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Program:


Thursday, April 7, 2005:

7:00 pm - 10:00 pm Friendship Reception, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois Campus

This will be the time for friends, former students and others who might not have seen one another for more than thirty years will be able to renew old friendships and remember the wonderful experiences we had working together as students and with Prof. Geil.


Friday, April 8, 2005:

9:00 am - 12:00 pm
International Symposium on Polymer Physics/Morphology
Beckman Institute Auditorium


(Chair, John Blackwell)
9:00 - 9:10 Welcome (Charles A. Garber and Ian Robertson)
9:10 - 9:50 Edward S. Clark, 50 Years of PTFE Structure. (Tentative) (U. Tenn)
9:50 - 10:30 K.H. Gardner, V.T. Forsyth and M.R. Johnson, Combined X-ray and Neutron Fiber Diffraction Studies of Polymers. (DuPont)
10:30 - 10:45 Coffee/Tea Break

(Chair, Ronald Eby)
10:45 - 11:25 John Blackwell, 50 Years of Cellulose Structure. (Tentative) (Case WRU)
11:25 - 12:05 Darrell Reneker, Polymer Morphology, Polymer Nanofibers, and Electron Microscopy. (U. Akron)


12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Luncheon
Beckman Institute


1:30 pm - 5:00 pm
International Symposium on Polymer Physics/Morphology
Beckman Institute Auditorium


(Chair, Darrell Reneker)
1:30 - 2:00 D. V. Mahoney and R. K. Eby, Aspects of the Deformation of the Dragline Silk of Nephila Clavipes. (U. Akron)
2:00 - 2:40 Sergei Magonov, Exploring Chain Unfolding in Single Crystals of Polyethylene with Atomic Force Microscopy. (Veeco Metrology)
2:40 - 3:20 Bernard Lotz, A Lifetime Interest in Polymer Single Crystals, in the Footsteps of Phil Geil. (Institut Charles Sadron)
3:20 - 3:40 Coffee/Tea Break

(Chair, Stephen Cheng)
3:40 - 4:20 Christopher Li, Nano Hybrid Shish-Kebab: Periodically Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes. (Drexel U.)
4:20 - 5:00 F. Khoury, On the Crystallization Habits and Morphology of Nylon 66. (NIST)


7:00 pm - 11:30 pm
Birthday Party and Banquet
Colonial Room at Illini Student Union



Saturday, April 9, 2005:

International Symposium on Polymer Physics/Morphology 190 Engineering Sciences Building

9:00 am - 11:45 am
Scientific Session


(Chair, Bernard Lotz)
9:00 - 9:10 Dean Daniels
9:10 - 9:50 Stephen Z. D. Cheng, Design and Engineering of Polymer Crystal Surfaces and Interfaces. (U. Akron)
9:50 - 10:30 Benjamin S. Hsiao, Flow-Induced Crystallization Precursor Structures in Entangled Polyethylene Melt. (SUNY, Stony Brook)
10:30 - 10:45 Coffee/Tea Break

(Chair, Benjamin Hsaio)
10:45 - 11:35 Edwin L. Thomas, Triply Periodic Structures in Polymer Science. (MIT)
11:35 - 12:05 Hirokazu Hasegawa, Kazuhiro Yamauchi, Satoshi Akasaka, Taketsugu Osaka,Yukihiro Nishikawa, and Hiroshi Jinnai, 3D Observation of Complex Microdomain Structures in Block Copolymers by Electron Tomography. (U. Kyoto)
12:05 - 12:15 Concluding remarks (Phil Geil)


12:30 pm until "whenever"
Luncheon
At the Geil's farm (about 30 minutes driving time from the University of Illinois campus)

Note: We really do need to know who will be attending so that we can make sure there is adequate transportation available. Please be sure to answer that question on the registration form!



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