| Saturday |
| 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 3:30 pm - 3:45 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
| 3:45 pm - 4:30 pm | Semicrystalline Polymers |
| Discussion Leader: Behzad Nazari (Pennsylvania State University, USA) |
| 3:45 pm - 4:00 pm | Anthony Kotula (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA)
"Probing Polymer Crystallization via Simultaneous Raman Spectroscopy, Rheology, and Optical Microscopy" |
| 4:00 pm - 4:05 pm | Discussion |
| 4:05 pm - 4:20 pm | Thomas O'Connor (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
"Chain Ends and the
Ultimate Strength of Polyethylene Fibers" |
| 4:20 pm - 4:25 pm | Discussion |
| 4:25 pm - 4:30 pm | General Discussion |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Dynamics in Polymeric Systems / Block Copolymer Phase Behavior |
| Discussion Leaders: Onyekachi Oparaji (Florida State University, USA) and Ha-Kyung Kwon (Northwestern University, USA) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Danielle Mai (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
"Single Molecule Dynamics of Branched DNA Polymers" |
| 7:45 pm - 7:50 pm | Discussion |
| 7:50 pm - 8:05 pm | Tarak Patra (The University of Akron, USA)
"Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Glass Formation and Ion Transport in Polymeric Ionic Liquids" |
| 8:05 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:25 pm | Mark Ilton (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
"Plug Flow in Viscous Freely-Suspended Polymer Nanofilms" |
| 8:25 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | General Discussion |
| 8:40 pm - 8:55 pm | Akash Arora (University of Minnesota, USA)
"Understanding Complex Sphere-Forming Phases in Block Polymers Using Self-Consistent Field Theory" |
| 8:55 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
| 9:00 pm - 9:15 pm | Alice Chang (California Institute of Technology, USA)
"Consequences of Low-Chi Block Copolymer Design" |
| 9:15 pm - 9:20 pm | Discussion |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | General Discussion |
| Sunday |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 11:00 am | Polymer Nanocomposites / Directed and Self-Assembly |
| Discussion Leader: Philip Griffin (University of Pennsylvania, USA) |
| 9:00 am - 9:15 am | Shiwang Cheng (Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)
"The Effect of Chain Rigidity on the Interfacial Layer Thickness and Dynamics of Polymer Nanocomposites" |
| 9:15 am - 9:20 am | Discussion |
| 9:20 am - 9:35 am | Zhen Cao (University of Akron, USA)
"Nanoparticles as Adhesives for Soft Polymeric Materials" |
| 9:35 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
| 9:40 am - 9:55 am | Yekaterina Rokhlenko (Yale University, USA)
"Leveraging Intrinsic Chain Anisotropy to Align Coil-Coil Block Copolymers with Magnetic Fields" |
| 9:55 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:10 am | General Discussion |
| 10:10 am - 10:25 am | Tamar Segal-Peretz (University of Chicago / Argonne National Laboratory, USA)
"Underneath the Surface of Block Copolymer Thin Films: Understanding Three Dimensional Assembly in Directed Self-Assembled Films Using Electron Tomography" |
| 10:25 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am - 10:45 am | Katherine Barteau (Cornell University, USA)
"Understanding the Formation Pathways of Asymmetric Triblock Terpolymer Membranes" |
| 10:45 am - 10:50 am | Discussion |
| 10:50 am - 11:00 am | General Discussion |
| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session |
| Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Mentorship Component: Finding Your Niche in Polymer Physics |
| A panel discussion featuring experts whose careers and
contributions represent academic, government, and industrial perspectives. |
| Discussion Leader: Adam Burns (Princeton University, USA) |
| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Panel Discussion |
| "Finding Your Niche in the Field of Polymer Physics" |
|
- August Bosse (ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company, USA)
- Ralph Colby (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
- Yueh-Lin Loo (Princeton University, USA)
- Christopher Soles (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA)
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| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms |
| 3:00 pm | Seminar Concludes |
