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)
Speakers announced for this special symposium, hosted by DSM!
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)
Convener: Jean-Pierre Vairon (Paris, France)
Convener: Steve Yeates (Manchester, UK); Keynote Speakers: Donal Bradley (London, UK); Antonio Facchetti (Chicago, USA)
Convener: Steve Rimmer (Sheffield, UK); Keynote Speaker: Kristi Anseth (Colorado, USA)
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)
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)
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)
Convener: Rachel O'Reilly (Warwick, UK)
