Tripathy Memorial Symposium

This one-day symposium is normally held on the Friday following Thanksgiving week, to coincide with the MRS Conference in Boston. This symposium focuses on current trends in a wide range of materials sciences research being conducted in universities and industry. Eight accomplished experts in their respective fields are invited to make presentations. Student researchers and post-doctoral fellows participate in a poster presentation section. 

Details on this year’s symposium are available at the UMass Lowell Tripathy Symposium site.

Following is a list of previous symposium speakers:
 
2001
David Kaplan, Tufts University
Helmut Strey, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Jeung-Soo Huh, Kyungpook University, Korea
Kalle Levon, Polytechnic University
Bruce Foxman, Brandeis University
Fotis Papadimitrakopoulos, University of Connecticut
V.S. Parmar, University of Delhi, India
Russell Gaudiana, Konarka Technologies,Inc.

2002
Mark Green, Polytechnic University
Michael Rubner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Warren Herman, University of Maryland
Vaman Naik, University of Michigan
Anthony Guiseppi-Eli, Virginia Polytechnic University
Mrinal Thakur, Auburn University
Russell Gaudiana, Konarka Technologies, Inc.

2003
Kenneth Wynne, Virginia Commonwealth University
Paula Hammond, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Woohong Kim, Naval Research Laboratory
Russell Gaudiana, Konarka Technologies, Inc.
Gary Wnek, Virginia Commonwealth University
Gordon Wallace, University of Wollongong, Australia
Yang Yang, University of California, Los Angeles
John Reynolds, University of Florida


2004
Dong-Yu Kim, Kwang-Ju Institute of Science & Technology, Korea
Randy Holmes-Farley, Genzyme Pharmaceuticals
Serdar Sariciftci, University of Linz, Austria
Takeshi Ogawa, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico
Mary Galvin, University of Delaware
Dong-Young Kim, Korea Inst of Technology, Korea
Russell Guadiana, Konarka Technologies, Inc.
John Warner, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

2005
Richard McCullogh, Carnegie Mellon University 
Samuel Gido, University of MA, Amherst 
Jonathan Lindsey, North Carolina State University
Vasilis Gregoriou, FORTH/ICE-HT, Patras, Greece
Michael Rubner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Robert Miller, Genzyme Drug Discovery & Development, Inc.
Anthony-Guiseppi-Elie, Clemson University 
Ashok Cholli, Polnox Corporation

2006
Kirpal Bisht, University of South Florida
Russell Gaudiana, Konarka Technologies, Inc.
Randy Holmes-Farley, Genzyme Pharmaceutical
Zakya Kafafi, Naval Research Laboratory
David Kaplan, Tufts University
Gregory Sotzing, University of Connecticut
Bal Ram Singh, University of MA Dartmouth
Phillip Westmoreland, University of MA, Amherst

2007
Todd Emrick, University of MA Amherst
Bruce Foxman, Brandeis University
Russell Gaudiana, Konarka Technologies, Inc.
Xinqiao Jia, University of Delaware
Sanjeev Manohar, University of MA, Lowell
Robert Miller, Genzyme Corporation
Anil Netravali, Cornell University
Fotios Papadimitrakopoulos, University of Connecticut

2008
Peggy Cebe, Tufts University
Paul Calvert, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
Dhandapani Venkataraman, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Wen-Bin Lin, University of North Carolina
Mrinal Thakur, Auburn University
Thomas Jozefiak, Genzyme Corporation
Jeong Ok Lim, Kyungpook Nat'l Univ School of Medicine, S. Korea
Russell Gaudiana, Konarka Technologies, Inc.


A special memorial Issue of the Journal of Macromolecular Science is published based on papers presented in this symposium.

The past guest editors for these special issues are listed below:

• 2001     Ashok Cholli, University of Massachusetts Lowell
• 2002    Daniel Sandman, University of Massachusetts Lowell
• 2003     Lynne Samuelson, U.S. Army Natick Center, Natick
• 2004     Jayant Kumar, University of Massachusetts Lowell
• 2005     Michael Rubner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 2006     Arthur Watterson, University of Massachusetts Lowell
  2007     James Whitten, University of Massachusetts Lowell
  2008     Ashok Cholli, University of Massachusetts Lowell