Program in Polymers and Soft Matter (PPSM)
Past Polymer Seminar Speakers (1993-2019)
SPRING 2019
Prof. Dr. Sébastien Lecommandoux, Bordeaux-INP, ENSCBP
TOPIC: “Biomimetic Polymersomes Self-Assemblies as Active Functional Biomaterials”
Prof. Raymond Tu, Department of Chemical Engineering, City College of New York, CUNY
TOPIC: “Quantifying the Competitive Adsorption Between Biomacromolecules and Surfactants at the Air/Water Interface”
Prof. Brett P. Fors, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University
TOPIC: “Development and Applications of New Synthetic Strategies for Polymer Science”
Dr. Jean-François Lutz, CNRS Research Director, Deputy Director of the Institut Charles Sadron
TOPIC: “Digital Polymers: Emergence of a New Class of Synthetic Macromolecules”
Prof. Qian Chen, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
TOPIC: “Direct Nanoscopic Imaging: From crystallization of nanoparticles to fluctuation of membrane proteins”
Prof. Glenn H. Fredrickson, Materials Research Laboratory, University of California/Santa Barbara
TOPIC: “Field-Theoretic Simulations: An emerging tool for soft material design”
Prof. Allon I. Hochbaum, Department of Chemistry, University of California/Irvine
TOPIC: “Electronic Conductivity in Supramolecular Biomaterials”
Prof. Emily B. Pentzer, Department of Chemistry, Case Western Reserve University
TOPIC: “Assembly of 2D Particles at Fluid-Fluid Interfaces to Architect Advanced Composite Materials”
Prof. Francesco Stellacci, Supramolecular Nanomaterials and Interfaces Laboratory, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
TOPIC: “Supramolecular Antivirals”
FALL 2018
Prof. Garret M. Miyake, Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University
TOPIC: “Organocatalyzed Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization”
Prof. Cecilia Leal, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign
TOPIC: “Complexity in the Chemistry and Physics of Lipid Membranes as a Handle to Activate the Delivery of Cargo to Cells”
Prof. Matthew B. Francis, Department of Chemistry, University of California/Berkeley
TOPIC: “Making New Materials from Synthetically Modified Proteins”
Prof. Charles E. Sing, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign
TOPIC: “Designing Polymer Materials Using the Precise Placement of Molecular Charge”
Prof. Ting Xu, Departments of Materials Science and Engineering and Chemistry, University of California/Berkeley
TOPIC: “Understand Entropy: A Valuable Path Toward Functional Materials”
SPRING 2018
Prof. Meredith Silberstein, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University
TOPIC: “Mechanics and Chemistry in Designing Polymers”
EXPONENT Tech Talk
Dr. Corissa Lee, Sr. Associate and Dr. John McGann, Sr. Scientist, Exponent Polymer Science and Materials Chemistry
TOPIC: “Failure Analysis: Outside the Lab”
Prof. Darren J. Lipomi, Department of Nano Engineering, Univ. of California/San Diego
TOPIC: “Mechanical Properties of Semi-Conducting Polymers for Energy and Virtual Touch”
Prof. Samir Mitragotri, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
TOPIC: “Understanding and Overcoming Biological Barriers to Drug Delivery”
Prof. Monica Olvera de la Cruz, Departments of Materials Science and Engineering, and Chemistry, Northwestern University
TOPIC: “Control of Functionalized NanoParticle Assembly”
Prof. Michael Dickey, Department of Chemical and Biololecular Engineering, North Carolina State University
TOPIC: “Mechanics and Chemistry in Designing Polymers”
Prof. Rein V. Ulijn, Director, NanoScience Initiative, Advanced Science Research Center, City University of New York (CUNY)
TOPIC: “Guiding Principles for Peptide-Based, Life-Like Nanotechnology”
FALL 2017
Prof. Zhibin Guan, Department of Chemistry, University of California/Irvine
TOPIC: “Be Strong, Tough, Adaptive and Self-Healing: Life Lessons Applied to Soft Material Designs”
Dr. Byeongdu Lee, Argonne National Laboratory
TOPIC: “Small Angle X-ray Scattering Studies of Colloidal Nanoparticles”
Prof. Nathan Gianneschi, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University
TOPIC: “Seek, Destroy and Heal: Enzyme-Responsive Nanoparticles as In Vivo Targeted Delivery Systems”
MIT STUDENT SEMINAR
Abigail Halim [Holten-Andersen Group], Department of Materials Science and Engineering
German Parada [Zhao and Olsen Groups], Department of Chemical Engineering
Mukarram Tahir [Alexander-Katz Group], Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Prof. Mir Wais Hosseini, University of Strasbourg, Institute for Advanced Study
TOPIC: “Molecular Tectonics: From Networks of Molecules to Networks of Crystals”
Prof. Yan Xia, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University
TOPIC: “Building and Breaking Macromolecular Ladders to Develop Functional Materials”
SPRING 2017
Prof. Tae Lim Choi, Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University
TOPIC: “Applying New Synthetic Methods to Versatile Polymerization”
Prof. Bing Xu, Department of Chemistry, Brandeis University
TOPIC: “Molecular design of soft matter as anticancer therapeutics or active materials”
Prof. Ke Zhang, College of Science, Northeastern University
TOPIC: “Teaching Oligonucleotides New Tricks — A Macromolecular Approach”
Prof. Luyi Sun, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Connecticut
TOPIC: “Bio-inspired Multifunctional Stimuli-Responsive Materials”
Dr. Salmaan Baxamusa, Staff Scientist, Materials Science Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
TOPIC: “Polymers for Big Science: Free-standing films and low-stress CVD materials at the National Ignition Facility”
Dr. Brett A. Helms, The Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
TOPIC: “Applying the Tools of Materials Genomics to Address Charge-Transport Bottlenecks in Electrochemical Devices”
Dr. Kenneth R. Shull, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
TOPIC: “Deposition, mechanics and phase behavior of polyelectrolyte complex films”
FALL 2016
Prof. Jinming Gao, Southwestern Medical Center, University of Texas
TOPIC: “pH Nanotransistors to Digitize Biological Signals”
2nd Annual PPSM Aldrich Lecture
Prof. Karen L. Wooley, Departments of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering
TOPIC: “Expanding the Scopes of Synthetic Organic and Polymer Chemistries: Utilization of the inherent stereochemical and functional diversities of natural products to produce unique materials”
Prof. Niels Holten-Andersen, MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE)
TOPIC: “Bio-Inspired Metal-Coordination Dynamics: An Easier Way to Engineer Supramolecular Mechanics?”
Prof. David K. Smith, Department of Chemistry, University of York
TOPIC: “Hard Facts About Soft Matter: Self-Assembled Multi-Component Gels for High-Tech Applications”
Prof. Mark W. Grinstaff, Departments of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering, Boston University
TOPIC: “Clinically Informed Biomaterials: Chemistry and Engineering”
Prof. Padma Gopalan, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin
TOPIC: “Engineering Interfacial Properties with Polymer Brushes and Nano-patterns”
Prof. Aaron Esser-Kahn, Department of Chemistry, University of California/Irvine
TOPIC: “Polymeric Tools to Manipulate Innate Immunity: Probing a Code Without a Key”
Prof. Nicolas J. Alvarez, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Drexel University
TOPIC: “The Effect of Chemistry on Rheology in Supramolecular Polymers”
Prof. Ryan C. Hayward, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts/Amherst
TOPIC: “Tuning domain connectivity in multi-component polymer-based materials”
SPRING 2016
Prof. Felix R. Fischer, Department of Chemistry, UC Berkeley
TOPIC: “Teaching Polymers the Meaning of Life and Nanographene Quantum Confinement”
Prof. Frank S. Bates, College of Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota
TOPIC: “Frank-Kasper and Quasicrystal Phases in Short Block Polymers”
Prof. Anish Tuteja, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
TOPIC: “Designing Surfaces with Extreme Wettabilities”
Prof. Joseph Tracy, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
TOPIC: “Functional Nanoparticles for Responsive Polymer Composites”
Prof. C. Grant Willson, Departments of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, University of Texas/Austin
TOPIC: “Polymers for High Resolution Imaging Applications”
Dr. Ronald Zuckermann, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
TOPIC: “New nanomaterials at the interface of structural biology and polymer science”
Prof. Ullrich Steiner, Soft Matter Physics Group, Adolphe Merkle Institute, Fribourg, Switzerland
TOPIC:“10-nm Structure Formation in Emerging Photovoltaics by Polymer Self-Assembly and Crystallisation”
Prof. LaShanda T. Korley, Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Case Western University
TOPIC: “Utilizing concepts of mechanics, transport, and assembly in Nature – towards responsive materials”
Prof. Makoto Ouchi, Department of Polymer Chemistry, Kyoto University
TOPIC: “Control of Side-Chain Sequence and Main-Chain Topology for Vinyl Polymers”
FALL 2015
Prof. Adam Willard, MIT Department of Chemistry
TOPIC: “Electronic structure and dynamics in disordered organic conjugated systems”
1st Annual PPSM Aldrich Lecture
Prof. Virgil Percec, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania/Philadelphia
TOPIC: “Mimicking Complex Biological Membranes and their Programmable Glycan Ligands”
Prof. Anna C. Balazs, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Pittsburgh
TOPIC: “Designing ‘Materials that Compute’: Coupling self-oscillating gels and piezoelectric films”
Prof. Stuart J. Rowan, Department of Molecular Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University
TOPIC: “Using Dynamic Chemistry to Access Stimuli-Responsive Materials”
Prof. Matthew L. Becker, Department of Polymer Science, University of Akron
TOPIC:“Using Poly(ester urea)s for Functional Regeneration of Bone and Vascular Tissues”
Prof. Bryan Boudouris, School of Engineering, Purdue University
TOPIC: “Designing Macromolecules for Advanced Energy Conversion and Separations Applications”
Prof. Rafal Klajn, Department of Organic Chemistry, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel
TOPIC: “From dynamically self-assembling materials to chemical reactivity in confined environments”
Prof. Randy H. Ewoldt, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois
TOPIC: “Droplet impacts: when yield-stress fluids do and do not stick”
Prof. Scott T. Milner, Department of Chemical Engineering, Penn State University
TOPIC: “Tubes, Topology, and Entangled Rings”
Prof. Sung Gap Im, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
TOPIC: “Vapor-phase deposited polymeric thin films for the application to gate dielectric layer in organic electronics”
| SPRING 2015 |
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| Prof. Moon Jeong Park, Department of Chemical Engineering, POSTECH (Korea) TOPIC: “Morphology and Ion Transport in Block Copolymer Electrolytes” |
| Prof. Christine Luscombe, Department of Chemistry, University of Washington TOPIC: “Precise Engineering of Semi-conducting Polymers for Organic Electronics” |
| MIT POLYMER DAY 2015 SYMPOSIUM Dr. Julia A. Kalow (Swager Group) TOPIC: “ROMPing In and Out: Synthesis and Self-Assembly of Conjugated H-Shaped Polymers” PhD Candidate Michelle K. Sing (McKinley/Olsen Groups) TOPIC: “Importance of chain tumbling and finite extension on the startup and relaxation behavior of transient networks” PhD Candidate Justin Kleingartner (Cohen/McKinley Groups) TOPIC: “Designing robust hierarchically-textured superoleophobic fabrics”PhD Candidate Shengchang Tang (Olsen Group) TOPIC: “Anomalous diffusion and sticky Rouse dynamics in associating networks” |
| Prof. Nicole Zacharia, Department of Polymer Engineering, University of Akron TOPIC: “Modulating Interactions in Polyelectrolyte Multilayers” |
| Prof. Kris Matyjaszewski, Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University TOPIC: “Nanostructured Functional Materials by Taming Radicals” |
| Prof. Malika Jeffries El, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University TOPIC: “Tuning the properties of conjugated polymers via atomic engineering” |
| Prof. Jeffrey S. Moore, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois TOPIC:“Polymer Mechanochemistry and Self-healing Materials” |
| FALL 2014 |
| Prof. Gareth H. McKinley, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering TOPIC: “Power-Law Gels, Scott-Blair and the Fractional Calculus of Soft Networks and Multiscale Soft Materials” |
| Prof. James Swan, MIT Department of Chemical Engineering TOPIC: “Strong or Weak, Quick or Slow: Interpreting nonlinear viscoelasticity from large amplitude oscillatory flow” |
| U. Mass./Amherst Department of Polymer Science and Engineering PhD Students: Nakul Bende (Hayward Group) TOPIC: “Catastrophic Success”: Snap through folding of curved shells” AND Jonathan Pham (Crosby Group) TOPIC: “Formation and Mechanics of Hierarchical Nanoparticle-based Structures” |
| Prof. Stephen L. Craig, Department of Chemistry, Duke University TOPIC: “Mechanochemical Remodeling of Polymers” |
| Prof. William R. Dichtel, Cornell University TOPIC: “Polymerization Across Multiple Dimensions“ |
| Prof. A.J. (Andrew) Boydston, Department of Chemistry, University of Washington TOPIC:“Polymer Mechanochemistry for the Triggered Release of Small Molecules” |
| Prof. Mitchell Anthamatten, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Rochester TOPIC: “H-bonding Polymers: From glasses to shape-memory elastomers” |
| SUMMER 2014 |
| Prof. Nico Bruns, Adolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg, Switzerland TOPIC: “Harnessing Proteins for Polymer Synthesis, Nano-Reactors, and Force-Responsive Materials“ |
| SPRING 2014 |
| Dr. Millicent A. Firestone, 87The Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Labs TOPIC: “Hierarchically-structured electronically conducting polyelectrolytes for bioelectronics” |
| Prof. João Miguel Nobrega, Department of Polymer Engineering, University of Minho (Portugal) TOPIC: “Design of Extruded Profile Forming Tools” |
| Prof. Michael Rubinstein, Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill TOPIC: “Airway Surface Brush Sweeps Lungs Clean: Polymer Physics Helps Us Breathe Easier” |
| Prof. Ronald G. Larson, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan TOPIC: “Accurate Modeling of Polymer Dynamics in Simple and Complex Flows” |
| Prof. Ravi Prakash Jagadeeshan, Monash University TOPIC: “Micro and Macro in the Dynamics of Dilute Polymer Solutions“ |
| Prof. Ana Vera Machado, Institute for Polymers and Composites, University of Minho (Portugal) TOPIC: “Reactive Extrusion: an Overview” |
| Prof. RJ (Renko) de Vries, Wageningen UR (The Netherlands) TOPIC: “Supramolecular Design of a Minimal Coat-Protein for an Artificial Virus” |
| Prof. Darrin Pochan, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Delaware TOPIC: “Nanostructure and Material Construction through Peptide or Block Copolymer Solution Assembly“ |
| Prof. Marc A. Hillmyer, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota/Twin Cities TOPIC: “Functional block polymers as masks, membranes and monoliths” |
| FALL 2013 |
| Prof. Nitash P. Balsara, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley TOPIC: “Nanostructured Block Copolymers for All-Solid Lithium Batteries” |
| Prof. Malancha Gupta, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science,University of Southern California TOPIC: “Directed Deposition of Functional Polymers onto Structured Materials and Liquid Surfaces” |
| Dr. Gregoire Cardoen, Dow Chemical R & D Formulation Science TOPIC: “From Suspension to Emulsion Polymers: Challenges in Industrial Research” |
| Prof. Zvonimir Dogic, Department of Physics, Brandeis University TOPIC: “Spontaneous motion and flows in active liquid crystals” |
| Prof. Gert Strobl, University of Freiburg TOPIC: “Laws controlling crystallization and melting in bulk polymers” |
| Prof. Alfred J. Crosby, Dept. of Polymer Science and Engineering, U.Mass. AmherstTOPIC: “Draping Materials: Polymer-Nanoparticle Ribbons, Helices, and Fabrics” |
| SPRING 2013 |
| Prof. Chinedum Osuji, Dept. of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yale University TOPIC: “Scalable Directed Self-Assembly and Anisotropic Transport Properties of Block Copolymer and Surfactant Mesophases” |
| Prof. Murugappan Muthukumar, Dept. of Polymer Science and Engineering, U. Mass./Amherst TOPIC: “Theory of macromolecular transport through protein channels and nanopores” |
| Prof. Ahmed E. Ismail, RWTH Aachen University (Germany) TOPIC: “Using Molecular Simulation to Understand Cellulose Dissolution Mechanisms” |
| Prof. Joanna Aizenberg, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University TOPIC: “Hydrogel-actuated integrated responsive systems (HAIRS): Moving towards adaptive, homeostatic materials” |
| POLYMER DAY SYMPOSIUMMIT PPST Graduate Student Charlotte Stewart-Sloan (Olsen Group) TOPIC: “Using Self-assembly on Multiple Length Scales to Design Bio-inspired Light Harvesting Materials”MIT PPST Graduate Student Siddarth Srinivasan (Cohen and McKinley Groups) TOPIC: “Hierarchically Structured Polymeric Surfaces – Applications in Reducing Fluid Friction and Enhancing Liquid-Repellency in Fabrics”MIT Post-Doc Huaxing Zhou (Johnson Group)TOPIC: “Photo-controlled Growth of Telechelic Polymers and End-linked Polymer Gels” |
| Prof. Timothy Deming, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry TOPIC: “Synthetic multi-functional polypeptide materials for biomedical applications” |
| Prof. Samuel W. Thomas, Dept. of Chemistry, Tufts University TOPIC: “Controlling Polymer Thin Films with Light” |
| Prof. Enrique D. Gomez, Dept. Of Chemical Engineering, Penn State University TOPIC: “The role of miscibility and mesostructure in organic photovoltaics” |
| Prof. Jane E. G. Lipson, Dept. of Chemistry, Dartmouth College TOPIC: “Mixing it up in the polymer world: Understanding and controlling miscibility in polymer solutions and blends” |
| Prof. Scott Phillips, Dept. of Chemistry, Penn State University TOPIC: “Polymeric Materials with Amplified Responses to Specific External Signals” |
| FALL 2012 |
| Prof. Jeremiah A. Johnson, MIT Dept. of Chemistry TOPIC: “New Methods for Synthesis and Characterization of Polymer Networks and Nanoparticles” |
| Prof. Thomas J. McCarthy, Dept. of Polymer Science and Engineering, U. Mass./Amherst TOPIC: “PDMS Pushed to Extremes” |
| Prof. Angelo Cacciuto, Dept. of Chemistry, Columbia University TOPIC: “Nanoparticle-driven tube formation on fluid membranes and microphase separation on curved templates” |
| Prof. Shi-Qing Wang, College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering, University of Akron TOPIC: “Exploring the phenomenological and conceptual foundation of nonlinear polymer rheology: From simple shear and uniaxial extension to other types of deformation” |
| Prof. Vinothan N. Manoharan, Dept. of Physics, Harvard University TOPIC: “Polymer particles and liquid interfaces” |
| Dr. Yeng-Long Chen, Institute of Physics, Academica Sinica (Taiwan) (Doyle Group Guest) TOPIC: “Squeezing DNA: Properties of a semi-flexible polymer in strong confinement” |
| Prof. Yao Lin, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Connecticut TOPIC: “Cooperative behaviors in macromolecules and macromolecular assemblies” |
| Prof. Justin Hanes, Director, Center for Nanomedicine, Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University TOPIC: “Mucus Penetrating Nanoparticles” |
SPRING 2012 |
| Dr. Ramanathan Nagarajan, US Army Natick Soldier Center TOPIC: “Thermodynamic Stabilization of Nanoparticle Dispersions by Co-Assembly with Block Copolymers” |
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Prof. Niels Holten-Andersen, Department of Chemistry, Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, and the James Franck Institute, University of Chicago |
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POLYMER DAY Seminars: Dr. Joseph Walish (MIT DMSE Thomas Lab), Dr. Simon Haward (MIT MechE McKinley Lab), Adam S. Zeiger (MIT DMSE Van Vliet Lab), |
| Prof. Christopher Macosko, College of Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota TOPIC: “Co-continuous Polymer Blends to Create Microporous Membranes” |
| Prof. Matthew Tirrell, Tirrell, Pritzker Director of the Institute for Molecular Engineering TOPIC: “Multivalent Ionic Interactions in Multicomponent Polyelectrolyte Mixtures: From New Physics to New Materials” |
| Prof. Jodie L. Lutkenhaus, Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University TOPIC: “Layer-by-Layer Assemblies: From Fundamental Thermal Analysis to Electrochemical Energy Storage Applications” |
| Prof. Russell E. Gorga, Textile Engineering Program Director, North Carolina State University TOPIC: “Unconfined fluid electrospun into high quality nanofibers from a static reservoir” |
| Prof. LaShanda Korley, Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University TOPIC: “Towards mechanically-tunable materials inspired by nature” |
| FALL 2011 |
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Prof. David Kaplan, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University
TOPIC: “New Functional Materials via Bioengineering”
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Prof. Junsang Doh, I-Bio/Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTech)
TOPIC: “Polymer-Based Micro/Nano Systems to Interrogate T cell Dynamics” |
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Prof. Katharina Ribbeck, MIT Biological Engineering
TOPIC: “From Nuclear Pores to Mucus: A study of biological hydrogel-based filters”
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| Prof. David J. Mooney, School of Engineering and Applied Science and Wyss Institute, Harvard University TOPIC: “Infection-Mimicking Polymers” |
| Prof. Richard Superfine, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill TOPIC: “The River Within: How the Lung Stays Clean” |
| Prof. Gregory N. Tew, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, U. Mass./Amherst TOPIC: “Designing Synthetic Macromolecules with Strong Similarities to Biology” |
| Prof. Anne J. McNeil, Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan TOPIC: “Synthesizing TT-conjugated copolymers with sequence control using Ni catalysis” |
| Prof. Heather D. Maynard, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA TOPIC: “Stabilizing Proteins with Polymer Conjugates” |
| SPRING 2011 |
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| Prof. Thomas H. Epps, University of DelawareTOPIC: “Using Interfacial Manipulations to Generate Functional Materials from Nanostructured Polymers” |
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Prof. Mahesh Mahanthappa, University of Wisconsin |
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Prof. Kenneth R. Shull, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University |
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Dr. Charlene W. Mello, Natick Soldier Center, US Army Research Lab |
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Prof. Arijit Bose, Head, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Rhode Island |
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PPST Graduate Student Wu Siew Tan, Rubner and Cohen Groups |
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Prof. John D. Tovar, Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University |
| FALL 2010 |
| Prof. Kevin D. Dorfman, University of Minnesota TOPIC: “DNA Electrophoresis in Microfabricated Devices” |
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Prof. Wolfgang Knoll, Austrian Institute of Technology |
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Prof. Rama Bansil, Boston University |
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Prof. Bradley D. Olsen, MIT Chemical Engineering |
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Prof. Igal Szleifer, Northwestern University |
| Prof. Kenneth Wagener, University of Florida TOPIC: “Using Metathesis to Control Polymer Morphology” |
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Prof. Todd Emrick, U. Mass/Amherst |
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Prof. Malika Jeffries-El, Iowa State University |
| SPRING 2010 |
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Prof. Samuel P. Gido, U. Mass/Amherst |
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Prof. Ryan C. Hayward U. Mass/Amherst |
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Prof. Constantine D. Papaspyrides National Technical University of Athens, Greece |
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Prof. Kris N. Dahl Carnegie Mellon University |
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Prof. Eva Harth Vanderbilt University
TOPIC: “Nanomedicine: Functional soft Nanosponges and Molecular Transporter Molecules for the increased Efficacy of Therapeutics and Imaging Devices” |
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Prof. Kenneth K. S. Lau Drexel University |
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Prof. Zhigang Suo Harvard University |
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Prof. Axel H. E. Mueller University of Bayreuth, Germany/Editor, Polymer |
| FALL 2009 |
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Prof. Ting Xu University of California/Berkeley |
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Prof. Sergiy Minko Clarkson University |
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Prof. Yonathan S. ThioGeorgia Tech |
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Prof. Andrew Parker University of Oxford (UK) |
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Prof. Chun Wang University of Minnesota/Twin Cities |
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Prof. James H. Henderson Syracuse Materials Institute |
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Prof. Shashi K. Murthy Northeastern University |
| SPRING 2009 |
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Prof. Srinivasa R. Raghavan, University of Maryland |
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Prof. Melik Demirel, Penn State University |
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Prof. Mitchell Anthamatten, University of Rochester, |
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Prof. Klaus Müllen, Director, Max Planck Institute of Polymer Research, |
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Dr. Christian Franck, Harvard University |
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Prof. Weihua Marshall Ming, University of New Hampshire |
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Prof. Alfredo Alexander-Katz, MIT DMSE |
| FALL 2008 |
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Prof. Svetlana Sukishvili, Stevens Institute of Technology |
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Prof. Kenneth R. Carter, U. Mass/Amherst |
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Prof. Jonathan Wilker, Purdue University |
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Prof. Kevin E. Healy, U.C. Berkeley |
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Prof. Uwe B. Sleytr, University for Natural Resources and Applied Life Scienes (BOKU) [Vienna, Austria] |
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Prof. Yu-li Wang, Carnegie Mellon University |
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Prof. Kristi L. Kiick, University of Delaware |
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Dr. Jeffrey M. Karp, Instructor, Harvard Medical School, Director, Lab for Advanced Biomaterials and Stem-Cell Based Therapeutics (Brigham and Womens Hospital) |
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Prof. Zhibin Guan, U.C. Irvine |
| SPRING 2008 |
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Prof. Yue Zhao, University of Sherbrooke, Quebec |
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Prof. Andrew Gouldstone, Northeastern University |
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Prof. Abraham Stroock, Cornell University |
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Prof. Thomas J. McCarthy, U. Mass/Amherst |
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Prof. David M. Lynn, University of Wisconsin |
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Prof. Christine D. Keating, Penn State University |
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Prof. Jinsang Kim, University of Michigan |
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Prof. Gregory B. McKenna, Texas Tech University |
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Prof. Yohei Yokobayashi, U.C. Davis |
| FALL 2007 |
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Prof. Ilya Zharov, University of Utah |
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Prof. David L. Carroll, Wake Forest University |
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Prof. Robert A. Weiss, University of Connecticut |
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Prof. Vladimir Tsukruk, Georgia Tech |
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Prof. David Weitz, Harvard University |
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Prof. Timothy J. Deming, U.C. L. A. |
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Prof. Catherine Klapperich, Boston University |
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Prof. Paul Janmey, U. Penn/Philadelphia |
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Prof. Sarah Heilshorn, Stanford University |
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Dr. Richard A. Vaia, U. S. Air Force Research Lab |
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SPRING 2007
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Prof. Andre F. Palmer, Ohio State University |
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Dr. Patrick T. Spicer, Procter & Gamble Co.
TOPIC: “Crystal Comets: Dewetting during Emulsion Droplet Crystallization” |
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Prof. John A. Rogers, University of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign |
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Prof. Marc A. Hillmyer, University of Minnesota/Twin Cities |
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Prof. Anna C. Balazs, University of Pittsburgh |
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Prof. Michael Rubinstein, University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill |
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Prof. Mark M. Holl, University of Michigan/Ann Arbor |
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Prof. Paul Buckley, University of Oxford (UK) |
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Prof. Timothy P. Lodge, University of Minnesota/Twin Cities |
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Prof. Alyssa Panitch, Purdue University |
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FALL 2006
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Prof. Phillip B. Messersmith, Northwestern University |
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Prof Yong L. Joo, Cornell University |
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Prof. Alfred J. Crosby, U. Mass/Amherst TOPIC: “Nature’s Instabilities: Inspiring Materials Design and Characterization” |
| Prof. Christopher K. Ober, Cornell University TOPIC: “Lithography and Biology: Made for Each Other” |
| PPST 20th Anniversary Poster Competition 1st Prize Winners:Minglin Ma (Jr. Div. Winner) TOPIC: “Nanostructured Electrospun Fibers: From Superhydrophobicity to Block Copolymer Self-Assembly” AND Daeyeon Lee (Sr. Div. Winner) TOPIC: “Stimuli-Responsive Polymer Thin Films from Polyelectrolyte Multilayers: From Hysteretic gating of membranes to magnetic nanotubes” |
| Prof. Jeffrey Pyun, University of Arizona TOPIC: “Polymer Encapsulated Magnetic Nanoparticles: Novel Building Blocks for Mesoscale Assembly” |
| Prof. Ka Yee Lee, University of Chicago TOPIC: “Effects of Biopolymers on the Collapse in Lung Surfactant Monolayer” |
| Prof. Shelley Anna, Carnegie Mellon University TOPIC: “Picoliter Droplet Reactors via Microscale Tipstreaming” |
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SPRING 2006
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| Prof. Gregory A. Sotzing, University of Connecticut TOPIC: “Processing OpticallyTransparent and Electrochromic Conductive Polymers” |
| Prof. Krystyn J. Van Vliet, MIT DMSE TOPIC: “Chemomechanical Mapping of Biopolymers and Cells” |
| Prof. Molly S. Shoichet, University of Toronto TOPIC: “Designer Polymers for Tissue Engineering and Axonal Guidance” |
| Prof. Gary W. Slater, University of Ottawa TOPIC: “The Physics fo End-Labeled Free Solution Electrophoresis: Towards DNA Sequencing Without a Gel Matrix” |
| Prof. John M. Torkelson, Northwestern University TOPIC: “Nanoscale Confinement Leads to Dramatic Property Changes in Polymer Films and Nanocomposites: Fluorescence Studies of Glass Transition Temperature and Physical Aging” |
| Prof. Stephen H. Foulger, Clemson University TOPIC:“Crystalline Colloidal Arrays: Multifunctional Materials” |
| Prof. Mohan Srinivasarao, Georgia Tech TOPIC: “On the Formation of an Ordered Array of Holes in a Polymer Film: What can Dew Formation Teach Us?” |
| Prof. Dan Luo, Cornell University TOPIC: “Nucleic Acid Engineering: Using DNA as a Generic Instead of a Genetic Material” |
| Prof. Joseph M. DeSimone, University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill TOPIC: “Fluoropolymers for Use in Next Generation Microfluidic Devices, Soft lithographic Techniques, Particle Fabrication and as Proton Exchange Membranes for Use in Fuel Cells” |
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FALL 2005
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| OMNOVA Award Presentation and Seminar: Juan A. Gonzalez (Sr. Achievement Award Winner) and Dr. Alireza Khademhosseini (Special Jury Prize Winner) |
| Dr. Dean M. DeLongchamp, Polymers Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) TOPIC: “Correlating Structure Development to Performance Enhancement in Semi-Conducting Organics” |
| Prof. Gregory N. Tew, U. Mass/Amherst TOPIC: “Designing Synthetic Macromolecules with Strong Similarities to Biology” |
| Prof. Mark Dadmun, University of Tennessee TOPIC: “Controlling Dispersion in Multi-component Polymer Systems: Rational Design of Materials with Targeted Properties” |
| Prof. Mark W. Grinstaff, Boston University TOPIC: “Dendritic Polymers for Medical Applications” |
| Prof. Eric M. Furst, University of Delaware TOPIC: “Micromechanics and Microrheology: Using Laser Tweezers to StudyComplex Fluid Rheology” |
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SPRING 2005
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| Prof. Ashutosh Chilkoti, Duke University TOPIC: “Stimuli Responsive, Recombinant Elastin-like Polypeptides: From Single Molecule Actuators to Elastomeric Hydrogels” |
| Dr. Andrew Feiring, Senior Research Felllow DuPont Central Research and Development TOPIC: “Development of Fluoropolymer Photoresists for Advanced Semiconductor Chip Manufacture” |
| Prof. Ravi Kane, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute TOPIC: “Design of Polymeric Therapeutics and Functional Nanomaterials” |
| Prof. Sergei S. Sheiko, University of North Carolina TOPIC: “Molecular Fluidics” |
| Prof. Thomas Boland, Clemson University TOPIC: “Drop-on Demand Printing of Cells and Materials for Designer Hybrid Cardiovascular Constructs” |
| Prof. Robert B. Grubbs, Dartmouth College TOPIC: “ ‘Living’ Radical Polymerization as a Tool for the Preparation of Functional Polymers and Copolymers” |
| Prof. Kenneth Gall, University of Colorado/Boulder TOPIC: “Shape Memory Polymers” |
| Dr. Jai A. Pathak, NIST Materials Science and Engineering Center TOPIC: “Rheometry on Complex Fluids in Microfluidic Flows” |
| Prof. Jeffrey T. Koberstein, Columbia University TOPIC: “Molecular Design of Functional Polymer Surfaces” |
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FALL 2004
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| Dr. Martin L. Sentmanat, Senkhar Technologies, LLC TOPIC: “SER Universal Testing Platform: Covering the Broad Spectrum of Physical Material Characterization Technology” |
| Prof. Tomasz Kowalewski, Carnegie Mellon University TOPIC: “Macromolecular Self-Assembly as a Route to sp2 Carbon Materials with Well-Defined Nanostructure” |
| Prof. Mario LeClerc, Université Laval (Québec) TOPIC: “Optical and Electrochemical Biosensors Based on DNA/Polythiophene Complexes” |
| OMNOVA 2004 Co-Winner: Dr. Prem V. Pavoor TOPIC: “Tribological and Mechanical Characterization of Polyelectrolyte Multilayer Nanoassemblies” |
| Prof. Michael E. Mackay, Michigan State University TOPIC: “Nanotechnology, Polymers and Particles: Do polymeric nanoparticles cause uniquebehavior?” |
| Prof. Svetlana A. Sukhishvili, Stevens Institute of Technology TOPIC: “Self-Assembly of Weak Polyelectrolytes at Surfaces and in Solutions” |
| Dr. Michael J. Fasolka, NIST TOPIC: “Polymer Research at the NIST Combinatorial Methods Center” |
| Prof. L. Andrew Lyon, Georgia Tech TOPIC: “Microgels in Optics and Biology” |
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SPRING 2004
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| Dr. Orhun Muratoglu, Mass General Hospital TOPIC: “Improving the Wear and Fatigue Strength of UHMWPE for Total Joint Prostheses” |
| Prof. David V. Boger, University of Melbourne (Australia) TOPIC: “Ideal Elastic Liquids and Their Impact in the Development of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics” |
| Prof. Joey L. Mead, U. Mass/Lowell TOPIC: “Phase Morphology of Electrospun Nanofibers from Polymer Blends” |
| Dr. Melissa Mahoney, U. Colorado/Boulder TOPIC: “Synthetic Microenvironments for Neural Transplantation” |
| Prof. Eyal Zussman, Technion (Israel) TOPIC: “Development of Nano-Structures by Electrospinning” |
| Prof. Nicholas A. Peppas, U. Texas/Austin TOPIC: “Intelligent Polymer Networks in Protein Delivery and Molecular Recognition” |
| Prof. E. Bryan Coughlin, U. Mass./Amherst TOPIC: “Hybrid Inorganic-Organic Copolymers Based Upon Cubic Silsesquioxanes” |
| Prof. David W.M. Marr, Colorado School of Mines TOPIC: “Field-Based Colloidal Manipulation for Microfluidics and Photonics” |
| OMNOVA 2003 Award Winner: Michael C. Berg TOPIC: “Biological Applications for Polyelectrolyte Multilayers” |
| Prof. Frank S. Bates, U. Minnesota TOPIC: “Network Phases: A Lesson in Block Co-Polymer Self-Assembly?” |
| Prof. Nina C. Shapley, Columbia University TOPIC: “Nonuniform Distributions of Particulates in Complex Flows: Characterization by NMR Imaging” |
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FALL 2003
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| Prof. George Malliaris, Cornell University TOPIC: “Organic Semiconductors and Devices” |
| Prof. Jeffrey D. Carbeck, Princeton University TOPIC: “Why are proteins charged molecules? The role of electrostatics in the stability, activity and processing of proteins.” |
| Prof. Karen K. Gleason, MIT ChemE TOPIC: “Polymeric Nanocoatings by Hot Filament Chemical Vapor Deposition” |
| Prof. Eugenia Kumacheva, University of Toronto TOPIC: “Polymer Nanostructured Materials: New Routes to Development” |
| Prof. Peter Green, University of Texas/Austin TOPIC: “Wetting and Nano-scale Organization of a Structured Liquid Film” |
| Prof. Ramanan Krishnamoorti, University of Houston TOPIC “Polymer Nanocomposites” |
| Prof. Anthony Guiseppi-Elie, Virginia Commonwealth University TOPIC: “Electroconductive Hydrogels: “Bio-Smart” Polymers in Biosensors and Biochips” |
| OMNOVA AWARD WINNER: Jeri’ Ann Hiller TOPIC: “PH-Gated Porosity and Reversible Swelling” |
| Dr. Barry L. Farmer, USAFRL Wright-Patterson AFB TOPIC: “Coarse Grain Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the Formation of Polymer Nanocomposites” |
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SPRING 2003
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| Prof. Hanadi Sleiman, McGill University TOPIC: “Self-Assembly of DNA and Biomimetic Polymers” |
| Prof. Patrick T. Mather, University of Connecticut TOPIC: “Hybrid polymers incorporating POSS: Unique microstructures for Unique properties” |
| Prof. Chistopher K. Ober, Cornell University TOPIC: “New Routes to Two and Three Dimensional Patterned Structures Using Advanced Lithography” |
| Prof. Alan J. Lesser, U. Mass./Amherst TOPIC: “Studies on the Yield and Fracture Behavior of Glassy Polymers in Constrained Stress States” |
| Dr. Steven Hudson, NIST TOPIC: “Coalescence Efficiency in Flowing Emulsions” |
| Prof. Darrin J. Pochan, University of Delaware TOPIC: “Environmentally Responsive Materials Constructed via Peptidic Molecule Folding and Self-Assembly” |
| Prof. Joyce Wong, Boston University TOPIC: “The Importance Of Ligand Presentation: From Flexible Tethers To Compliant Gels” |
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FALL 2002
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| OMNOVA AWARD SEMINAR: Dr. Xueping Jiang, duPont TOPIC: “Chemistry Directed Assembly of Multilayered Polymer Thin Filmsand Colloidal Particles” |
| Prof. Marcel Utz, University of Connecticut TOPIC: “Complex Morphologies and Their Characterization by Two-Point Correlation Functions” |
| Prof. Richard R. Schrock, MIT Chemistry TOPIC: “Catalysts for the Living Polymerization of Ordinary Olefins” |
| Dr. Mark R. van Landingham, NIST TOPIC: “Characterizing Polymer Viscoelasticity UsingDepth-Sensing Indentation” |
| Prof. Christopher N. Bowman, University of Colorado TOPIC: “Novel Photopolymerization Methods and Their Exploitation for Emerging Applications” |
| Prof. Rastislav Levicky, Columbia University TOPIC: “Directed Organization of Nanoparticles by Ultrathin Polymer Films” |
| Prof. Marc A. Hillmyer, University of Minnesota TOPIC: “Reactive Block Copolymers as Nanoporous Material Precursors” |
| Prof. Darrell J. Irvine, MIT DMSE TOPIC: “Using Polymers for Bioengineering in the Immune System” |
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SPRING 2002
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| Prof. Helmut H. Strey, U. Mass./Amherst TOPIC: “DNA Diffusion Observed in a Two-Dimensional Hexagonal Array” |
| Dr. Shu Yang, Lucent Technologies TOPIC: “Microphotonics and block copolymer templated organosilicates” |
| Dr. Zhenan Bao, Lucent Technologies TOPIC: “Conjugated Oligomers and Polymers for Plastic and Molecular Electronics” |
| Prof. Suzanne Giasson, Visiting Faculty Boston University TOPIC: “Static and Dynamic Interactions between Polyelectrolyte-coated Surfaces in Aqueous Medium” |
| Prof. Annelise Barron, Northwestern University TOPIC: “Biomimetic polymer engineering: Creating Non-Natural Protein Mimics for a Synthetic Lung Surfactant Replacement” |
| Prof. Hervé Marand, Virginia Tech TOPIC: “A Model of Polymer Secondary Crystallization: A Possible Link with Physical Aging Above Tg” |
| Prof. Jan Genzer, North Carolina State Unversity TOPIC: “Formation and properties of multi-functional surfaces prepared via ‘forced assembly’ of oligomers and polymers” |
| Prof. Michael Marsella, University of California/Irvine TOPIC: “Designing Functional Polymers from Shape-Changing Monomers” |
| OMNOVA SEMINARS:AWARD WINNER: Dr. Amy Grayson TOPIC: “A Resorbable Polymeric Microreservoir Device for Drug Delivery”OMNOVA PRESENTER: Dr. Richard Thomas TOPIC: “The Synthesis, Characterization, and Unusual Surface Activity of a Series of Novel Architecture, Water Dispersible Poly(fluoroxetane)s” |
| Prof. Antony N. Beris, University of Delaware TOPIC: “Probing the Polymer Structure-Dynamics Relation Through a Turbulent Flow Field: Direct Numerical Simulations of Polymer-Induced Drag Reduction” |
| Prof. Patrick S. Doyle, MIT ChemE TOPIC: “Dynamics of Single Polymers and Biomolecules Under Forces and Fields” |
| Prof. Robert M. Briber, University of MarylandTOPIC: “Characterization of Nanoporous Ultralow Dielectrics” |
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FALL 2001
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| Prof. Peter Dvornic, Michigan Molecular Institute |
| Prof. Ruolf Faust, U. Mass./Lowell |
| Prof. Uli Weisner, Cornell University |
| Prof. Dilhan Kalyon, Stevens Institute of Technology |
| Prof. Wesley Burghardt, Northwestern University |
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SPRING 2001
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| Prof. Daniel Read, University of Leeds (UK) TOPIC: “Molecular Rheology and Statistics of Long Chain Branched Metallocene-Catalysed Polyolefins” |
| Dr. R. Shashidhar, Naval Research Laboratory TOPIC: “Siloxane-based Liquid Crystals – A Paradigm for Molecular Engineering of Materials” |
| Dr. Craig Hawker, IBM-Almaden TOPIC: “Synthesis and Fabrication of Nanostructured Materials – Application to the Next Generation of Computers” |
| Prof. Ken Wagener, University of Florida TOPIC: “Crystalline Polyolefins Bearing Amino Acids” |
| Prof. Nam Suh, MIT MechE TOPIC: “Microcellular Plastics” |
| Dr. Bruce Smart, duPont TOPIC: “The Design of Amphorous Fluoroplastics” |
| Prof. Ian Manners, University of TorontoTOPIC: “Supramolecular Organometallic Polymer Chemistry: Self-Assembly of Polyferrocenes” |
| Dr. Gary Wnek, Virginia Commonwealth University TOPIC: “Thinking Small About Old Polymers at the Medicine/Engineering Interface” |
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FALL 2000
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| Prof. Kenneth J. Beers, MIT ChemE TOPIC: “Topics from the Intersection of Polymer Chemistry and Physics” |
| Prof. Jinsang Kim, University of Michigan |
| Mitchell Anthamatten, PhD Candidate, MIT ChemE TOPIC: “Order in Side-Chain Liquid Crystalline Diblock Copolymers” |
| Prof. Susan Muller, University of Caliornia/Berkeley TOPIC: “Experimental Insights into Complex Flows of Polymeric Liquids” |
| Prof. Peter Kofinas, University of Maryland TOPIC: “Self-Assembled Functional Nanostructures Within Block Copolymer Templates” |
| Prof. David Kaplan, Tufts University TOPIC: “Fibrous Protein Assembly-Silk as a Model System” |
| Prof. Karen Wooley, Washington University TOPIC: “Nanoscale Constructs: The Preparation, Characterization, and Manipulation of Shell Crosslinked Nanoparticles” |
| Dr. George Lemieux, University of California/Berkeley TOPIC: “Exploring Oligosaccharide Biosynthetic Promiscuity to Modulate Cell Surface Recognition” |
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SPRING 2000
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| Dr. John Barnes, NIST TOPIC: “Temperature Induced Contrast Variation in Small Angle Scattering” |
| Prof. Thomas Russell, U. Mass/Amherst TOPIC: “Electric Field Alignment:From the Micro to Nano” |
| Dr. Richard Vaia, U.S.A.F. Research Laboratory TOPIC: “Mesoscopic Structure of Polymer-Inorganic Nanocomposites: Impact on Chain Behavior and Physical Properties” |
| Prof. Steve Granick, University of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign TOPIC: “Polymers at Aqueous Interfaces” |
| Prof. Chris Scott, MIT DMSE TOPIC: “Lattice Boltzmann Simulation of Multiphase Flow in Polymer Processing” |
| Y. Michael Shin, PhD Candidate, MIT DMSE TOPIC: “Electrostatic Spinning of Ultrafine Fibers – A Novel Microprocessing Technique” |
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FALL 1999
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| Anne Ruzette, PhD Candidate DMSE TOPIC: “Controlling Bulk Thermodynamics of Block Copolymers” |
| Prof. Richard Register, Princeton University TOPIC: “Block Copolymer Thin Films as Nanolithography Templates” |
| Prof. James Watkins, U. Mass./Amherst TOPIC: “Preparation of Nanostructures Materials in Supercritical Fluids” |
| Mark Spilker, PhD Candidate MIT DMSE TOPIC: “Collagen-Glycosaminoglycan Materials for Medical Applications” |
| Prof. Adi Eisenberg, McGill University TOPIC: “Self-Assembly of Amphiphilic Diblocks in Solution: Thermodynamics, Kinetics and Mechanism in a Morphological Wonderland” |
| Prof. Nitash Balsara, Polytechnic University (Brooklyn, NY) TOPIC: “Early Stages of Nucleation in Polymer Mixtures” |
| Prof. H. Potente, Institut für Kunststofftechnik/University of Paderborn TOPIC: “Process Simulation of Tightly Intermeshing Co-Rotating Twin Screw Extruders” |
| Dr. Lewis J. Fetters, Exxon TOPIC: “The Importance of Unperturbed Polymer Chain Dimensions” |
| Prof. Karen Gleason, MIT ChemE TOPIC: “Fluorocarbon Polymer Films by Chemical Vapor Deposition” |
| Prof. Christine Ortiz, MIT DMSE TOPIC: “Measuring Intra- and Inter- Molecular Interactions in Macromolecules Using High Resolution Force Spectroscopy Techniques” |
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SPRING 1999
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| Prof. Michael F. Rubner, MIT DMSE TOPIC: “Layer-by-Layer Molecular-Level Blending of Polyelectrolytes: Opportunities for Surface Modification and Light Emitting Devices” |
| Prof. Douglas L. Gin, University of California/Berkeley TOPIC: “Functional, Nanostructured Materials via the Polymerization of Liquid Crystal Assemblies” |
| Vanessa Z. Chan, PhD Candidate, MIT DMSE TOPIC: “Ceramic Nanostructures from Block Copolymer Precursors” |
| Prof. Samuel P. Gido, U. Mass/Amherst TOPIC: “Controlling Morphology and Long Range Order with Graft Copolymer Molecular Architecture” |
| Prof. Anthony J. McHugh, University of Illinois TOPIC: “Flow-Induced Crystallization of Polymers – Experiment and Modeling” |
| Dr. Chris Barrett, MIT TOPIC: “Adsorption of Polyelectrolytes: Layers and Multilayers” |
| Prof. Mark M. Green, Brooklyn Polytechnic TOPIC: “Chirality in Polymer Science: From the One-Dimensional Ising Model to the Restrictive Cooperativity of the Glassy State” |
| Prof. Thomas J. McCarthy, U. Mass/Amherst TOPIC: “New Approaches to Polymer and Surface Modification” |
| Prof. Emmanuel Giannelis, Cornell University TOPIC: “Structure and Dynamics of Polymer Nanocomposites” |
| Prof. Haskell Beckham, Georgia Tech TOPIC: “Phase Structure and Dynamics of Polyrotaxanes” |
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FALL 1998
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| Prof. Bernhard Lotz, Institiut Charles Sadron, CNRS-ULPTOPIC: “Sturcture and Morphology of Crystalline Polymer: from unit cell to spherulite structure” |
| Prof. Sukant Tripathy, U. Mass/Lowell TOPIC: “Unusual Light Driven Polymer Mass Transport and What To Do With It” |
| Prof. Claus D. Eisenbach, University of Stuttgart TOPIC: “Perpspectives of Ion Interactions in Macromolecular Systems for Novel Polymer Materials” |
| Prof. Dan Lacks, Tulane University TOPIC: “Molecular-level Mechanical Instabilities in the Polymer Crystals, Glasses, and Melts” |
| Prof. Fred McGarry, MIT DMSE TOPIC: “Toughening of Rigid Silicone Resins” |
| Prof. Gareth H. McKinley, MIT MechE TOPIC: “Extensional Rheometry of Polymer Solutions and the Uniaxial Elongation of Viscoelastic Filaments (or why some fluids are stickier than others!)” |
| Erik Handy, PhD Candidate, MIT Chemistry TOPIC: “Light-Emitting Polyurethanes Based on Tris(bipyridyl)ruthenium(II): Synthesis and Devices” |
| Prof. Paul Nealey, University of Wisconsin TOPIC: “The Morphology of Thin Films of Block Copolymers on self-assembled monolayers patterened with x-ray lithography” |
| Dr. Phil Jacoby, Amoco |
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SPRING 1998
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| Prof. Jeffrey T. Koberstein, University of ConnecticutTOPIC:“Molecular Design of Polymeric Surface Delivery Vehicles” |
| Prof. Virgil Percec, Case Western University TOPIC: “Constructing a Polymer Science Made of Visible Chains Acting as Individual Complex Functional Systems” |
| Prof. G. Julius Vancso, University of Twente TOPIC: “Polymers with Ferrocene in the Main Chain: Structure and Properties” |
| Prof. Ioannis Yannas, MIT MechE TOPIC: “Biologically Active Networks: Analogs of Extracellular Matrix” |
| Prof. Ali S. Argon, MIT MechE TOPIC: “Making Brittle Polymers Tough by the Scientific Method” |
| Prof. Morton Denn, University of California/Berkeley TOPIC: “The No-Slip Boundary Condition and Polymer Processing Instabilities” |
| Dr. Sudhakar Balijepalli, MIT ChemE TOPIC: “Molecular Simulation of Semi-crystalline Polymer Interphases” |
| Ms. Benita Dair, MIT DMSE TOPIC: “Deformation Behavior of the Cubic Double Gyroid Phase in Elastometric Triblock Copolymers” |
| Prof. M. Muthukumar, U. Mass/Amherst TOPIC: “Collective Diffusion of Polyelectrolytes: Ordinary-Extraordinary Transition” |
| Prof. Phillip H. Geil, University of Illinois TOPIC: “Low Temperature Condensation Polymerization-Crystallization: Morphology and Mechanism” |
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FALL 1997
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| Prof. Richard R. Schrock, MIT Chemistry TOPIC: “Terminal Olefins by Group 4 Metal Complexes that contain Diamido/Donor Ligands” |
| Prof. Paul Buckley, University of Oxford (UK) TOPIC: “Orientation Processing of Poly(ethylene terephthalate): steps towards a physically-based three-dimensional constitutive model” |
| Prof. Alan A. Jones, Clark University TOPIC: “Xenon-129 NMR as a Probe of Structure and Transport in Polymers” |
| Prof. Michael Paulaitis, Johns Hopkins University TOPIC: “CO2-Enhanced Diffusion in Polymer Glasses. An Experimental Study Using Forced Rayleigh Scattering” |
| Prof. Edwin L. Thomas, MIT DMSE TOPIC: “Diamonds, Stars, and the ABC’s of Mesoscopic Assembly” |
| Dr. Sai Kumar, Amoco TOPIC: “Probing Molecular Orientation in Polypropylene by Brillouin Scattering” |
| Prof. Eric Baer, Case Western Reserve University TOPIC “Polymer Microlayered Composites” |
| Darrell Irvine, PhD Candidate MIT DMSE TOPIC: “Control of Cell Behavior via Polymer Surface Engineering” |
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SPRING 1997
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| Prof. David Martin, University of Michigan TOPIC: “Micromechanics of Deformation in Oriented Fibers, Crystals and Bicrystals” |
| Janelle Gunther, PhD Candidate MIT DMSE TOPIC: “Defects in Liquid Crystal Polymers: Their Origin and Behavior in Magnetic and Flow Fields” |
| Prof. Warren Baker, Queen’s University TOPIC: “Process Modeling and Performance of Graft Modified Polymers Prepared in a Twin Screw Extruder” |
| Dr. Carl Zimba, MIT DMSE TOPIC: “Characterization of Polymer Films Using Chemical Imaging Techniques” |
| Prof. Norbert Auner, University of Berlin TOPIC: “Organosilicon Chemistry: from Molecules to Materials” |
| Prof. Sanat Kumar, Pennsylvania State UniversityTOPIC: “Phase Transitions in Thin Polymer Mixtures” |
| Prof. Buckley Crist, Northwestern University TOPIC: “Thermodynamics of Polyolefin Melt Blends: A Personal Perspective” |
| Dr. Ravi S. Kane, PhD Candidate MIT ChemETOPIC: “Doped ZnS Nanoclusters Synthesized within Diblock Copolymer Films” |
| Prof. Tim Swager, MIT Chemistry TOPIC: “Combining Molecular Recognition and Conducting Polymers: Supramolecular Assemblies and Sensory Materials” |
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FALL 1996
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| Prof. Michael Grunze, University of Heidelberg TOPIC: “Experimental and Monte Carlo Studies of Self-Assembled Monolayers” |
| Prof. Paula T. Hammond, MIT ChemE TOPIC: “Smectic C* Side Chain Liquid Crystalline Block Copolymers: Synthesis and Characterization” |
| Prof. Barry L. Farmer, University of Virginia TOPIC:“Molecular Modeling of Siloxane-based Side Chain Liquid Crystalline Polymers” |
| Prof. Hatsua Ishida, Case Western Reserve University TOPIC: TBA |
| Prof. Alexander Grosberg, MIT TOPIC: “Recent Advances in the Theory of Proteins and Heteropolymeric Gels: Kinetics” |
| Prof. Anna C. Balazs, University of Pittsburgh TOPIC: “Modeling the Interfacial Behavior of Polymeric Systems” |
| Prof. John Reynolds, University of Florida TOPIC:“Variable Band Gap Conjugated Polymers for Luminescent and Electrochromic Applications” |
| Prof. Mark Ediger, University of Wisconsin TOPIC: “Translational and Rotational Motion of Low Molecular Weight Species in Amorphous Polymers: Are Local Segmental Dynamics Spatially Heterogeneous Near Tg?” |
| Prof. Gregory C. Rutledge, MIT ChemE TOPIC: “Thermomechanical Properties of Polymers from Molecular Modeling” |
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SPRING 1996
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| Dr. Jan Noolandi, Xerox Canada TOPIC: “Ordered Structures in Water-Soluble Polymers” |
| Prof. Antony N. Beris, University of Delaware TOPIC: “Direct Numerical Simulation of Polymer-Induced Drag Reduction in Turbulent Channel Flow” |
| Prof. Arup Chakraborty, University of California/Berkeley TOPIC: “Interfacial Behavior in Random Heteropolymers” |
| Prof. Sam Jenekhe, University of Rochester TOPIC: “Supramolecular and Nanostructured Polymer Systems” |
| Prof. Paul E. Laibinis, MIT ChemE TOPIC: “Applications of Self-Assembling Monolayers for Designing Polymers and Tailoring Polymer/Metal Interactions” |
| Dr. Robert Kumpf, Bayer Corp. TOPIC: “Recent Trends and Challenges for Industrial Polymer Research” |
| Prof. Linda Griffith, MIT ChemE TOPIC: “Polymeric Materials to Control Cell and Tissue Morphogenesis” |
| Prof. Frank Karasz, U. Mass./Amherst TOPIC: “Simulating Polymer Surface Phenomena” |
| Prof. Milton Harris, University of Alabama TOPIC: TBA |
| Dr Steve Lustig, duPont TOPIC: “Continuum Thermodynamics and Transport Theory for Solvent Diffusion in Polymers” |
| Prof. Tobin Marks, Northwestern University TOPIC: TBA |
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1994-95 NO RECORD
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FALL 1993
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| Prof. Linda Cima, MIT ChemE TOPIC: “Polymers for Tissue Engineering” |
| Prof. Gareth H. McKinley, Harvard University TOPIC: “Sprial Instability in Visometric Flows of Highly Elastic Polymer Materials” |
| Prof. John Hearle, University of Manchester TOPIC: “Understanding and Control of Textile Fiber Structure” |
| Prof. Chris Macosko, University of Minnesota TOPIC: “Interfacial Reactions for Polymer Melt Blending” |
| Prof. Frank Karasz, U. Mass./Amherst TOPIC: “Electroluminescence of Conjugated Polymers” |
| Prof. David Needham, Duke University TOPIC: “Stealth Engineering to Evade the Body’s Defenses” |
| Peter Zuber, General Electric Plastics TOPIC: “Industrial Polymer Processing Overview” |
| Prof. Robert C. Armstrong, MIT ChemE TOPIC: “Kinetic Theory and Rheology of Inhomogenous Polymer Solutions” |
| Jeffrey D. Carbeck, PhD Candidate, MIT DMSE TOPIC: “Conformational Defect Structures and Kinematics in Crystalline Polymers” |
| Prof. Kuo K. Wang, Cornell University TOPIC: “Computer Aided Engineering for Injection Molding of Polymers” |
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FALL 1992 and earlier
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| Dr. Kenneth Shull, IBM Almaden TOPIC: “Interfacial Properties of Polymer Melts” |
| Dr. Boris Rosenberg, Institute of Chemical Physics, USSR Academy of Sciences TOPIC: “The Peculiarities of Structure and Properties of Thin Surface Layers of Amorphous Polymers in the Glassy State” |
| Dr. Igor Sokolik, Visiting Scientist, U. Mass./Amherst TOPIC: “Photophysics of Conjugated Polymers: Magnetic Field Effect Technique to Study Polaron Pairs” |
| Dr. Andrew Ouderkirk, 3M Corporation TOPIC: “Polymer Surface Modification” |
| Prof. Edward J. Kramer, Cornell University TOPIC: “Block Copolymers at Interfaces” |
| Dr. Yu K. Godovsky, Karpov Institute of Physical Chemistry, Moscow TOPIC: “Interrelation of Phase Separation, Crystallization and Glass Transformation in Polymer Blends and Block Copolymers” |
| Prof. Hiroyuki Nishide, Waseda University (Tokyo) TOPIC: “Facilitated Oxygen Transport Through Heme-Polymer Membranes” |
| Dr. Anthony Allegrezza, Millipore Corporation TOPIC: “Manufacturing of Synthetic Polymer Membranes” |
| Prof. Vladimir Fridkin, Institute of Crystallography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow TOPIC: “Photoelectric and Photorefractive Properties of Ferroelectric Copolymers” |
| Prof. Alan J. Waddon, U. Mass./Amherst TOPIC: “The Effect of Chain Folding on the Morphology of Solution-Grown Crystals of Poly(ether ketone) (PEK): A Comparison between the Chain Folded Polymer and Chain Extend Oligomers” |
| Dr. Dieter Horn, BASF TOPIC: “Recent Developments in the Preparation and Characterization of Sub-Microdisperse Organic Hydrosols” |
| Dr. Robert Luise, duPont TOPIC: “Liquid Crystalline Polyesters” |
| Prof. Takeji Hashimoto, Kyoto University TOPIC: “Time and Evolution of Interfacial Structure in the Self-Assembly of Polymer Blends via Spinodal Decomposition” |
| Prof. Richard Farris, U. Mass./Amherst TOPIC: “Determination of the State of Stress and Elasticity Coefficients of Thin Polymer Coatings” |
| Prof. Malcolm Mackley, Cambridge University TOPIC: “The Rheology of Polymers” |
| Prof. Christopher K. Ober, Cornell University TOPIC: “Liquid Crystalline Polymers” |
| Prof. Yoshiharu Doi, Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan TOPIC: “Production and Properties of New Bacterial Copolyesters” |
| Prof. Robert G. Gilbert, Sydney University (Australia) TOPIC: “Free Radical Polymerization Kinetics” |
| Prof. Bernhard Lotz, CNRS-ULP Strasbourg France TOPIC: “Microstructural Investigations of Srystalline Bio-and Synthetic Polymers” |
| Prof. Yachin Cohen, Technion Haifa, Israel TOPIC: “Gelation and Crystallization in Polymer Solutions” |
| Prof. Claus D. Eisenbach, University of Bayreuth, Germany TOPIC: “Supermolecular Struture in Polyurethanes” |
| Dr. J. M. Guenet, CNRS, Strasbourg, France TOPIC: “Thermoreversible Gelation of Poly(vinyl chloride)” |
| Prof. Jim Carothers, Purdue University |
| Dr. John T. Bendler, General Electric R & D TOPIC: “Relaxation Recovery, and Conformational Transitions in Glassy Polymers” |
| Dr. James H. Aubert, Sandia National Laboratory TOPIC: “Microcellular Foams Prepared by Phase-Separation” |
| Prof. John A. Nairn, University of Utah TOPIC: “Fracture Mechanics of Composites Using the Shear Lab Model” |
| Dr. Robert A. Bubeck, Dow Chemical TOPIC: “Real Time Small Angle X-Ray Scattering Studies of Tensile Impact of Polymers” |
| Dr. Samuel A. Safran, Exxon Research TOPIC: “Aggregation of Surfactant and Polymers in Solution” |
| Prof. Michael Grunze, U. of Maine, Physics TOPIC: “Formation and Adhesion of Vapor Deposited Ultra Thin Polyimide Films on Metal Surfaces” |
| Dr. Flonnie Dowell, Theoretical Div/Los Alamos National Lab TOPIC: “Theories for Partially-Ordered Polymers in Phases” |
| Dr. Jerry T. Seitz, Polymer Materials, Dow Chemical TOPIC: “Physical Properties of Polymers Based Upon Molecular Dimensions” |
| Prof. John L. Schrag, University of WisconsinTOPIC: “Three Talks on Solution Behavior of Polymers” |
| Prof. H. H. Kausch, Ecole Polytechnique TOPIC: “Materials Chain Extension in Flowing Media” |
| Dr. Hans F. Hespe, Mobay Chemical, Central R&DTOPIC: “Mircrophase Formation in Aqueous of Block Copolyethers” |
| Prof. Randall W. Richards, U. Mass./Amherst TOPIC: “Small Angle Neutron Scattering Investigations of Polydimethyl siloxane/Polystyrene Interpenetrating Networks” |
| Dr. Andrzej Ziabicki, Inst. Fund. Techn., Warsaw |
| Prof. Alex Silberberg, Weizmann Institute (Israel) |
| Prof. Jerome H. Weiner, Brown University TOPIC: “Excluded Volume Effects in Rubber Elasticity” |
| Dr. Owen Webster, duPont Central R & D TOPIC: “Recent Advances in the Controlled Synthesis of Acrylic Polymers by Group Transfer Polymerization” |
| Dr. Frank S. Bates, A T & T Bell Laboratories TOPIC: “Critical Phenomena in Polymer Melts” |
| Prof. Sukant Tripathy, U. Mass/Lowell |
| Dr. D. Sogah, duPont Central R & D TOPIC: “Macromolecular Engineering in Silicon-Mediated Polymerizations” |
| Dr. Yacov Kantor, Harvard University TOPIC: “Statics and Dynamics of Sheet Polymers” |
| Dr. Do Y. Yoon, IBM Corporation Polymer Physics TOPIC: “Ordering in Semi-Flexible Liquid Crystalline Polymers” |
| Prof. Virgil Percec, Case Western University TOPIC: “New Trends in the Synthesis of Liquid Crystalline Polymers” |
| Prof. Syed Qutubuddin, Case Western University TOPIC: “Microemulsions-Some Fundamentals and Application to Polymers and Separation” |
| Dr. Ian M. Ward, University of Leeds (UK) |
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