3:00 p.m

Registration

3:30 p.m.

James E. McGrath and Pal Arjunan

Overview and Objectives of the Workshop

KEY NOTE ADDRESS SESSION

Introduction: Pal Arjunan & Jim McGrath

3:45 p.m

Balaji Singh,  CMR/Innovante

Global Polyolefins Market Trends

4:15 p.m

Kurt W Swogger, Dow Chemical Company, Freeport, TX

Emerging Challenges/Opportunities in Polyolefins

4:45 p.m

BREAK

INVITED LECTURE SESSION I

Discussion Leader –  Lloyd Robeson

5:00 p.m

Peter Hanik, Pretium Consulting Inc., Houston, TX

Innovation Model as Applicable to Polyolefins Industry R/D

5:30 p.m

Abbas Razavi, Total-Fina Petrochemical Research Center, Feluy, Belgium

Single Site Catalyzed Polyolefins- Academic and Industrial Challenges

6.00 p.m

WELCOME RECEPTION

INVITED LECTURE SESSION II

Discussion Leader – Jim McGrath

8:30 a.m.

Tobin Marks, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

Novel Polyolefins and Polyolefin-Based Materials via Rational Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalyst Design

9:00 a.m.

Brian Goodall, Rohm-Haas Chemical Company, Spring House, PA

Novel Catalysts for the Controlled Copolymerization of Olefins and Acrylates to Linear, High Molecular Weight, Random Copolymers

9:30 a.m.

Bob Waymouth, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Catalysts for Novel Styrene / Ethylene Copolymers

10:00 a.m.

BREAK

INVITED LECTURE SESSION III

Discussion Leader – Pal Arjunan

10:15 a.m.

Sarah Martin, Dow Chemical Company, Freeport, TX

INFUSE^TM Olefin Block Copolymers:  From Molecular Design to Market Introduction

10:45 a.m.

Manfred Bochmann, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

New Types Of Highly Unsaturated Isobutene Polymers Via Zinc-Based Initiators

11:15 a.m.

Armenag H. Dekmezian, Exxon Mobil Chemical Company, Baytown, TX

Design of Propylene-based Olefin Block Copolymers

11:45 a.m.

LUNCH

INVITED LECTURE SESSION IV

Discussion Leader – Eric Baer

1:15 p.m.

Benjamin Monrabal, PolyChar, Paterna, Spain

Microstructure Characterization of Polyolefins

1:45 p.m.

Donald. A Winesett, ExxonMobil Chemical Company, Baytown, TX

Chemical Imaging Techniques For Polyolefin Blends

2:15 p.m.

Anne Hiltner, & Eric Baer, Case Western Reserve University, Canton, OH, and Steve Chum, Dow Chemical Company, Freeport, TX

Properties and Solid State Structure of New Olefinic Block Copolymers

2:45 p.m.

BREAK

INVITED LECTURE SESSION V

Discussion Leader – Abhi Patil, Exxon Mobil Corporate Research, Clinton, NJ

3:00 p.m.

Walter Ramirez, Director – Innovante/CID-DESC, Toluca, Mexico

High Throughput Tools/Capabilities to Polyolefins R/D

3:30p.m.

Jun-ichi Imuta, Mitsui Chemicals, Inc., Tokyo, Japan

Growth of Functional Olefin Polymers by Single Site Catalysts

4:00 p.m.

Ralph Colby, Penn State Univ, Univ Park, PA

Rheological Characterization of Novel PP Copolymers

4.30 p.m

Kazushi Mashima, Osaka Univ., Japan

Half-metallocene Complexes of Group 4 and 5 Metals As Unique Catalyst Precursors for Olefin Polymerization

5:30 p.m.

RECEPTION AND POSTER SESSION, Sponsored by _________

Submit poster abstracts to Lesia Robertson, ACS Polymer Division, Virginia Tech, E-mail:  lesiar@vt.edu

INVITED LECTURE SESSION VI

Discussion Leader – Bryan Goodall

8:30 a.m.

Lloyd Robeson, Air Products, Allentown, PA

Polyolefins Blend Technology:  Review/Recent Advances

9:00 a.m.

Walter Kaminsky, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Polyolefine-Nanocomposites by In-situ Polymerization with Metallocene Catalysts

9:30 a.m.

Don Paul, Univ of Texas, Austin, TX

Polyolefin Nanocomposites: Structure and Properties

10:00 a.m.

BREAK

INVITED LECTURE SESSION VII

Discussion Leader: Don Paul

10:15 a.m.

Steve Chum, Dow Chemical Company, Freeport, TX

Applications of Olefin Block Copolymer Based on Its Unique Structure/Properties

10:45 a.m.

Pat Brant, Exxon Mobil Chemical Company, Baytown, TX

Polyolefin Separators for Lithium Ion Battery

11:15 a.m.

Bernard Wunderlich, University of. Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

Advances in Thermal Analysis

11:45 a.m.

LUNCH

INVITED LECTURE SESSION VIII

Discussion Leader: Pat Brant

1:15 p.m.

Vernon Gibson, Imperial College, London, UK

Bio-inspired Ligands for Polyolefin Catalysis

1:45 p.m.

Steve Miller, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX

Sterically Expanded Transition Metal Catalysts for Olefin Polymerization

2:15 p.m.

Mike Chung, Penn State University, State College, PA

Synthesis and Characterization of Long Chain Branched PP and Applications of PP Thin Films for High Energy Density Capacitors

2:45 p.m.

BREAK

INVITED LECTURE SESSION IX

Discussion Leader: Steve Chum

3:00 p.m.

Joao Soares, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

Monte Carlo Simulation of MWD Evolution During Stopped-Flow Polymerization

3:30 p.m.

Pierre Lutz, ICS/CNRS, Strasbourg, France

New Complex Macromolecular Architectures via Coordination polymerization of Macro-monomers

4:00 p.m.

Don Baird, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

The Role of Extensional Rheology  in Identifying Sparse Long Chain Branching in

 Metallocene Catalyzed Polyethylene

4:30 p.m.

Siripon Anantawaraskul, Kasetsart Univ, Bangkok, Thailand

Toward a Quantitative Understanding of Polyolefin Chain Microstructure and Morphology

5:00 p.m

Ion Tincul, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Propylene Copolymers with Fischer Tropsch Derived Olefins

DINNER ON YOUR OWN

INVITED LECTURE SESSION X

Discussion Leader: Don Morrison, Boulder Scientific Co., Longmont, CO

8:30 a.m.

Pal Arjunan, CMR Inc.,/Innovante Corporation, Houston, TX

Global Trends in Polyolefins Processes and Catalysts

9:00 a.m.

Brian Kneale, Albemarle Corporation, Baton Rouge, LA

Developments in the Activation of Single Site Complexes for Olefin Polymerization.

9:30 a.m.

Moris S. Eisen, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

The Effect of Cocatalysts in the Polymerization of Propylene Towards Elastomeric Materials

10:00 a.m.

BREAK

INVITED LECTURE SESSION XI

Discussion Leader: Francis Mirabella, Equistar Chemical Co., Cincinnati, OH

10:15 a.m.

Greg Saunders, Polymer Labs Ltd, Shropshire, UK

Size Exclusion Chromatography - A Versatile Tool for Polyolefin Characterization

10:45 a.m.

Rufina Alamo, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL

Crystallization Kinetics of Random Propylene Copolymers: An Interplay of Chain Microstructure and Crystal Morphology

11:15 a.m.

Wallace Yau, Dow Chemical Company, Freeport, TX

Polyolefin Characterization Using a Hybrid 3-D GPC-TREF System

11:45 a.m.

LUNCH

INVITED LECTURE SESSION XII

Discussion Leader: Brian Kneale

1:15 p.m.

Minoru Terano, JAIST, Isikawa, Japan

Investigation on the Molecular States of Surface Ti Species on Ultra Low Ti Loading MgCl₂-Supported Catalysts

1:45 p.m.

Boping Liu, East China Univ. of Science & Technology, Shanghai, China

Computational Molecular Modeling on the mechanism of active sites formation on Phillips Cr Catalyst

2:15 p.m.

Kevin Cann, Univation Technologies In., Freeport, TX

Advanced Chromium Catalysts for Improved HDPE

2:45 p.m.

BREAK

INVITED LECTURE SESSION XIII

Discussion Leader: Minoru Terano

3:00 p.m.

Rick King, Ciba Specialty Chemicals Company, Terry Town, NY

Advances in Polyolefin Stabilization

3:30 p.m.

Herve Marand, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

Effect of Kinetic and Thermodynamic Defects on Polyolefin Secondary Crystallization and Dynamics

4:00 p.m.

Toru Arai, Denka Chemical Company, Japan

A Macromer Containing Divinylbenzene Unit as the Building Block of Topologically Controlled Copolymers

4:30 p.m.

Leonardo C Simon, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

Gas Phase Ethylene Polymerization Using Metallocene/Clays

5:00 p.m

Pal Arjunan and Jim McGrath: Closing Remarks