1997: Fields, Forces and flows in making, manipulating and using polymers
Monday, 28th April
| 09:10 | Professor Frank Bates (University of Minnesota) Block Copolymers: Are They Just Big Surfactants? |
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| 10:45 | Professor Tom McLeish (Leeds University) "Tuning Polymer Melt Flows with Molecular Structure -Theory, Simulation and Practice" |
| 11:50 | Professor Hans-Werner Schmidt (University of Bayreuth) "Macroscopic Order of Functional Polymers" |
| 17:00 | Dr. Duncan MacKerron (ICI Films, Wilton) "Effect of Mechanical Fields on the Microstructure of Polyester Film" |
| 18:00 | Professor Jean-Pierre Pascault (Institut National des
Sciences Appliquees de Lyon) "The Use of Reaction-induced Phase Separation to Prepare Polymer Blends" |
Tuesday, 29th April
| 09:00 | Dr. Gareth Price (University of Bath) Polymer Synthesis and Modification in an Ultrasound Field |
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| 10:35 | Dr. Paul Holmes (Pilkington Technology Management,
Lathom) Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystal Systems |
| 11:40 | Dr. Harry Anderson (Oxford University) "Synthesis of Supra molecular Conjugated Polymers: Exploring the Use of Non-covalent Interactions for Controlling the Response of Molecular Wires to Electric Fields" |
| 17:00 | Professor Harry Block (Cranfield Institute of
Technology) "Smart Fluids" |
| 18:00 | Professor Richard Friend (Cambridge University) "Electro-optical Properties of Conjugated Polymers" |
Wednesday, 30th April
| 09:00 | Dr. Jaan Noolandi (Xerox Research Centre of Canada,
Mississauga, Ontario) "Electrophoresis of Biomolecules - A Challenge at the Cross-roads of Physics, Chemistry and Biology" |
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| 10:35 | Dr. Athene Donald (University of Cambridge) "Processing Starch -In the Factory, Kitchen and Gut" |
| 11:40 | Professor Mike Harrington (Caltech, Pasadena) "Polymers Both Enable and Limit the Discovery of Protein Alterations in Studies Ranging from Gene Regulation to Mad Cow Disease" |
| 17:00 | Professor Steve Chu (Stanford University) "Observation of Normal Modes, Coil-stretch Transitions, and Bi-stable States in Extensional Flows" |
The conference was held at Moretonhampstead
Monday, 28th April - Wednesday, 30th April 1997