The 2012 International Symposium on Stimuli-Responsive Materials will be held 21st – 23rd October at the Hilton Sonoma Wine Country in Santa Rosa, CA. The symposium will cover the design, synthesis, characterization, and understanding of the physical, chemical, and applied principles of stimuli-responsive materials and devices.
Plenary Speakers include:
Cameron Alexander, University of Nottingham, UK; Takao Aoyagi, National Institute for Materials Science, JAPAN; Rachel Auzery, CNRS, FRANCE; Paul Braun, University of Illinois, USA; Barney Grubbs, SUNY at Stone Brook, USA; Kevin Healy, University of California, Berkley, USA; Henry Hess, Columbia University, USA; Christine Jerome, University of Liege, BELGIUM; Henry Kopeczek, University of Utah, USA; Dirk Kukling, University of Pederborn, GERMANY; Andreas Lendlein, Institute Polymer. Research HZG, GERMANY; Shiyong Liu, University of Science and Technology, CHINA; Julia Ljubimova, Cedar Sinai Research Center, Beverly Hills, USA; Tim Lodge, University of Minnesota, USA; C. Andrew Lyon, Georgia Tech, USA; Sergiy Minko, Clarkson University, USA; Kenichi Nakashima, Saga University, JAPAN; Derek Patton, University of Southern Mississippi, USA; Jerry H. Qi, University of Colorado, USA; Srinivasa R. Raghavan, University of Maryland, USA; Stuart Rowan, Case Western Reserve University, USA; Daniel Savin, University of Southern Mississippi, USA; Chris Weder, University of Friburg, SWITZERLAND; Kung-Hwa Wei, University of Taipei, TAIWAN; Robert Weiss, University of Akron, USA; Gary Wnek, Case Western Reserve University, USA; Timothy White, US Airforce, USA; Tao Xie, GM Global R&D, USA; Mingdi Yan, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA; Shu Yang, University of Pennsylvania, USA.
More information and registration details are available on the conference website: http://www.stimuliresponsivematerials.org