MONDAY A. M.
Prof. J. D. Hoffman, Johns Hopkins University, Discussion Leader
Professor Frank Bates, University of Minnesota -- Block Copolymer Phase Behavior - Do We Really Know
What's Going On?
Professor Julius Vancso, University of Toronto -- Polymer Microstructure and Surface Properties by Scanning
Force Techniques; a Scientific Advancement or Novel Workhorse?
Professor Herve Marand, Virginia Polytechnic Institute -- Insights into the Nature & Properties of Polymer
Crystal-Liquid Interfaces
MONDAY P. M.
Dr. John Rabolt, IBM, Discussion Leader
Professor Richard Wool, University of Illinois --Validation of Reptation Dynamics
Invited Posters
TUESDAY A. M.
Professor William Brittain, University of Akron, Discussion Leader
Professor Joseph Desimone, University of North Carolina -- Polymers Materials and Processing in CO2
Professor Keith Johnston, University of Texas at Austin -- Tuning Polymer Properties and Morphology with
Supercritical Fluids
Professor Coleen Pugh, University of Michigan -- Smectic Mesophase Formation in Side Chain Liquid Crystal
Polymers with Laterally Attached Mesogens
TUESDAY P. M.
Professor Anna Balasz, University of Pittsburgh, Discussion Leader
Dr. Michael Rubinstein, Eastman Kodak -- Scaling Theory of Charged Polymers
Professor Glenn Fredrickson, University of California at Santa Barbara -- Entropy Driven Bulk and Surface
Segregation of Polymer Melts
WEDNESDAY A. M.
Professor Graham Williams, University of Swansea, UK, Discussion Leader
Professor Friedrich Kremer, University of Leipzig -- Molecular Dynamics of Thermoreversible Networks as
Studied by Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy
Professor Julia Kornfield, California Institute of Technology -- The Surprising Interplay Between Molecular
Weight and Mesophase Order in the Dynamics of Side Group LC Polymers
Professor Steven Chu, Stanford University -- Polymer Relaxation Experiments with Single Molecules of DNA
WEDNESDAY P. M.
Professor Bruce Novak, University of Massachusetts, Discussion Leader
Professor Robert Waymouth, Stanford University -- Stereo Block Polypropylenes: Synthesis of a Novel Class
of Thermoplastic Elastomers
Dr. James Stevens, Dow Chemical Company -- Synthesis, Structure and Rheological Properties of INSITE and
Other Metallocene Polyethylenes
THURSDAY A. M.
Professor Anne Mayes, MIT, Discussion Leader
Professor Matthew Tirrell, University of Minnesota -- The Influence of Interfacial Chains on Elastomer-Solid
Adhesion
Professor Edward Kramer, Cornell University -- Grafted Polymer Chains at Polymer - Polymer Interfaces
Dr. Thomas Russell, IBM -- Block Copolymer Morphology in Confined Spaces
THURSDAY P. M.
Professor M. Muthukumar, University of Massachusetts, Discussion Leader
Professor P.- G. de Gennes, ESPCI/ College de France -- Soft Interfaces
FRIDAY A. M.
Professor Edward Samulski, University of North Carolina, Discussion Leader
Dr Paul Danis, Rohm & Haas Company -- Applications of Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization
(MALDI) in Polymer Chemistry
Professor Tony Ryan, UMIST, UK -- Using Synchrotron Radiation Techniques to Study Polymer Phase
Transitions
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