Texas Soft Matter Meeting

January 11, 2013

University of Houston

Meeting Overview

The goal of the Texas Soft Matter Meeting is to encourage collaboration among researchers from industry and academia in Texas who work with soft materials, ranging from polymers to soft condensed matter to biomaterials. This workshop will rotate between area institutions in central and southeast Texas and be held twice each year. Each meeting will include longer invited talks, short contributed talks, and unstructured time.

We envision that this meeting will provide an interdisciplinary forum in which faculty, students, postdocs, and professionals can exchange ideas in an informal setting.


Meeting Sponsorship

We are seeking corporate sponsors for the Texas Soft Matter Meeting. If you are interested in supporting our effort, please contact one of the organizers listed below. Funds will be used to defray the cost of student travel.

 

Organizers


Jacinta Conrad
University of Houston
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
jcconrad@uh.edu


Megan Robertson
University of Houston
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
mlrobertson@uh.edu


Gila Stein
University of Houston
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
gestein@uh.edu


 

 

 


Confirmed Invited Speakers


Christopher Ellison
University of Texas, Austin
Chemical Engineering

Manipulating Polymers with Light Activated Chemistries for Patterning Films and Manufacturing Fibers

Matteo Pasquali
Rice University
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Chemistry
Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene: from Fluid Phases to Multifunctional Materials

Michael Pishko
Texas A&M University
Biomedical Engineering
Encapsulation of Drug Nanoparticles in Self-Assembled Macromolecular Nanoshells

Yuanqiao Rao
Dow Chemical Company
Materials Science and Engineering
Materials by Design through Heterogeneous Structures

Sindee Simon
Texas Tech University
Chemical Engineering
The Calorimetric Glass Transition under Nanoconfinement