UWPREL 2001 CONFERENCE


View Photos


PROGRAM

Monday, May 21, 2001

6:00 PM  Reception (Edgewater Hotel) 
7:00 PM  Dinner
8:00 PM  Guest Speaker: Prof. Manos Mavrikakis, Department of Chemical Engineering, UW-Madison
Catalyst Design From First Principles:  A Novel Atomic Level Perspective

Tuesday, May 22, 2001

8:00 AM  Coffee 
8:30 AM  Introduction and Overview 
Prof. W. Harmon Ray 
8:45 AM  Modeling of ëLivingí Free-Radical Polymerization Processes
Min Zhang 
9:15 AM  Effects of Polymer Chain Architecture on the Thermodynamics of Polymer Swelling
Brian Banaszak 
9:45 AM  Modeling of Anionic Polymerization in Tubular Reactors
Min Zhang 
10:15 AM  Coffee
10:45 AM  Prediction of Imperfect Mixing Effects in the LDPE Autoclave Reactor 
Jimmy Wells 
11:15 AM  POLYREDTM - New Developments and Example Applications
Pavel Pinkas and Dennis Lo 
12:00 PM  Lunch
1:30 PM  Group Photo
1:45 PM  Modeling Ethylene Polymerization over Late Transition Metal Catalysts 
Dennis Lo
2:15 PM  Important Issues when Introducing a New Catalyst into an Olefin Polymerization Process
W. H. Ray
3:00 PM  Wrap-up Discussion
3:15 PM  POLYRED Workshop

 

[ UWPREL Home ] [ POLYRED ] [ Publications ]
[ UWPREL Members ] [ Research Activities ] [ UWPREL Conference ] [ Links & Info. ]