The3rd Asian Polyolefin Workshop 2009 (APO2009)

After the success of the 1st Asian Polyolefin Workshop (APO 2005) held in Nara, Japan, and 2nd APO 2007 held in Hangzhou, China. Now you are cordially invited to the 3rd Asian Polyolefin Workshop 2009 (APO 2009) that has been planned to be held in Seoul , a famous and historic Metropolitan City of Korea . As the responsible organizer we set the date and venue of APO 2009 as follows. The symposium will be consisted of oral presentations (including invited lectures), and poster sessions for general presentation.  Poster contributors will also give 3 min short oral presentation.  Space (booth) for advertisement for companies may also be arranged upon request.

Place: Seoul Royal Hotel, Seoul, Korea

Period: October 27(Tue) – 30(Fri), 2009

Co-organized by: The Polymer Society of Korea

Sponsored by: Petrochemical Companies of Korea

Co-sponsored by: Polymerization Catalysis Division, Catalysis Society of Japan

Topics

1)      Catalysts for olefin polymerization: Ziegler-Natta, Phillips and organometallic catalysts

2)  Design and synthesis of new polyolefins

3)  Structure and properties of polyolefin materials

4)  Reaction engineering of olefin polymerization

5)         Processing and application of polyolefins

6)         Other topics for polyolefins and their derivatives

Deadlines

Deadline for Registration: August 31, 2009

Deadline for Submission of Abstracts: August 31, 2009

(Registration after September 1 will be acceptable)

Registration fee (including conference proceeding, conference reception, banquet and lunch during the workshop):

Person from Academic, Industry $500 USD

Student                                    $300 USD

Accompanying person               $200 USD

Chairman: Prof. Dong-ho Lee

Department of Polymer Science & Engineering

Kyungpook National University , Daegu 702-701, Korea

E-mail: leedh@knu.ac.kr

Vice chairman: Prof. Seok Kyun Noh

School of Display and Chemical Engineering,

Yeungnam University , Kyungsan , Korea

E-mail: sknoh@yu.ac.kr

General Secretary: Prof. Keun-byoung Yoon

Department of Polymer Science & Engineering

Kyungpook National University , Daegu 702-701, Korea

Fax: 82-53-950-6623

E-mail: kbyoon@knu.ac.kr

Prof. Sung Chul Hong

Department of Nano Science & Technology

Sejong University , Seoul 143-747, Korea

Fax +82-2-3408-3664

E-mail: sunghong@sejong.ac.kr

Organizing Committee; Chang Hyun Choi (Samsung-Total, Korea), In Kyo Choi (Hyosung Ind., Korea), Young Tae Jeong (Korea Petrochem., Korea), Chang Kyu Kim (Honam Petrochem., Korea), Sang Hoon Kwak (Kumho Petrochem., Korea), Bo-Geng Li (Zhejiang University, China), Boping Liu (East China University of Science and Technology, China), T. Miyatake (Sumitomo Chem., Japan), Ki Soo Noh (LG Chem., Korea), K. Nomura (NAIST, Japan), Myung Ahn Ok (SK Energy, Korea), Jinliang Qiao (BRICI, SINOPEC, China), T. Shiono (Hiroshima Univ., Japan), Wen-Hua Sun (Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, China)，M. Terano(JAIST, Japan )