Scientific Program

The conference will include plenary lectures, parallel symposia and poster sections on the following topics:

General Symposia

General Symposia
Symposia Organizer
1. Extrusion, Coating and Joining José Covas (Portugal), José Kenny (Italy/Argentina)
Michel Huneault (Canada), Tadamoto Sakai (Japan)
Chris Rauwendaal (USA/Germany)
2. Films and fibers Musa R. Kamal (Canada), Gaetano Guerra (Italy)
Jean-Marc Haudin (France), Takeshi Kikutani (Japan)
3. Injection Molding & Molds Antonio Cunha (Portugal), Peter Kennedy (Australia)
Mikael Rigdahl (Sweden), Jianhong Zhao (Singapore)
4. Blow and Rotational Molding and Thermoforming Johannes Wortberg (Germany), Robert Diraddo (Canada)
Eileen Harkin-Jones (UK), Alfonso Maffezzoli (Italy)
5. Thermosets and Reactive Processing Philippe Cassagnau (France), Martin Weber (Germany)
Marino Xanthos (USA), Xi Xu (China)
6. Mixing & Compounding Petra Potschke (Germany), Laszlo Halasz (Hungary/South Africa)
Andrew Hrymak (Canada), Paolo Lomellini (Italy)
7. Rheology & Rheometry Mosto Bousmina (Canada), Nino Grizzuti (Italy)
Kiyohito Koyama (Japan), Paula Moldenaers (Belgium)
8. Modeling and Simulation Tai Kwon (Korea), Evan Mitsoulis (Greece)
Helmut Potente (Germany), Charles Tucker (USA)
9. Morphology and Structure Development Mukerrem Cakmak (USA), Ashok Misra (India)
Gerrit Peters (The Netherlands), Stefano Piccarolo (Italy)
10. Polymer Alloys and Blends Jin Kim (Korea), Mario Malinconico (Italy)
Ica Manas-Zloczower (USA), Hans-Joachim Radusch (Germany), Valery Kulichikhin (Russian Federation)
11. Processing of Composites and Filled Systems Zainal Mohd Ishak (Malaysia), Petr Saha (Czech Republic)
Anita Vaxman (Israel), Claudio Voto (Italy)
12. Elastomers & Elastomer Processing Francesco D'Oria (Italy), Joey Mead (USA)
Hossein Nazockdast (Iran), Wladislaw Rzymski (Poland)
13. Process Monitoring, Control & Sensors Phil Coates (UK), Heinrich Neitzert (Italy/Germany)
Benjamin Hsiao (USA), Hidetoshi Yokoi (Japan)
14. Green Polymers, Reprocessing & Recycling Francesco P. La Mantia (Italy), Amar K. Mohanty (USA)
Yu Long (Australia), Analía Vázquez (Argentina)

Special Symposia

Special Symposia
Symposia Organizer
15. Foam Processing and Applications Axel Kauffmann (Germany)
Salvatore Iannace (Italy)
Masahiro Ohshima (Japan)
Chul Park (Canada)
16. Precision Injection Moulding, New Moulding Technologies Jehuda Greener (USA)
Shih-Jung Liu (Taiwan)
Walter Michaeli (Germany)
Roberto Pantani (Italy)
17. New Processes and Testing Methodologies Valerio Brucato (Italy)
Markus Gahleitner (Austria)
Toshiji Kanaya (Japan)
John Vlachopoulos (Canada)
18. Nano-Structured Materials Satinath Bhattacharya (Australia)
Octavio Manero (Mexico)
Giuseppe Mensitieri (Italy)
Bruno Vergnes (France)
19. Properties after Processing Leon Govaert (The Netherlands)
Elias Hage (Brazil)
Hiroshi Ito (Japan)
Loredana Incarnato (Italy)
20. Polymers for Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Applications Guillermo Marshall (Argentina)
Paolo Netti (Italy)
Josep Planell Estany (Spain)
Zhang Xingdong (China)
21. Electronics and Optics Related Polymers Dario Della Sala (Italy)
Leni Akcelrud (Brazil)
Dinesh Chandra Trivedi (India)
Dag Werner Breiby (Denmark)
Jean M.J. Frechet (USA)
22. Polymers for Advanced Applications Guneri Akovali (Turkey)
Stefania Cantoni (Italy)
Sung Chul Kim (Korea)
Basubam Adhikari (India)

 

  
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