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Next Meeting
San Diego, CA
August 25 – 29, 2019
Theme: Chemistry of Water
Abstract submission is now closed
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
For symposia organizers and chairs:
Guidelines for symposia organizers and chairs (pdf document)
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