| Sunday |
Dynamics of Block Copolymers |
| Discussion Leader: R. Kannan |
| 9:00 am |
Rick Register, Princeton U - The Spherical Phase in Block Copolymers |
| 10:00 am |
Coffee |
| Discussion Leader: Frank Bates |
| 10:30 am |
Karen Winey, U Penn - Block Copolymers in Strong Flows |
| 11:30 am |
Nitash Balsara, Polytechnic U - Metastability in Polymer Blends |
| 4:30 pm |
Poster Session I |
| Evening |
Polymer-Particle and Gel Systems |
| Discussion Leader: Dennis Massa |
| 7:30 pm |
Emmanuel Giannelis, Cornell - Polymer Nanocomposites: Structure and Dynamics |
| 8:30 pm |
Michel Cloître, Elf Atochem - Non-Linear Rheology of Polyelectrolyte Microgels |
| Monday |
Stages in Crystallization |
| Discussion Leader: Ben Hsiao |
| 9:00 am |
Keisuke Kaji, ICR Kyoto U - What Happens During the Induction Period of Polymer Crystallization? |
| 10:00 am |
Coffee |
| Discussion Leader: Tony Ryan |
| 10:30 am |
Herve Marand, Virginia Tech - Polymer Crystallization Mechanisms: What we think we know and what we know we don't |
| 11:30 am |
Gert Strobl, U Freiburg - Steps in the Transition of an Entangled Polymer Melt to the Partially Crystalline State |
| Evening |
Recognition and Folding |
| Discussion Leader: Ken Schweizer |
| 7:30 pm |
Arup Chakraborty, UC Berkeley - The Influence of Sequence, Architecture and Disorder on Polymer Self-Assembly Processes at Interfaces and in Solution |
| 8:30 pm |
Ken Dill, UCSF - Protein Folding |
| Tuesday |
Theory and Simulation of Polymer Liquids |
| Discussion Leader: Marina Guenza |
| 9:00 am |
Scott Milner, Exxon - Polymer Melt Dynamics |
| 10:00 am |
Coffee |
| Discussion Leader: Ron Larson |
| 10:30 am |
Michael Graham, U Wisconsin - Simulations of Polymer Dynamics |
| 11:30 am |
Hans Öttinger, ETH - Thermodynamics and Polymers in Flow |
| 4:30 pm |
Poster Session II |
| Evening |
Dynamic Heterogeneity in Mixtures and Glasses |
| Discussion Leader: Greg McKenna |
| 7:30 pm |
Ralph Colby, Penn State U - Miscible Blend Dynamics |
| 8:30 pm |
Sharon Glotzer, NIST - Nanoscale Heterogeneities in the Dynamics of Supercooled Liquids and Polymer Melts: New Insights on the Glass Transition |
| Wednesday |
Self-Assembly and Phase Transitions |
| Discussion Leader: Sonja Krause |
| 9:00 am |
Sam Jenekhe, U Rochester - Self-Assembly of Functional Block Copolymers |
| 10:00 am |
Coffee |
| Discussion Leader: Julie Kornfield |
| 10:30 am |
Paula Hammond, MIT - Liquid Crystalline Block Copolymers |
| 11:30 am |
Greg Dee, DuPont - Flash-Spinning of Polyethylene |
| Evening |
New Experimental Techniques |
| Discussion Leader: Guy Berry |
| 7:30 pm |
Simon Mochrie, MIT - X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy of Polymer Mixtures |
| 8:30 pm |
Manfred Wilhelm, MPI Mainz - Fourier Transform Rheology |
| Thursday |
Membranes and Biopolymer Dynamics |
| Discussion Leader: TBA |
| 9:00 am |
Dennis Discher, U Penn - Crosslinked Membranes: Blood Cells to Block Copolymer Mimics |
| 10:00 am |
Coffee |
| Discussion Leader: David Morse |
| 10:30 am |
Joachim Rädler, TU Munich - Statics and Dynamics of DNA Bound to Oppositely Charged Membranes |
| 11:30 am |
M. Muthukumar, UMass - DNA Translocation across Protein Channels |
