Polymeric and Self-Assembled Hydrogels: From fundamental understanding to applications
4 - 5 September 2012. King's College London, UK.
There will be a second UK Macro Group meeting focused on polymeric and self-assembling hydrogels, in London on 4-5th September 2012.
This 2-day conference aims to bring together academics as well as industrialists with interest in hydrogels research, including their structure, properties and applications, either from polymeric networks - of synthetic or biological origin - or self-assembled surfactants or peptides.
The conference website has more information:
http://www.constableandsmith.com/hydrogels/
Confirmed speakers:
Mitsuhiro Shibayama (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Molly Shoichet (University of Toronto, Canada)
Madeleine Djabourov (ESPCI, France)
John Mitchell (University of Nottingham UK)
Rein Ulijn (University of Strathclyde, UK)
Alan Rowan (Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands)
The organising committee would be delighted if you could consider joining them for this event in London. A number of slots will be available for contributed short talks and a poster session. They particularly would like to encourage students to apply - cheap accommodation and travel grants will be available (information will be uploaded on the conference website shortly).
Organising Committee
Cécile Dreiss, King’s College London
Oren Scherman, University of Cambridge
Dave Adams, University of Liverpool
Vitaliy Khutoryanskiy, University of Reading
Claire Pizzey, Diamond Light Source