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The GOLDEN GATE POLYMER FORUM

September Dinner Lecture

"Rapid Thermal Analysis"
James Bennett
Symyx Technologies, Inc.

Abstract:

We have developed a technique for rapid measurement
of thermal transitions. The system consists of a
sensor array and substrate coupled with hardware and electronics for environmental control and measurement. Due to the nature of the substrate, and the overall size of the samples, thermal equilibration times are fast (ms) and therefore, temperature ramp rates vastly exceed those of conventional instruments. The substrate is designed in wafer format and is fabricated using lithography techniques similar to those in IC fabrica- tion. The result is an array of addressable, integrated micro heaters and temperature sensors. The materials and construction of the substrate allows a measurement temperature range of -100 to +200C. We will discuss the development of this technique as well as its application to the rapid determination of polymer sample Tm and Tg transitions

Speaker Background:

James Bennett's current position is Leader for Polymer Screening Applications with Symyx Technologies, Inc. in Santa Clara. He has been with Symyx since September 1997 working on development of high throughput instrumentation for materials screening. Previously, he was with NEC Research Institute in Princeton, NJ working on characterization of materials for applications in optical and magnetic data storage.

For more information on Symyx, see

http://www.symyx.com/sy_who-we.html

http://www.symyx.com/noflash.html

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PRACTICAL DETAILS

DATE: Thursday, Sept. 12

Location: Michael's at Shoreline Park, Mountain View

Timing: 6 PM social hour
7 PM dinner
8 PM lecture

Cost: $30
half price students, retired, unemployed
free for just the lecture at 8PM
(but please let us know for headcount)

Deadline for registration: 5 PM, Friday Sept. 6

Please register on the web site
http://ggpf.org/
Otherwise, register by contacting
Damian Hajduk
dhajduk@symyx.com
408-764-2085

You should receive confirmation of your registration; if not, please contact us again.

PLEASE SPECIFY YOUR DINNER SELECTION, NAME, EMAIL ADDRESS,
AND AFFILIATION

Dinner choices:
chicken Marsala
stuffed prawns with lobster sauce
vegetable brochette with wild rice

Note that we must request that you be liable for your registration fee if you register and do not attend; cancellation is allowed up to the registration deadline.

DIRECTIONS:

From 101 in Mountain View, take the Shoreline Boulevard
Exit, turning toward the bay. Drive past the Shoreline Amphitheater and go straight ahead, entering into Shoreline Park. After a mile or so inside the park, a sign for Michael's will direct you to turn left into the parking lot for Michael's.
Address: 2960 N Shoreline Blvd.
Restaurant phone: 650-962-1014
(do not call restaurant for reservations)

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OTHER EVENTS of possible interest to the
GGPF audience:

AUGUST

Aug. 27, Foster City
BAMS dinner meeting & lecture
"Mass Spectrometry Approaches for Proteomics and
for Studying Protein Complexes."
Joseph Loo, UCLA
http://www.bams.org/

SEPTEMBER

Sept. 6, Los Altos
free evening MEMS lecture
and
Sept. 7, Santa Clara
2002 MEMS & Network Security Symposium
www.natea.org

Sept. 18, location tbd
BAMS annual Corporate Sponsor night
http://www.bams.org/

Sept. 18-20, San Francisco
Microfluidics 2002 http://www.lifesciencesinfo.com/microfluidics

Sept. 18-20, Berkeley
"Integrated Nanosystems 2002: Design, Synthesis
& Applications"
http://www.asme.org/nano/

Sept. 23-25, San Jose
The SEMI Microelectronics Materials Strategy
Symposium
http://www.semi.org/m2s2

Sept. 26, Santa Clara
ACS Santa Clara Valley Section dinner lecture
"Carbon Nanotubes for Nanoscale Science and
Technology", Prof. Hongjie Dai, Stanford http://www.scvacs.org/Local_Folder/din_mtg.html

OCTOBER

Oct. 10, San Jose
"Chemical Mechanical Planarization 2002:
7th Annual International Conference"
(with focus on low-k dielectric integration) http://www.avsusergroups.org/ (click on 'CMPUG")

Oct.12-13, Minneapolis
No, not the SF Bay Area, but if you are attending
the Society of Rheology meeting, Oct.13-17, please note
the preceeding short course is co-taught by former
GGPF Board member Andrea Chow of Caliper:
"Microfluidics and Microrheology" http://www.rheology.org/sor/short_course/

Oct. 19, Santa Clara or Sunnyvale
One day UCSC extension short course
"Miniaturization in Biotechnology",
taught by Hilary Lackritz, GGPF Board member. http://www.ucsc-extension.edu/main/bio_sci/biotech.html

Oct. 25-26, Stanford
17th Annual William S. Johnson Symposium in Organic Chemistry http://chemeng.stanford.edu/html/johnson_symposium.html

NOVEMBER

Nov. 3-6, San Francisco
"SYSTEOMICS 2002: Integrating Proteomics, Genomics
and Metabonomics" http://www.casss.org/meetings/2002systeomics/index.htm

Nov. 13-16, Sonoma County
ACS POLY Division Workshop,
"Polymers in Medicine and Biology: 2002" http://www.chem.umr.edu/~poly/poly.spon.html

Nov. 17-20, Sonoma County
ACS POLY Division Workshop,
"2002 POLY Biennial: Polymeric Nanomaterials" http://www.chem.umr.edu/~poly/poly.spon.html

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General Notes:

The U.C. Berkeley College of Chemistry fall series
of seminars can now be viewed as pdf files at http://chemistry.berkeley.edu/seminars/index.html

As always, the Open University program at San Jose
State University offers classes at times convenient
for working polymer scientists and engineers to attend.
For the fall offerings, see
http://galaxy.sjsu.edu/
and click on Open University.
(see for example, Materials Engineering 274, Lithography)

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