If you are interested in organizing a symposium at a future national meeting of the ACS, please click here.
Information regarding the cancelled ACS Spring 2020 Meeting in Philadelphia can be found here.
Next Meeting
San Francisco, CA
August 16 – 20, 2020
Theme: Chemistry from Bench to Market
PROGRAM CHAIRS: Hayley Brown (hbrown1@dow.com) and Robert Mathers (rtm11@psu.edu)
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Monday, April 20, 2020
For more information and to contact the organizers, click here
- ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry in honor of Jeffrey Moore
- type: oral
- submission type: invited
- organizers: Charles Diesendruck
- Additive Manufacturing: From Molecules to Marketplace
- type: oral and poster
- submission type: contributed
- organizers: Mark Dadmun, Micheal Hickner, Jason Rolland, Bryan Vogt
- ACS Macro Lett./Biomacromolecules/Macromolecules Young Investigator Award
- type: oral
- submission type: invited
- organizers: Hayley Brown
- Circular Economy of Polymers
- type: oral and poster
- submission type: contributed
- organizers: Dimitris Collias, Martin James, John Layman
- DSM Graduate Student Award
- type: oral
- submission type: contributed
- organizers: Kathy Mitchem, Judith Van Gorp, Rolf Vanbenthem
- Entrepreneurial Polymer Chemistry: From the Lab to Start-Up
- type: oral and poster
- submission type: contributed
- organizers: Lisa Kemp, Katrina Knauer, Dan Savin, Joshua Speros
- General Topics: New Synthesis and Characterization of Polymers
- type: oral and poster
- submission type: contributed
- organizers: Dana Garcia
- Industrial Innovations in Polymer Science
- type: oral and poster
- submission type: contributed
- organizers: Peter Boul, David Germack, Katrina Knauer
- Industrial Polymer Scientist Award in honor of James Wang
- type: oral
- submission type: invited
- organizers: Gregory Tew
- Mark Scholar Award in honor of Luis Campos
- type: oral
- submission type: invited
- organizers: Craig Hawker, Egbert Meijer
- Mark Senior Scholar Award in honor of Karen Winey
- type: oral
- submission type: invited
- organizers: Edwin Thomas
- Mark Young Scholar Award in honor of Frank Leibfarth
- type: oral
- submission type: invited
- organizers: Craig Hawker
- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of Materials
- type: oral and poster
- submission type: contributed
- organizers: H.N. Cheng, Alan English, Louis Madsen
- POLY/PMSE Plenary Lecture & Awards Reception
- type: oral
- submission type: invited
- organizers: Hayley Brown, Robert Mathers, Kathy Mitchem
- Polyolefins: From Concept to Commercial
- type: oral and poster
- submission type: contributed
- organizers: Pal Arjunan, Phillip Fontaine, Jay Reimers, Joao Soares
- Silicon based Hybrid Materials for Today, Tomorrow, and the Future
- type: oral and poster
- submission type: contributed
- organizers: Joseph Furgal, Claire Hartmann-Thompson, Joseph Mabry, Levi Moore
For symposia organizers and chairs:
Guidelines for symposia organizers and chairs (pdf document)
Next Upcoming Meetings
**Currently accepting proposals for symposia (see the link at the top of this page)**
San Antonio, TX
March 21-25, 2021
Theme: Macromolecular Chemistry: The Second Century (carried over from the cancelled Spring 2020 ACS Meeting)
PROGRAM CHAIRS: Hayley Brown (hbrown1@dow.com) and Robert Mathers (rtm11@psu.edu)
(tentative proposed symposia shown below)
- 50 Years of Polymer Science & Engineering at Southern Miss
- ACS NASA – Polymer Advanced Materials & System for Humanity Next Giant Leap
- Celebrating Inclusivity in Polymer & Materials Science
- Celebrating Underrepresented Groups in Polymer Science
- Engineering Functionality into Bio Polymers
- Paul Flory Education Award Symposium (Matyjaszewski)
- From Staudinger Macromolecules to the Genome of Macro
- Frontiers in Conjugated Polymer Design & Synthesis
- Industrial Innovations in Polymer Science
- Macromolecular Science at the Dawn of its Second Century
- The Role of ASTM International in Poly Testing and Analysis
- The Joseph C. Salamone Symposium – Revolutionary Innovation
- Polymer Symposium Honoring Frederich Stanley – KIPPING AWARD
- General Topics: New Synthesis & Characterization of Polymers
- Industrial Developments in polyolefin macromolecular design
Atlanta, GA
August 22-26, 2021
San Diego, CA
March 20-24, 2022
Chicago, IL
August 21-25, 2022