Programme


12:00	Registration and lunch

Session 1
14:00	Quantifying the length-scales of polymer-substrate interactions and the impact on physical properties of polymers
	Peter Green, FRSC, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA
14:45	3 contributed talks

15:30	Coffee break

Session 2
16:00	DPOLY lecture (winner to be announced)
16:45	Flash posters

17:30	Poster session and drinks reception (IOP Polymer Physics Group AGM at 17:30)


08:00	Registration and welcome coffee

Session 3
09:00	Dynamics of ring polymers by neutron scattering: overview and recent developments
	Valeria Arrighi, Heriot-Watt University, UK
09:45	3 contributed talks

10:30	Coffee break

Session 4
11:00	PPG exchange winner lecture (winner to be announced)
11:45	5 contributed talks

13:00	Lunch

Session 5
14:00	Rheology and structure formation in soft matter composites
	Jan Vermant, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
14:45	3 contributed talks

15:30	Coffee break

Session 6
16:00	Ian Macmillan Ward Prize Lecture (Best Student Paper)
16:15	3 contributed talks

17:00	Founders' Prize Winner Lecture
	Polymer Physics as an Enabler of Carbon Sequestration
	Tony Ryan OBE, University of Sheffield, UK

19:00	Conference dinner


08:00	Registration and welcome coffee

Session 7
09:00	An industrial perspective of global trends in bio-derived and natural polymers
	Andy Sweetman, Futamura Chemical, UK
09:45	3 Contributed talks

10:30	Coffee break

Session 8
11:00	How to tune properties of interfaces with polymers; insight from molecular simulation
	Paola Carbone, University of Manchester, UK
11:45	4 Contributed talks

13:00	Closing remarks and lunch

Abstract submission deadline:

19 June 2022

Early registration deadline:

31 July 2022

Registration deadline:

1 September 2022

	Image credit	Image credit
	N Clarke, Sheffield	L Pellegrino, Imperial