UWPREL '97 CONFERENCE


PROGRAM

Monday, June 9, 1997

 6:00 PM    Reception
             Edgewater Hotel

 7:00 PM    Dinner

 8:00 PM    Guest Speaker
             Prof. Sangtae Kim
        	 A National Infrastructure for Advanced Computing


Tuesday, June 10, 1997

 7:30 AM    Coffee

 8:00 AM    Introduction and Overview
             Prof. W. Harmon Ray

 8:15 AM    Molecular Processes and Reaction Kinetics for Liquid Crystal Polymers
             Ken Beers

 8:45 AM    Fundamental Results in Solid State Polymerization
             Fred Mallon

 9:30 AM    Modelling of Emulsion Polymerization Processes
             Pavel Pinkas

10:00 AM    Coffee

10:30 AM    Modelling of Living Free-Radical Polymerization
             Min Zhang and Carlos Villa

11:00 AM    Modelling of Imperfect Mixing in LDPE Reactors
             Gene Xu, J. Dihora, and Carlos Villa

11:30 AM    New Developments in POLYRED
             Jirka Kosek and Carlos Villa

12:15 PM    Lunch

 1:30 PM    Group Photo

 1:45 PM    Olefin Copolymerization Kinetics in Gas-Phase Reactors
             Shreyas Chakravarti and Gene Xu

 2:15 PM    Grade Transition Strategies for Fluidized Bed Olefin Polymerization Reactors       
             Makoto Takeda

 2:45 PM    Dynamics and Stability of Solution and Slurry Olefin Processes
             Issarin Patramai and Jirka Kosek

 3:15 PM    Particle Morphology Issues in Impact Polypropylene 
             Jon Debling

 3:45 PM    Wrap-up Discussion 

 4:00 PM    POLYRED Workshop 


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