Polymer Theory and Simulation I: General

Presentations

• Assessing the Application of the Flory Interaction Parameter

  ORAL

  March 24, 2005, 8:15 AM – March 24, 2005, 8:27 AM

  Authors

  • Michael Tambasco

  • Jane Lipson

    • Dartmouth College

  • Julia Higgins

    • Imperial College

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• Optimizing a Mesoscale Model for Polyisoprene-Polystyrene Melts

  ORAL

  March 24, 2005, 8:27 AM – March 24, 2005, 8:39 AM

  Authors

  • Qi Sun

    • UC Davis

  • Roland Faller

    • UC Davis
    • Dept of Chem Eng \& Mat Sci, UC Davis

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• Chemical structure-optical property understanding in bisphenyls and substituted polycarbonates by molecular simulations: Role of polarizabilities and conformations

  ORAL

  March 24, 2005, 8:39 AM – March 24, 2005, 8:51 AM

  Authors

  • Upendra Natarajan

    • National Chem. Lab. India

  • M.S. Sulatha

    • National Chem. Lab. India

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• Semiflexible chain statistics with fixed end orientations

  ORAL

  March 24, 2005, 8:51 AM – March 24, 2005, 9:03 AM

  Authors

  • Andrew Spakowitz

    • UC Berkeley

  • Lei Zhang

  • Niles Pierce

  • Zhen-Gang Wang

    • Caltech

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• Characterizing knots in polymer coil and globule phases

  ORAL

  March 24, 2005, 9:03 AM – March 24, 2005, 9:15 AM

  Authors

  • Peter Virnau

    • MIT

  • Mehran Kardar

    • MIT
    • Physics Department, MIT

  • Yacov Kantor

    • Tel Aviv University

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• Cyclization of Rouse Chains at Long and Short Time Scales

  ORAL

  March 24, 2005, 9:15 AM – March 24, 2005, 9:27 AM

  Authors

  • Chuck Yeung

    • Pennsylvania State University at Erie, The Behrend College
    • School of Science, The Pennsylvania State University at Erie

  • Barry Friedman

    • Sam Houston State University
    • Physics Department, Sam Houston State University

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• A Minimal Model for the Helix-Coil Transition of Worm-like Polymers

  ORAL

  March 24, 2005, 9:27 AM – March 24, 2005, 9:39 AM

  Authors

  • Gustavo A. Carri

    • The University of Akron
    • Department of Polymer Science, The University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325-3909

  • Vikas Varshney

    • Department of Polymer Science, The University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325-3909

  • Taner E. Dirama

    • The University of Akron

  • Taner Z. Sen

    • Iowa State University

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• Solvent-induced collapse of a helical semiflexible polymer

  ORAL

  March 24, 2005, 9:39 AM – March 24, 2005, 9:51 AM

  Authors

  • Vikas Varshney

    • Department of Polymer Science, The University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325-3909

  • Gustavo A. Carri

    • The University of Akron
    • Department of Polymer Science, The University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325-3909

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• Long Range Bond-Bond Correlations in Polymer Melts

  ORAL

  March 24, 2005, 9:51 AM – March 24, 2005, 10:03 AM

  Authors

  • Letitia Mattioni

  • Sergei Obukhov

    • University of Florida

  • Joachim Wittmer

  • Hendrick Meyer

  • Jorg Baschnagel

  • Albert Johner

  • Marcus M\"uller

  • Alexander Semenov

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• Hydrodynamic Self Consistent Field Theory

  ORAL

  March 24, 2005, 10:03 AM – March 24, 2005, 10:15 AM

  Authors

  • David Hall

    • Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara and Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Turab Lookman

    • Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM
    • Los Alamos National Lab
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Sanjoy Banerjee

    • Department of Chemical Enginerring, University of California, Santa Barbara

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• Variable Cell Shape Methods in Polymer Field Theory Simulations

  ORAL

  March 24, 2005, 10:15 AM – March 24, 2005, 10:27 AM

  Authors

  • Glenn Fredrickson

    • University of California, Santa Barbara
    • UCSB
    • University of California-Santa Barbara

  • Jean-Louis Barrat

    • Universite Claude Bernard Lyon I and CNRS

  • Scott Sides

    • University of California, Santa Barbara
    • Chem. E., University of California, Santa Barbara

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• Unit cell relaxation with the SCFT of block copolymers

  ORAL

  March 24, 2005, 10:27 AM – March 24, 2005, 10:39 AM

  Authors

  • Eric Cochran

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Scott Sides

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  • David Morse

    • University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
    • University of Minnesota

  • Glenn Fredrickson

    • University of California, Santa Barbara
    • UCSB
    • University of California-Santa Barbara

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• Novel Approach to Study of the Localization of Plastic Relaxation Events in Plastic Deformation of Amorphous Polymers

  ORAL

  March 24, 2005, 10:39 AM – March 24, 2005, 10:51 AM

  Authors

  • Qing Peng

    • Physics Department, University of Connecticut

  • Marcel Utz

    • Physics Department and Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut

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• Defect Diffusion, Free Volume and Positron Annihilation Spectroscopy

  ORAL

  March 24, 2005, 10:51 AM – March 24, 2005, 11:03 AM

  Authors

  • Michael Shlesinger

    • Office of Naval Research

  • John Bendler

  • John Fontanella

    • Physics Dept., US Naval Academy

  • J. Bartos

    • Polymer Institute of SAS

  • O. Sausa

  • J. Kristiak

    • Institue of Physics of SAS

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• Dynamic Heterogeneity and Glassy Dynamics of Polymer Melts

  ORAL

  March 24, 2005, 11:03 AM – March 24, 2005, 11:15 AM

  Authors

  • Erica Saltzman

  • Kenneth Schweizer

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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