| Sunday |
| Biologically Related Polymer Science |
| Discussion Leader: Karen Wooley |
| 9:00-9:40 | Helmut Ringsdorf, Multicompartmentation-A concept for Molecular Architecture and Molecular Engineering for Tissue, Cells and Biopolymers. The Role of Polymers? |
| 9:40-10:30 | Linda Griffith, Using Synthetic Polymers to Control Cell Function via Spatial Control of Adhesion and Growth Factor Ligand Presentation |
| 10:30-10:50 | Break |
| 10:50-11:40 | Jeffrey Hubbell, Biofunctional Materials in the Modulation of Biological Recognition. |
| 11:40-12:30 | David A. Tirrell, Making Cells Do What You Want |
| 12:30-1:30 | Lunch |
| Poster Session |
| 3:30-6:00 | All Posters will be up during the entire meeting. |
| Stories from the 20th Century |
| 5:15-6:00 | Herbert Morawetz, 1953-1957, Golden years of polymer science. |
| 6:00-7:30 | Dinner |
| Biologically Related Polymer Science |
| Discussion Leader: Jim Moore |
| 7:30-8:20 | Sam Stupp, The Power of Nanoscaffolds in Materials and Biology |
| Stories from the 20th Century |
| 8:20-8:50 | Carl Wooten, The Polymer Gordon Research Conference in its Middle Years. |
| 8:50-9:10 | Akio Teramoto, Personal Recollections on Progress in Studying Polymer Solutions. |
| 9:10-9:45 | Norbert Bikales, Confessions of a program director. |
| Monday |
| Biologically Related Polymer Science |
| Discussion Leader: Ken Wynne |
| 8:50-9:40 | Alexei Khokhlov, Conformation-dependent Sequence Design of AB-copolymers with Protein-like Function. |
| 9:40-10:30 | Timothy J. Deming, Self-Assembled Block Copolypeptide Materials |
| 10:30-10:45 | Break |
| Helical Arrangements of Polymers |
| Discussion Leader: Michiya Fujiki |
| 10:50-11:40 | Jeff Moore, The Supramolecular Chemistry of Folded Oligomers |
| 11:40-12:30 | Eiji Yashima, Helix Induction in Polyphenylacetylenes. A Polymer with a Memory of Helical Sense |
| 12:30-1:30 | Lunch |
| Poster Session |
| 3:30-6:00 | All Posters will be up during the entire meeting. |
| Stories from the 20th Century |
| 5:00-5:30 | Owen Webster, The GTP Story. |
| 5:30-6:00 | Lloyd Taylor, Polymers and Instant Photography - Forty Years of Fun. |
| 6:00-7:30 | Dinner |
| Synthetic Polymer Science |
| Discussion Leader: Ken Wagener |
| 7:30-8:20 | Bob Waymouth, Control of Polyolefin Architectures with Metallocene Catalysts |
| 8:20-9:10 | Bob Grubbs, Making Polymers with Late Metal Catalysts |
| Stories from the 20th Century |
| 9:10-9:40 | Ed Vandenberg, Sixty Years of Polymer Research. |
| 9:40-10:00 | Menachim Lewin, Reminiscences of Some Developments of Polymer Science in Israel. |
| Tuesday |
| Synthetic Polymer Science |
| Discussion Leader: Peter Reed |
| 8:50-9:40 | Steven D. Ittel, Structured Polymers Using Late-Metal Catalysts |
| 9:40-10:30 | Yoshio Okamoto, Stereocontrol by Radical Polymerization |
| 10:30-10:50 | Break |
| 10:50-11:40 | Mitsuo Sawamoto, Radical Living Polymerization via Transition Metal Catalysis for Novel Macromolecules |
| 11:40-12:30 | Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Scope and Limitations of Controlled Radical Polymerization Methods |
| 12:30-1:30 | Lunch |
| Poster Session |
| 3:30-6:00 | All Posters will be up during the entire meeting. |
| Stories from the 20th Century |
| 5:20-6:00 | Mitsuru Nagasawa, The Early Days of Polymer Science in Japan. |
| 6:00-7:30 | Dinner |
| Polymers with a Function |
| Discussion Leader: John Woods |
| 7:30-8:20 | Craig Hawker, Advanced Technologies - The Role of Nanostructured Materials and Controlled Polymer Architectures |
| 8:20-9:10 | W.J. Feast, Self-organized, Ordered and Disordered Polymers as Electroactive Materials. What's required for best effect? Reflections on experience. |
| Polymers with a Function |
| Discussion Leader: Mort Litt |
| 9:10-10:00 | Ned Thomas, Polymer-Inorganic Photonic Crystals |
| Wednesday |
| Polymers with a Function |
| Discussion Leader: Mort Litt |
| 8:45-9:35 | Martin Moeller, Functional Membranes by Supramolecular Assembly of Pores Using Organic Glasses. |
| 9:35-10:25 | Matthew Tirrell, Presentation of Functional Polypeptide Architectures at Interfaces |
| 10:25-10:45 | Break |
| Polymer Organization |
| Discussion Leader: Doug Kiserow |
| 10:45-11:35 | Manfred Schmidt, Nanostructured Single Macromolecules. |
| 11:35-12:30 | Frank Bates, Block Copolymers - from Melts to Micelles
|
| 12:30-1:30 | Lunch |
| Poster Session |
| 3:30-6:00 | All Posters will be up during the entire meeting. |
| 4:30-5:20 | Oral Presentation of Award Posters |
| Stories from the 20th Century |
| 4:40-5:20 | Jim Guillet, Some Light on Plastic Molecules. |
| 5:20-6:00 | Dick Stein, Shedding Light on Polymer Structure. |
| Dinner |
| Polymer Organization |
| Discussion Leader: Doug Kiserow |
| 7:30-8:20 | Nitash Balsara, Nucleation in Highly Metastable Polymer Blends |
| 8:20-9:10 | Paula Hammond, Supramolecular Assembly in Asymmetric Block Copolymer Architectures
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| Science Fiction in Polymers |
| Discussion Leader: Martin Moeller |
| 9:10-10:00 | Virgil Percec, Single Macromolecules from Science Fiction to Science. |
| Thursday |
| The Polymeric Solid State |
| Discussion Leader: Bob Miller |
| 8:45-9:35 | Ueli Suter, The Polymeric Solid State - Where Experiment and Simulations Are Both Equally Needed |
| 9:35-10:25 | Claudio De Rosa, Order and Disorder in Polymer Crystals |
| 10:25-10:45 | Break |
| Environmental Considerations in Polymer Science |
| Discussion Leader: Coleen Pugh |
| 10:45-11:35 | Geoffrey Coates, New Catalysts for the Synthesis of Polymers from Biorenewable Resources |
| 11:35-12:30 | Joe Desimone, The CO2 Technology Platform: The Role of Basic Science to Support Environmentally Friendly Manufacturing Technologies |
