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The 5th Annual Notre Dame-Purdue Symposium on Soft Matter & Polymers and Poster Session will be held on Saturday, October 6, 2018 in Notre Dame’s McCourtney Hall. This one-day symposium addresses the general synthesis and characterization of synthetic soft materials and their broad application in biomedical fields.

This year’s invited speaker is Northwestern’s Professor Nathan Gianneschi, Jacob & Rosaline Cohn Professor in the Departments of Chemistry, Materials Science & Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering. The day’s complete schedule, including speakers and topics, is attached.

REGISTRATION

Symposium registration is now open at:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfA0qRh8XY8eV--gACwSHc9to5iSmC_v0tfYx6Y_6zNPtG4jQ/viewform

Please register by September 26, 2018.

Light breakfast and business lunch will be provided. There is no registration fee.

CALL FOR POSTERS

In addition to the talks, graduate students and post doctoral fellows are invited to showcase their research results in an afternoon poster session, where prizes will be awarded for the best posters. Please forward this call for posters to your graduate students and postdocs who may be interested in presenting a related poster. (Students or faculty will need to cover the cost of poster printing.)

Poster presenters can use the link provided above to register their attendance and poster. Please register posters by September 26, 2018.

THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS!
Notre Dame

• College of Science
• College of Engineering
• Notre Dame Research
• Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
• Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
• Center for Sustainability (ND Energy)
• Center for Nano Science & Technology (NDnano)

Purdue

• College of Science
• Department of Chemistry
• Davidson School of Chemical Engineering
• J & K Scientific

QUESTIONS

Please address any questions regarding registration and posters to Heidi Deethardt (deethardt.1@nd.edu).

Or, for more information on the topics and scope of this symposium, please contact event organizers:

• Notre Dame: Haifeng Gao (hgao@nd.edu) or Matthew Webber (mwebber@nd.edu)
• Purdue: Jianguo Mei (jgmei@purdue.edu)