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Carnegie Mellon University

Department of Chemistry

Mellon College of Science

Schedule

New location: Mellon Institute Auditorium

4400 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213
Entrance on Bellefield Ave.

Saturday, March 28, 2015

9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Coffee & Bagels

Morning Session

9:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. Nick Tsarevsky, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX Welcome
  Fred Gilman, Dean, Mellon College of Science, Carnegie Mellon University Welcome
9:45 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Holger Frey, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany Macromolecular Engineering by Oxy- and Carbanionic Polymerization: Old-Fashioned, yet Still Alive — and Living
10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Eric Fossum, Wright State University, Dayton, OH Living on the Edge
10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Metin Acar, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey Some Fundamental Researches on ATRP after the Visit in the Matyjaszewski Group in 1997
10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Tomislav Pintauer, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA Catalyst Development in ATRP: Past and Future Perspectives
10:45 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Break
11:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. Chi-how Peng, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan When CMRP met ATRP
11:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Hyun-jong Paik, Pusan National University, Busan, Republic of Korea Bioconjugation of (Nitrilotriacetic Acid)-End-Functionalized Polymers with Proteins
11:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Haifeng Gao, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN Our Research Roadmap to Branched Polymers with Sophisticated Architectures and ATRP in Aqueous Dispersed Media
11:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Yoshiki Nakagawa, Kaneka, Japan Commercialization of Telechelic Polyacrylate by ATRP
12:00 p.m. Group photo

Lunch

12:15 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

1:45 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Dominik Konkolewicz, Miami University, Oxford, OH The Advantages of Controlled Radical Polymerization in the Synthesis of Protein-Polymer Conjugates. Active Enzymes by Grafting-To Followed by Grafting-From
2:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. Jung Kwon (John) Oh, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Design and Processing of Macromolecular Nanoscale Materials for Biomedical Applications
2:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Brent Sumerlin, University of Florida, Gainsville, FL Responsive Materials from Controlled Synthesis: How Can We Do it Better?
2:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. Mihaela Stefan, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX Thermoresponsive Polycaprolactones for Micellar Drug Delivery
2:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Break
3:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. Daniel Siegwart, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX Rapid Synthesis of a Lipocationic Polyester Library via ROP of Amine Functionalized Valerolactones as Potent siRNA Delivery Nanoparticles
3:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Chuanbing Tang, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC From Big M to m and Beyond
3:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. Philip Costanzo, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA Preparation of Polymeric Surfactants for Carbon Nanotube Dispersion
3:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Renaud Nicolay, Paris Institute of Technology, Paris, France Dynamic Covalent Chemistry as a tool for Macromolecular Engineering
4:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. Break
4:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Nick Tsarevsky, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX The Chemistry of Hypervalent Iodine and Polymer Synthesis: The Story of a Happy Union
4:30 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. Kelly (Davis) Arehart, Kimberly-Clark, Roswell, GA Putting the Customer at the Heart
4:45 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Kate Beers, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD Macromolecular Measurement Methods @ NIST
5:00 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. Tomek Kowalewski, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA TBA
5:15 p.m. Nick Tsarevsky Closing remarks