with MT)

Confirmed invited speakers:

John Evans, University of Durham

John Greedan, McMaster University

Yining Huang, The University of Western Ontario

Holger Kleinke, University of Waterloo

Andrew MacFarlane, University of British Columbia

Yurij Mozharivskyj, McMaster University

Stanley Wittingham, Binghamton University

Zuo-Guang Ye, Simon Fraser University

IN2 • Ligand Design in Transition Metal Chemistry

Organizer: Mark Stradiotto, Dalhousie University

This symposium is sponsored by the ACS Petroleum Research Fund and Bruker Group of Companies.

Confirmed invited speakers:

R. Thomas Baker, Los Alamos National Laboratories

Kenneth Caulton, Indiana University

Michael Fryzuk, University of British Columbia

Sandro Gambarotta, University of Ottawa

Dmitri Gusev, Wilfred Laurier University

Samuel Johnson, University of Windsor

Hélène Lebel, Université de Montréal

Sean McGrady, University of New Brunswick

David Milstein, Weizmann Institute of Science

Robert Morris, University of Toronto

Georgii Nikonov, Brock University

Roy Periana, University of Southern California

Jonas Peters, California Institute of Technology

Warren Piers, University of Calgary

Darrin Richeson, University of Ottawa

Laurel Schafer, University of British Columbia

Douglas Stephan, University of Windsor

T. Don Tilley, University of California, Berkeley

Suning Wang, Queen's University

IN3 • Macromolecular and Supramolecular Chemistry (Joint with MS and OR)

Organizer: Bruce Grindley, Dalhousie University

Heinz-Bernhard Kraatz, University of Saskatchewan

Stephen Loeb, University of Windsor

René Roy, Université du Québec à Montréal

Fraser Stoddart, University of California at Los Angeles

Donald Tomalia, Dendritic NanoTechnologies Inc.

IN4 • Paramagnetic and Mixed-Valent Complexes in Organometallic and Inorganic Chemistry

Organizers: Kevin Smith, University of Prince Edward Island, Daniel Leznoff, Simon Fraser University and Manuel Aquino, St. Francis Xavier University

This symposium is sponsored by Bruker AXS, Quantum Design, St. Francis Xavier University, Dean of Science and University of Prince Edward Island, Dean of Science.

Confirmed invited speakers:

Peter Budzelaar, University of Manitoba

Kenneth Caulton, Indiana University

Robert Crutchley, Carleton University

Pierre Harvey, Université de Sherbrooke

Wolfgang Kaim, Universität Stuttgart

Yi Lu, University of Illinois

Daniel Mindiola, Indiana University

Rinaldo Poli, Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination de Toulouse

Joshua Telser, Roosevelt University

Klaus Theopold, University of Delaware

Laurence Thompson, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Karl Wieghardt, MPI für Bioanorganische Chemie

IN5 • Recent Advances in Main Group Chemistry

Organizer: Glen Briand, Mount Allison University

Confirmed invited speakers:

R. Thomas Baker, Los Alamos National Laboratories

Sean Barry, Carleton University

René Boeré, University of Lethbridge

Neil Burford, Dalhousie University

Tristram Chivers, University of Calgary

Jason Clyburne, Simon Fraser University

Holger Fleischer, Johannes Gutenberg - Universität Mainz

Francois Gabbai, Texas A & M University

Derek Gates, University of British Columbia

Robin Hicks, University of Victoria

Charles Macdonald, University of Windsor

Jack Passmore, University of New Brunswick

Paul Ragogna, The University of Western Ontario

Roland Roesler, University of Calgary

Douglas Stephan, University of Windsor

IN6 • Semiconductor and Metal Nanoparticles:  Synthesis, Properties and Applications (Joint with MT)

Organizers: Matthew Moffitt, University of Victoria and Michael Wolf, University of British Columbia

Confirmed invited speakers:

Al-Amin Dhirani, University of Toronto

Nicholas Kotov, University of Michigan

Bruce Lennox, McGill University

Royce Murray, University of North Carolina

Gregory Scholes, University of Toronto

Jonathan Veinot, University of Alberta

Organizer: Neil Burford, Dalhousie University