Saturday, March 15, 2025 12:30-5:30 pm and Sunday, March 16, 2025: 9am-5:30 pm
Location: Anaheim Convention Center (room TBA)
Registration
Register when registering for the APS meeting.
Registration fees:
- Students: $200
- Early-Career: $225
- Other: $250 (APS member) / $350 (non-APS member)
Travel awards ($500) will be available to subsidize attendance costs for students and early-career researchers.
Apply here
Organizers
Jennifer Laaser, Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh (j.laaser@pitt.edu)
Jian Qin, Professor, Stanford University (jianq@stanford.edu)
Sponsors
Sponsors will be updated. Stay tuned. If you would like to sponsor this Short Course, please
contact the organizers.
Course Details
Overview
This short course will introduce attendees to the physics of charged and ion-containing polymers. The topics covered include (1) the fundamental physics of charge interactions in polymer systems; (2) methods for simulating and modeling charged and ion-containing polymers; (3) physics of specific charged polymer systems including ionomers, bulk electrolytes, polyelectrolyte solutions, and charged biopolymers; (4) methods for characterizing charged and ion-containing polymers, including scattering, dielectric spectroscopy, and rheology; and (5) uses of charged polymers in commercial products.
This course is targeted to graduate students, postdocs, and other early-stage researchers who are either beginning work in related areas or want a refresher on the fundamental physics of these systems. Participation from faculty, and researchers in industry or national labs is welcome and encouraged.
Speakers & Topics:
Additional speakers and Industry roundtable expected.
| Speaker |
Institution |
Topic |
| Ralph Colby |
Pennsylvania State University |
Fundamentals I |
| Murugappan Muthukumar |
University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
Fundamentals II |
| Amalie Frischknecht |
Sandia National Laboratories |
Simulations |
| Karen Winey |
University of Pennsylvania |
Ionomers |
| Alexei Sokolov |
University of Tennessee |
Polymer Electrolytes |
| Carlos Lopez |
Pennsylvania State University |
Polyelectrolytes |
| Lois Pollack |
Cornell University |
Charged Polymers in Biological Environments |
| Glenn Fredrickson |
UCSB |
Polymer Field Theory |
Schedule: to be announced
Saturday, March 15, 2025:
12:30pm – 1pm: Welcome/introduction
1pm – 3pm: Two talks (45 min talk + 15 min Q&A each)
3 – 3:30pm: break
3:30 – 5:30pm: Two talks (45 min talk + 15 min Q&A each)
Sunday, March 16, 2025:
9am – 9:30am: breakfast
9:30am – 11:30am: Two talks (45 min talk + 15 min Q&A each)
11:30am – 1pm : lunch break
1pm – 3pm: Two talks (45 min talk + 15 min Q&A each)
3pm – 3:30pm: break
3:30pm – 5:30pm: Industry roundtable & hands-on activities