Invitation & General Information

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Accommodations

The workshop will be held at the Crowne Plaza in Hilton Head Island, 130 Shipyard Drive, Hilton Head Island, SC 29928. Hotel reservations should be made directly with the Crowne Plaza by phone: 1-800-334-1881, 843-842-2400 or fax: 843-842-6503, requesting the ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry rate of $129.00 (single or double) plus $8.00 facility fee and applicable taxes. The Crowne Plaza is an oceanfront resort in Shipyard Plantation, a lush tropical oceanfront setting nestled within Hilton Head Island's most private plantations. For more information, visit their website. Hilton Head Island is 90 miles south of Charleston, South Carolina and 40 miles north of Savannah, Georgia. If you are flying by air, several major airlines serve Savannah International Airport, a 45-minute drive from the Resort. Commuter flights serve Hilton Head Airport daily. Shuttle service is available at both airports. Expect to pay approximately $58.00 round trip from Savannah International Airport and $22.00 round trip from Hilton Head Island Airport.

Program

Wednesday, March 17, 2004

5:00 p.m. REGISTRATION and RECEPTION

7:00 p.m. Plenary Speaker, Wayne L. Mattice, The University of Akron, "Bridging Between Atomistically Detailed and Coarse-Grained Models of Polymers"

Thursday, March 18, 2004

7:30 a.m. CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST (Salon F)

Session I: Nanocomposites

8:00 a.m. Sharon C. Glotzer, University of Michigan, "Tethered Nano Building Blocks: A New Class of Macromolecule for Nanoparticle Self-Assembly"

9:00 a.m. Barry L. Farmer, Air Force Research Laboratory Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, "Coarse Grained Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Polymer Nanocomposites"

10:00 a.m. BREAK

10:15 a.m. James E. Mark, University of Cincinnati, "Simulations on Elastomers and Rubberlike Elasticity"

11:15 a.m. Pawel Keblinski, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, "Mechanism of Reinforcement in Polymer Nanocomposites"

12:15 a.m. LUNCH (Signals Restaurant) and POSTER SESSION (In and around Salon FGH)

Session II: Thin Films & Glass Transition Temperature

7:00 p.m. Sanat K. Kumar, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, "Macromolecular Phase Transitions at Surfaces: Non-Equilibrium Effects?"

8:00 p.m. Joerg Baschnagel, Institute Charles Sadron, FRANCE, "Confinement Effects on the Slow Dynamics of a Simulated Supercooled Polymer Melt"

Friday, March, 19, 2004

7:30 a.m. CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST (Salon F)

Session III: Multi-scale Modeling

8:00 a.m. Gregory C. Rutledge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Some General Approaches to Multiscale Modeling of Macromolecules"

9:00 a.m. Anna C. Balazs, University of Pittsburgh, "Using Multi-scale Modeling to Design Self-Healing Nanocomposite Films"

10:00 a.m. BREAK

10:15 a.m. Mark O. Robbins, John Hopkins University, "Cracks and Crazes: From Atomic Interactions to Macroscopic Adhesion"

11:15 a.m. Doros N. Theodorou, National Technical University of Athens, GREECE, "Hierarchical Modeling of Polymers: From Atomistic Simulations to Rheological and Mechanical Properties via Entanglement Network Models"

12:15 a.m. LUNCH (Signals Restaurant) and POSTER SESSION (In and around Salon FGH)

Session IV: Biomaterials

7:00 p.m. Kenneth A. Dill, University of California, San Francisco, "Protein Folding: Transition States and the Dynamics of Structure Formation"

8:00 p.m. Robert A. Latour, Jr., Clemson University, "Molecular Simulation of Protein Adsorption to Materials Surfaces"

Saturday, March 20, 2004

7:30 a.m. CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST (Salon F)

Session V: New Methods

8:00 a.m. David P. Landau, The University of Georgia, "A New Approach to Monte Carlo Simulations in Statistical Physics"

9:00 a.m. Juan J. de Pablo, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Monte Carlo Simulation of Complex Fluids and Macromolecular Systems Having Rugged Free Energy Landscapes"

Registration

Molecular Modeling of Macromolecules
March 17-20, 2004

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Poster Session: A poster session is planned in order to give the workshop attendees the opportunity to present their own work in the area of molecular modeling of polymers and biomaterials. Anyone wishing to present a poster should contact one of the workshop organizers with title, authors and affiliation.

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