• 2:00 PM
  Arrival and Check-in
• 6:00 PM
  Dinner

• 7:30 PM
  A. Hrymak (McMaster University) - Welcome
• 7:45 PM
  M. Denn (U. C. Berkeley) - Nonspecific polymer/wall interactions at high stresses
• 8:45 PM
  R. Larson (U. Michigan) - Convective constraint release in entangled polymers and its implications for wall slip

• 7:30 AM
  Breakfast
• 8:30 AM
  Group Photograph
• 9:00 AM
  J. Dooley (Dow Chemical) - Experimental studies of viscoelastic flow in dies
• 10:00 AM
  B. Debbaut (Polyflow s.a.) - Numerical simulation of 3-D flows in channels with a multi-mode viscoelastic model
• 11:00 AM
  Break
• 11:30 AM
  B. Khomami (Washington U.) - Recent advances in simulation of steady and transient viscoelastic flows
• 12:30 PM
  Lunch
• 6:00 PM
  Dinner

• 7:30 PM
  C. Gogos (Stevens Inst. Tech.) - Melting Phenomena and Mechanisms in Polymer Processing Equipment
• 8:15 PM
  Greg Campbell (Clarkson) - New Concepts in Solids Conveying to Melting
• 9:00 PM
  C.I. Chung (Rennselaer) and K.S. Hyun (Dow Chemical) - Analytical Dissipative Melting Model for Polymer Extrusion - Defining Important Input Data

• 7:30 AM
  Breakfast
• 8:30 AM
  D. Kalyon (Stevens Inst. Tech.) - Twin screw extrusion of suspensions with high degree of solid fill
• 9:30 AM
  D. Bigio (Maryland) - Characterization of Mixing Sections in Twin Screw Extruders
• 10:30 AM
  Break
• 11:00 AM
  K. Funatsu (Kyushu U.) - Numerical visualization and some performance evaluation of mixing phenomena in twin screw extruders
• 11:45 AM
  Chris Scott (MIT) - Simulation of Multiphase and Viscoelastic Polymer Processing Flows Using the Lattice-Boltzmann Method
• 12:30 PM
  Lunch
• 6:00 PM
  Dinner

• 7:30 PM
  J. Vlachopoulos (McMaster U.) - Numerical simulation of the film blowing process in the light of the latest technological innovations
• 8:30 PM
  R. Secor (3M) - Modelling in the design and optimization of coating and film dies

• 7:30 AM
  Breakfast
• 8:30 AM
  A. Poslinski & D. Coyle (GE) - Rheological effects during gas-assisted and thinwall injection molding
• 9:30 AM
  J.L. Lee (Ohio State U.) - Mold filling and curing simulations in liquid composite molding
• 10:30 AM
  Break
• 11:00 AM
  G. Titomanlio (U. Salerno) - Shrinkage and cooling stresses evolution in injection molding
• 12:30 PM
  Lunch
• 6:00 PM
  Dinner

• 8:00 PM
  A. Garcia-Rejon (NRC IMI) - Blow moulding process optimization: state of the art and unresolved issues
• 9:00 PM
  H. Nied (Lehigh U.) - Thermoforming simulation: computational mechanics and experimental issues

• 7:30 AM
  Breakfast
• 8:30 AM
  M. Cakmak (U. Akron) - Development of structural hierarchy in injection molding of polymers of slow and fast crystallization character
• 9:30 AM
  T. Kikutani (Tokyo Inst. Tech.) - Molecular orientation and crystallization in fiber processing
• 10:30 AM
  Break
• 11:00 AM
  G. Peters (Eindhoven) - Numerical simulation of flow induced crystallization during injection molding
• 12:30 PM
  Lunch
• 6:00 PM
  Dinner

• 7:30 PM
  R. Keunings (U. Cath. Louvain) - Computer simulation of complex polymer flows with molecular models
• 8:30 PM
  W. Michaeli (U. Aachen) - Reflections on computer simulation in polymer processing - challenges and chances
• 9:30 PM
  C.L. Tucker (U. Illinois) - Plans for 2001

• 7:30 AM
  Breakfast

The 1999 conference Chair and Vice-Chair gratefully acknowledge financial support from:

• Moldflow Corp.
• The Dow Chemical Co.
• Krupp Werner & Pfleiderer Corp.