V.  Corporate Industrial Affiliates Program

In 1969 the Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering initiated a joint Industrial Affiliates Program, which was reorganized in 2000 under the title Corporate Program of the Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. This has been a very successful program, bringing together our departments and various industrial corporations in mutually advantageous ways. This has not involved large numbers of companies, typically about fifteen. A specific faculty member is responsible for communicating with each corporation. The departments arrange symposia, special workshops and intensive advanced courses that are open to the corporate members and our own students. Our students attend these meetings and develop a realistic idea of industrial chemical activities as well as valuable contacts with industrial representatives and their viewpoints, which are not emphasized in the regular graduate programs. The corporate representatives enjoy an unrestricted relationship with the departments and have opportunities to obtain added insights into the academic view of the latest chemical research developments. In return, the companies give an annual donation to the departments.

Below are current (year 2000) lists of our corporate members, the faculty liaison persons and the programs that have been arranged over the last twenty-five years. Of course this is an ever-changing list and topics covered will evolve in the coming years with the growing importance of chemistry in the bordering frontiers. This program encompasses the annual W.S. Johnson Symposium in Organic Chemistry, the annual Paul Flory Conference on Physical and Macromolecular Chemistry and the annual David Mason Lectures in Chemical Engineering. The subjects and speakers for these meetings have not been listed here but they have included most of the world authorities in the various timely subjects covered. These meetings cannot be mentioned without acknowledging the invaluable contribution of Lindi Bauman Press who has flawlessly arranged the mechanics of almost all the meetings. A faculty committee plans each meeting and invites the speakers; although this committee changes in composition, the core planning has usually involved Profs. Michel Boudart (Chemical Engineering) and Carl Djerassi (Chemistry).

Full Members (Date of joining) Faculty Liaison
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc. (1969) Brauman, Zare
Eastman Kodak Co. (1969) Collman
Exxon Research & Engineering Co. (1969) Brauman, Collman
Chevron Research and Technology Co. (1969) Collman, Frank
Roche Bioscience (1995) Huestis
Overseas Members
Mitsubishi Chemical Corp.(1986)
BASF AG (1993) Waymouth
Saudi Aramco (1994) Shaqfeh
Limited Plus Member
Canon Research Center America, Inc. (1997)
Limited Members
ABB Lummus Global, Inc. (1996)
Catalytica Advanced Technologies (1998)
Symyx Technologies, Inc. (1999)
Honorary Member
Research Institute of King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals

Program of Symposia, Workshops and Intensive Courses, 1976–2000

15th SYMPOSIUM, June 14 and 15, 1976
“Synchrotron Radiation—A Unique New Resource in Chemical Research”
DIVESTITURE CONFERENCE, September 20 and 21, 1976
“Oil Industry Divestiture: Effect on Research and Development in Energy”
[Sponsored by Stanford’s Institute for Energy Studies]
16th SYMPOSIUM, December 9 and 10, l976
“Highlights of Applied and Basic Research on Electrochemical Processes”
17th SYMPOSIUM, March 10 and 11, 1977
“Minicomputers and Microprocessors—Developments and Applications”
18th SYMPOSIUM, June 27 and 28, 1977
“Problems and Challenges for Chemical Research in Multinational Corporations”
19th SYMPOSIUM, January 18–20, 1978
“Chemical Reactivity in Catalysis”
20th SYMPOSIUM, October 8–10, 1978
“How Do Chemical Reactions Occur?”
TENTH ANNIVERSARY SYMPOSIUM, June 19–22, 1979 (21st SYMPOSIUM)
“Exotic Materials”
22nd SYMPOSIUM, December 3–5, 1979
“Recent Progress in Clinical Diagnostic Chemistry”
23rd SYMPOSIUM, June 17–19, 1980
“Metal-Catalyzed Selective Oxidations of Hydrocarbons”
24th SYMPOSIUM, October 20 and 21, 1980
“The Analysis and Characterization of Surfaces and Interfaces”
25th SYMPOSIUM, February 2–4, 1981
“Government Regulation of Research and Development: How Can Its Impact on Innovation be Minimized?”
26th SYMPOSIUM, July 13 and 14, 1981
“Asymmetric Reactions and Processes”
27th SYMPOSIUM, February 25 and 26, 1982
“Instabilities in Physical and Chemical Systems”
FIRST INTENSIVE COURSE, June 21–29, 1982
“Organometallic Chemistry”
28th SYMPOSIUM, June 30–July 1, 1982
“New Developments in Homogeneous Catalysis”
SECOND INTENSIVE COURSE, August 14–27, 1983
“Kinetics and Mechanisms of Heterogeneous Catalytic Reactions”
29th SYMPOSIUM, December 5 and 6, 1983
“Radiation-Induced Modifications of Thin Films”
30th SYMPOSIUM, March 28–30, 1984
“Active Sites in Catalysis”
THIRD INTENSIVE COURSE, June 25–July 3, 1984
“Chemistry, Physics and Engineering of Macromolecules”
FOURTH INTENSIVE COURSE, August 26–30, 1984
“Fixed-Bed Catalytic Reactor Analysis and Design”
31st SYMPOSIUM, March 17–19, 1985
“Symposium in Economics and Technology”
[Co-sponsored by the National Academy of Engineering and Center for Economic Policy Research at Stanford]
32nd SYMPOSIUM, September 4–6, 1985
“Photochemistry: Theory, Experiment and Technology”
33rd SYMPOSIUM, November 1 and 2, 1985
“The State of Chemistry and Chemical Technology”
[Held to honor Dr. Ralph Landau, 1985 National Medal of Technology recipient and Prof. Richard N. Zare, 1985 National Medal of Science recipient]
34th SYMPOSIUM, June 26 and 27, 1986
“New Developments in Electrochemistry”
FIFTH INTENSIVE COURSE, July 27–August 2, 1986
“Molecular Thermodynamics of Fluid Phase Equilibria with Application to Chemical Process Design”
35th SYMPOSIUM, October 17 and 18, 1986
“The First Annual William S. Johnson Symposium in Organic Chemistry” [Co-sponsored by the Department of Chemistry]
36th SYMPOSIUM, December 3 and 4, 1986
“High Performance Polymers”
SIXTH INTENSIVE COURSE, July 12–17, 1987
“Calculation and Estimation of Rate Constants for Kinetic Modeling of Chemical Processes”
37th SYMPOSIUM, September 21 and 22, 1987
“Disordered Materials, Fractals and Chaos”
38th SYMPOSIUM, October 16 and 17, 1987
“The Second Annual William S. Johnson Symposium in Organic Chemistry” [Co-sponsored by the Department of Chemistry]
39th SYMPOSIUM, May 2 and 3, 1988
“Strategies and Opportunities at the Interface between Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and the Life Sciences”
40th SYMPOSIUM, June 26–29, 1988
“Lasers in Analytical Chemistry”
[The 41st ACS Summer Symposium on Analytical Chemistry]
41st SYMPOSIUM, September 18–21, 1988
“Scientific Trends and Policy Formation in Human Toxic Risk Assessment”
[Co-sponsored by the Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology in Cooperation with the Stanford Center for Risk Analysis]
42nd SYMPOSIUM, October 14 and 15, 1988
“The Third Annual William S. Johnson Symposium in Organic Chemistry”
[Co-sponsored by the Department of Chemistry]
SEVENTH INTENSIVE COURSE, July 16–21, 1989
“Colloid and Interface Science”
43rd SYMPOSIUM, August 27–31, 1989
“Interdisciplinary Laser Science V (ILS-V)”
[Co-sponsored by the American Physical Society]
44th SYMPOSIUM, October 13 and 14, 1989
“The Fourth Annual William S. Johnson Symposium in Organic Chemistry”
[Co-sponsored by the Department of Chemistry]
45th SYMPOSIUM, October 20 and 21, 1989
“Communication in Science: Challenges for the Nineties”
[Held to honor Chemistry Professor J. Murray Luck on his 90th birthday; co-sponsored by Annual Reviews, Inc.]
EIGHTH INTENSIVE COURSE, September 17–21, 1990
“Applications of Synchrotron Radiation to Catalytic Materials”
46th SYMPOSIUM, October 5 and 6, 1990
“The Fifth Annual William S. Johnson Symposium in Organic Chemistry”
[Co-sponsored by the Department of Chemistry]
47th SYMPOSIUM, May 28–30, 1991
“Catalysis Looks to the Future”
48th SYMPOSIUM, October 11 and 12, 1991
“The Sixth Annual William S. Johnson Symposium in Organic Chemistry”
[Co-sponsored by the Department of Chemistry]
49th SYMPOSIUM, April 4, 1992
“Organometallic Chemistry and Materials Science”
GRADUATE LEVEL COURSE: Chemical Engineering 235, Spring Quarter 1992
“Catalysis: Science and Technology”
[produced on VHS for Affiliates]
50th SYMPOSIUM, October 9 and 10, 1992
“The Seventh Annual William S. Johnson Symposium in Organic Chemistry”
[Co-sponsored by the Department of Chemistry]
51st SYMPOSIUM, December 7 and 8, 1992
“Chemistry in Electronics and Photonics”
52nd SYMPOSIUM, May 19–21, 1993
“Molecular Assemblies”
53rd SYMPOSIUM, October 8 and 9, 1993
“The Eighth Annual William S. Johnson Symposium in Organic Chemistry”
[Co-sponsored by the Department of Chemistry]
NINTH INTENSIVE COURSE, February 24–26, 1994
“Model Membranes: From Biophysics to Materials Science”
68th ACS COLLOID AND SURFACE SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM, June 19–22, 1994
[Sponsored by the ACS Division of Colloid and Surface Science; Administrative support from the Industrial Affiliates Program]
54th SYMPOSIUM, October 7 and 8, 1994
“The Ninth Annual William S. Johnson Symposium in Organic Chemistry”
[Co-sponsored by the Department of Chemistry]
55th SYMPOSIUM, March 30 and 31, 1995
“Taube Insights: From Electron Transfer Reactions to Modern Inorganic Chemistry”
[Henry Taube Symposium]
56th SYMPOSIUM, October 6 and 7, 1995
“The Tenth Annual William S. Johnson Symposium in Organic Chemistry”
[Co-sponsored by the Department of Chemistry]
IAP WORKSHOP, January 15–17, 1996
“Materials Chemistry: Challenges and Opportunities in Industry and Academe”
[Prof. Robert Waymouth, organizer, Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, CA]
57th SYMPOSIUM, October 18 and 19, 1996
“The Eleventh Annual William S. Johnson Symposium in Organic Chemistry”
[Co-sponsored by the Department of Chemistry]
58th SYMPOSIUM (IAP WORKSHOP), September 6, 1997
“Conversations on Heterogeneous Catalysis”, organized by Prof. Michel Boudart
[Las Vegas, NV just prior to ACS Fall meeting]
59th SYMPOSIUM, October 10 and 11, 1997
“The Twelfth Annual William S. Johnson Symposium in Organic Chemistry”
[Co-sponsored by the Department of Chemistry]
60th SYMPOSIUM, January 23 and 24, 1998
“The First Paul Flory Conference in Polymer and Physical Chemistry”
[Profs. Michel Boudart, Alice Gast, George Springer and Robert Waymouth, organizers]
61st SYMPOSIUM, October 16 and 17, 1998
“The Thirteenth Annual William S. Johnson Symposium in Organic Chemistry”
[Co-sponsored by the Department of Chemistry]
62nd SYMPOSIUM, February 13 and 14, 1999
“The Second Paul Flory Conference in Polymer and Physical Chemistry”
24th Annual David M. Mason Lecture in Chemical Engineering, May 19–21, 1999
[Incorporating the 1999 NIH Biotechnology Symposium]
63rd SYMPOSIUM, October 22 and 23, 1999
“The Fourteenth Annual William S. Johnson Symposium in Organic Chemistry”
[Co-sponsored by the Department of Chemistry]
64th SYMPOSIUM, February 11 and 12, 2000
“The Third Paul Flory Conference in Physical and Macromolecular Chemistry”
25th Annual David M. Mason Lecture in Chemical Engineering, May 23–25, 2000
65th SYMPOSIUM, October 6 and 7, 2000
“The Fifteenth Annual William S. Johnson Symposium in Organic Chemistry”
[Co-sponsored by the Department of Chemistry]