The Fifth World Congress of Particle Technology

2006 April 23-27 --- a Photo-report

Sunday: Optional Trip to the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral

The "flower garder" of American rockets.

Monday: Memorial Session for Brian Scarlett

The managers of WCPT5 encourage you to support the
           Brian Scarlett Scholarship Fund.

Reg Davies (DuPont; IFPRI; Univ. FL)
spoke of his long-time colleague and friend as
"Myth, Motivator, Mentor, and Man".
Then Scarlett's colleagues from many continents
presented work representing Scarlett's wide-ranging interests.

Richard Williams (Inst. Part. Sci., Leeds, UK)
reported on the development of standards for shape analysis

Maria da Graca Rastiero (Coimbra Univ., Portugal)
showed how particle size distribution affected ceramic fabrication

Jose Angel Sorrentino (univ. Cent. Venezuela, Caracas)
discussed the relation of particle packing to cake permeability

Henk Merkus (Univ. Delft, Netherlands)
stressed the need to consider sampling errors in size analysis

Yasushige Mori (Doshisha Univ, Kyoto, Japan)
described the use of lasser diffraction to determine particle sizes

Tuesday: Tutorials and the Banquet

Al Weimer (Univ. Colorado, Boulder) gave a two-hour tutorial on
"Functionalized Nanoparticles". This was broadcast over the Web
so that industrial workers and students who could not attend
the entire Congress could benefit from this event.

AIChE President, John Chen (Lehigh Univ., PA)
welcomed the world community of particle technologists
as a fellow researcher specializing in particle technology.

WCPT5 Chair, George Klinzing, was master of ceremonies for the awards banquet,
at which the recipients of international awards were recognized
and the organizers and track chairs were thanked for their efforts.

The Society of Powder Technology of Japan presented
the Inoiya Award to Chi Tien (Syracuse Univ., NY).

The Technical Leadership Team and the Track Chairs
[left to right] Jennifer Sinclair Curtis, Ray Cocco, Ugur Tuzun, Dick Turton,
Rafaella Occone, Ralph Nelson, Hamid Arastopour, George Klinzing,
Clive Davies, Martin Rhodes, ??, Shrikant Dhodapkar, Paul Mort

The Univ. of Florida Theater Group performed contemporary Broadway tunes.

Wednesday: Technical Sessions, Poster Sessions, Exposition

All work and no photos

Thursday: Celebrating a 70th Birthday; Looking Forward to WCPT6 in 2010

Reg Davies described how particle characterization has changed
during the past fifty years, as his status has changed
"From Bulldog to Eagle to Dinosaur"

The cake was attractive and tasty, but of modest size.

Fortunately for the large audience we also had 250 cupcakes ready.

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Reg received many best wishes from his many friends in from many lands.

And we bade farewell to each other until the WCPT6 in 2010.
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Gabrie Meesters (DSM-Research Delft) invited us to put WCPT6 on calendars for 2010
and Andreas Schmidt-Ott (TU Delft) gave the WCPT5 leaders tulips - symbols for WCPT6.