Tuesday's Sunrise Tutorials

There will be two 45-minute sunrise tutorial sessions given on Tuesday morning at 8:00 a.m.

The first tutorial will be presented by Milton Lee of the Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah) in Grand Ballroom A-E and is titled “State of the Art in Performance HPLC Columns with Organic Monoltihs”. Lee received a B.A. in Chemistry from the University of Utah in 1971 and a PhD in Analytical Chemistry from Indiana University in 1975. Dr. Lee spent one year (1975-76) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Postdoctoral Research Associate before taking a faculty position in the Chemistry Department atBrigham Young University.

The second tutorial, “Using Selectivity to Optimize Separations with Particulate Column Packings,” will be given by Joseph Pesek of San Jose State University (San Jose, California) in Grand Ballroom F-K . Pesek received his B.S. degree in Chemistry from the University of Illinois, and his PhD in Analytical Chemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles. He did a one-year postdoctoral fellowship at UCLA before becoming Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Northern Illinois University. He then moved to San Jose State University becoming Professor of Chemistry and has also served as Department Chair, and Dean for Graduate Studies and Research. He was selected the President’s Scholar at San Jose State in 1993 for his research productivity and contributions to the development of graduate students. He was named a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Scholar in 1993 and again in 2001. He was the project director for the development of the W.M. Keck Facility for Chemical Research at San Jose State. He has had sabbatical leaves in Paris, France (with Georges Guiochon) and Marseille, France (with Tony Siouffi), as well as Melbourne, Australia (with Milton Hearn).