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43rd IUPAC World Polymer Congress: Polymer Science in the Service of Society, 11-16 July 2010, Glasgow, UK


A-Z of Symposia


An alphabetical index of all the symposia taking place during the congress:

Advances in polyolefins: from catalyst design to smart molecular processing

Convener: Manfred Bochmann (East Anglia, UK); Keynote Speakers: Tobin J. Marks (Chicago, USA); Ronald G. Larson (Michigan, USA)

Biodegradable and sustainable polymers

Convener: Andrew Dove (Warwick, UK); Keynote Speaker: Geoff W. Coates (Cornell, USA)

Click and efficient linking chemistry in polymer synthesis

Convener: Dave Leigh, (Edinburgh, UK), Keynote Speaker: Craig Hawker (Santa Barbara, USA)

Colloidal and nanoscale polymer composites: fundamentals through to applications

Convener: Joao Cabral (London, UK); Keynote Speaker: Anna C. Balazs (Pittsburgh, USA)

Colloids and surfaces for biomaterials applications

Convener: Brian Saunders (Manchester, UK); Keynote Speaker: Calum Drummond (CSIRO, Australia)

Dendrimers and hyperbranched polymer synthesis

Convener: Wayne Hayes (Reading, UK), Keynote speaker: Dieter Schlueter (Zurich, Switzerland)

Designing block copolymers: theory, experiment and applications

Convener: Andrei Zvelindovsky (Central Lancashire, UK); Keynote Speakers: Tom Russell (Massachusetts, USA), Anthony J. Ryan (Sheffield, UK)

DSM Performance Materials

Speakers announced for this special symposium, hosted by DSM!

Living radical polymerisation

Convener: Dave Haddleton (Warwick, UK), Keynote Speakers: Axel H.E. Muller (Bayreuth, Germany), Virgil Perecec (Pennsylvania, USA)

Mechanical properties of polymer materials and fibres

Convener: Costantino Creton (Paris, France); Keynote Speaker: Mark Ediger (Madison, USA)

Membranes, nanoporous polymers and fuel cells

Convener: Peter Budd (Manchester, UK); Keynote Speaker: Young Moo Lee (Hanyang, Korea)

Molecularly imprinted polymers

Convener: Peter Cormack (Strathclyde, UK); Keynote Speaker: Kenneth Shea (California, USA)

Polymer colloids: from synthesis to applications

Convener: Stefan Bon (Warwick, UK); Keynote Speakers: Alfons van Blaaderen (Utrecht, The Netherlands); Younan Xia (St Louis, USA)

Polymer Education

Convener: Jean-Pierre Vairon (Paris, France)

Polymer electronics

Convener: Steve Yeates (Manchester, UK); Keynote Speakers: Donal Bradley (London, UK); Antonio Facchetti (Chicago, USA)

Polymer networks and responsive polymers in the life sciences: synthesis, properties, performance and fabrication

Convener: Steve Rimmer (Sheffield, UK); Keynote Speaker: Kristi Anseth (Colorado, USA)

Polymers for sensors

Convener: Aleksandar Radu (Dublin, Ireland); Keynote Speaker: Johan Bobacka (Abo Akademi, Finland)

Polymers for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine

Convener: Neil Cameron (Durham, UK); Keynote Speakers: Molly Shoichet (Toronto, Canada), Molly Stevens (London, UK)

Polymers in adhesives

Conveners: Andrew Slark (Henkel, UK); Keynote Speaker: Wulff Possart (Saarland, Germany)

Polymers in liquid crystalline materials

Convener: Ingo Dierking (Manchester, UK); Keynote Speaker: Mark Warner (Cambridge, UK)

Polymers in the home, personal care and agriculture

Convener: Ezat Khoshdel (Unilever, UK); Keynote Speaker: Jim Darwent (Liverpool, UK)

Polymers in therapeutics: polymer nanomedicines

Convener: Giuseppe Battaglia (Sheffield, UK); Keynote Speaker: Kazunori Kataoka (Tokyo, Japan)

Polymerisation kinetics and new concepts in polymerisation

Convener: Tom Davis (New South Wales, Australia), Keynote Speaker: Kris Matyjaszewski (Pittsburgh, USA)

Polysaccharides: chemistry, structure, properties and technology

Convener: Stephen Eichhorn (Manchester, UK); Keynote Speaker: Kristi Kiick (Delaware, USA)

Probing single macromolecules

Convener: Hagan Bayley (Oxford, UK); Keynote Speaker: Daniel Branton (Harvard, USA)

Rheology and dynamics of polymer solutions and gels

Convener: Peter Williams (Glyndwr, UK); Keynote Speaker: Madeleine Djabourov (Paris, France)

Supramolecular polymers and self assembly

Convener: Joachim Steinke (London, UK), Keynote Speaker: E.W. 'Bert' Meijer (Eindhoven, The Netherlands)

Young Polymer Scientists

Convener: Rachel O'Reilly (Warwick, UK)