Sunday 25th - Thursday 29th April, 2010
Shrigley Hall Hotel, Pott Shrigley, Cheshire
This year's HRPG conference marks our 50th anniversary. The HPRG is older than its current chairman and a sizable proportion of the delegates. Its long-standing success is due to the annual meetings, in both Moretonhampstead and Pott Shrigley, which are multidisciplinary in nature, combining polymer chemistry, physics and engineering in a programme that has something for everyone. The meetings have a great atmosphere of congeniality and collegiality across academe and industry. The HPRG through its meetings, engages the UK polymer science and technology community with international leaders in the field, and addresses new applications of macromolecules alongside the burgeoning issues of the day. This 50th anniversary meeting will be no exception; we have organised a special programme comprising some of the world's leading polymer scientists to review the past achievements, to tell us of their current work and to speculate on what polymer science might look like in the next 50 years.
The 50th anniversary promises a fun meeting and will start with a BBQ on the Sunday evening and finish with a gala dinner on Wednesday. We believe that the programme forms a prestigious and exciting event to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the HRPG and look forward to seeing you amongst our invited guests, old and new.
Conference Chairman: Professor Anthony J Ryan
Speakers
| 1 | Professor Jim Feast (University of Durham) "Polymer Synthesis: Achievements and Challenges" |
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| 2 | Professor Ludwik Leibler (ESPCI, Paris) "Oleo Chemistry meets Supramolecular Chemistry: Polymer-like Materials of the Future" |
| 3 | Professor Athene Donald (Cambridge University) "When Can You Treat Proteins Just as Polymers?" |
| 4 | Professor Jean Frechet (University of California, USA) "Designing Polymers for Therapeutic Applications." |
| 5 | Professor Tom McLeish (University of Durham) "How to Invent LDPE on a Computer, and Other Just-so Things" |
| 6 | Professor Robert Grubbs (California Institute of Technology, USA) "Polymers with Defined Structures using Organometallic Complexes" |
| 7 | Professor Viola Vogel (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) "The Roles of Force-Bearing, Hydrogen-Bonded Networks in Regulating Mechano-Chemical Signal Conversion" |
| 8 | Professor Elsa Reichmanis (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) "Advanced Polymer Materials for Electronic Applications " |
| 9 | Professor Ian Manners (University of Bristol) "Living Supramolecular Polymerizations" |
| 10 | Professor Andy Cooper (Liverpool University) "Porous Organic Molecules" |
| 11 | Professor Ed Kramer (University of California, USA) "Polymer Physics of Block Copolymers: Design and Application" |
| 12 | Professor Prof Craig Hawker (University of California, USA) "New and Old Chemistry for the Design and Synthesis of Functional Polymeric Materials" |
| 13 | Professor Phillip Messersmith (Northwestern University, USA) "Biomimetic Polymer Analogs of Mussel Adhesive Proteins" |
| 14 | Professor Laura Kiessling (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) "Synthetic Polymers as Biological Probes" |
| 15 | Dr Jens Rieger (BASF Aktiengesellschaft, Germany) "Mysteries in Polymer Physics" |
| 16 | Prof Richard Jones (University of Sheffield) "Soft Nanotechnology:To What Extent Can We Copy Biology with Synthetic Macromolecules?" |
Programme arranged by Professors Anthony Ryan, Phil Hodge and John Stanford
The background image on this page is based on a computer simulation of the conformation of a Polythene chain. Courtesy Tony Ryan (more about this image).
