If you are interested in organizing a symposium at a future national meeting of the ACS, please click here.
Next Meeting
Orlando, FL
March 31 – April 4, 2019
Theme: Chemistry for New Frontiers
HOUSING REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN. The POLY Sessions will be held in the Rosen Center Hotel
Deadline for abstract submission has closed
Lead Program Chair: Brett Helms, Molecular Foundry (bahelms@lbl.gov)
Symposia (257 POLY Draft Program_1-17-2019):
- ACS Award for Affordable Green Chemistry in Honor of Richard Gross
- ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry in Honor of Tim Swager
- ACS Award in the Chemistry of Materials in Honor of Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
- Carl S. Marvel Award for Creative Polymer Chemistry Award in Honor of Matt Becker
- Antimicrobial & Cell-Penetrating Peptides
- Dispersity in Block Copolymers: Synthesis, Characterization, Modeling & the Effects on Self-Assembly
- Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research
- General Topics: New Synthesis & Characterization of Polymers
- Industrial Innovations in Polymer Science (Oral)
- New Frontiers in Aerospace Polymers: Advances & Challenges in Experiments & Simulations
- Poly(2-oxazoline)s & Polypeptoids
- Polymer Bioconjugates for a Changing World
- Polymer-Based Gene & Drug Delivery Systems
- Polymers & Biomimicry
- Synthesis & Properties of Densely Grafted Polymers
- The Fate of Plastics in Water
- Transport in Polymer Membranes
- Undergraduate Research in Polymer Science
For symposia organizers and chairs:
Guidelines for symposia organizers and chairs (pdf document)
Next Upcoming Meetings
San Diego, CA
August 25 – 29, 2019
Theme: Chemistry of Water
Abstract submission is now open (deadline is March 18, 2019) click here to submit your abstract
Lead Programming Chair: Thomas Epps, III
Symposia: (Organizers can be contacted through the abstract website (here)
- Biomacromolecules/Macromolecules Young Investigator Award (invited – co-sponsored with PMSE)
- organizer – Paulomi Majumdar
- Characterization of Plastics in Aquatic Environments (co-sponsored by PMSE, I&EC, CEI, ANYL, ENVR, BIOL)
- organizers – Robert Mathers , Sara Orski , Melissa Pasquinelli
- DSM Graduate Student Award (invited)
- organizer – Judith Van Gorp
- Eco-Friendly Polymerization
- organizers – Cyrille Boyer, Dominik Konkolewicz
- Future of Biomacromolecules at a Crossroads of Polymer Science & Biology (invited – co-sponsored by PMSE, PHYS, COLL, CARB, MEDI, ENVR, CELL, BIOL)
- organizers – Ann-Christine Albertsson, Simona Percec
- General Topics: New Synthesis and Characterization of Polymers
- organizer – Dana Garcia
- Henkel Outstanding Graduate Research in Polymer Chemistry (invited)
- organizer – Mahesh Mahanthappa
- Herman F. Mark Award (invited)
- organizer – Melissa Grunlan
- Industrial Innovations in Polymer Science (invited)
- organizers – Sean Ramirez , Laura Stratton
- Industrial Polymer Young Scientist Award (invited)
- organizers – Joseph DeSimone, Crista Farrell
- Overberger International Prize (invited)
- organizers – Richard Laine , Julie Pollak
- Paul Flory’s “Statistical Mechanics of Chain Molecules: The 50th Anniversary of Polymer Chemistry”
- organizers – Gary Patterson , Alan Tonelli
- Polymeric Materials for Water Purification (co-sponsored with PMSE)
- organizers – Benny Freeman, Lynn Katz, Nathaniel Lynd, Rachel Segalman
- Polymerization-Induced Nanostructural Transitions
- organizers – Steven Armes, Robert Hickey, Andrew Magenau
- Polymers for Defense Applications
- organizers – Robert Lambeth, Dawanne Poree, Timothy Pruyn, Alice Savage, Peter Zarras
Philadelphia, PA
March 22 – 26, 2020
Theme: Macromolecular Chemistry: The Second Century (mark your calendars for this one)
San Francisco, CA
August 16-20, 2020
Theme: Chemistry from Bench to Market
San Antonio, TX
March 21-25, 2021
Atlanta, GA
August 22-26, 2021
San Diego, CA
March 20-24, 2022
Chicago, IL
August 21-25, 2022