SUNDAY |
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Extreme Composites |
| Discussion Leader - Ozden Ochoa, Texas A & M University |
| Roderic Lakes, University of Wisconsin Tailored structural hierarchy to achieve the paradox of high stiffness and high damping |
8:45 pm | Poster session I on special topic carbon foam and carbon/carbon composites, with hors d'oeuvres |
MONDAY |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Energy Absorbing Composites |
| Discussion Leader - Thomas Tsotsis, Boeing Company |
| Bruce Fink/Steve McKnight, Army Research Laboratory Mining for energy absorbing mechanisms in composite armor |
| Brian Cox, Rockwell Scientific Designing composites for energy absorption under tensile loading |
| Xiao Ming Tao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Grid-domed textile composites |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Night of Rapid Communications |
| Discussion Leader - Costas Soutis, Imperial College |
| Greg Carman, Univ. California at Los Angeles Magnetostrictive composites |
| Jim Martin, Sandia National Labs Orientation control of reinforcements by magnetic fields |
| Dara Woerdeman, Virginia Commonwealth University/Katholieke Univ.-Leuven (Belgium) Processing with supercritical CO2 to tailor morphology in multiphase materials |
| Aldo Boccaccini, Imperial College (London) Toughening ceramic composites with piezoelectric phases |
| Yves Leterrier, Federal Polytechnic Institute of Lausanne (Switzerland) Two-dimensional fragmentation in thin layer composites |
9:45 pm | Poster session II and hors d'oeuvres |
TUESDAY |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Processing and Manufacture |
| Discussion Leader - Don Baird, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
| Richard Parnas, University of Connecticut Can the properties of commercial grade composites be controlled? |
| H. Thomas Hahn, University of California at Los Angeles Processing of nanoparticle-based composites |
| Nuno Neves, University of Minho (Portugal) Estimating performance of injection molded composites before production |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Engineered Tissues as Composite Materials |
| Discussion Leader - Jeorg Mayer, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology |
| Daniel Cohn, Hebrew University Composite materials in tissue-engineered vascular grafts |
| David Mooney, University of Michigan Engineering complex tissues using cell-instructive materials |
9:45 pm | Poster session III and hors d'oeuvres |
WEDNESDAY |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Elastomeric Composites |
| Discussion Leader - Robert Schuster, German Institute for Rubber Technology |
| Gary Hamed/Alan Gent, University of Akron Crack splitting in carbon black-filled rubber |
| Sandy Sternstein, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Nanofilled polymers: rheological and polymer physics perspectives with relevance to the Payne effect |
| Greg Beaucage, University of Cincinnati Filled elastomers viewed as composites of athermal and thermal springs |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Multifunctional Composites |
| Discussion Leader - Alan J. Lesser, University of Massachusetts |
| Scott White, University of Illinois Autonomic healing of polymers and composites |
| Deborah Chung, State University of New York at Buffalo Cement matrix composites as multifunctional materials |
9:45 pm | Poster session IV and hors d'oeuvres |
THURSDAY |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Nanocomposites |
| Discussion Leader - Richard Bley, Eltron Research, Inc. |
| Emmanuel Giannelis, Cornell University Thermodynamic approach to clay nanocomposites |
| Brad Files, NASA, Johnson Space Center Issues in single-walled nanotube composites |
| Greg Rutledge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Electrospinning -- the pathway of choice to nanofibers |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Revisiting Traditional Models |
| Discussion Leader - John Kosmatka, University of California at San Diego |
| Catherine Gauthier, National Institute of Applied Science at Lyon (France) A too-often-neglected, fundamental explanation for interface gradients - mechanical coupling |
| Albert S. D. Wang, Drexel University Homogenization and de-homogenization of composite microstructure - toward mechanism-based failure criteria |
9:45 pm | Poster session V and hors d'oeuvres |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Adjourn |