232nd ACS
National Meeting
September 10 -
14, 2006, San Francisco, CA
PRESIDENTIAL
EVENT
Entrepreneurship
in Polymers and Technology
Call for Papers!
Abstracts
and POLY preprints must be submitted online through ACS OASys at: <http://www.oasys.acs.org/>http://www.oasys.acs.org .
Approved
templates for preprints may be downloaded at <http://uweb.txstate.edu/science/polymerpreprints/>http://uweb.txstate.edu/science/polymerpreprints/.
Deadline
for submission is April 25.
Partial
List of Speakers:
Prof. Bob Grubbs, Caltech, 2005
Nobel Laureate
Prof. Alan Heeger, Univ. of
Calif., Santa Barbara, 2000 Nobel Laureate
Dr. Victoria Haynes, CEO Research
Triangle, 2003 Bus. Leader of Year
Dr. Raymond Stark, VP of R&D,
CTO, Honeywell
Dr. Steve Di Biase, Sr. Vice
President CSOGD, JohnsonDiversey, Inc.
Dr. Paul Armstead, Office of Naval
Research
Dr. Rosemarie D. Wesson, National
Science Foundation
Prof. Richard McCullough, Dean of
Carnegie Mellon Univ.
Prof. Joseph DeSimone, UNC, Chapel
Hill
Dr. Earl H Wagener, CEO Tetramer
Technologies, LLC
Prof. Lon Mathias, University of
Southern Mississippi
Prof. Gary Wnek, CWRU
Dr. John Pochan, Kodak
Prof. Paras Prasad, SUNY at
Buffalo
Dr. Bronco Gordon, President,
Polymer Innovations
Dr. Sadiq Shah, Director, Western
Illinois Entrepreneurship Center
Mr. Sean Randolph, President, CEO
Bay Area Economic Forum
Mr. Bret St. John, President, CEO
Crosslink
Dr. David Aslin, 3I Ventures
Prof. Dennis Smith, Clemson
University
Dr. Kathleen O. Havelka, Lubrizol
Corporation
Dr. Bill Coggio, 3M
Dr. Carrington Smith, Air Products
Prof. Patrick Cassidy, Associate
VP, Texas State University
Daniel T. Colbert, Chief
Technology Officer, NGEN Partners
Dr. Ingo Pinnau, MTR
Dr. Joseph C. Salamone, CTO Rochal
Industries; Consultant, Bausch & Lomb
Prof. Shiro Koboyashi, Kyoto
University
Sponsored
by:
Polymer Division
Polymer Division Advisory Board
Polymeric Materials Science &
Engineering ‡ Committee on Economic and Professional Affairs
Business Development and Management Division
Division of Small Chemical Businesses
Symposium
Organizers:
Dr.
Kathleen O. Havelka, Chair, Lubrizol Corporation, <mailto:koh@lubrizol.com>koh@lubrizol.com
Prof.
Dennis Smith, Clemson University, <mailto:dwsmith@clemson.eduDr>dwsmith@clemson.edu
Dr. Peter
Zarras, NAWCWD, <mailto:peter.zarras@navy.mil>peter.zarras@navy.mil
Dr.
Rosemarie D. Wesson, National Science Foundation, <mailto:rwesson@nsf.gov>rwesson@nsf.gov
Prof.
Joseph DeSimone, University of North Carolina, <mailto:desimone@unc.edu>desimone@unc.edu
For
further information contact: Dr.
Kathleen O. Havelka, Chair, Lubrizol Corp., <mailto:koh@lubrizol.com>koh@lubrizol.com
Kathleen O.
Havelka, Ph.D.
Global Business
Manager, Consumer Products
Lubrizol
Corporation
29400 Lakeland
Blvd.
Wickliffe, OH
44092
(440) 347-6088
koh@lubrizol.com