Dear POLY-members:

We are organizing a symposium on "Molecular Recognition Using Polymeric materials"
Symposium at the New York ACS meeting. OASYS (the ACS web site) is now open for
preprint submission for the The URL for submission is
http://oasys.acs.org/oasys.htm and the deadline for authors is May 2.

We have a great lineup of invited speakers. We also hope to see several
contributions from authors around the world to participate in the poster session
associated with the symposium.

The current list of speakers who accepted to speak at this conference is listed
below.

Amit Basu - Brown
Ron Breslow - Colubmia
Stephen Craig - Duke
Sam Gellman - Wisconsin
Harry Gibson - Virginia Tech
Brent Iverson - Texas
Laura Kiessling - Wisconsin
Mike Krische - Texas
Tim Long - Virginia Tech
Fred MacDonnell - UT- Arlington
Bert Meijer - Eindhoven, Netherlands
Jeff Moore - Illinois
Vince Rotello - UMass
Jon Parquette - Ohio State
Virgil Percec - Penn
Stuart Rowan - Case Western
A. Dieter Schluter - Berlin, Germany
Ken Shimizu - South Carolina
Eric Simanek - Texas A & M
David K. Smith - York, England
Tim Swager - MIT
Greg Tew - UMass
S. Thayumanavan Tulane
Dave Tirrell - Caltech
Marcus Weck - Georgia Tech
Steve Zimmerman - Illinois

We are looking forward to seeing you all in New York.

Sincerely,
S. Thayumanavan, Tulane University
Vincent Rotello, UMass

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---------------------------------------- S. Thayumanavan
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA 70118
Phone: (504) 862-3586
FAX: (504) 865-5596
E-mail: thai@tulane.edu
http://www.tulane.edu/~thai