| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Industrial Challenges |
| Discussion Leader: R Gilbert (U. of Sydney) |
| 7:30 pm | Bob Matheson (DuPont, Detroit)
Applying the scientific method: some current industrial targets |
| 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm | Adam Safir (Symyx Technologies Inc., Santa Clara, CA)
High throughput methodology in synthesizing polymer colloids |
| 9:10 pm | Discussion |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:30 am | Group Photo |
| 9:00 am - 11:15 pm | The state of the art in understanding mechanisms in formation and growth of polymer colloids |
| Discussion Leader: Finn-Knut Hansen (University of Oslo, Norway) |
| 9:00 am | Jose Asua (Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain)
The known and the controversies in fundamental mechanisms |
| 9:40 am | Discussion |
| 9:55 am | Coffee |
| 10:20 am | Klaus Tauer (Max Planck Intitut, Potsdam, Germany)
Fundamentals of particle nucleation |
| 11:00 am | Discussion |
| 11:15 am - 12:30 pm | Branching in emulsion polymerization |
| Discussion Leader: Joe Schork (Georgia Tech) |
| 11:15 am | Peter Lovell (UMIST, UK)
Chain transfer to polymer in emulsion polymerization: challenging precepts |
| 11:55 am | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Biological polymer colloids |
| Discussion Leader: Stan Slomkowski (Lodz, Poland) |
| 7:30 pm | Louise Slade (Nabisco, USA)
Glass transitions in supramolecular systems of starch hydrocolloids |
| 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm | Don Hiscock (Soy Polymer, St Louis MI)
New directions in protein-based polymer colloids |
| 9:10 pm | Discussion |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | High solids |
| Discussion Leader: Robert Pelton (McMaster U., Ontario) |
| 9:00 am | Marcelo Amaral (Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain)
High-solids latexes: advances and surprises |
| 9:40 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am | Coffee |
| 10:15 am | Chip Zukoski (U. of Illinois, Urbana)
States of colloidal aggregation: equilibrium and nonequilibrium aggregation in depletion systems |
| 10:55 am | Discussion |
| Discussion Leader: Theo van de Ven (McGill U., Québec) |
| 11:15 am | Tim McKenna (LCPP, Lyon, France)
Different routes to high solids content latices |
| 11:55 am | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Popularization of polymer colloids |
| Discussion Leaders: Dieter Urban (BASF, Germany) & Alex van Herk (Eindhoven U., The Netherlands) |
| 7:30 pm | (all participants) |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Controlled radical polymerization in disperse systems: from dreams to reality |
| Discussion Leader: Mike Cunningham (Queens U., Ontario) |
| 9:00 am | BS Hawkett (U. of Sydney, Australia)
RAFT in emulsion without tears |
| 9:30 am | Discussion |
| 9:45 am | Mitsuo Sawamoto (Kyoto U., Japan)
Metal-catalyzed living radical polymerization in water: precision polymer synthesis in aqueous suspension |
| 10:15 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am | Coffee |
| 10:45 am | Barkev Keoshkerian (Xerox Canada, Ontario)
Contrasts between batch and continous nitroxide-controlled radical polymerizations in disperse systems |
| 11:15 am | Discussion |
| Discussion Leader: Don Sundberg (U. of New Hampshire) |
| 11:30 am | Andy Klein (Lehigh U.)
Expandable microspheres |
| 12:00 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Poster session |
| Discussion Leader: Koichi Takamura (BASF USA) |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Election of Vice-chair for 2005 |
| 9:15 am - 11:00 am | New methods in emulsion polymerization |
| Discussion Leader: Mitch Winnik (U. of Toronto) |
| 9:15 am | Francois Ganachaud (U. Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris)
Cationic polymerization of p-methoxystyrene in miniemulsion: towards the generation of high molar masses |
| 9:45 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am | Elodie Bourgeat-Lami (CNRS, Lyon, France)
Synthesis and characterization of organic/inorganic nanocomposite colloids |
| 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:45 am | Coffee |
| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Colloids at Interfaces |
| Discussion Leader: Ron Ottewill (Bristol U., U.K.) |
| 11:00 am | James Taylor (SC Johnson, Wisconsin)
Latexes with Allyl Functionality: An Approach for Designing Thermosetting Latex Films |
| 11:45 am | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Self-Assembly |
| Discussion Leader: Koichi Takamura (BASF USA) |
| 7:30 pm | Joe Keddie (U. of Surrey, U.K.)
Interplay between colloidal particles and the serum phase at latex film interfaces |
| 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm | Franziska Groehn (Max Planck Institut, Mainz, Germany)
Electrostatic self-assembly |
| 9:10 pm | Discussion |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Depart |
