UWPREL '98 CONFERENCE


PROGRAM

Monday, June 8, 1998

6:00 PM Reception (Edgewater Hotel)
7:00 PM Dinner
8:00 PM Guest Speaker: Prof. Prof. John Yin
Polymer Information Processing

Tuesday, June 9, 1998

7:30 AM Coffee
8:00 AM Introduction and Overview
Prof. W. Harmon Ray
8:15 AM Liquid Crystal Polymers
Ken Beers
8:45 AM Dynamics and Stability of Loop Reactors
Priamo Melo
9:15 AM Thermodynamics and Phase Behaivor for Ethylene Copolymer Reactors
Issarin Patramai
9:45 AM Coffee
10:15 AM Dynamics of Free-Radical Polymerization with Both Evaporative and Wall Cooling
Carlos Villa
11:15 AM Some Kinetic and Thermodynamic Aspects of High Impact Polystyrene
Min Zhang
10:45 AM New Developments in POLYRED
Carlos Villa, Sanjeev Naik, Pavel Pinkas, Shem Ogadhoh, and Min Zhang
12:15 PM Lunch
1:30 PM Group Photo
1:45 PM Olefin Copolymerization Kinetics in Gas-Phase and Slurry Reactors
Shreyas Chakravarti and Gene Xu
2:15 PM Grade Transition Strategies for Slurry HDPE Tandem Reactors
Makoto Takeda and W.H. Ray
2:45 PM Kinetics and Particle Morphology for Olefin Polymerization with Ziegler-Natta and Metallocene Catalysts
Sanjeev Naik and Shreyas Chakravarti
3:15 PM Wrap-up Discussion
3:30 PM POLYRED Workshop


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