| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm | Functional Complex Macromolecules |
| 7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Discussion Leader: Tim Long (Virginia Tech) |
| 7:40 pm - 8:20 pm | Takuzo Aida (The University of Tokyo)
"Advanced functional materials based on carbon nanoclusters" |
| 8:20 pm - 9:00 pm | Jean Frechet (University of California, Berkeley)
"Designing functional macromolecules: from technological to medical applications" |
| 9:00 pm - 11:00 pm | Welcome Reception |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:45 am | Photo |
| 9:00 am - 10:30 am | Biological Routes to Polymers |
| 9:00 am - 9:10 am | Discussion Leader: Kristi Kiick (University of Delaware) |
| 9:10 am - 9:50 am | Richard Gross (Polytechnic University)
"Enzyme catalyzed routes to monomers, macromers and polymers" |
| 9:50 am - 10:30 am | David Tirrell (California Institute of Technology)
"Templated synthesis of functional macromolecules" |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Polymeric Tissue and Drugs |
| 11:00 am - 11:10 am | Discussion Leader: Heather Maynard (University of California, Los Angeles) |
| 11:10 am - 11:50 am | Jeff Hubbell (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
"Bioresponsive polymers in biomaterials: tissue engineering and drug delivery" |
| 11:50 am - 12:30 pm | Ruth Duncan (Cardiff University)
"Understanding the importance of polymer architecture: The key to successful design of polymer therapeutics for drug delivery" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm | Molecular Brushes |
| 7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Discussion Leader: William Brittain (University of Akron) |
| 7:40 pm - 8:20 pm | Christine Ortiz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"Nanomechanics of cartilage aggrecan: Why do the molecules in our joints look like caterpillars?" |
| 8:20 pm - 9:00 pm | Sergei Sheiko (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
"Molecular Fluidics" |
| 9:00 pm - 10:30 pm | Poster Session |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 10:30 am | Reinventing Polyolefins |
| 9:00 am - 9:10 am | Discussion Leader: Zhibin Guan (University of California, Irvine) |
| 9:10 am - 9:50 am | Jim Stevens (The Dow Chemical Company)
"Isotactic polypropylene in a high-temperature process - cool catalysts for a hot process" |
| 9:50 am - 10:30 am | Terunori Fujita (Mitsui)
"Creation of new olefin-based materials using new catalysts" |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | New Materials via Precise Polymer Synthesis |
| 11:00 am - 11:10 am | Discussion Leader: Tim Patten (University of California, Davis) |
| 11:10 am - 11:50 am | Yves Gnanou (Bordeaux Universite)
"Dendrimer-like poly(ethylene oxide)s: methodology of synthesis and behavior" |
| 11:50 am - 12:30 pm | Jeff Pyun (The University of Arizona)
"Synthesis of magnetic nanocomposite materials from functional copolymers" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm | Bioinspired Nanomaterials |
| 7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Discussion Leader: Helmut Ringsdorf (University of Mainz) |
| 7:40 pm - 8:20 pm | Sam Stupp (Northwestern University)
"Biomimetics for bioactivity" |
| 8:20 pm - 9:00 pm | Virgil Percec (University of Pennsylvania)
"Nature as a model for the elaboration of new concepts in polymer chemistry" |
| 9:00 pm - 10:30 pm | Poster Session |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 10:30 am | Controlling Ionic and Radical Polymerizations |
| 9:00 am - 9:10 am | Discussion Leader: Stuart Rowan (Case Western Reserve University) |
| 9:10 am - 9:50 am | Stan Penczek (Polish Academy of Sciences)
"Unified mechanism of polymerization of cyclic esters" |
| 9:50 am - 10:30 am | Mitsuo Sawamoto (Kyoto University)
"Controlling radical polymerization via transition metal catalysis towards precision synthesis of novel and functional polymers" |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Polymers for Optoelectronics |
| 11:00 am - 11:10 am | Discussion Leader: Florian Schattenmann (GE Global Research Center) |
| 11:10 am - 11:50 am | Chris Ober (Cornell University)
"Making small things: patterning function and shape for applications from microelectronics to biotechnology" |
| 11:50 am - 12:30 pm | Iain McCulloch (Merck Chemicals)
"Polymer semiconductors and their application in organic circuitry" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm | Nanoscale Organization of Polymers |
| 7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Discussion Leader: Chris Bielawski (University of Texas, Austin) |
| 7:40 pm - 8:20 pm | Frank Bates (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities)
"Phase behavior and applications of amphiphilic block copolymers" |
| 8:20 pm - 9:00 pm | Edwin Thomas (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"Enabling nanotechnology with polymers" |
| 9:00 pm - 10:30 pm | Poster Session |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 10:30 am | Novel Materials from Unconventional Media |
| 9:00 am - 9:10 am | Discussion Leader: Kathryn Beers (NIST) |
| 9:10 am - 9:50 am | Joe DeSimone (North Carolina University at Chapel Hill)
"Liquid fluoropolymers: The design of new materials for microfluidics, fuel cells, imprint lithography and nano-medicine" |
| 9:50 am - 10:30 am | Markus Antonietti (Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces)
"Double hydrophilic block copolymers and their relatives to control crystallization processes" |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Polymers at Surfaces |
| 11:00 am - 11:10 am | Discussion Leader: Martin Moeller (RWTH Aachen University) |
| 11:10 am - 11:50 am | Tom McCarthy (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
"Controlling and using wetttability" |
| 11:50 am - 12:30 pm | Tomek Kowalewski (Carnegie Mellon University)
"(Co)polymer surfaces: beyond the pretty pictures" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm | Macromolecular Nano-Objects |
| 7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Discussion Leader: Valerie Shears (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) |
| 7:40 pm - 8:20 pm | Axel Mueller (University of Bayreuth)
"New hybrid nanoparticles and their interactions with polyelectrolytes" |
| 8:20 pm - 9:00 pm | Craig Hawker (University of California, Santa Barbara)
"Making complex materials in a bucket - the allure of click chemistry" |
| 9:00 pm - 10:30 pm | Poster Session |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Depart |
