Past Meetings

Location: The Ridgeline Hotel, Estes Park, CO
Hosted by University of Colorado – Boulder and W.L. Gore and Associates
August 28 – September 2, 2021

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Uwe Beuscher, W.L. Gore & Associates

John Pellegrino, University of Colorado – Boulder

Yifu Ding, University of Colorado – Boulder

Prof. Kristi Anseth – University of Colorado Boulder

Dr. Peter Green – National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)

Prof. Thomas Schäfer  – POLYMAT, University of the Basque Country

Due to the COVID-19 crisis,  the on-site NAMS 2020 Conference in Tempe, Arizona, was cancelled. Instead, NAMS held its first conference completely online May 18-21, 2020. View the program book here.

Mary Laura Lind, Arizona State University
Manish Kumar, University of Texas at Austin

Professor David Sholl

Georgia Institute of Technology

Location: Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Hosted by Carnegie Mellon University, McMaster University and Penn State University
May 11-15, 2019
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David Latulippe, McMaster University
Meagan Mauter, Carnegie Mellon University
Andrew Zydney, Penn State University

Dr. Peter S. Fiske
Director of the Water-Energy Resilience
Research Institute
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Dr. Tim Merkel
Vice-President of Technology
Membrane Technology & Research

Dr. Rachel Segalman
E. N. Kramer Professor of Materials and
Chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering
University of California, Santa Barbara

Location: Hilton Lexington, Lexington, Kentucky
Hosted by The University of Kentucky and King Abdullah University of Science & Technology
June 9 – 13, 2018, Lexington, KY USA
Program located here: https://aiche.confex.com/aiche/nams18/webprogram/programs.html

Dibakar Bhattacharyya (DB), University of Kentucky
Isabel C. Escobar, University of Kentucky
Ingo Pinnau , King Abdullah University of Science & Technology

Prof. Mihail Barboi
CNRS Research Leader at the Institut Europeen des Membranes
Artificial Water Channels

Dr. Rebecca Liebert
President and CEO, Honeywell UOP
From Membranes to Inorganic Materials: Uop’s Role in Modern Process Technology Revolutions

Prof. Milan Mrksich
Henry Wade Rogers Professor, Northwestern University
Synthesis and Applications of Megamolecules as Designer Biomembranes

Program located here: https://elsevier.conference-services.net/programme.asp?conferenceID=4142&language=en-uk

Ranil Wickramasinghe, University of Arkansas
Glenn Lipscomb, University of Toledo

Prof. Mihail Barboi
CNRS Research Leader at the Institut Europeen des Membranes
Artificial Water Channels

Dr. Rebecca Liebert
President and CEO, Honeywell UOP
From Membranes to Inorganic Materials: Uop’s Role in Modern Process Technology Revolutions

Prof. Milan Mrksich
Henry Wade Rogers Professor, Northwestern University
Synthesis and Applications of Megamolecules as Designer Biomembranes

Professor William J. Koros, Georgia Institute of Technology USA
Using fundamentals to pragmatically reach advanced membrane objectives: Our community’s charter

Professor Andrew G. Livingston, Imperial College London UK
Organic solvent nanofiltration: Enabling molecular separations in organic liquids

Professor Juin-Yih Lai, Chung Yuan Christian University Taiwan
Tailoring of membrane morphology and surface property- from fundamentals to applications

Hyatt Regency Bellevue
Bellevue, Washington
May 21 – 25, 2016
Program located here: https://aiche.confex.com/aiche/nams16/webprogram/ataglance.html

Dr. Winston Ho
Distinguished Professor, Ohio State University
Recent Developments on Membranes for CO2 Separation and Water Purification

Dr. Michael Yandrasits
Senior Chemist, 3M
Fuel Cell Membranes based on Perfluorsulfonic Acids and Imides

Yoram Cohen, UCLA
Bruce Hinds, University of Washington
Wei Liu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Ruth Baltus, Clarkson University
Jeff McCutcheon, University of Connecticut
Program located here: https://aiche.confex.com/aiche/nams15/webprogram/ataglance.html

Dr. Benny Freeman, University of Texas
Fundamental Studies of Ion Sorption, Diffusion and Transport in Crosslinked Polyelectrolyte Membranes

Mr. Gabe Tkacik, EMD Millipore
Advances in Membrane Morphology Control for Optimum Performance in Biotechnology Separations

Dr. George Whitesides, Harvard University
Simplicity as a Strategy in Research

Shankar Chellam, University of Houston
Felecia Nave, Prairie View A & M University

Georges Belfort, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Thoughts from a Career in Membrane Science and Technology

Larry Costa, General Electric Power and Water
Innovative Membrane Technologies for Tough-To-Treat Waters

Andrew L. Zydney, The Pennsylvania State University
Membrane Filtration of Viruses – New Challenges in Bioprocessing

Program located here: https://aiche.confex.com/aiche/nams13/webprogram/start.html

Jerry Lin, Arizona State University
Frederick F. Stewart, Idaho National Laboratory

Menachem Elimelech, Yale University
Forward Osmosis and Pressure Retarded Osmosis: Recent Progress and Challenges

Michael Carolan, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
Ion Transport Membranes: Gas Separation Technology for the 21st Century

Program located here: https://aiche.confex.com/aiche/nams12/webprogram/start.html

Andrew Livingston, Imperial College

Charles Page, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.

Inga Musselman, University of Texas at Dallas

Isabel Escobar, University of Toledo
Jamie Hestekin, University of Arkansas
Stephen Ritchie, University of Alabama