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The Golden Gate Polymer Forum presents

Tuesday, Sept. 13- GGPF Monthly Dinner Lecture
Michael's at Shoreline, Mountain View

"Application of Living Polymerization to the Preparation of Chomatographic Substrates for Protein, Peptide, and Polynucleotide Separations"

Patrick McCarthy
Senior Chemist
Dionex Corporation

Abstract:

Emerging problems in analytical separations drive chromatographic stationary phase development. Since many stationary phases are polymer-based, improvements in the chromatographic performance often result from successful utilization of new polymer chemistry techniques during stationary phase development. Controlled/living polymerization
methods are particularly interesting because they not only allow for preparation of polymers with well-defined structures while precisely controlling molecular weight(Mn), molecular weight distribution (PDI) and chain end functionality, but also, make it possible to produce
block, brush and star architectures by re-initiation. Here we will discuss the application of the living polymerization technique atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) to the preparation of chromatographic stationary phases for biomolecule separation applications.

Speaker Background:

Patrick McCarthy is a Senior Chemist in R&D at Dionex Corporation. He received a Ph.D in Chemistry from the University of Rhode Island and a B.S. in Chemistry from Colorado State University. He was a Post- Doctoral researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratories and worked as a Visiting Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University with Krzysztof Matyjaszewski. He has more than 8 journal publications, 16 conference
presentations an 4 patents.

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PRACTICAL DETAILS

DATE: Tuesday, Sept. 13

Location: Michael's at Shoreline
(see directions below)

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

Cost: $30 with advance registration
half price students, retired, unemployed
free for just the lecture at 8PM
(but please let us know for headcount)
$35 after registration deadline

PLEASE NOTE: we accept cash or checks, but are unable to
accept payment by credit card at this time.

Deadline for registration: 5 PM Friday, Sept. 9

Please register on the web site
www.GGPF.org

Or, contact:
Nayan Ashar
ashars@sbcglobal.net
408-316-1619

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 (pick one when registering):
Broiled Salmon
Chicken Marsala
Wild Rice Vegetable Brochette

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:

Restaurant's web page directions
http://www.michaelsatshoreline.com/location/index.html#directions

From 101 in Mountain View, take the Shoreline Boulevard
Exit, turning toward the bay. Drive past the Shoreline
Amphitheater on the left hand side 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 Restaurant.
Address: 2960 N Shoreline Blvd.
Restaurant phone: 650-962-1014
(do not call restaurant for reservations)

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Upcoming GGPF events:

GGPF 25th Anniversary Symposium & Banquet: from Macro to Nano.
October 23 & 24, 2005
Embassy Suites, Burlingame, CA.
Go to https://ggpf.mystagingwebsite.com/ for symposium details and registration information

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OTHER EVENTS of possible interest to the
GGPF audience:

AUGUST 2005

Aug. 11, Palo Alto
Bay Area MEMS Journal Club meeting at PARC
"The Benefits of Using Modeling & Simulation Software Tools
for Analysis and Virtual Design of MEMS."
James T. Lindauer and Abhro Roy, ESI Group
http://www.parc.com/cms/get_article.php?id=471
or contact Rolfe Anderson, randers2@alzus.jnj.com

Aug. 12-13, San Francisco
Particle technology short courses in association with Particles 2005
http://nanoparticles.org/Particles2005/#Workshops
&
Aug. 13-16, San Francisco
Particles 2005 - Surface Modification in Particles Technology
http://nanoparticles.org/Particles2005

Aug 22-24, San Francisco
NanoComposites conference
http://www.executive-conference.com/conferences/nano05.html

SEPTEMBER 2005

Sept. 14-16, Berkeley
ASME and MIT-Stanford-Berkeley Nanotechnology Forum meeting,
"Integrated Nanosystems: Design, Synthesis, and Applications"
http://asmeconferences.org/Nano05/

Sept. 17-21, Los Angeles
For those interested in thermal analysis, the North American Thermal
Analysis Society (NATAS) will hold its annual conference and short courses
in Polymers, Pharmaceuticals and Energetics in Los Angeles Sept. 17-21. For
more information and to register visit http://www.natasinfo.org/.

Sept. 20
Silicon Valley EOS/ESD Society meeting
"ESD PEEK in Test and Burn-in Sockets"
Wayne Tan, Western Digital
http://www.esdsiva.org/Newsletters/july_aug_2005.pdf
(see page 6 of newsletter)

Sept. 21-23, Sunnyvale
NCCAVS Short Course Program
includes half day courses on low k dielectrics, surface science analytical
methods such as XPS/ESCA, Auger, SIMS, Rutherfurd BackScattering (RBS), etc.
http://chapters.avs.org/nccavs/symposia.html

Sept. 24, Stanford
"Symposium on Soft Materials -
A Tribute to Prof. Curtis Frank on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday"
Speakers include:
Prof. Wolfgang Knoll, Max Plank Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany
Prof. Glenn Fredrickson, UC Santa Barbara
Prof. Joseph DeSimone, Univ. of North Carolina
Prof. Chang-Sik Ha, Pusan National University, Korea
Prof. Robert Waymouth, Stanford
Prof. Craig Hawker, UC Santa Barbara
Prof. Alice Gast, MIT
Any interested persons should contact Prof. Gerald Fuller of Stanford,
ggf@stanford.edu

Sept. 25-28, Rohnert Park
ACS Workshop: 5th "Advances in Polyolefins", 2005
http://www.polyacs.org/arcmeetings/polyolefins.905.shtml

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