Sunday evening
General Topic: Biomedical Applications
- Albert J. Pennings, Department of Polymer Chemistry, University of Gröningen - Reconstruction and Replacement of the Knee Joint Meniscus by Porous Polymeric Materials
- W. Mark Saltzman. Department of Chemical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University - Polymers for Controlled and Directed Delivery of Drugs
Monday morning
General Topic: Polymerization
- James Crivello, Department of Chemistry, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - The Development of Novel Cationically Polymerizable Monomers
- Bruce M. Novak, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts at Amherst - Living Ring Opening Metathesis Polymerization
- Craig Hawker, IBM Almaden Research Center - Living Free Radical Polymerization
Monday evening
General Topic: Supramolecular Architectures
- Jeffrey S. Moore, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Energy and Electron Transfer in Dendritic Macromolecules
- Nobuo Kimizuka, Department of Organic Synthesis, Kyushu University - Mesoscopic Supramolecular Assemblies
- Marcel van Genderen, Department of Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology - Dendrimers and Supramotecular Chemistry
Tuesday morning
General Topic: Photoimaging Materials
- James Hanson, Department of Chemistry, Seton Hall University - Photobase Generators: Chemistry and Applications of Photogenerated Tertiary Amines
- Omkaram Nalamasu, AT&T Bell Laboratories - Challenges in the Design of Imaging Materials for Advanced Microlithographic Technologies
- Hiroshi Ito, IBM Almaden Research Center - Advanced Chemical Amplification Resists
Tuesday evening
General Topic: Novel Imaging
- Douglas Neckers, Department of Chemistry, Bowling Green State University - Structure and Mechanism in Acrylate Photopolymerization Reactions
- Richard Ingwall, Polaroid Corporation - Cationic Polymerization Methods for Volume Holographic Recording
Wednesday morning
General Topic: Surface Modification
- David E. Bergbreiter, Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University - The Synthesis of - Responsive Surface-functionalized Polymers
- James E. Mark, Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati - Novel Orientation Techniques for the Preparation of High-performance Materials from Semi-flexible Polymers
- K. Amundson, AT&T Bell Laboratories - Surface Anchoring and Electro-optics in Polymer-dispersed Liquid Crystals
- David Waldman, Polaroid Corporation - Fast Time Reorientation of an Ordered Liquid Crystal in Volume Phase Holographic/LC composites
Wednesday evening
General Topic. Microstructures
- Adi Eisenburg, Department of Chemistry, McGill University - Multiple morphologies of "Crew-cut" Block Copolymer Aggregates in Aqueous Solutions
- Charles R. Martin, Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University - Template Synthesis of Polymeric Nanostructures
Thursday morning
General Topic: Electro-optics Polymers
- Timothy M. Swager, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania - Novel Conducting Polymers
- James Tour, Department of Chemistry, University of South Carolina - Conjugated Oligomers and Polymers for Electronic and Photonic Applications
- Sukant K. Tripathy, Department of Chemistry and Center for Advanced Materials, University of Massachusetts at Lowell - Design of New Polymers for Photonics Technology
- Luping Yu, Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago - Multifunctional Polymers Exhibiting Photorefractive Effect
Thursday evening
- Otto Vogl, University of Massachusetts at Amherst - Helical Polymers in Nature and Technology
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