232nd ACS National Meeting

 

September 10 - 14, 2006, San Francisco, CA

 

PRESIDENTIAL EVENT

 

Entrepreneurship in Polymers and Technology

 

Call for Papers!

 

 

Abstracts and POLY preprints must be submitted online through ACS OASys at:  <http://www.oasys.acs.org/>http://www.oasys.acs.org . 

 

Approved templates for preprints may be downloaded at <http://uweb.txstate.edu/science/polymerpreprints/>http://uweb.txstate.edu/science/polymerpreprints/.

 

Deadline for submission is April 25.

 

Partial List of Speakers:

 

       Prof. Bob Grubbs, Caltech, 2005 Nobel Laureate

       Prof. Alan Heeger, Univ. of Calif., Santa Barbara, 2000 Nobel Laureate

       Dr. Victoria Haynes, CEO Research Triangle, 2003 Bus. Leader of Year

       Dr. Raymond Stark, VP of R&D, CTO, Honeywell

       Dr. Steve Di Biase, Sr. Vice President CSOGD, JohnsonDiversey, Inc.

       Dr. Paul Armstead, Office of Naval Research

       Dr. Rosemarie D. Wesson, National Science Foundation

       Prof. Richard McCullough, Dean of Carnegie Mellon Univ.

       Prof. Joseph DeSimone, UNC, Chapel Hill

       Dr. Earl H Wagener, CEO Tetramer Technologies, LLC

       Prof. Lon Mathias, University of Southern Mississippi

       Prof. Gary Wnek, CWRU

       Dr. John Pochan, Kodak

       Prof. Paras Prasad, SUNY at Buffalo

       Dr. Bronco Gordon, President, Polymer Innovations

       Dr. Sadiq Shah, Director, Western Illinois Entrepreneurship Center

       Mr. Sean Randolph, President, CEO Bay Area Economic Forum

       Mr. Bret St. John, President, CEO Crosslink

       Dr. David Aslin, 3I Ventures

       Prof. Dennis Smith, Clemson University

       Dr. Kathleen O. Havelka, Lubrizol Corporation

       Dr. Bill Coggio, 3M

       Dr. Carrington Smith, Air Products

       Prof. Patrick Cassidy, Associate VP, Texas State University

       Daniel T. Colbert, Chief Technology Officer, NGEN Partners

       Dr. Ingo Pinnau, MTR

       Dr. Joseph C. Salamone, CTO Rochal Industries; Consultant, Bausch & Lomb

       Prof. Shiro Koboyashi, Kyoto University

 

Sponsored by:

 

       Polymer Division

       Polymer Division Advisory Board

       Polymeric Materials Science & Engineering       á       Committee on Economic and Professional Affairs

       Business Development and Management Division

       Division of Small Chemical Businesses  

Symposium Organizers:

 

Dr. Kathleen O. Havelka, Chair, Lubrizol Corporation, <mailto:koh@lubrizol.com>koh@lubrizol.com

 

Prof. Dennis Smith, Clemson University, <mailto:dwsmith@clemson.eduDr>dwsmith@clemson.edu

Dr. Peter Zarras, NAWCWD, <mailto:peter.zarras@navy.mil>peter.zarras@navy.mil

 

Dr. Rosemarie D. Wesson, National Science Foundation, <mailto:rwesson@nsf.gov>rwesson@nsf.gov

 

Prof. Joseph DeSimone, University of North Carolina, <mailto:desimone@unc.edu>desimone@unc.edu

 

For further information contact:  Dr. Kathleen O. Havelka, Chair, Lubrizol Corp., <mailto:koh@lubrizol.com>koh@lubrizol.com

 

 

 

Kathleen O. Havelka, Ph.D.

 

Global Business Manager, Consumer Products

 

Lubrizol Corporation

 

29400 Lakeland Blvd.

 

Wickliffe, OH 44092

 

(440) 347-6088

 

koh@lubrizol.com