Events

• August 8, 2007: Pascal Enonhyaket Dissertation Defense for Doctorate in room 600 of Lindsy Boggs Building, Tulane Uptown Campus. Determination of Molecular Weight and Other Characteristics of Co- and Ter-Polymers using Automatic Continuous Online Monitoring of Polymerization Reactions (ACOMP).

• August 10, 2007: PolyRMC reception. Congratulations for Dr. Pascal Enonhyaket on the successful defense of his PhD dissertation.

• August 14-16, 2007: U. Akron/Tulane collaboration on RAFT polymerization. For U. Akron, Prof. Judit E. Puskas (LANXESS Professor of Polymer Science ) and Andrew Heidenreich.

• September 7, 2007: Wayne Reed, A CityBusiness New Orleans Innovator of the Year Awardee, Sheraton New Orleans, 500 Canal St., noon (by invitation only). Photos from the Luncheon.

• September 15, 2007: PolyRMC welcomes Dr. Daniel Elizarraras and his wife Migdaliz, arriving in New Orleans on Sept. 15, 2007.  Daniel is a Postdoctoral Research Associate being supported by Total North American Services, Inc.

• September 17-21, 2007: PolyRMC will host a one week series of collaborative experiments with Arkema scientists Drs. Stephan Moyses and Jason Ness, who will be at PolyRMC Sept. 17-21, 2007.  Arkema Research Fellow Dr. Chris Bertelo will also visit PolyRMC during this period.

• October 30, 2007: PolyRMC welcomes Mark Reeder and Eric Dickinson of Solvay Polymers, together with PolyRMC Advisory Board member Dr. John McConville, and his colleague Richard Lentner, both of  Polymer Laboratories, Inc. (a division of Varian Inc.).

• Nov. 2-10: PolyRMC Director, Wayne Reed, will be visiting several Brazilian universities to help organize a collaboration on the development of natural products found in Brazil, and to give several seminars.  The trip is under the auspices of the US National Science Foundation, and involves the following universities:  Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Porto Alegre), Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Florianopolis), Universidade Federal de Parana (Curitiba), and Univali (Itajai).

• Dec. 3-5, 2007: PolyRMC Director, Wayne Reed, will be presenting an invited talk, “ Recent Advances in Automatic Continuous Online Monitoring of Polymerization reactions (ACOMP)” at the Vingtièmes Entretiens du Centre Jacques Cartier sur ‘Modeling, Monitoring, and Control of Polymer Properties', ESCPE, Lyon, France .

• Dec. 7, 2007:  PolyRMC is pleased to host a visit by Advisory Board member, Dr. Chris Roger.  In the afternoon, Board members Mr. Ronald Evans and Mr. Dan Borné will join Dr. Roger and PolyRMC personnel for informal presentations and discussions.

• January 25, 2008: PolyRMC will hold a sub-group meeting of the Advisory Board on Friday, at Tulane, 4pm-6pm.  The topic of the meeting is  "Louisiana Initiatives".  Board members Dan Borné and Ronnie Evans are scheduled to attend, along with a special guest, Mr. Paul Flower, who is also a member of Tulane's Advisory Board for the School of Science & Engineering.

• February 13, 2008:  PolyRMC welcomes Prof. Hyuk Yu as a Distinguished Visiting Polymer and Colloid Scientist at PolyRMC.  Professor Yu is also a PolyRMC Advisory Board member, and will be in residence until March 31, 2008.

• March 3, 2008:  PolyRMC will hold its first plenary Advisory Board Meeting.  Tulane President Scott Cowen will briefly address the Board during the meeting, and there will be a reception afterwards. Photos

• March 5, 2008: PolyRMC welcomes Prof. Rilton Alves de Freitas who is visiting PolyRMC on a 6 month grant from the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico of Brazil.

• April 6, 2008: Tomasz Kreft presented the following at the American Chemical Society, Spring Meeting, New Orleans,  “Predictive control and online monitoring of average molar mass and composition distributions in free radical polymerization”,  by Tomasz Kreft, Gemma González García,* Alina M. Alb, José Carlos de la Cal,* José M. Asúa,* Wayne F. Reed  (* University of the Basque Country, San Sebastian, Spain).

• April 7, 2008: Alina M. Alb presented the following at the American Chemical Society, Spring Meeting, New Orleans,  “Online monitoring of block and gradient copolymerization by RAFT”, Alina M. Alb, Wayne F. Reed .

• April 9, 2008: Polymer Labs Inc. and PolyRMC will co-host a Polymerization Process Monitoring and Control symposium 8am-12:30pm.The PMC symposium will be in the Boggs building on campus at Tulane. See link for more details. PMC symposium detail.

• April 10, 2008: Alina M. Alb presented the following at the American Chemical Society, Spring Meeting, New Orleans,  "Online monitoring of free radical polymerization in emulsions."  Alina M. Alb, Stephan Moyses,* Jason Ness,* Christopher A. Bertelo,* Wayne F. Reed. (*  Arkema, Inc., King of Prussia, PA) .

• April 10, 2008:  Daniel Elizarraras presented the following at the American Chemical Society, Spring Meeting, New Orleans,  " Online Monitoring of PB Chain Scission and Crosslinking in Solution by Free Radical Initiators."  Raber Inoubli, Daniel Elizarraras , Scott Cooper,* José Sosa,* Alina M. Alb, Michael F. Drenski, Wayne F. Reed  (* Total Petrochemicals, LaPorte, TX).

• April 11, 2008:  PolyRMC welcomes Haifeng Gao and Ke Min  from  Prof. Matyjaszewski's research group at Carnegie Mellon University.  During their 9 day collaborative visit to PolyRMC they will use ACOMP to monitor some of their latest ATRP based controlled radical polymerization reactions.

• June 9, 2008: Wayne Reed presented the following at the ISPAC meeting at the University of Delaware. " Recent advances in automatic continuous online monitoring of polymerization reactions (ACOMP)".  Alina M. Alb, Michael F. Drenski, Wayne F. Reed.