Advances in Polyolefins 2003

Sonoma Doubletree Resort,
Rohnert Park, California,
October 5-8, 2003

                                             Sponsored by                                               

The Division of Polymer Chemistry
American Chemical Society

Invitation & General Information

Co-Organizers

Accommodations

The workshop will be held at the Sonoma Doubletree Hotel in Northern California. Hotel reservations should be made directly with the Doubletree by phone (707) 584-5466 or fax (707) 586-9726, requesting the ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry rate of $109.00 (single) or $124.00 (double) plus energy surcharge and applicable taxes per night. A scenic hour drive from the world famous San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge and only 20 minutes from the Sonoma County Airport, the Doubletree Resort affords guests the opportunity to visit over 190 wineries in the area. For more information about the hotel, visit its website at http://www.dtsonoma.com.

Back to top of page.

Program

SUNDAY, OCTOBER, 5, 2003

6:00 p.m. REGISTRATION and WELCOME RECEPTION

7:30 p.m. James E. McGrath, Introduction, Overview, and Objectives of the Workshop

7:45 p.m. Kenneth Sinclair, "Polyolefins: Current and Future Prospects"

MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2003

7:30 a.m. Continental BREAKFAST

INVITED LECTURE SESSION I - Maurice Brookhart, Discussion Leader

8:15 a.m. Steven Ittel, DuPont Central Research, "DuPont's Versipol^TM Late Metal Polymerization Catalysts"

9:00 a.m. Tobin Marks, Northwestern University, "Nuclearity Effects in Single- and Multi-Site Polymerization Catalysts Designed for New Polymer Architectures"

9:45 a.m. Walter Kaminsky, University of Hamburg, Germany, "Highly Syndiotactic Polypropylenes and Nano-Composite By Metallocene Catalysis"

10:30 a.m. BREAK

INVITED LECTURE SESSION II - Tobin Marks, Discussion Leader

10:45 a.m. Maurice Brookhart, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, "TBA"

11:30 a.m. Vernon Gibson, Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, England, "Advances in Catalyst Design for Olefin Polymerization"

12:15 a.m. LUNCH

INVITED LECTURE SESSION III - Pat Brant, Discussion Leader

1:30 p.m. Duncan F. Wass, BP-Chemicals Stream, "Phosphine Ligands for Ethylene Polymerization and Trimerization Catalysis"

2:15 p.m. Bob Waymouth, Stanford University, "TBA"

3:00 p.m. Gary Diamond, Symyx Technologies, "Recent Polyolefin Catalyst Advances through High-Throughput Technology"

3:45 p.m. BREAK

INVITED LECTURE SESSION IV - Walter Kaminsky, Discussion Leader

4:00 p.m. Pat Brant, Exxon Mobil Chemical Company, "Olefin Polymerization Catalysis on Supports"

4:45 p.m. Minoru Terano and Liu Boping, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan, "Transformation of Active Sites on Traditional Ziegler and Phillips Catalysts"

5:30 p.m. RECEPTION AND POSTER PRESENTATION (Albemarle Sponsoring), Submit poster abstracts to Lesia Robertson, ACS Polymer Div., Virginia Tech; E-mail: lesiar@vt.edu

6:30 p.m. DINNER ON YOUR OWN

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2003

7:30 a.m. Continental BREAKFAST

INVITED LECTURE SESSION V - Ken Wagener, Discussion Leader

8:15 a.m. Mike Chung, Penn State University, "A Direct (One-pot) Polymerization Process to Prepare Chain End OH or NH2 Functionalized i-PP and i-PP/acrylic Diblock Copolymers"

8:45 a.m. E. Bryan Coughlin, University of Massachusetts, "Polyolefin Nanocomposites: Synthesis, Processing and Properties"

9:15 a.m. Pierre Lutz, University of Strasbourg, France, "Macromonomers and Coordination Polymerization"

10:00 a.m. BREAK

INVITED LECTURE SESSION VI - Steve Ittel, Discussion Leader

10:15 a.m. Richard F. Jordan, University of Chicago, "Studies Directed to Insertion Polymerization of Polar Vinyl Monomers"

10:50 a.m. Hans Thomann, Exxon Mobil Chemical Company, "Insights on Metallocene Catalysts From Magnetic Resonance Methods"

11:30 a.m. Saleem Al-Ahmad, Lubrizol, "Nickel Polymerization Catalysts Containing Mixed Bidentate Ligands"

12:15 p.m. LUNCH

INVITED LECTURE SESSION VII - Jim Randall, Discussion Leader

1:30 p.m. Ken Wagener, University of Florida, "Modeling Branching and Functionalization In Polyethylene"

2:00 p.m. Elizabeth Meehan, Polymer Labs Inc., United Kingdom, "Polyolefin Characterization by GPC and Associated Methods"

2:30 p.m. Wenbing Hu, FOM-Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, The Netherlands, "How the Sequence Distribution of Statistical Copolymers Affects Bulk Phase Transition Behaviors"

3:00 p.m. BREAK

INVITED LECTURE SESSION VIII - Garth Wilkes, Discussion Leader

3:15 p.m. Eric Baer, Case Western Reserve University, Dow Chemical, "Crystallization of Polyolefins Confined in Nanolayers - Forced Assembly"

4:00 p.m. Bernhard Wunderlich, University of Tennessee and RPI,, "The Nanophase Structure of Semicrystalline Polymers and Its Influence on the Thermal and Mechanical Properties"

4:45 p.m. Vince Mathot, Senior Scientist Crystallization & Morphology at DSM, The Netherlands, "Crystallization and Morphology of Ethylene Copolymers as Influenced by Molecular Architecture: Experiments and Simulations"

5:30 p.m. DINNER ON YOUR OWN

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2003

7:30 a.m. Continental BREAKFAST

INVITED LECTURE SESSION IX - Clive Bosnyak, Discussion Leader

8:30 a.m. Anne Hiltner, Case Western Reserve University, and Steve Chu, Dow Chemical, "Aspects of Phase Separation in Polyolefins"

9:00 a.m. Francis Mirabella, Equistar Chemicals, LP, "Structure/Property Relationships in New Generation Polyolefins"

9:30 a.m. Garth Wilkes, Virginia Tech, "Processing-Structure-Property Investigation of Blown HDPE Films Containing Both Machine and Transverse Direction Oriented Lamellar Stacks"

10:00 a.m. BREAK

INVITED LECTURE SESSION X - Fran Mirabella, Discussion Leader

10:15 a.m. Pete Pierini and Clive Bosnyak, The Dow Chemical Company, "Recent Advances in Polypropylene Material Science, Process and Product Development at Dow"

10:45 a.m. Pal Arjunan, Exxon Mobil Chemical Company, "Novel Polypropylene Copolymers for Radiation Resistance"

11:15 a.m. Zhibin Guan, Univ. of California, Irvine, "Chain Walking - A New Strategy to Control Polyolefin Branching Topology"

12:00 p.m. LUNCH

INVITED LECTURE SESSION XI - Pal Arjunan, Discussion Leader

1:15 p.m. Rick King, New Product Development, Ciba-Geigy, "Additives for Polyolefins: Chemistry and Effects"

2:00 p.m. Donald G. Baird, Virginia Tech, "Identifying the Branching Architecture in Sparsely Branched Metallocene Catalyzed Polyolefins"

2:30 p.m. Jim Randall, ExxonMobil (retired), "Compositional Distribution, Catalyst Behavior and Spherulitic Growth Rates in Matched Metallocene and MgCl2"

3:00 p.m. BREAK

INVITED LECTURE SESSION XII - James E. McGrath, Discussion Leader

3:20 p.m. Ioan Tincul, Sasol, South Africa, "Multiple Polymerization with Fischer Tropsch Olefins- A New Challenge in Polyolefin Technology"

4:00 p.m. Closing Remarks, James E. McGrath

Registration

The registration fee is $675 for Members of the Division of Polymer Chemistry and $725 for Non-Members ($175 Student Members, $225 Student Non-Members). There is a $175 fee for a Non-Participating Guest that may accompany you. Written cancellation or registration after September 1, 2003, will cost an additional $50. Checks may be made payable to the Division of Polymer Chemistry.

To register send the completed registration form with remittance to Lesia Robertson, Division of Polymer Chemistry, Inc., Virginia Tech, 410 Davidson Hall, M.C. 0279, Blacksburg, VA 24061, Phone: 540-231-3052, Fax: 540-231-2588, e-mail: lesiar@vt.edu.

Advances in Polyolefins 2003
October 5-8, 2003

Prof.   Dr.   Mr.   Ms.   Mrs.   Miss   
Name
Organization
Mailing Address

City                            State         Zip
Country
Phone                          Fax
E-mail
____$675 Member Registration
____$725 Non-Member Registration
____$175 Member Student Registration
____$225 Non-Member Student Registration
____$175 Accompanying Guest
             Name:
____$50 Late Fee (after September 1, 2003)
Total Amount Due: $
Payment by:____Check____Credit Card
VISA or MASTERCARD or AMERICAN EXPRESS      Exp. Date
Account #
Signature
____Yes, I plan to contribute a poster
             Title:

             Author :