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 "

University of Innsbruck
Uwe Bunz
University of South Carolina

"Alkyne Metathesis with Simple Catalyst Systems. Scope, Limitations, and Applications"
Richard R. Schrock
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"The Synthesis of Polyolefins by Group IV Catalysts that Contain a Diamido/Donor Ligand"
Emma Thorn-Csanyi
University of Hamburg

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

"Synthesis of New Materials via ROMP"