Sunday |
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | Crystallization and Crystalline Polymers |
| Discussion Leader: Gregory Rutledge (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) |
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm | Scott Milner (Pennsylvania State University, USA) "Nucleation and Flow-Induced Crystallization" |
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
8:35 pm - 9:15 pm | Christopher Li (Drexel University, USA) "Designed Polymer Crystallization" |
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Monday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:30 am | Group Photo |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Polymer-Polymer Phase Behavior |
| Discussion Leader: Chinedum Osuji (Yale University, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Bradley Olsen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) "Thermodynamics of Globular Protein-Polymer Block Copolymers" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Monica Olvera de la Cruz (Northwestern University, USA) "Phase Segregation in Polymer Electrolytes" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | David Morse (University of Minnesota, USA) "Corresponding States, Fluctuations, and Chi in Diblock Copolymer Melts: Lessons from Simulations" |
12:10 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 | Structured Polymer Conductors |
| Discussion Leader: Christopher Soles (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Timothy Lodge (University of Minnesota, USA) "High Modulus and High Conductivity in Nanostructured Polymer Materials" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Enrique Gomez (Pennsylvania State University, USA) "Conjugated Polymers for Flexible Electronics" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Tuesday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Block Copolymer Thin Films |
| Discussion Leader: Thomas Epps (University of Delaware, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Paul Nealey (University of Chicago, USA) "Directed Self-Assembly of Block Copolymer Thin Films" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Gila Stein (University of Houston, USA) "Controlling Thin Film Structures of Ionic Block Copolymers Through Solution Self-Assembly" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Christopher Ellison (University of Texas, USA) "High Chi Block Copolymers and Photopatternable Interfaces for Controlling Thin Film Structure" |
12:10 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 | Segmental, Chain, and Ion Dynamics |
| Discussion Leader: Rodney Priestley (Princeton University, USA) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Spiros Anastasiadis (Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, Greece) "Effects of Confinement on Polymer Structure and Dynamics: The Case of Polymer Nanocomposites" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Ralph Colby (Pennsylvania State University, USA) "Interrelations of Segmental, Chain, and Ion Dynamics in Soft Ionomers" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Wednesday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Young Investigator Presentations: Future Directions in Polymer Physics |
| Discussion Leaders: Yueh-Lin Loo (Princeton University, USA) and Andrew Spakowitz (Stanford University, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:20 am | Lisa Hall (The Ohio State University, USA) "Theoretically-Informed Simulations of Microphase-Separated Copolymers" |
9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
9:30 am - 9:50 am | David Simmons (University of Akron, USA) "Insights into the Glass Transition from Simulations of Dynamics in the Deeply Supercooled Regime" |
9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:20 am | Zahra Fakhraai (University of Pennsylvania, USA) "Measuring Long-Range Correlated Dynamics in Amorphous Systems" |
10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:20 am | Bryan Boudouris (Purdue University, USA) "Correlating Structure with Charge Transport in Radical Polymers" |
11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 11:50 am | Megan Robertson (University of Houston, USA) "Tailored Properties of Biorenewable Polymers" |
11:50 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm | Carlos Lopez-Barron (ExxonMobil Chemical Company, USA) "Molecular Alignment of Polyethylene During Cold-Drawing: An In-Situ, Time-Resolved SANS Study" |
12:20 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 in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Confined Polymers |
| Discussion Leader: Ophelia Tsui (Boston University, USA) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Sindee Simon (Texas Tech University, USA) "Tg and Polymerization in Nanoconfined Systems" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Peter Green (University of Michigan, USA) "Size-Dependent Phenomena in Polymer Thin Films: Role of Molecular Topology" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Thursday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Nanocomposites |
| Discussion Leader: Jeffrey Meth (DuPont, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Arthi Jayaraman (University of Delaware, USA) "Tailoring the Polymer Grafts to Tune the Morphology of Polymer-Grafted Nanoparticles in Polymer Nanocomposites" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Ting Xu (University of California, Berkeley, USA) "Toward Designer Nanocomposites" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Sanat Kumar (Columbia University, USA) "Organizing Nanoparticles in Semicrystalline Polymers" |
12:10 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 | Ionomers |
| Discussion Leader: Karen Winey (University of Pennsylvania, USA) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Amalie Frischknecht (Sandia National Laboratories, USA) "Morphology, Dynamics, and Ion Transport in Isomers" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Moon Jeong Park (Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea) "Efficient Ion Transport in Acid-Tethered Polymers" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Friday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |