INVITED SPEAKERS

Theme:  Polymer Synthesis and Kinetics

• Simon Harrisson, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France
• Michael Buback, Göttingen University, Germany
• Kris Matyjaszewski, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Ian Manners, University of Victoria, Canada
• Harald Stover, McMaster University, Canada
• Jessica Lamb, University of Minnesota, USA
• Nicholas Warren, University of Leeds, UK
• Damien Guironnet, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
• Per Zetterlund, University of New South Wales, Australia

Theme:  Polymer Physics and Characterization

• Su-Mi Hur , Chonnam National University, Korea
• Olga Philippova, Moscow State University, Russia
• Li-Tang Yan, Tsinghua University, China
• An-Chang Shi, McMaster University, Canada
• Melissa Chin Han Chan, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
• Walter Richtering, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
• Suwabun Chirachanchai, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
• Marcus Müller, Georg-August-Universität, Germany

Theme:  Polymers for Biomedical Engineering

• Martina Stenzel, University of New South Wales, Australia
• Julien Nicolas, Université Paris-Saclay, France
• Marc Gauthier, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Canada
• Huaping Xu, Tsinghua University, China
• Brigitte Voit, Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung, Germany
• Kristi Kiick, University of Delaware, USA
• Richard Hoogenboom, Ghent University, Belgium
• Matthew Becker, Duke University, USA
• Kamendra P. Sharma, Indian Institute of Technology, India
• April Kloxin, University of Delaware, USA

Theme:  Smart and Functional Polymers

• David Haddleton, University of Warwick, UK
• Ben Zhong Tang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
• Axel Müller, University of Mainz, Germany
• Rachel O'Reilly, University of Birmingham, UK
• Wen-Jun Wang, Zhejiang University, China
• Yue Zhao, University of Sherbrooke, Canada
• Guosong Chen, Fudan University, China
• Makato Ouchi, Kyoto University, Japan
• Holger Schönherr, University of Siegen, Germany
• Philip Jessop, Queen's University, Canada

Theme:  Polymers from Renewable Resources and Biodegradable Polymers

• Michael Cunningham, Queen's University, Canada
• Audrey Moores, McGill University, Canada
• Elizabeth Gillies, Western University, Canada
• Chris Kozak, Memorial University, Canada
• Tatiana Budtvoa, MINES ParisTech Centre de Mise en Forme des Matériaux, France
• Jeff Byers, Boston College, USA
• Jaana Vapaavuori, Aalto University, Finland
• Brian Long, University of Tennessee, USA

Theme:  Polymer Engineering and Rheology

• Mohammad Arjmand, University of British Columbia Okanagan, Canada
• Reza Nofar, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
• Milana Trifkovic, University of Calgary, Canada
• Vivek Sharma, University of Illinois, USA
• Ruth Cardinaels, Katholieke Universitiet Leuven, Belgium
• Patrick Lee, University of Toronto, Canada

Theme:  Polymers for Energy and Environmental Applications

• Christine Luscombe, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
• Christine Dagron-Lartigau, University of Pau, France
• Parisa Mehrkhodavandi, University of British Columbia, Canada
• Marloes Peeters, Newcastle University, UK
• Laure Kayser, University of Delaware, USA
• Michael Shaver, University of Manchester, UK
• Jaime Martin, University of A Coruña, Spain

Theme:  Polymers for Nanotechnology

• Zhiqun Lin, Georgia Institute of Technology, US
• John Oh, Concordia University, Canada
• Jacob Klein, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
• Gang Oleg, Columbia University, USA
• Eugenia Kumacheva, University of Toronto, Canada
• Abigail Knight, University of North Carolina, USA
• Todd Emrick, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
• Qian Chen, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA

Theme:  Polymer Science Education

• Mustafa Saleh Nasser, Qatar University, Qatar
• John Matson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA
• Yvette Shang, Mitacs (Business Development Specialist), Canada
• Beth Gillis, Macromolecular Science and Engineering Division of the Chemical Institute of Canada, Canada
• Todd Hoare, Macromolecular Science and Engineering Division of the Chemical Institute of Canada, Canada
• Michael Walter, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
• Aurelien Forget, Institute for Macromolecular Chemistry, University of Freiburg, Germany
• Guido Raos, Politecnica di Milano, Italy
• Patricia Targon Campana, University of São Paulo, Brazil
• Lydia Sosa Vargas, Sorbonne Université, France

Special Session: The Fate of Polymers in a Changing World

• David Levin, University of Manitoba, Canada
• Anne-Marie Boulay, Polytechnique Montréal, Canada
• Peter Halley, University of Queensland, Australia
• Michael Brook, McMaster University, Canada
• Michael Thompson, McMaster University, Canada

Special Session: Porous Polymers

• Cosima Stubenrauch, University of Stuttgart, Germany
• Marc Hillmyer, University of Minnesota, USA
• Ruilan Guo, University of Notre Dame, USA
• Ulrich Weisner, Cornell University, USA
• Hong-Cai Zhou, Texas A&M University, USA