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For Symposia Organizers and Chairs:
Guidelines for symposia organizers and chairs (pdf document)
Next Meeting
2022 Spring ACS National Meeting
Location: San Diego, CA
Theme: Bonding Through Chemistry
March 20-24, 2022
Program Team:
Lead Program Chair: Levi Moore (levimjmoore@gmail.com)
Danniebelle Haase (DHaase@dow.com)
Robert Mathers (rtm11@psu.edu)
Sara Orski (sara.orski@nist.gov)
Tentative Symposium Slate:
50 Years of Polymer Science and Engineering at Southern Miss.
Organizers: Sarah Morgan and Yoan Simon
Contributed (Oral and Poster)
Engineering Functionality into Bio(mimetic) Polymers
Organizers: Abigail Knight and Allie Obermyer
Contributed (Oral and Poster)
Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research
Organizers: H.N. Cheng, Christine Coltrain, Christopher Ellison, and Timothy Long
Contributed (Oral and Poster)
From Staudinger Macromolecules to the Genome of Macromolecules
Organizers: Michael Klein and Virgil Percec
Invited Only
General Topics: New Synthesis and Characterization of Polymers
Organizers: Ferenc Horkay and Yongfu Li
Contributed (Oral and Poster)
Incorporating Polymer Science into the Classroom
Organizers: Heather Broadhead and Sarah Morgan
Contributed (Oral and Poster)
Industrial Developments in Polyolefin Macromolecular Design
Organizers: Kyle Anderson, Gursu Culcu, and Andrew Young
Contributed (Oral)
Industrial Innovations in Polymer Science
Organizer: Peter Boul and Michael Liu
Contributed (Oral)
Paul J. Flory Polymer Education Award
Organizer: TBA
Invited Only
POLY/PMSE Plenary and Awards Ceremony
Translational Polymer Research
Organizers: Carmen Scholz and Timothy Long
Contributed (Oral and Poster)
Undergraduate Research in Polymer Science
Organizers: Heather Broadhead, Sarah Morgan, and Sergei Nazarenko
Contributed (Oral and Poster)
Virtual Graduate Students Symposium in Asia-Pacific Region on Polymer Chemistry
Organizers: Yanli Feng and Chunxiao Zheng
Contributed (Oral)
Next Upcoming Meetings
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2022 Fall ACS National Meeting
Location: Chicago, IL
Theme: Sustainability in a Changing World
August 21-25, 2022
Program Team:
Lead Program Chair: Robert Mathers (rtm11@psu.edu)
Danniebelle Haase (DHaase@dow.com)
Sara Orski (sara.orski@nist.gov)
Levi Moore (levimjmoore@gmail.com)
Tentative Symposium Slate:
2022 Mark Scholar Award in Honor of K. Beers,
Oral, Invited, Organizer Eric Lin
2022 Mark Scholar Senior Award in Honor of M. Hillmyer,
Oral, Invited, Organizer Timothy Lodge
2022 Mark Scholar Young Award in Honor of Z. Hudson,
Oral, Invited
ACS Macro Letters/Biomacromolecules/Macromolecules Young Investigator Award,
Oral, (Invited), Organizer: Paulomi Majumder, Jitesh Soares
Circular Economy of Polymers,
Oral & Poster, Contributed, Organizer: Dimitris Collias, Martin James, Yujing Tan
Design of Polymers toward Upcycling,
Oral & Poster, Contributed, Organizer: Julia Kalow, Tomonori Saito, Brent Sumerlin
Dynamic Covalent & Supramolecular Polymer Networks,
Oral, Contributed, Organizer: Piril Ertem, Svetlana Morozova, Ralm Ricarte
Federally Funded Research for Polymer Circularity,
Oral & Poster, Contributed, Organizer: Kathryn Beers, Kate Paretti, Christy Payne
General Topics: New Synthesis & Characterization of Polymers,
Oral & Poster, Contributed, Organizer: Dana Garcia, Ferenc Horkay, Yongfu Li
Green Polymer Chemistry & Sustainability,
Oral & Poster, Contributed, Organizer: H.N. Cheng, Richard Gross
Industrial Innovations in Polymer Science,
Oral, Invited, Organizer: Daniel Abebe, Hayley Brown, Michael Petr
Industrial Polymer Scientist Award in honor of Margaret Sheridan,
Oral, Invited, Organizer Brett Krull, Cristina U. Thomas
Next-generation synthesis and structure for pi-conjugated polymers,
Contributed and Invited, oral only, Nag Gavvalapalli, J. D. Tovar
Polymer Characterization for Sustainability,
(Contributed and Invited) (oral only), Yujing Tan
Virtual Graduate Students Symposium in Asia-Pacific Region on Polymer Chemistry,
Contributed and Invited, oral only, Yanli Feng, Chunxiao Zheng
Future Meetings:
Indianapolis, IN
March 26-30, 2023
San Francisco, CA
August 13-17, 2023
New Orleans, LA
March 17-21, 2024
Denver, CO
August 18-21, 2024
San Diego, CA
March 23-27, 2025
Washington, DC
August 17-21, 2025