The program will begin Sunday, August 5th with a morning registration and a welcoming brunch followed by afternoon lectures. Approximately 40 lectures will be presented at ISOM XIV.

In addition to invited speakers, advanced students, postdocs, and young faculty who have not yet been able to make their work widely known will present twenty minute lectures. These speakers will be selected from the collected poster abstracts. Please see abstracts for further details.


Michael R. Buchmeiser

"What Metathesis Can do for Heterogeneous Catalysis and Life Sciences "


Uwe Bunz

"Alkyne Metathesis with Simple Catalyst Systems. Scope, Limitations, and Applications"


Richard R. Schrock

"The Synthesis of Polyolefins by Group IV Catalysts that Contain a Diamido/Donor Ligand"


Emma Thorn-Csanyi

"Applications of olefin metathesis that only became possible by applying Schrock-type alkylidene complexes"


Franz Stelzer

"Synthesis of New Materials via ROMP"