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.
Following is a list of previous symposium speakers:
2010
- Gary Wnek, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland
- Zhenan Bao, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
- Robert Miller, Genzyme Corporation, Waltham
- Thomas P. Russell, UMass Amherst
- David Gracias, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
- Paula Hammond, MIT, Cambridge
- Yang Yang, UCLA, Los Angeles
- Russell Gaudiana, Konarka Technologies Inc.
2009
- Randy Holmes-Farley, Genzyme Corporation
- Kamil Ekinci, Boston University
- Xiaogong Wang, Tsinghua University, China
- Valtencir Zucolotto, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Sergio Grandos-Focil, Clark University
- Thomas Seery, University of Connecticut
- S. Thayumanavan, University of MA Amherst
- Kethinni G. Chittibabu, Konarka Technologies Inc.
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.
2007
- Todd Emrick, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Bruce Foxman, Brandeis University
- Russell Gaudiana, Konarka Technologies Inc.
- Xinqiao Jia, University of Delaware
- Sanjeev Manohar, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
- Robert Miller, Genzyme Corporation
- Anil Netravali, Cornell University
- Fotios Papadimitrakopoulos, University of Connecticut
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 Massachusetts, Dartmouth
- Phillip Westmoreland, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
2005
- Richard McCullogh, Carnegie Mellon University
- Samuel Gido, University of Massachusetts, 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
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
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
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.
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.
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, UMass Lowell
- 2002 Daniel Sandman, UMass Lowell
- 2003 Lynne Samuelson, U.S. Army Natick Center, Natick
- 2004 Jayant Kumar, UMass Lowell
- 2005 Michael Rubner, Mass. Institute of Technology
- 2006 Arthur Watterson, UMass Lowell
- 2007 James Whitten, UMass Lowell
- 2008 Ashok Cholli, UMass Lowell
- 2009 Ramaswamy Nagarajan, UMass Lowell