PROGRAM SCHEDULE Tuesday, June 20 7:30 – 8:00 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
8:00 – 8:45 a.m.
Introduction to Adhesives & Adhesion David Speth, Research Chemist, Evans Adhesives Corporation
8:45 – 9:45 a.m.
Surface Science Michaeleen Pacholski, Research Scientist, Dow Chemical Company
9:45 – 10:00 a.m.
Break
10:00 – 10:45 a.m.
Spectroscopy Techniques Matthew Bartucci, ThermoFisher Scientific
10:45 – 11:45 a.m.
Mechanical Properties - Stresses and Strengths David Dillard, Professor, Virginia Tech
11:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
Lunch
12:45 - 1:45 p.m.
Mechanical Properties - Fracture David Dillard, Professor, Virginia Tech
1:45 – 2:45 p.m.
Thermal Properties Joseph Marcinko, President & Principal Scientist, Polymer Synergies, LLC
2:45 - 3:00 p.m.
Break
3:00 – 3:45 p.m.
Rheology Ben Xu, R&D Manager, Avery Dennison
3:45 – 4:30 p.m.
Pressure Sensitive Adhesives Mitch Blumethal, Senior R&D Process Engineer, Lamart Corporation