The purpose of Telluride Workshop on Polymer Physics (formerly called Polymers: Theory vs. Experiment) is to provide a forum for intensive discussions of rapidly developing areas of polymer science that have high technological and theoretical interest. The meeting is designed to have a balanced representation of active theoretical and experimental polymer scientists and includes both senior researchers and young researchers who are just beginning their careers but have interesting new results to present. Some effort is made to obtain representation from abroad, although no special funds are made available for financing foreign travel. Participation in the meeting is limited by the requirement that each attendee presents an invited talk. The selection of about 20 to 30 attendees is made through joint agreement of a conference committee composed of members with a range of interests.
The small scale of the meeting fosters strong interactions during the lectures and extensive discussions about the presented research and the planning of future research during the hikes and other activities in the afternoon break between the morning and evening lectures. Many participants form groups in town after the evening lectures to socialize and to further discuss research / disagreements in a friendly environment. This informal organization has led to a collegial and productive set of meetings.
TALKS
Al Crosby, Instabilities in Polymer Networks
Juan J de Pablo, Translocation of Large DNA Molecules Through Small Pores
Douglas, Jack F., Influence of Nanoparticles and other Additives on the Fragility of Model Glass-Forming Polymer Melts
Jacek Dudowicz, Sellf-assembly under various conditions
Mark Ediger , Molecular mobility in actively deformed polymer glasses
Karl Freed, Electrostatic modeling of proteins and RNA
Venkat Ganesan, Equilibrium and dynamics in polymer nanoparticle mixtures
Charles C. Han, "Interactive Phase Transformation Between liquid-Liquid Phase Separation and Crystallization in Polyolefin System"
Ferenc Horkay, Ion Sensitivity of Some Important Biological Macromolecules
Ed Kramer, Block Copolymer Monolayers and Multilayers: Surface Effects on Phase Transitions
Sanat Kumar , Self-Assembly in Nanoparticle Systems
Tim Lodge, Pathways to equilibration in block polymer micelles
Murugappan Muthukumar, Polyelectrolyte dynamics in dilute solutions
Monica Olvera de la Cruz, Polyelectrolyte Gels: Solvation versus Segregation
Darrin J. Pochan, Kinetic Processing of Complexity in Charged Peptide or Block Copolymer Solution Assembly
Günter Reiter, Cloning polymer single crystals through self-seeding
Ken Schweizer , Slow Dynamics in Macromolecular Materials: From Soft Colloidal Glasses to Entangled Polymer Melts
Kenneth R. Shull, Fracture of Self-Assembled, Soft Materials
Sokolov,Alexei P, Molecular Cooperativity, Dynamic Heterogeneities and Polymer Dynamics
Igal Szleifer, Non additive effects in polymer coated nanoparticle binding: a model for targeted drug delivery to cancer cells
Zhen-Gang Wang, Ion solvation in inhomogeneous dielectric media
Arun Yethiraj, Atomistic simulations of polyelectrolyte solutions
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| Participant | Organization | ||||
| Dudowicz, Jacek | University of Chicago | ||||
| Freed, Karl | University of Chicago | ||||
| Ganesan, Venkat | The University of Texas at Austin | ||||
| Han, Charles | ICCAS | ||||
| Kramer, Edward | UCSB | ||||
| Miao, Ling | APS | ||||
| Muthukumar, Murugappan | University of Massachusetts | ||||
| Olvera, Monica | Northwestern University | ||||
| Pochan, Darrin | University of Delaware | ||||
| Reiter, Guenter | Albert-Ludwig-Universitaet | ||||
| Schweizer, Kenneth | University of Illinois | ||||
| Shull, Kenneth | Northwestern University | ||||
| Sokolov, Alexei | University of Akron | ||||
| Szleifer, Igal | Norhwestern University | ||||
| Wang, Zhen-Gang | California Institute of Technology | ||||
| Yethiraj, Arun | University of Wisconsin | ||||