September 16 - 19, 2012
San Francisco, California USA
CO-ORGANIZERS
| Timothy E. Long Virginia Tech Department of Chemistry Blacksburg, VA 24061 Email: telong@vt.edu |
James L. Hedrick IBM Almaden 650 Harry Rd. San Jose, CA Email: hedrick@almaden.ibm.com |
INVITED SPEAKERS
Chris Bielawski, University of Texas at Austin
Paul Buijsen, DSM Coating Resins
John W. Connell, NASA Langley Research Center
Theo Dingemans, Delft University of Technology
Benny Freeman, University of Texas at Austin
Masa-aki Kakimoto, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Kunio Kimura, Okayama University
Fuyuhiko Kubota, Toyobo Co., Ltd.
Heather Maynard, University of California Los Angeles
Jim McGrath, Virginia Tech
Regis Mercier, LMOPS, CNRS
Cor Koning, DSM
Jeff Pyun, University of Arizona
Rudy Rulkens, DSM
Mitsuru Ueda, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Brigette Voit, Leibniz-Institute for Polymer Research
Willi Volksen, IBM
Tsutomu Yokozawa, Kanazawa University
PROGRAMMING
Polycondensation, which has a long-standing presence in the international polymer community for over ten years, will be held at Sir Francis Drake Hotel, San Francisco, CA USA. The event started in Paris in 1996, Annapolis, MD in 1998, and has continued every two years since its inception. Other locations have included Tokyo in 2000, Hamburg Germany in 2002, Roanoke Virginia in 2004, Tokyo in 2008 and Netherlands in 2010. The theme of the conference will primarily be recent developments in the synthesis, characterization, and performance of step-growth (condensation) polymers. Oral presentations on linear, branched, tailored architecture, sustainable polymer design, and crosslinking are particularly invited. This event will attract speakers from all over the world, including North and South America, Europe, Australia, and Asia.
