2003: 43rd Moretonhampstead Conference
Back Row: Dr E. Amis, Professor M. Olvera de la Cruz.
Centre Row: Professor H. R. Kricheldorf, Dr J. Steinke, Dr A. Burgess, Professor S. Armes,
Professor E. W. Meijer, Professor A. Laschewsky.
Front Row: Professor M. Doi, Dr V. Arrighi, Professor W. Kaminsky, Professor Dame Julia Higgins (Chairman),
Professor E. J. Kramer, Professor E. L. Thomas.
Monday 28 April
| 9:20 | Professor Bert Meijer (Eindhoven, Netherlands) "Polymer architectures via cooperative H-bonding" |
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| 10:55 | Professor Walter Kaminsky (Hamburg, Germany) "Novel alkene polymerisation catalysts and novel polyalkenes" |
| 11:55 | Professor Hans Kricheldorf (Hamburg, Germany) "The role of cycles in step-growth polymerisation" |
| 17:00 | Professor Andre Laschewsky (Potsdam, Germany) "Self-organisation of polymers by electrostatic interactions" |
| 18:00 | Professor Borje Sellergren (Dortmund, Germany) "Water - compatible molecularly imprinted polymers" |
Tuesday 29th April
| 9:10 | Professor Steve Armes (Sussex, UK) "Synthesis of biocompatible phosphorylcholine-based homopolymers and block copolymers via ATRP" |
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| 10:45 | Professor Monica Olvera (North Western, USA) "Polyelectrolyte solutions in multivalent salts" |
| 11:45 | Dr Eric Amis (NIST, USA) "Applications of combinatorial methods for investigations of polymer physics" |
| 17:00 | Professor Ed Kramer (Santa Barbara, USA) "Defects and melting of 2D block copolymer single crystals" |
| 18:00 | Professor Masao Doi (Nagoya University, Japan) "Mechanical properties of ABA tri-block copolymers studied by self-consistent field theory and molecular dynamics calculation" |
Wednesday 30th April
| 9:00 | Dr Valeria Arrighi (Heriot Watt, UK) "Local dynamics of polymers with neutrons: experiments, simulations and theory" |
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| 9:30 | Dr Steve Moratti (Cambridge, UK) "Rigid or floppy? Hyperbranched and dendritic macromolecules" |
| 10:00 | Dr Joachim Steinke (Imperial College, UK) "Threading polvrotaxanes onto applications" |
| 11:00 | Professor Chris Dobson (Cambridge, UK) "Protein folding, and misfolding: From diseases to devices" |
| 12:00 | Dr Andrew Burgess (ICI, UK) "Human Stratum Corneum - structure and properties" |
| 17:15 | Professor Ned Thomas (MIT, USA) "Polymer based microphotonics" |
The conference was held at Moretonhampstead
Monday 28th April - Wednesday 30th April 2003