The International Vanadium Symposium is a
biennial international event.
The symposium is an interdisciplinary event for a wide range of chemistry researchers that share interest in
vanadium
Vanadium is a chemical element with the symbol V and atomic number 23. It is a hard, silvery-grey, malleable transition metal. The elemental metal is rarely found in nature, but once isolated artificially, the formation of an oxide layer ( pas ...
research to network and share ideas. The first meeting of the International Vanadium Symposium occurred in 1997 in
Cancun, Mexico,
and the most recent meeting was in Montevideo, Uruguay in 2018.
Meetings
*1997: Cancun
*1999:
Berlin
*2001:
Osaka
*2004:
Szeged
*2006:
San Francisco
*2008:
Lisbon
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*2010:
Toyama
*2012:
Arlington
*2014:
Padua
*2016:
Taipei
*2018:
Montevideo
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*2020:
Cyprus
Vanadis Award
The Vanadis Award is an international award that is presented to a researcher involved in vanadium research at the International Vanadium Symposium. The award is given to a researcher that has performed innovative research, developed new applications, has a large influence, a wide research scope, and has served for the advancement of vanadium science.
Recipients
*2004:
Debbie C. Crans
Debbie C. Crans is a Professor of Organic, Inorganic and Biological Chemistry and of Cell and Molecular Biology at Colorado State University, where she also is a Professor Laureate of the College of Natural Sciences. Crans specializes in the fund ...
*2006: Dieter Rheder
*2008: Toshikazu Hairo
*2010:
Vincent Pecoraro
*2012: Israel Wachs
*2014: João Costa Pessoa
*2016: Ron Wever and Tamas Kiss
*2018: Armando Pombeiro
Notable People
As of the 11th International Vanadium Symposium meeting, Dr. Dinorah Gambino served as chair. Some notable speakers from the most recent conference (2018) are Debbie C. Crans of
Colorado State University
Colorado State University (Colorado State or CSU) is a public land-grant research university in Fort Collins, Colorado. It is the flagship university of the Colorado State University System. Colorado State University is classified among "R1: ...
, Miguel Bañares of the
Spanish National Research Council, Peter Lay from the
University of Sydney, Alison Butler of
University of California, Santa Barbara, Hiroaki Sasai from
Osaka University
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, and João Costa Pessoa from
Universidade de Lisboa.
References
External links
*{{cite web , title=Vanadium Chemistry , url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/1861471x/homepage/virtual/2451_vanadium2016.html , website=onlinelibrary.wiley.com , language=en
Chemistry conferences
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