Plenary Speakers

The Organizing Committee is pleased to announce the following Plenary Speakers:

	Professor Dongmei Cui State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences China "Precisely Controlled (co)Polymerization of Diene and Styrene by Using Rare-earth Metal Catalysts"
	Professor William J. Evans Department of Chemistry University of California at Irvine USA "Recent Results in the +2 Oxidation State Chemistry of the Rare Earth and Actinide Metals"
	Professor Stephen Faulkner Department of Chemistry University of Oxford UK "Funny Shaped Balls: Exploring and Exploiting the Properties of Lanthanide Ions"
	Professor Eric J. Schelter Department of Chemistry University of Pennsylvania USA "Developments in the Oxidation Chemistry of the Lanthanides"
	Professor Emeritus Joseph Takats Department of Chemistry University of Alberta Canada "Five Decades of f-Element Scorpionate Chemistry: the Future Looks Bright"