Chairman: A. Willem deGroot Co-Chairs: Jimmy Mays, HN Cheng, Rafael Verduzco, Pat Brant Characterization of Polyolefins Joao Soares (Dow Chemical Invited Lecture) - University of Alberta Contributions of polyolefin characterization techniques to polymer catalysis development and reaction engineering Benjamin Monrabal - Polymer Char Spain Characterization of complex polyolefins by cross-fractionation techniques Scott Milner - Penn State University Flow-induced crystallization and nucleation in isotactic polypropylenes Characterization of Biopolymers Lloyd Smith - Wisconsin A New Frontier in Proteomics: Identifying Proteoforms and Elucidating Proteoform Families from Measurements of Intact Mass and Lysine Count Dan Savin - University of Florida Self-assembly and Responsiveness of Polypeptide-based Star and Triblock Copolymers: Design, Characterization and Function Petra Mischnick - TU Braunschweig Analysis of the Substituent Distribution in Cellulose Ethers Characterization of Polymers Using Scattering Techniques Ron Jones (Chevron Phillips Invited Lecture) - NIST Probing Semi-crystalline and Amorphous Structure in Polymer Systems using Neutron Scattering, Neutron Imaging and Neutron Spectroscopy Alexander Hexemer - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory In situ Thin Film processing characterization using X-rays Gila Stein - University of Houston Characterizing Block Copolymer Thin Films with Grazing-Incidence Small Angle X-ray Scattering Characterization of Polymers using Spectroscopy and Microscopy Roberto Simonutti - Univ. of Milan Bicocca Understanding the inner morphology of polymeric nanoparticles: expect the unexpected Greg Meyers - Dow Chemical Company Nanoscale Molecular Imaging in Polymer Systems Rigoberto Advincula - Case Western Reserve University FT-IR Imaging Advances in Polymer Characterization Alexei Sokolov - University of Tennessee An interfacial layer - the key to properties of polymer nanocomposites Polymer Surface and Interface Characterization Mahesh Mahanthappa (ExxonMobil Invited Lecture) - University of Wisconsin Block Copolymer Bottlebrushes: New Routes to Ever Smaller Microdomain Sizes Ned Thomas - Rice University Microstructured Polymers Chris Ellison - University of Texas Manipulating Polymers with Light Activated Interfacial Chemistries