| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Polymer mixtures |
| Discussion Leader: Janna Maranas (Penn State University) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Jane Lipson (Dartmouth)
New connections between experiment and theory for polymer mixtures |
| 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Grant Smith (University of Utah)
Role of conformational energetics on the dynamics of polymer melts and mixtures |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Polyelectrolytes |
| Discussion Leader: Ralph Colby (Penn State) |
| 9:00 am - 10:00 am | Arun Yethiraj (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Solvent effects in polyelectrolyte solutions |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:15 am - 11:15 am | Christiane Helm (University of Greifswald)
Polyelectrolytes at interfaces |
| 11:15 am - 12:15 pm | Helmuth Moehwald (MPI-Golm)
Polyelectrolyte microcapsules with designed physicochemical properties |
| 12:15 pm | Photo |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Biopolymer dynamics |
| Discussion Leader: Ben Chu (SUNY-Stony Brook) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Felix Ritort (University of Barcelona)
Condensation transition in DNA-PAMAM dendrimer fibers studied using optical force microscopy |
| 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Paul Janmey (University of Pennsylvania)
Viscoelastic properties of biopolymer networks |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Surfaces and interfaces |
| Discussion Leader: Ali Dhinojwala (University of Akron) |
| 9:00 am - 10:00 am | Miriam Rafaelovich (SUNY-Stony Brook)
Polymer dynamics in confinement OR Surface DNA Electrophoresis OR Protein self assembly on charged polymer surfaces |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:30 am | John Dutcher (University of Guelph)
Instabilities in thin polymer films |
| 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | John Torkelson (Northwestern University)
The distribution of Tg values across thin and ultrathin polymer films: Surface and interfacial effects |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | New approaches |
| Discussion Leader: Rob Briber (University of Maryland) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Eric Amis (NIST)
Combinatorial methods for investigating multiphase mixtures |
| 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Hans-Jurgen Butt (MPI-Mainz)
Interaction of solid surfaces across polymer melts determined by atomic force microscopy |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Rheology |
| Discussion Leader: David Morse (University of Minnesota) |
| 9:00 am - 10:00 am | Hiroshi Watanabe (Kyoto University)
Dielectric and viscoelastic investigation of entanglement dynamics |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:30 am | Frank Bates (University of Minnesota)
Network phases in block copolymer melts |
| 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Kalman Migler (NIST)
Taming extrusion through nanotube and fluoropolymer additives |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session II |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:15 pm | Business Meeting |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Single molecule experiments |
| Discussion Leader: George Fytas (FORTH) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Paul Barbara (University of Texas)
Structure and dynamics of isolated conjugated polymer chains |
| 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Georg Krausch (Bayreuth University)
Single molecule fluorescence experiments in polymer physics |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Glass transition |
| Discussion Leader: Peter Green (University of Texas) |
| 9:00 am - 10:00 am | Sindee Simon (Texas Tech University)
Thermodynamics and kinetics of the glass transition |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:30 am | Jim Caruthers (Purdue University)
Evolution of non-equilibrium thermodynamic and mechanical behavior of glassy polymers |
| 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Ken Schweizer (University of Illinois)
Dynamic barriers, activated hopping, and the glass transition in polymer melts and colloidal suspensions |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Student talks and polymer coatings |
| Discussion Leader: Dennis Massa (Kodak) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | 4 short student talks |
| 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Robert Matheson (DuPont)
The quiet revolution in materials for durable coatings |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Depart |