Wednesday, June 14, 1995

12:00 Noon

Registration, Buffet Lunch (Engineering Hall)

1:00 PM

Lab tour and POLYRED demo's

2:30 PM

Intro. to Technical Session I Prof. W. Harmon Ray

2:45 PM

Emulsion Polymerization Above the CMC Enrique Saldivar

3:15 PM

Emulsion Polymerization Below the CMC Petros Dafniotis

3:45 PM

Emulsion Copolymerization Under Pressure Conditions Odair Araujo

4:05 PM

On-Line Measurement of Particle Size Distributions Cynthia Read

4:35 PM

Discussion Period

6:00 PM

Reception (Edgewater Hotel)

7:00 PM

Dinner

8:00 PM

Guest Speaker: Prof. Michael Graham "Dynamic Slip and Polymer Melt Flow Instabilities"

Thursday, June 15, 1995 (Edgewater Hotel)

7:30 AM

Coffee

8:00 AM

Intro. to Technical Session II Prof. W. Harmon Ray

8:15 AM

Segregation and Mixing in Free-Radical Polymerization Simon Zhang and Nolan Read

9:00 AM

Kinetics and Phase Behavior in the Polymerization of Liquid-Crystal Polymers Ken Beers

9:30 AM

Behavior of Condensates in Melt and Solid State Polymerization Fred Mallon

10:00 AM

Coffee

10:30 AM

Gas Phase Polymerization of Olefins Chris Han-Adebekun

11:00 AM

Unified Kinetic Modeling of Olefin Polymerization Alex Shaffer

11:30 AM

Residence Time Distribution and Particle Selection Effects on Olefin Particle Properties Jon Debling and Jorge Zacca

12:30 PM

Lunch

2:15 PM

Group Photo

2:30 PM

Modeling of Polymerization Reactor Instabilities and Runaway Phenomena Using POLYRED Jorge Zacca and Simon Zhang

3:00 PM

POLYRED - a Progress Report Carlos Villa

3:30 PM

General Discussion

4:00 PM

Refreshments, Informal Discussions, POLYRED Demo's