If you are interested in organizing a symposium at a future national meeting of the ACS, please click here.
Next Meeting
Philadelphia, PA
March 22 – 26, 2020
Theme: Macromolecular Chemistry: The Second Century
POLY Sessions will be held in the Loews Philadelphia Hotel for the Spring 2020 ACS Meeting.
ACS Housing Reservations Link https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/meetings/national-meeting/hotel-travel.html
PROGRAM CHAIRS: Scott Iacono, Hayley Brown, Robert Mathers
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Monday, October 21, 2019
For more information and to contact the organizers, click here
- 2020 Paul J. Flory Education Award
- type: oral
- submission type: invited
- organizers: Rigoberto Advincula
- 50 years of Polymer Science & Engineering at Southern Miss
- type: oral and poster
- submission type: invited
- organizers: Charles McCormick, Sarah Morgan, Yoan Simon
- Celebrating Inclusivity in Polymer & Materials Science
- type: oral
- submission type: invited
- organizers: Athina Anastasaki, Tanja Junkers, Emily Pentzer
- Celebrating Underrepresented Groups in Polymer Science
- type: oral
- submission type: invited
- organizers: Christopher Hobbs, Reni Joseph
- Engineering Functionality into Bio(mimetic) Polymers
- type: oral
- submission type: contributed
- organizers: Abigail Knight, Allie Obermeyer
- Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research
- type: oral and poster
- submission type: contributed
- organizers: H. N. Cheng, Christine Coltrain, Christopher Ellison, Timothy Long
- From Staudinger Macromolecules to the Genome of Macromolecules
- type: oral
- submission type: invited
- organizers: Michael Klein, Virgil Percec
- Frontiers in Conjugated Polymer Design & Synthesis
- type: oral and poster
- submission type: contributed
- organizers: Kevin Noonan, Yang Qin
- General Topics: New Synthesis and Characterization of Polymers
- type: oral and poster
- submission type: contributed
- organizers: Hayley Brown, Dana Garcia
- Green Polymer Chemistry: New Products, Processes, and Applications
- type: oral and poster
- submission type: contributed
- organizers: H. N. Cheng, Richard Gross
- Industrial Developments in Polyolefin Macromolecular Design
- type: oral
- submission type: invited
- organizers: Kyle Anderson, Gursu Culcu, Andrew Young
- Macromolecular Science at the Dawn of its Second Century
- type: oral
- submission type: invited
- organizers: Tim Lodge, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
- Polymer Colloids: Synthesis, Analysis, Modeling and Application
- type: oral and poster
- submission type: contributed
- organizers: James Bohling, Stephen Foulger, Ibrahim El-Hedok, Wei Gao, John Tsavalas, Wenjun Wu, and Danniebelle Haase
- Polymer Symposium Honoring the Winner of the Frederich Stanley Kipping 2020 Award
- type: oral
- submission type: invited
- organizers: Michael Brook, Joseph Mabry
- Polymers and Advanced Materials for Humanity’s Next Giant Leap
- type: oral
- submission type: invited
- organizers: Michael Meador, George Rodriguez
- The Role of ASTM International in Polymer Testing and Analysis
- type: oral and poster
- submission type: invited
- organizers: Dana Garcia, Mark Lavach
- Structure to Function in Supramolecular Polymers & Materials
- type: oral and poster
- submission type: contributed
- organizers: Pol Besenius, Roxanne Kieltyka, John Matson
- The Road to Packaging Sustainability
- type: oral
- submission type: invited
- organizers: Susan Brown, Abhishek Roy, Anurima Singh
- Undergraduate Research in Polymer Science
- type: oral and poster
- submission type: contributed
- organizers: Sarah Morgan, Sergei Nazarenko, Heather Broadhead
For symposia organizers and chairs:
Guidelines for symposia organizers and chairs (pdf document)
Next Upcoming Meetings
San Francisco, CA
August 16-20, 2020
Theme: Chemistry from Bench to Market
PROGRAM CHAIRS: Scott Iacono, Hayley Brown, Robert Mathers
(tentative proposed symposia shown below)
**Currently accepting proposals for symposia (see the link at the top of this page)**
- Additive Manufacturing: From Molecules to Marketplace
- Addressing the Challenge of Ocean Plastics
- Biomacromolecules/Macromolecules Young Investigator Award
- DSM Graduate Student Award
- From the Lab to Helping Humankind: Polymers and Plastics
- General Topics: New Synthesis and Characterization of Polymers
- Henkel Award for Outstanding Graduate Research in Polymer Science and Engineering
- Industrial Innovations in Polymer Science
- Industrial Polymer Scientist Award
- Mark Young Scholars Award
- Mark Scholars Award
- Mark Senior Scholars Award
- NMR of Materials
- Overberger International Prize
- POLY/PMSE Plenary
- Recycling of Polymers or Circular Economy of Polymers
- Silicon based Hybrid Materials for Today, Tomorrow and the Future
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