Monday, July 23
AM Session Chairperson: J. E. Anderson, Ford Motor Company
“Relation Between Structure and Non-exponential Relaxation in Liquids and Glasses”,
C. A. Angell, Arizona State University
“Dielectric Spectroscopy at Gigahertz Frequencies in Liquids and Solids”,
S. Sridhar, Northeastern University
“Dielectric Relaxations of Dilute Polymer Solutions with Application to the Poly (alkene sulfones)”,
M. L. Mansfield, Michigan Molecular Institute
PM Poster Session Chairperson: John T. Bendler, General Electric Research and Development Center
Tuesday, July 24
AM Session Chairperson: William J. MacKnight, University of Massachusetts
“Molecular Dynamics in Low Molar Mass and Polymeric Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals”,
F. Kremer, Max Planck Institute
“Molecular Dynamics and Microscopic Alignment Behavior of Liquid Crystalline Polymers as Studied by Dielectric Relaxation Spectroscopy”,
G. Williams, University College of Swansea
“Study of Miscible and Immiscible Polymer Blends by Dielectric Relaxation”,
J. M. O’Reilly, Eastman Kodak
PM Session Chairperson: Shiro Matsuoka, AT&T Bell Laboratories
“Subglass Dielectric Relaxations in Polymers”,
R. H. Boyd, University of Utah
“Fluid Flow, Polarization and Rheology”,
H. Block, Cranfield Institute of Technology
Wednesday, July 25
AM Session Chairperson: Keith Watson, Xerox Corporation
“Electron Macro Kinetics in Liquids”,
E. E. Kunhardt, Polytechnic University
“Electronic Transport in Polymeric Insulators”,
M. Abkowitz, Xerox Corportion
“High Field Phenomena in Insulating Polymeric Films”,
T. Mizutani, Nagoya University
PM Session Chairperson: Robert L. Fulton, Florida State University
“Dielectric and Mechanical Relaxation in Cross-Linked Polymers”,
P. Hedvig, Research Institute for Plastics, Budapest
“ Dielectric Relaxation and Molecular Dynamics”,
S. Havriliak, Rhom and Haas Company
Thursday, July 26
AM Session Chairperson: Gyorgy Banhegyi, Bio-Pharm Research and Development Ltd.
“Dielectric Studies of Water in Polymers and Biopolymers”,
P. Pissis, National Technical Univeristy, Athens
“Dielectric Studies of Protein-water Interactions and Associated Proton Transport
Processes”,
R. Pethig, Bangor, United Kingdom
“Linear and Nonlinear Dielectric Properties of Biological Materials”,
D. Kell, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
PM Session Chairperson: J. D. Hoffman, Michigan Molecular Institute
“National Commission on Superconductivity”,
D. McCall, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Friday, July 27
AM Session Chairperson: J. Pochan, Eastman Kodak
“A Physical Basis for the Dielectric Design of Solid/Liquid Structures”,
J. K. Nelson, Rensselaer Institute of Technology
“The Critical Role of Dielectric Materials in Optical Information Processing and Computing Devices”,
A. Tanguay, University of Southern California
“Nonlinear Optical Phenomena in Thin Films”,
G. Stegeman, University of Arizona
