Appendix - C
Workshop Final Program
May 10-12, 2002
Friday, May 10, 2002
GITC Building, NJIT, Newark, NJ
10:00 – 11:30 am Pre-workshop Meeting of the Organizing Committee
GITC Seminar Room 3710
Plenary Session (C. Gogos and M. Xanthos, Chairs)
GITC First Floor Auditorium
1:00pm Workshop Registration
2:00 – 2:15pm Introductions
2:15 – 2:45pm The Status and Touchstones of Polymer Processing (Z. Tadmor)
2:45 – 3:15pm The Areas and Questions to be Examined (H. Meijer)
Break
3:30 – 5:30 pm Introductory Remarks by the Breakout Groups Chairpersons.
(D. Edie, H. Meijer, J. Vlachopoulos)
Open-forum follow-up for the Questions and Areas to be Examined on Saturday, May 11 pm, by the
Breakout Groups.
6:30pm
BANQUET – GITC Hall 3730
Welcome Remarks: Dr. Saul Fenster, NJIT, President introduced by
Prof.Donald Sebastian,
VP Research and Development
Saturday – May 11, 2002
GITC Building, NJIT, Newark, NJ
Plenary Session (J. F. Agassant,
K.S. Hyun, Chairs)
9:00 – 12:00pm Overview of
Current Research on Polymer Processing presented
GITC Auditorium by:
Academic Research Centers and major Industrial R&D Centers
The organizing committee has asked various Research Groups to present short
“Overviews” of their activities and goals: Agassant (France), Carreau (Canada), Coates (UK),
Covas (Portugal), Edie (USA), Haberstroh (Germany), Kamal (Canada), Meijer (Holand),
Vlachopoulos (Canada), Xanthos (USA), Kharazi (USA), Lee (Korea).
12:30 – 1:30pm LUNCH
GITC Third Floor
Break-out Sessions
1:30 – 5:00pm Deliberations by three
separate break-out groups (each headed
by a Chairperson and a
GITC Third Floor Rapporteur) on specific topics,such as:
- Meaningful future research frontiers
- Changes in the organization and structure of Academic Research Centers – new disciplines,
multi-discipline efforts, critical mass, relations with industry; changing Polymer Processing
Education to serve its multi-disciplinary nature.
- Changes in the organization and structure of industry R&D and in the reshaping of the
structure of the polymer industry.
- Organization and funding of International Collaborative Structures between the relatively
small number of polymer processing research centers aided by the creation of “asynchronous forums”
for current research results sharing databases and international collaboration
initiatives.
- 5. Publications and Information Dissemination. Examine the current scene and propose
changes toward less fragmentation and more synergy.
5:00 – 6:00 PM Formulation of Individual Breakout
Group Report Outlines by the Respective Chairpersons and
Rapporteurs.
Sunday, May 12, 2002
GITC Building, NJIT, Newark, NJ
Plenary Session (M. Kamal and
Z. Tadmor, Chairs)
9:30 – 12:30pm Reports by the three
Break-out groups.
GITC Auditorium Open Forum Round Table
Discussion of the Three Reports for the formulation of the “Outcomes”
of the Workshop and proposals to decide
on the “Next Steps”:
- Activities and structures needed for the implementation of the workshop recommendations,
national and international;
- Publications of the Proceedings;
- Post-workshop international mini-meetings in Europe and the Far East;
- Follow-up Organizational Committee work and meetings.
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