| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | TEMPLATED NANOMATERIALS |
| Discussion Leader: M. Dadmun (Tennessee) |
7:30 pm | Tom Russell (UMass)
"Patterning Polymers from the Micro to the Nano" |
| 8:30 pm | Mohan Srinivasarao (Georgia Tech)
"Three-Dimensionally Ordered Array of Holes in a polymer film" |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30-8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:45 am - 12:30 pm | GELATION IN COLLOIDS AND POLYMERS |
| Discussion Leader: P. Pincus (UCSB) |
| 8:45 am | David Weitz (Harvard)
"Colloidal Crystals, Glasses and Gels" |
| 9:45 am | Group Photo |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am | Wilson Poon (Edinburgh)
"Kinetics from free-energy landscapes: the case of colloid-polymer mixtures at triple coexistence" |
| 11:30 am | Sanat Kumar (Penn State)
"Origins of Glass-like Ultraslow Dynamics in Polymeric Systems: The Prototypical Case of Polymer Thermoreversible Gelation" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | POLYELECTROLYTES |
| Discussion Leader: M. Olvera de la Cruz (Northwestern) |
| 7:30 pm | Claudine Williams (Paris)
"Statics and Dynamics of Hydrophobic Polyelectrolytes" |
| 8:30 pm | J. Joanny (Strasbourg)
"Polyelectrolyte Complexation" |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30-8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | CRYSTALLIZATION |
| Discussion Leader: Stephen Cheng (Akron) |
| 9:00 am | Jamie Hobbs (Bristol)
"In-situ Studies of Polymer Crystallization and Melting Using Scanning Probe Microscopy" |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am | Gunter Reiter (Mulhouse)
"Crystallization of Polymers in Thin Films" |
| 11:30 am | Julia Kornfield (Caltech)
"The Role of Melt Dynamics in Flow-induced Crystallization" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | NANOCOMPOSITE CRYSTALS |
| Discussion Leader: Nitash Balsara (UC, Berkeley) |
| 7:30 pm | Ramanan Krishnamoorti (Houston)
"Viscoelasticity of Polymer Layered-Silicate Nanocomposites" |
| 8:30 pm | George Fytas (Crete)
"Phonons in Mesoscopic Soft Structures" |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30-8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | SELF-ASSEMBLY |
| Discussion Leader: Miriam Rafailovich (Stony Brook) |
| 9:00 am | Adi Eisenberg (McGill)
"Block Copolymer Vesicles: Control of Morphologies, Sizes, and Surfaces" |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am | Virginie Ponsinet (Rhodia)
"Anisotropic nano-objects and polymer brushes in amphiphilic copolymer systems" |
| 11:30 am | Frank Bates (Minnesota)
"Block Copolymer Melt Dynamics" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session II |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | NEW TECHNIQUES |
| Discussion Leader: Karl Freed (Chicago) |
| 7:30 pm | Glenn Fredrickson (UC, Santa Barbara)
"Field-Theoretic Computer Simulations of Polymer Fluids" |
| 8:30 pm | Andreas Janshoff (Mainz)
"Force Spectroscopy of Biopolymers: Protein Science at the Level of Single Molecules" |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30-8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | POLYMER PHYSICS OF BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES |
| Discussion Leader: Edmond DiMarzio (NIST) |
| 9:00 am | Sergey Bezrukov (NIH)
"Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Polymer Partitioning into Nanopores of Biological Channels" |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am | David Hoagland (UMass)
"Diffusion and Electrophoresis of DNA in Ordered, Porous Arrays" |
| 11:30 am | Nick Hud (Georgia Tech)
"Controlling the Condensation of DNA Polymers into Nanoscale Particles" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | GLASSES AND HEIRARCHICAL DYNAMICS |
| Discussion Leader: Jack Douglas (NIST) |
| 7:30 pm | Alex Sokolov (Akron)
"Dynamics of the Glass Transition in Polymeric Systems" |
| 8:30 pm | Mark Ediger (Wisconsin)
"Dynamic Heterogeneity in Supercooled Liquids and Glasses" |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Departure |
