>> The 3-day symposium will consist of 15 plenary lectures, given by outstanding scientists whose exceptionally creative work opens up new frontiers for polymer science.In addition, there will be three poster sessions allowing for the viewing of a large number of poster presentations.
>> Plenary Speakers and Topics:
Zhenan Bao, Stanford University, USA Polymers for Flexible Electronics |
Bernadette Charleux, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France New Synthetic Routes Toward Polymer Colloids |
Geoffrey W. Coates, Cornell University, USA Development of New Catalysts for the Synthesis of Biodegradable Polymeric Materials from Epoxides |
Patrick Couvreur, Université de Paris-Sud, France Polymer Nanoparticles for Cancer Treatment and Brain Delivery |
Joseph De Simone, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA Co-opting Moore’s Law: Advances in Imprint Lithography for the Design of Vaccines and Therapeutics |
Glenn H. Fredrickson, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Frontiers of Computational Polymer Field Theory |
Robert H. Grubbs, California Institute of Technology, USA, Nobel Laureate |
Craig Hawker, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Applications of Orthogonal, “Click” Chemistries in the Synthesis of Functional Soft Materials |
Susumu Kitagawa, Kyoto University, Japan Polymer Chemistry in Coordination Nanospaces |
Eugenia Kumacheva, University of Toronto, Canada Polymer Microgels: Microenvironments for Cell Studies |
Axel H.E. Müller, Universität Bayreuth, Germany Self-Organized Multi-Compartment Nanostructures From New Triblock Terpolymers |
Anthony J. Ryan, University of Sheffield, UK Making Polymers Swim |
Samuel I. Stupp, Northwestern University, USA Hierarchical Self-Assembly of Supramolecular and Covalent Polymers |
George M. Whitesides, Harvard University, USA |
Alan H. Windle, University of Cambridge, UK |
29-31 May 2011
Lyon Convention Centre
50 Quai Charles de Gaulle
69463 Lyon cedex 06
France
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[Organizers: Elsevier B.V. & Journal "polymer"]