Sunday, June 29
- 6:00 pm: Mixer
- 7:00 pm: Dinner
Dynamics and Morphology
- 8:30 pm: Discussion Leader : H. Benoit (University of Strasbourg, France)
- G. Wegner (Max-Planck Institute for Polymers, Mainz, Germany) - "From Macromolecular Objects to Functional Architectures"
- E. L. Thomas (MIT, Cambridge, USA) - "Tailoring Structure in Polymers"
Monday, June 30
Controlled Reactions and Morphology (1)
- 8:15 am: Discussion Leader : J. A. Put (DSM Research, Geleen, The Netherlands)
- R. H. Grubbs (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA) - "Synthesis of Well Defined Polymers using Metal Initiators"
- M. Sawamoto (Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan) - "Transition Metal-Mediated Living Radical Polymerization: Scope, Mechanism and Precision Polymer Synthesis"
- 10:15 am: Coffee Break
- 10:30 am: Discussion Leader : P. Teyssie (University of Liege, Belgium)
- K. Matyjaszewski (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA) - "Mechanistic and Synthetic Aspects of Controlled Radical Polymerization"
- G. Ungar (University of Sheffield, UK) - "Self-Poisoning Crystallization and Folding of Macromolecules and their Model Compounds"
- 12:30 am: Lunch
Soft Order via Controlled Architecture
- 5:45 pm: Discussion Leader : M. M. Green (Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, USA)
- E. W. Meijer (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) - "Polymeric Architectures via Self-Complementary Quadruple Hydrogen Bonding"
- 7:00 pm: Dinner
- 8:30 pm: H. Finkelmann (University of Freiburg, Germany) - "Micellar Aggregation of AB Block Copolymers in Nematic Solvents"
- V. Percec (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA) - "Dendritic Building Blocks: A Bridge Between Nature and Chemistry"
- 10:30 pm: Poster Session - Wine and Cheese Party
Tuesday, July 1
Controlled Reactions and Morphology (2)
- 8:15 am: Discussion Leader : J. P. Kennedy (University of Akron, Akron, USA)
- E. Rizzardo (CSIRO, Melbourne, Australia) - "Evolution of Synthetic Methods for Controlled Radical Polymerization"
- D.V. Sogah (Cornell U., Ithaca, USA) - "Asymmetric Initiation in Stable Free Radical Mediated Polymerization"
- 10:15 am: Coffee Break
- 10:30 am: Discussion Leader : K. L. Wooley (Washington Univ., St. Louis, USA)
- C. J. Hawker (IBM Research Division, San Jose, USA) - "Application of 'Living' Free Radical Polymerization and Dendritic Macromolecules to the Next Generation of Computers"
- S. I. Stupp (University of Illinois, Urbana, USA) - "Expanding the Scope of Polymer Science and Technology Beyond the Bonding of Repeats"
- 12:30 am: Lunch
Supramolecular Concepts
- 5:45 pm: Discussion Leader : V. Kabanov (Moscow State University, Russia)
- R. J. M. Nolte (University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands) - "Towards Control of Structure by Supramolecular Interactions"
- 7:00 pm: Dinner
- 8:30 pm: J. M. Lehn (Collège de France, Paris, France) - "Supramolecular Chemistry: Molecular Information and the Design of Supramolecular Materials"
- 10:30 pm: Poster Session - Wine and Cheese Party
Wednesday, July 2
Self-Organization and Functions
- 8:15 am: Discussion Leader : A. Mueller (Mainz University, Mainz, Germany)
- B. Novak (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA) - "Building Chiral Molecular Architectures Using Transition Metal Living Initiated Polymerizations"
- R. Stadler (University of Bayreuth, Germany) - "Understanding ABC Triblock Morphologies. On the Way to the A Priori Design of Bi- and Tri-Continuous Assemblies"
- 10:15 am: Coffee Break
- 10:30 am: Discussion Leader : J. P. Majoral (CNRS, Toulouse, France)
- Y. Gnanou (ENSCPB, Bordeaux, France) - "Novel Examples of Dendrimers with Macromolecular Generations"
- J. S. Moore (University of Illinois, Urbana, USA) - "Using Weak, Non-Specific Interactions to Induce Conformational Order in Oligomeric Sequences"
- 12:30 am: Lunch
Properties of Organized Assemblies
- 5:30 pm: Discussion Leader : L. Monnerie (ESPCI, Paris, France)
- P. A. Pincus (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) - "Solution Structure of Hydrogen Bonding Polymers"
- 7:00 pm: Dinner
- 8:30 pm: L. Léger (Collège de France, Paris, France) - "Controlled Anchored Polymer Layers: A Way to Monitor Adhesion and Friction"
- L. Leibler (CNRS / Atochem, Paris, France) - "Control of Flow and Extrusion Instabilities by Structuring Random Copolymers"
- 10:30 pm: Poster Session - Wine and Cheese Party
Thursday, July 3
Nano-Architectures
- 8:15 am: Discussion Leader: C. Pugh (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)
- M. W. Hosseini (University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France) - "Molecular Tectonics: An Approach to Molecular Networks"
- M. Möller (University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany) - "Controlled Mineralization in Polymer Micelles and Formation of Well Organized Thin Nanocomposite Films"
- 10:15 am: Coffee Break
- 10:30 am: Discussion Leader : C. D. Eisenbach (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
- T. M. Swager (MIT, Cambridge, USA) - "Electronic Polymers with Complex Supramolecular Structures and Chemosensory Properties"
- B. Goodall (B.F. Goodrich, Brecksville, USA) - "Polymerization of Cyclic Olefins by Single-Site Ni and Pd Catalysts"
- 12:30 am: Lunch
Lessons from and to Biology
- 5:45 pm: Discussion Leader : R. R. Matheson (DuPont, Marshal Lab., Philadelphia, USA)
- D. A. Tirrell (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA) - "Biological Synthesis of Polymers. How Far Can We Go?"
- 7:00 pm: Dinner
- 8:30 pm: J. Prost (Curie Institute, Paris, France) - "Lessons from Biological Molecular Motors"
- 9:30 pm: Panel Discussion
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