Saturday, February 25
1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, February 26
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Westin Hotel
Otis Room

Course Facilitators
Christopher L. Soles
NIST - Polymers Division
csoles@nist.gov

Prof. Karen I. Winey
U Penn - Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering
winey@seas.upenn.edu

Who Should Attend?
Graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and principal investigators in academia and industry who are interested in learning more about areas of industrial research where skills and expertise in polymer physics have had an impact on industry. This course will provide the attendees a means of for broadening their horizons, developing their career paths, creating new research directions with a quantifiable impact, and several motivating examples of the importance of polymer physics.

Registration
Preregister for the Short Course when you register online for the for the March Meeting. On-site registration will not be available. If you are not able to register for the course when you register for the Meeting, print and fill out the March Meeting Registration Form and fax it to APS (301) 209-3652. Please contact Christopher Soles csoles@nist.gov) with problems or questions.
March Meeting Registration Form

Cost
Fees include both days.
$150 APS Members
$100 Students/Post Docs
$250 Non-Member

Scholarships have been made available through DPOLY to reimburse the registration fees for the first 20 Students/Post Docs to apply.

Workshop Description
This workshop will present a series of case studies by industrial scientist illustrating how fundamental skills in polymer physics have played a central role in enabling new and improved products in the marketplace today. Our panel of industrial experts will show, by example, how solving fascinating and challenging problems in polymer physics has been critical for generating economic success. The goal of this workshop is to both increase awareness of the importance of fundamental polymer physics in the industrial research world as well as educate graduate students, postdocs, and research scientists about the career opportunities that are available in industry.

Our panel of experts will present a broad and diverse overview of polymer physics in current industrial research. Perspectives will vary from early career scientists to senior research fellows, small start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, and a range of technology sectors including advanced materials, consumer products, personal care, healthcare, energy, and electronics. In addition to presenting case studies of where concepts of polymer physics have had impact, each panelist will also be asked to discuss the outstanding challenges and current problems facing their technology sector.

Course Lecturers