2005: Working at Interfaces
Back Row: Professor J Rühe, Professor T.P.Russell,
Dr R.Buscall, Professor U.Steiner, Professor S.Förster.
Centre Row: Professor M. Miles, Professor K. Jacobs, Professor S.Biggs,
Dr M. Geoghegan, Professor J.L. Keddie.
Front Row: Professor H. Brown, Professor K.Matyjasewski,
Professor Dame Julia Higgins (Chairman),
Professor R.K.Thomas, Dr A.Miller
Not present: Professor C. K. Ober, Dr L. Twyman
Monday April 25
| 09:00 | Krzysztof Matyjaszewski (Carnegie Mellon, USA) "Affecting macroscopic properties with controlled molecular structures prepared by atom transfer radical polymerization." |
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| 10:10 | Coffee |
| 10:40 | Jurgen Ruhe (Freiburg, Germany) "From Computer Hard Disks to DNA-Chips: Tailor-Made Surfaces for Microsystems Technology" |
| 11:50 | Chris Ober (Cornell, USA) "Making things small: using polymers in nanofabrication" |
| 13:00 | Lunch |
| 17:00 | Joe Keddie (Surrey) "Strategies for Increasing Adhesion Energy at Soft Polymer Interfaces" |
| 18:00 | Hugh Brown (Wollongong, Australia) "Adhesion development between a siloxane lens and an acid functionalised substrate in both wet and dry conditions" |
Tuesday April 26
| 09:00 | Stephan Förster (Hamburg, Germany) "Assembling block copolymers to nano- and biointerfaces". |
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| 10:10 | Coffee |
| 10:40 | Mervyn Miles (Bristol) "AFM of Polymers at Interfaces" |
| 11:50 | Ulli Steiner (Cambridge) "Soft-Lithography using Film Instabilities" |
| 13:00 | Lunch |
| 17:00 | Simon Biggs (Leeds) "Stimulus-responsive, surface-adsorbed, block copolymer micelles" |
| 18:00 | Bob Thomas (Oxford) "Water soluble polymers at aqueous interfaces: what drives adsorption?" |
Wednesday April 27
| 09:00 | Aline Miller (UMIST) "Self-Assembly at Fluid Interfaces" |
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| 09:30 | Mark Geoghegan (Sheffield) "Dewetting in confined geometries" |
| 10:00 | Lance Twyman (Sheffield) "Dendritic Polymers as Heme Protein Models" |
| 10:30 | Coffee |
| 11:00 | Richard Buscall (ICI) "Polymer colloids, conventional and unconventional" |
| 12:00 | Karin Jacobs (Saarbrücken, Germany) "Microfluidics of macromolecular liquids: structure formation and the interplay of forces" |
| 13:00 | Lunch |
| 17:00 | Tom Russell (U Mass, USA) "Swiss-rolls, Doughnuts and Crumpets: Tea Time With Block Copolymers" |
| 20:00 | Conference Dinner |
Thursday April 28
| 09:00 | Depart after breakfast |
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The conference was held at Shrigley Hall Hotel,
Pott Shrigley, Cheshire, UK
Sunday April 24th - Thursday April 28th 2005
Organised by Athene Donald, Tony Ryan and Steve Armes