Call for papers – 3rd International Cellulose Conference (ICC 2012) October 10-12, 2012, Sapporo, Japan

3^rd International Cellulose Conference (ICC 2012) October 10-12, 2012, Sapporo, Japan Call for papers

The Cellulose Society of Japan will hold the 3^rd International Cellulose Conference (ICC) in Sapporo Japan, Oct. 10-12, 2012. Researchers from all over the world are invited to contribute to the technical program of this conference, and report on both fundamental and applied research related to cellulose, renewable resources, biomaterials, pulping and papermaking.

Conference Topics

• Biogenesis and biodegradation
• Structure and physical properties
• Functional materials and composites
• Nanotechnology and pulping industries
• Biomass conversion to fuel and platform compounds
• Paper and pulp/composite materials
• Chemistry and biology of related polysaccharides

 

Time Table (Dates & Deadline)

• Title and abstract submission: June 15, 30, 2012
• Notification of acceptance: July 15, 30, 2012
• Extended abstract submission: Aug. 31, 2012
• Early bird registration by: Aug. 31, 2012
• Conference: Oct.10-112, 2012

 

Registration Fees

• Early-bird registration for regular participants: 38,000Yen/person
• After Aug. 31, 2012, registration for regular participants: 48,000Yen/person
• Early-bird registration for full time students 12,000Yen/person
• After Aug. 31, 2011, registration for full time students: 15,000Yen/student
• Registration for accompanying persons: 12,000Yen/person

 

Abstract Submission

You are welcome to submit titles and short abstracts (approximately 200 words) before June, 15^th2012. The submissions will be reviewed and you will be notified of the result by July 15^th 2012. A “Guide for the preparation of extended abstracts (A-4, 1 page)” will be sent out with acceptance notification. All speakers should submit extended abstracts by the end of August. 2012.
 

Committees

Conference Chair

• Shin-ichiro Shoda (Tohoku Univ.)

Conference Vice Chair

• Yasumitsu Uraki (Hokkaido Univ.)

Organizing Committee

• Yoshihiko Amano (Shinshu Univ.)
• Yoshitaka Aranishi (Toray Ind., Inc.)
• Takashi Date (Nippon Paper Ind., Ltd.)
• Takashi Endo (AIST)
• Kazuyoshi Hayakawa (Shin-Etsu Co., Ltd.)
• Noriko Hayashi (FFPRI)
• Akira Isogai (Univ. of Tokyo)
• Jun-ichi Kadokawa (Kagoshima Univ.)
• Shinobu Koda (Nagoya Univ.)
• Tetsuo Kondo (Kyushu Univ.)
• Shigenori Kuga (Univ. of Tokyo)
• Yoshiyuki Nishio (Kyoto Univ.)
• Kunihiko Okajima (Tokushima Bunri Univ.)
• Hirofumi Ono (Asahi Kasei Fibers Corp.)
• Tohru Shibata (Daicel Chemical Ind.)
• Koju Sugiyama (Rengo Co., Ltd.)
• Junji Sugiyama (Kyoto Univ.)
• Mitsuhiko Tanahashi (Gifu Univ.)
• Yoshinobu Tsujii (Kyoto Univ.)
• Yosuke Uchida (Oji Paper Co., Ltd.)
• Tadashi Uragami (Kansai Univ.)
• Chihiro Yamane (Kobe Women’s Univ.)
• Tomokazu Yasuda (Fujifilm Corp.)

Local Committee

• Tomoki Erata (Hokkaido Univ.)
• Kiyohiko Igarashi (Univ. of Tokyo)
• Tadahisa Iwata (Univ. of Tokyo)
• Akira Kakugo (Hokkaido Univ.)
• Atsushi Kobayashi (Tohoku Univ.)
• Keiichi Koda (Hokkaido Univ.)
• Masato Noguchi (Tohoku Univ.)
• Kenji Tajima (Hokkaido Univ.)
• Ryouhei Tanaka (FFPRI)
• Naoto Saito (FFPRI)
• Masahisa Wada (Univ. of Tokyo)

 

International Advisory Board for the 3^rd ICC

• L. A. Berglund (Sweden)
• J. Colodette (Brazil)
• K. J. Edgar (USA)
• A. D. French (USA)
• D. G. Gray (Canada)
• T. Heinze (Germany)
• N.-H. Kim (Korea)
• P. Navard (France)
• T. Rosenau (Austria)
• H. Sixta (Finland)
• L. Zhang (China)

 

Contacts

• Homepage: http://www.knt.co.jp/ec/2012/icc2012/
• E-mail:
• Tel & Fax: +810117063197

Secretary General: Dr. Keiichi Koda