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Program
The three day conference will consist of fifteen plenary lectures, of fifty minutes each, given by outstanding scientists whose exceptionally creative work opens up new frontiers for polymer science.
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In addition, there will be five poster sessions allowing for the viewing of a number of poster presentations. To submit your poster presentation for the conference please follow this link.
| Sunday, 7 June 2009 |
11:00 |
Registration |
14:00 |
Opening Remarks |
14:15 |
Evolution of POLYMER (1960-2009)
Ian M. Ward, University of Leeds, UK |
14:30 |
DYNAMERS: Dynamic Molecular and Supramolecular Polymers
Jean-Marie Lehn, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France, Nobel Laureate |
15:20 |
Supramolecular Assemblies of Smart Block Copolymers as Nanocarriers for Gene and Drug Delivery
Kazunori Kataoka, University of Tokyo, Japan |
16:10 |
Coffee Break and Poster Session 1 |
17:40 |
Carbon Polymers as CO2-negative products
Markus Antonietti, Max-Planck-Institut für Kolloid- und Grenzflächenforschung, Potsdam, Germany |
18:30 |
Welcome Reception |
| Monday, 8 June 2009 |
09:00 |
Is the Future Black? – The Search for Graphene and Carbon Materials
Klaus Müllen, Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung, Mainz, Germany |
09:50 |
Designing functional macromolecules: from energy conversion to
therapeutics
Jean M.J. Fréchet, University of California, Berkeley, USA |
10:40 |
Coffee Break |
11:10 |
How Polymer Chains Crystallize: Shifting Paradigms
Murugappan Muthukumar, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA |
12:00 |
High Flux Membranes: Properties of Thin Glassy Polymer Films
Donald R. Paul, University of Texas, Austin, USA |
12:50 |
Lunch |
14:30 |
Hybrid Materials at the Interface between Inorganic and Organic Polymers
Clément Sanchez, Université de Paris VI, France |
15:20 |
Capillary and Cascading Wrinkles
Thomas P. Russell, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA |
16:10 |
Coffee Break |
16:40 |
ATRP: from mechanism to materials
Kris Matyjaszewski, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA |
17:30 |
Poster Session 2 and Reception |
| Tuesday, 9 June 2009 |
08:30 |
Low Cost “Plastic” Solar Cells: Self-Assembly of Bulk Heterojunction
Nano-Materials by Spontaneous Phase Separation
Alan J. Heeger, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, Nobel Laureate |
09:20 |
Periodic Polymers for PhoXonics
Edwin L. Thomas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
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10:10 |
Coffee Break |
10:40 |
Heterointerfaces in conjugated polymer semiconducting devices
Sir Richard Friend, Cambridge University, UK |
11:30 |
Poster Session 3 |
13:00 |
Lunch |
14:00 |
Oleo-chemistry meets supramolecular chemistry: from self-healing plastics to rubbers
Ludwik Leibler, ESPCI (Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles), Paris, France |
14:50 |
Reinterpreting the Genetic Code
David Tirrell, California Institute of Technology, USA |
15:40 |
Closing Remarks |
15:50 |
End of the Symposium |
Please be advised that no photography or video/sound recording of conference presentations is allowed to take place during the conference.
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LOCATION
Congress Centrum Mainz, Germany
DATES
7–9 June 2009
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