TAKE NOTICE THAT the 2020 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Members of THE CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR CHEMICAL ENGINEERING will be a Virtual meeting to be held on October 19, 2020, between 12:00-2:00 pm ET for the following purposes:
- Approval of the 2019 meeting minutes,
- Consideration of the financial statements,
- Consideration of the public accountant’s / auditor’s report,
- Election of directors,
- Appointment of the public accountant/auditor,
- To transact such other business as may properly come before the meeting.
Instructions to access the Virtual meeting will be provided closer to the date of the meeting.
BY ORDER OF THE BOARD (posted Sept. 25, 2020).
Phil De Luna is currently leading a world-class 7-year $57M collaborative research program on Canada-made clean energy technology as a Program Director at the National Research Council of Canada. His mandate is to develop transformative technologies to help Canada achieve net-zero GHG emissions by 2050. His moonshot is to make renewable fuels and chemicals from air and water.
De Luna is a pioneering carbontech expert with experience spanning cutting-edge topics such as carbon capture and conversion technologies and artificial intelligence for materials discovery. His research has been published in high-impact journals such as Nature and Science and has been covered by mainstream media such as Newsweek, CBC, Forbes, Popular Science, etc.
Phil was named to the 2019 Forbes Top 30 Under 30 – Energy list and was a finalist (1 of 10 worldwide) in the $20M Carbon XPRIZE. He holds a PhD from the University of Toronto in Materials Science & Engineering where he was a Governor General Gold Medalist. He is a Vice Chair of the board of directors of CMC Research Institutes, a carbontech non-profit, and member of the OECD Advanced Materials steering committee. He is also a Mission Innovation Champion for Canada, an Action Canada Fellow, a Creative Destruction Lab Mentor, and a 2x TEDx Speaker.
Typical technology development cycles can be from 10 to 20+ years to go from invention to impact. We don’t have decades to spare in our fight against climate change and acceleration is sorely needed if we have any chance of meeting our net-zero targets by 2050. This talk will explore how advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, and high-throughput experiments are being combined in materials acceleration platforms (MAPs). These self-driving labs can help automate and speed up the discovery of new clean energy materials, offering acceleration rates of at least 10x. Finally, the talk will cover the new NRC facility in Mississauga focused on accelerated materials discovery.
TAKE NOTICE THAT the 2020 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Members of THE CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY will be a Virtual meeting to be held on October 22, 2020, between 12:00-2:00 pm ET for the following purposes:
- Approval of the 2019 meeting minutes,
- Consideration of the financial statements,
- Consideration of the public accountant’s / auditor’s report,
- Election of directors,
- Appointment of the public accountant/auditor,
- To transact such other business as may properly come before the meeting.
Instructions to access the Virtual meeting will be provided closer to the date of the meeting.
BY ORDER OF THE BOARD (posted Sept. 30, 2020).
Brian Langelier is the acting Facilities Manager and a Research Associate at the Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy (CCEM). He obtained his Ph.D. in 2013 from the University of Waterloo and began a post-doctoral fellowship at McMaster University in 2014. Brian joined CCEM as a staff member in 2016 focusing on the application of atom probe tomography (APT) to the study of nanoscale materials. As of 2020, he has taken on the role of acting Facilities Manager at the CCEM. Brian maintains an active research interest in the field of materials characterization using APT on a variety of materials, including metals and alloys, biomaterials, corrosion products, and minerals.