Academia Romana
Institutul de Chimie Macromoleculara “Petru Poni” Iasi

Frontiers in Macromolecular and Supramolecular Science
Second Cristofor I. Simionescu Symposium

Co-organizers:

Prof. Bogdan C. Simionescu
Corresponding member of the Romanian Academy

“Petru Poni” Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Iasi, Romania

and

Department of Natural and Synthetic Polymers
“Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iasi, Romania

Prof. Virgil Percec
P. Roy Vagelos Chair and Professor of Chemistry
Editor, Journal of Polymer Science: Part A: Polymer Chemistry
4003 Roy & Diana Vagelos Laboratories, Department of Chemistry
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

Preliminary Announcement

Symposium Date and Location:
June 1, 2009 – Academia Romana, Ion Heliade Radulescu Auditorium, Calea Victoriei 125,
Bucuresti (1:30 pm – 6:40 pm)
June 2 – 5, 2009 – Institutul de Chimie Macromoleculara “Petru Poni”, Conference Hall, Aleea
Grigore Ghica Voda 41A, 700487 Iasi (9:00 am – 6:00 pm)

Invited speakers – confirmed (preliminary list)

1. Jozef Put (DSM Netherlands)

Open Innovation at DSM; Intensified Cooperation with the Academic World

2. Arnulf Klaus Dietrich Schlüter (Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry, Department of Materials, ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

Polymers going thick and laterally infinite

3. Takuzo Aida (Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, School of Engineering, University of Tokyo, Japan)

Programmed Molecular Assembly for Functional Nanomaterials

4. Mitsuo Sawamoto (Department of Polymer Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan)

Precision Functional Polymer Synthesis via Metal-Catalyzed Living Radical Polymerization

5. Eiji Yashima (Department of Molecular Design and Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Japan)

Helical Polymers and Oligomers: From Single Helix to Double Helix

6. Michael Lawrence Klein (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA)

Computational studies of self-assembling macromolecules

7. Virgil Percec (Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA)

The Structural Origin of Functions in Complex Systems

8. Daniel Petru Funeriu (Technical University of Munich, Marie Curie Excellence Team, Munich, Germany)

From the construction of supramolecular species towards the deconvolution of the biochemical complexity: a short journey from the geometrical to the kinetic chemical space

9. Ion Tiginyanu (Academy of Sciences of Moldova)

Templated fabrication of multifunctional materials based on nanotubular structures

10. Bogdan Catalin Ibanescu (University of Fribourg, Department of Chemistry, Fribourg, Switzerland; Nanoscale Physics Research Laboratory, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom)

Controlling chemical reactions with electrons

Information contact:

Bogdan C. Simionescu: bcsimion@icmpp.ro, tel. +40-232-217454

Valeria Harabagiu: hvaleria@icmpp.ro, tel. +40-741-027090