| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 11:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Welcome Reception |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | BLOCK COPOLYMERS I |
| Discussion Leader: Steve Hahn (Dow Chemical) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:15 pm | Rick Register (Princeton U.)
"Structure of Crystallizable ROMP Homopolymers and Block Copolymers" |
| 8:15 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 9:15 pm | Venkat Ganesan (U. Texas)
"Dynamical Phenomena in Multicomponent Polymers" |
| 9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | FILMS AND SURFACES |
| Discussion Leader: Karen Winey (U. Penn) |
| 9:00 am - 9:45 am | Eugenia Kumacheva (U. Toronto)
"Friction and Lubrication between Hydrogel Surfaces" |
| 9:45 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:15 am | Steve Granick (U. Illinois)
"Polymer-assisted fun with phospholipids" |
| 11:15 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:15 pm | Jan Genzer (North Carolina State U.)
"Adjusting monomer sequence distributions in random copolymer via 'chemical painting" |
| 12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Group Photo / Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | SUBMOLECULAR SCALE STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS |
| Discussion Leader: Scott Milner (ExxonMobil) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:15 pm | Ron Larson (U. Michigan)
"Visualizing the tube and entanglements in microscopic simulations of entangled polymers" |
| 8:15 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 9:15 pm | Doros Theodoros (N.T. U. Athens)
"Hierarchical Simulations of Amorphous Polymer Properties" |
| 9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | APPLICATION INSPIRED MATERIALS |
| Discussion Leader: Ned Thomas (MIT) |
| 9:00 am - 9:45 am | Henning Sirringhaus (Plastic Logic, Cambridge, England)
"Charge transport at organic-organic heterointerfaces" |
| 9:45 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:15 am | George Hadziioannou (University Louis Pasteur Strasbourg France)
"Polyrotaxanes and their Topological Networks: towards Optical and Semiconducting Polymer Materials" |
| 11:15 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:15 pm | John Rogers (U. Illinois)
"Polymers for Nanofabrication: 3D Structures and Molecular
Level Resolution
" |
| 12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS |
| Discussion Leader: Janna Maranas (Penn State) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:15 pm | Wes Burghardt (Northwestern U.)
"Dynamics and Rheology of Polymer Bicontinuous Microemulsions" |
| 8:15 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 9:15 pm | Dave Morse (U. Minnesota)
"Removing nanojunk from coarse-grained theories of fluctuation effects in polymer mixtures" |
| 9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | COMPLEX STRUCTURES |
| Discussion Leader: Georg Krausch (Universität Bayreuth) |
| 9:00 am - 9:45 am | Mike Rubner (MIT)
"Mechanical, optical and wetting properties of layer-by-layer assembled polymer thin films containing nanoparticles" |
| 9:45 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:15 am | Stephan Forster (U. Hamburg)
"About ordered pores, vesicles and deskjet printers" |
| 11:15 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:15 pm | Nitash Balsara (UC Berkeley)
"Ion-containing Block Copolymers" |
| 12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| (Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair) |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | BIO-INSPIRED SYSTEMS |
| Discussion Leader: Maria Santore (UMass) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:15 pm | Dan Hammer (U. Pennsylvania)
"Multi-functional polymer vesicles" |
| 8:15 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 9:15 pm | Ka Yee Lee (U. Chicago)
"Membrane Sealing by Poloxamers" |
| 9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | BLOCK COPOLYMERS II |
| Discussion Leader: Tim Lodge (U. Minnesota) |
| 9:00 am - 9:45 am | Paul Nealey (U. Wisconsin)
"Directed assembly of block copolymers for lithographic applications in two and three dimensions" |
| 9:45 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:15 am | Rachel Segalman (UC Berkeley)
"Weakly segregated rod-coil block copolymers: phase behavior and applications" |
| 11:15 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:15 pm | Uli Weisner (Cornell University)
"Structure Control in Block Copolymer Assemblies and Nanoparticle Co-Assemblies" |
| 12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | THEORY AND PRACTICE |
| Discussion Leader: Tony Ryan (U. Sheffield) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:15 pm | Jane Lipson (Dartmouth)
"Polymer glasses and mixtures: Effect of the neighborhood on bulk behavior" |
| 8:15 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 9:15 pm | Joseph M. DeSimone (University of North Carolina and NC State)
"Teasing New Opportunities Out of Imprint Lithography Through the Use of Curable Liquid Fluoropolymers" |
| 9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Departure |
