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The International Zeolite Association (IZA) was organized in 1973 at the 3rd International Molecular Sieve Conference to promote and encourage the development of all aspects of zeolite science and technology.

 

Latest News
   
29-Jul-2010 News from the Zeolite 2010 Congress in Sofia, Bulgaria (11-18 July 2010)
    This meeting of the International Natural Zeolite Association was organized by Ognyan Petrov of the Central Laboratory of Mineralogy and Crystallography of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and was attended by about 120 researchers from 30 different countries. The field trip in Eastern Rhodopes covered the best natural zeolite deposits in Bulgaria and included the recently discovered Thracian holy city and Byzantine fortress Perpericon built within zeolitized rock.
    Congratulations to
      the recipient of the 2010 Frederick A. Mumpton Award for outstanding contriubtions to natural zeolites: Prof. Carmine Colella
      and the recipient of the 2010 INZA Award: Prof. G. Kirov.
    The new president of the INZA is Prof. Alessio Langella.
     
21-Jul-2010 News from the IZC-16 & IMMS-7 in Sorrento
  Thanks to
    Gabriele Centi and Gigi Giordano and their team for organizing this successful joint conference
   
  Congratulations to
    the recipients of the 2007 Breck Award
      Yushan Yan and Ryong Ryoo
      for their respective contributions in advancing the science of zeolite thin films and the direct synthesis of zeolite nanosheets
         
    the new IZA Ambassador, the recipient of the 2010 IZA Award
      Lynne B. McCusker
      for the seminal contributions she has made together with Christian Baerlocher to the crystallography of zeolites and for her continuous service to the zeolite community
   
  At the IZA Business Meeting, the IZA membership selected
    the venue for the 18th IZC in 2016:
      Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
         
    and seven new Council members:
      Giuseppe Bellussi
Miroslaw Derewinski
Eduardo Falabella
Girolamo Giordano
Tatsuya Okubo
Joaquin Perez-Pariente
Paul Wright
   
  The new Executive Committee of the IZA Council is
    Giuseppe Bellussi, President
Mingyuan He, Vice-President
Paul Wright, Secretary
Steve Wilson, Treasurer
   
  The next IZC will be held in 2013 in Moscow, Russia
   
16-Jul-2010 Imre Kiricsi (1948-2010)
 

It is with great sadness that we must report that Prof. Imre Kiricsi, organizer of the First International Conference of the Federation of European Zeolite Associations (FEZA) in Eger, Hungary in 1999 and one of the members of the FEZA Council, passed away on July 11, 2010.

Prof. Kiricsi initiated the foundation of the Hungarian Zeolite Association in 1992, and had been its president since 1998. During this time, the HZA organized several international meetings and Prof. Kiricsi served as the co-editor of the resulting proceedings. He was the Director of the Applied Chemistry Department at Szeged Univeristy Attila Jósef and the recipient of a number of prizes, including the Gold Cross of Merit of the Hungarian Republic in 2006 and the Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Prize in 2010. Some more details on his scientific achievements have been compiled by his colleague Janos Nagy and can be found here.

   
1-Jul-2010 The Commission on Natural Zeolites has been busy
    There are now datasheets for 38 natural zeolites on their website.
     
8-Jun-2010 Johnson Matthey has two open positions for Zeolite Scientists
    Click here for more details
   
8-Feb-2010 Zeolite Session at the IMA Conference (21-27 Aug 2010, Budapest, Hungary)
  There will be a session entitled Zeolites and porous materials at this conference.
It will cover both synthetic and natural zeolites and porous materials as well as their utilization, synthesis, properties, and occurrence with an emphasis on crystal chemical properties.
   
13-Jan-2010 The Structure Commission has approved three new Framework Type Codes
    MVY Type material: MCM-70  
    PUN Type material: PKU-9  
    SAF Type material: STA-15  
 
 

 

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last updated: 29-July-2010
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