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INTERNATIONAL UNION OF PURE AND APPLIED CHEMISTRY

CZECH CHEMICAL SOCIETY

22nd Discussion Conference of P.M.M.

SPECTROSCOPY OF PARTIALLY ORDERED MACROMOLECULAR SYSTEMS

PRAGUE, 21 - 24 JULY 2003

SECOND CIRCULAR

INSTITUTE OF MACROMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY

ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC

PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC

CONTENTS

PROGRAMME

•  
  • SCOPE
  • TOPICS
  • SESSIONS
  • LANGUAGE
  • PRESENTATION FACILITIES
  • MAIN LECTURES
  • SPECIAL LECTURES
  • POSTER COMMUNICATIONS
  • PUBLICATION OF SUMMARIES
    • Preparation of summaries
  • PUBLICATION OF PAPERS
  • DEADLINES
• PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE
• ACCOMPANYING PERSONS PROGRAMME
  • EVENTS
  • BOOKING

GENERAL  INFORMATION

•  
  • REGISTRATION
    • Final registration
    • Registration fees
    • Remittance of fees
    • Cancellation
  • ACCOMMODATION
    • Accommodation in hotels
    • Accommodation in the Hvězda student dormitory
  • APPLICATION FOR VISAS
  • INSURANCE
• ON  ARRIVAL  IN  PRAGUE
  • CURRENCY, EXCHANGE, PAYMENT CARDS
  • TRANSPORT
    • Public transport
    • How to reach the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry (Prague 6, Petřiny area)
    • How to reach the Hvězda student dormitory (Prague 6, Petřiny area)
    • Taxi
  • REFRESHMENTS AND LUNCHES
• CORRESPONDENCE

CONTENTS

PRAGUE MEETING ON MACROMOLECULES
65th meeting – 22nd discussion conference

under the auspices of the

INTERNATIONAL UNION OF PURE AND APPLIED CHEMISTRY

Macromolecular Division

R.F.T. Stepto
President of the Macromolecular Division

Organized by the

INSTITUTE OF MACROMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY
ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC

K. Ulbrich
Director of the Institute

D. Výprachtický
P.M.M. Head

J. Kahovec
P.M.M. Editor

J. Jůza
Assistant Editor

M. Srpová
P.M.M. Secretary

E. Grisová
M. Rodová
P.M.M. Assistant Secretaries

J. Brus
P.M.M. Technical Manager

D. Kotíková
P.M.M. Social Programme Manager

Address:

Contact:

Conference Chairman

Jaroslav Kříž

Local Programme Committee

J. Brus, J. Dybal, J. Spěváček

Programme

Scope

The conference continues in the tradition of the Prague Meetings on Macromolecules, organized since 1967. It should deal with various aspects of detection and evaluation of order emerging in systems of synthetic and natural macromolecules in bulk or solution by molecular spectroscopy. It should tackle relative ordering on various scales accessible to molecular spectroscopy, in particular molecular (preferred conformations, increased persistence length, ordering of low-molecular-weight ligands and counterions), supramolecular (complex formation, short-range ordering interactions) and supermolecular or phase-like (micelles, microphases and other nanostructures, microscopic domains in polymer blends, etc.). Main methods probing into emerging order, discussed at the conference, should be high-resolution liquid-and solid-state NMR (spectra, relaxation, spin-diffusion, self-diffusion, etc.) and vibrational spectroscopy (infrared, Raman, micro-Raman imaging, etc.).

TOPICS

Pre-ordered states in solution; macromolecular complexes in solution and bulk; nematic and related phases; micelles, liposomes and similar systems; pre-crystalline states; membranes; structured polymer networks; polymer blends.

SESSIONS

All sessions will be held in the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Praha 6, Heyrovského nám. 2.

The scientific programme consists of invited main lectures of 40 min and additional 10 min for discussion, special lectures of 20 min and additional 5 min for discussion, and poster session(s).

The panel discussion will be included in the Programme Booklet.

LANGUAGE

English is the working language of the Conference; no translation will be provided. All materials for publication must be submitted in English.

PRESENTATION FACILITIES

Videoprojector (XGA) with the connection to a notebook, local PC (ZIP 100 MB, CD, FDD 3.5’) or VHS, overhead projector, projector of 5 x 5 cm slides (the slide projector does not function with slides thicker than 2.5 mm), and blackboard are available for lectures and discussions.

MAIN LECTURES

The following distinguished scientists have agreed to present the main lectures:

I. Ando (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Diffusion of rod-like polypeptides in the liquid crystalline phase by high field-gradient NMR spectroscopy

L. Bokobza (Laboratory of Physical Chemistry and Macromolecular Structure - ESPCI, Paris, France)
Molecular orientation in elastomeric networks by fourier-transform infrared dichroism

D. Canet (H. Poincaré University, Nancy, France)
NMR microscopy of anisotropic polymers, including imaging of embedded solvents and of the polymer itself

C. Griesinger (Max Planck Institute of Biophysics and Chemistry, Göttingen Germany)
Structure and dynamics of biomolecules from NMR spectroscopy

T.A. Keiderling (University of Illinois, Chicago, USA)
Optical spectroscopic probes of unfolded peptides and proteins, a partially ordered polymer problem of biological significance

Y. Ozaki (Kwansei-Gakuin University, Uegahara, Japan)
Infrared spectroscopy and x-ray diffraction studies in a thermotropic polymer

M. Pézolet (Laval University, Quebec, Canada)
Study of molecular orientation by vibrational spectroscopy: from polymers to silk

J. Schaefer (Washington University, St. Louis, USA)
Local order in polymer glasses

H. Schneider (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany)
NMR investigation of the main-chain orientation in liquid crystalline side-chain polymers

H. W. Siesler (University of Essen, Essen, Germany )
Time-resolved vibrational spectroscopy of polymers: analysis, physics and process control

SPECIAL LECTURES

The following scientists have agreed to present the special lectures:

S.L. Abd-El-Messieh, D.E. El-Nashar, M. Khafagi (Egypt)
Compatibility investigation of microwave irradiated acrylonitrile butadiene/ethylene propylene diene rubber blends

K.N. Abd-El-Nour (Egypt)
Dielectric and mechanical properties of waste polyethylene - natural rubber blends

R. Adhikari, T.A. Huy, W. Lebek, R. Godehardt, G.H. Michler, *E. Baer (Germany, *USA)
Investigating morphology and deformation behavior of PC/PET nanolayers by means of spectroscopic and microscopic methods

M. Dosière (Belgium)
Crystallinity of poly(ethylene terephthalate) by far infrared spectroscopy

Yu.Ya. Gotlib, I. Torchinskii, V. Shevelev (Russia)
Theory of the orientational and translational mobility of polymer networks with included rigid rod-like particles manifested in NMR

G. Jeschke (Germany)
Characterizing distance distributions on nanometer length scales by pulse electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy

S.G. Kazarian (U.K.)
Crystallization of polymers induced by supercritical carbon dioxide

M. Müller, T. Reihs, B. Kessler, K. Lunkwitz (Germany)
Charged α-helical polypeptides oriented in multilayers

P.M. Pakhomov, S.D. Khizhnyak, A.E. Tshmel (Russia)
Gel-to-solid transition from the viewpoint of the crystallization process in polyethylene

H. Sato (Japan)
Morphology and crystallinity of blends of high-density polyethylene and nylon 12 studied by raman spectroscopy, x-ray diffraction, and DSC

P. Becker, H. Siebert, L. Noirez*, C. Schmidt (Germany, *France)
Shear-induced order in nematic polymers

I. Schnell (Germany)
Merging solution and solid-state NMR methods for investigations of supramolecular systems

G. Strazzula (Italy)
Vibrational spetroscopy of ion-irradiated carbon-containing macromolecules

V. Toshchevikov, Yu.Ya. Gotlib, I. Torchinskii, V. Shevelev (Russia)
Theory of intrachain relaxation spectra for polymer networks possessing a short- or long-scale orientational order

B.Z. Volchek, E.N. Vlasova, S.V. Kononova, I.I. Tarasenko, G.P. Vlasov (Russia)
Search for structural and orientational characteristics of the surface polymer layers by FTIR spectroscopy

POSTER COMMUNICATIONS

Contributions covering unpublished results related to the programme topics may be presented as posters.

Every poster communication is to be registered for presentation on the Registration Form; the registered poster communication is automatically accepted if the author's participation fee has been remitted. Posters are to be mounted during the day preceding the corresponding poster session in order to be freely accessible to participants for preliminary inspection.

Boards for mounting poster materials are 120 cm high and 150 cm wide.

PUBLICATION OF SUMMARIES

Summaries of main and special lectures and poster communications will be published in the Programme Booklet provided that they have been registered (see General Information) and their camera-ready texts have reached the P.M.M. Secretariat by 30 April 2003, on diskettes or by e-mail, or using upload through Conference website. Files in RTF or Microsoft Word files are most suitable, files in PDF or as GIF pictures with resolution 600 dpi can also be accepted.

It is useful to use file names derived from the name of the participant (if you register with WWW form and upload your abstract, the file is renamed automatically). You may also send a hard copy of the summary; facsimiles cannot be accepted.

The P.M.M. Secretariat will confirm the receipt of the summary of a registered poster communication. Summaries of unregistered participants will be neither confirmed nor published or returned.

Summaries, except for their headings, will be printed without editing.

The Programme Booklet will be available at the Registration Desk.

Preparation of summaries

Summaries should not exceed one page of the A4 size.

A sample of an abstract is enclosed at the end of the Circular. It is also available from http://www.imc.cas.cz/sympo/ginfo/ in formats: RTF, MS Word 97 template, MS Word 95 document.

Summaries not corresponding to the sample will not be accepted.

PUBLICATION OF PAPERS

Main and special lectures will be published in a special volume of Macromolecular Symposia. Their authors are asked to send the manuscripts to the Conference Editor, Dr J. Kahovec, at the P.M.M. Secretariat, and to give their e-mail addresses (the receipt will be confirmed).

A maximum of 15 pages is allowed for main and special lectures. As the papers are published in camera-ready form, the manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the instructions, which are available at ( http://www.wiley-vch.de/home/macrosymp ).

A diskette with the text of the paper including figures should accompany a hard copy of the manuscript (if possible, not a Macintosh file).

DEADLINES

Detailed information (see General Information p. 11).

PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE

Sunday, 20 July

All the following sessions (Monday through Thursday) take place in the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Praha 6, Heyrovského nám. 2.

Monday, 21 July

Tuesday, 22 July

Wednesday, 23 July

Thursday, 24 July

ACCOMPANYING PERSONS PROGRAMME

EVENTS

Sightseeing and visits will be guided.

Monday, 21 July

Tuesday, 22 July

Wednesday, 23 July

Thursday, 24 July

BOOKING

For booking and payment, see General Information.

Unregistered accompanying persons and children cannot participate in the scheduled events, nor are they provided with lunch tickets.

GENERAL  INFORMATION

REGISTRATION

Final registration

Any person wishing to attend the Conference (including invited speakers) must submit the enclosed Registration Form to the P.M.M. Secretariat by 30 April 2003.

The Registration Form (unless submitted using the WWW form) should be completed in three copies: any item not filled in means that the particular reservation is not requested. Please return the white and green copies and keep the yellow one; the receipt of your final registration will be confirmed on the green copy sent back to you. The confirmation of Registration Form means only that your registration is accepted; it is not a receipt of payment (see Remittance of fees).

Please note that the title of any contribution should be definitive and identical with the summary heading. The summary of a contribution does not replace the final registration. Registration Form is also available at http://www.imc.cas.cz/sympo/r22dc.htm

Registration fees

The fees can be paid in any convertible currency but the total must be equivalent to the sum specified in Euro (€):

The registration fee for an active participant includes Conference materials, admission to all sessions, refreshments, four lunches, and participation in the welcome reception and farewell drink.

The registration fee for an accompanying person includes participation in events according to the Accompanying Persons Programme, in the welcome reception and farewell drink.

None of the registration fees includes the excursion with informal dinner on Wednesday.

 * The participant is requested to give the number of his/her IUPAC Affiliate Membership card valid in 2003 in his/her Registration Form and show the card during on-site registration.

** Student-rate registration is available for students (up to the age 30) who can prove their full-time student status by enclosing a statement from their university or institute with the Registration Form.

Remittance of fees

Please order your bank to transfer the respective amount or enclose a cheque payable to the account "Ústav makromolekulární chemie av čr, Heyrovského nám. 2, 162 06  Praha 6, No. 478387443/0300", variable symbol 228140, with the Československá obchodní banka (address: Na příkopě 14, CZ-115 20 Praha 1, Czech Republic; swift: CEKOCZPP) together with your Registration Form. If you use payment through bank transfer, please enclose a copy of your bank draft with your Registration Form. The P.M.M. Secretariat will acknowledge payments by mailing receipts.

The P.M.M. Secretariat is able to accept mail order payments with embossed Eurocard/Mastercard or VISA cards. Please fill in the form (available at http://www.imc.cas.cz/sympo/mailord.htm or sent on request), sign it and send to the address of the P.M.M. Secretariat by airmail. The receipt of payment will be confirmed.

Remittance of fees is to be made by 30 April 2003. If a cheque is delivered to the P.M.M. Secretariat or payment recorded at the bank in Prague after 30 April 2003 (late payment), the higher rate of registration fees will come into effect and possible arrears will have to be cleared at the Registration Desk. On-site cash payment of a registration fee as a late payment may be accepted only exceptionally and after preliminary agreement of the organizers; without such agreement, the applicant could not be included in the list of participants in the Programme Booklet.

Cancellation

In the event of cancellation of participation, a full refund of the fees paid (less an administrative bank tax) will be made if the P.M.M. Secretariat receives notification before 15 June 2003. Only 75 % of the fees paid will be refunded if cancellation is received after 14 June but before 1 July 2003. In any case, please inform the P.M.M. Secretariat where to return the payment (bank, address, and account No.). Refunds will not be issued for cancellations received after 30 June 2002.

ACCOMMODATION

Accommodation in hotels

Participants who prefer accommodation in a hotel or those who could not book the student dormitory due to their late order should make hotel reservation through travel or accommodation agencies. Due to good experience and long-term cooperation, we recommend the Congress Agency EKU (CZ-110 00 Praha 1, Vodičkova 17, tel./fax +420-224 947 589, e-mail info@eku.cz, http://www.eku.cz).

The organizers and the P.M.M. Secretariat neither make hotel reservations nor mediate contacts with travel and accommodation agencies.

Accommodation in the student dormitory

Participants wishing to lodge in the Hvězda student dormitory (Praha 6, Zvoníčkova 5 – ca. 600 m from the Institute) should indicate their reservation requirement in the Registration Form. In the dormitory, double rooms are available. If you wish to share a room with a certain person, please give the name of your roommate in the Registration Form. If no name is given, the P.M.M. Secretariat will feel free to make any occupation. As the number of rooms is limited, they will be allotted on a "first-come, first-served" basis.

Accommodation charges (including breakfast) are to be paid together with other Conference fees using cheques or money orders (see Remittance of fees):

• 15 € per night per person in a shared double room
• i.e. 30 € per night for whole double room

On the departure day, the room must be cleared at noon at the latest; after that time, a full charge for the day must be paid.

APPLICATION FOR VISAS

A valid passport is required for entry into the Czech Republic. The visas are valid for three months from the date of issue; please note that your visa must be valid until the end of your stay in the Czech Republic. Visas are not required if participants come from countries having a visa-free agreement with the Czech Republic.

IUPAC sponsorship implies that entry visas will be granted to all bona fide scientists provided application is made not less than three months in advance. If a visa is not granted one month before the Conference, the IUPAC Secretariat should be immediately notified by the applicant (phone: +1-919-4858 701,
fax: +1-919-4858 706, e-mail: secretariat@iupac.org).

INSURANCE

Participants are advised to arrange health and travel insurance and whatever insurance they consider necessary prior to departure. The registration fees do not include provision of any insurance. Neither organizing institutions nor their representatives assume responsibility or liability for personal accident and loss or damage to belongings however caused.

ON  ARRIVAL  IN  PRAGUE

CURRENCY, EXCHANGE, PAYMENT CARDS

Foreign currency may be brought into the Czech Republic without restrictions. The official currency in the Czech Republic is the Czech crown (Kč). It can be purchased in banks and other exchange offices. The exchange rate is about 31 Kč for 1 € (Euro) as of January 2003.

Common international payment cards are usually accepted. Please make inquiries before asking services.

TRANSPORT

The international airport Praha is situated in Ruzyně about 20 km (12 miles) from the city centre and 8 km from the Institute, and is well served by city transport. In addition, airport buses operated by CEDAZ run in about 30-min intervals from the airport to the city terminal (Praha 1, Náměstí Republiky, Metro station of the yellow line B) from 05:30 till 21:30. Airport-bus fare: 90 Kč to city centre, 60 Kč to Dejvická Metro station (as of February 2003).

International trains arrive in Prague at the following railway stations: Praha - hlavní nádraží (Main Station; also a Metro station of the red line C), Praha - Holešovice (Metro station of the red line C), and Praha - Smíchov (Metro station of the yellow line B).

No special transport for the Conference participants from the airport and railway stations is organized.

Public transport

In Prague, an integrated transport system (underground Metro, trams, and buses) operates without conductors. Tickets must be purchased in advance and stamped inside tram or bus, or before passing the gates of the Metro. Ticket machines are in all Metro stations.

In buses, the most common 60-min tickets can also be purchased from the driver, but with an additional charge of 3 Kč and with the exact change only. Tickets for 8 Kč for a single 15-min journey by tram or bus, or four-stop journey by Metro - as well as transfer tickets for 12 Kč for a 60-min (at night, on Saturdays and Sundays 90-min) journey by all means of transport are on sale at the airport, at railway stations, newspaper stands and tobacco shops, at hotel reception desks, in restaurants, etc. The Metro runs from 05:00 till midnight. The timetables are available on Internet: http://www.idos.cz

How to reach the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry (Praha 6, Petřiny area)

From the Prague Airport, bus No. 179 takes you directly to the Institute (12 stops -"Petřiny" stop).

From the Main Railway Station (Hlavní nádraží), travel by Metro red line C as far as "Vltavská" station (2 stops). From there, take tram No. 1 (direction of Petřiny) to the terminus "Petřiny" (14 stops).

From the student dormitory Hvězda, take any of buses No. 179, 184 or 191 (direction of Petřiny or Letiště Ruzyně) to the "Petřiny" stop (3 stops). You can also walk through Zeyerova Alej along the high-voltage line to the Institute (600 m).

For more details, see http://www.imc.cas.cz/sympo/ginfo/ .

How to reach the Hvězda student dormitory (Praha 6, Petřiny area)

The student dormitory Hvězda is located at the crossing of Ankarská, Zvoníčkova, Brunclíkova and Zeyerova Alej Streets. The nearest bus stop is "Nad Markétou", which is located 50 m from the dormitory (150 m from the reception). The nearest tram stops are "Vypich" (500 m), "Větrník" (700 m), "Obchodní dům Petřiny" (500 m).

From the Prague Airport bus No. 179 takes you directly to the student dormitory (two more stops than to the Institute).

From the Main Railway Station (Hlavní nádraží), travel by Metro red line C as far as "Vltavská" station (2 stops). From there, take tram No. 1 (direction of Petřiny). Get off at the "Větrník" (12th stop) or "Obchodní dům Petřiny" (13th stop) and walk to the dormitory or take a bus No. 179, 184, 191 in the opposite direction to "Nad Markétou" stop (1 stop).

From the Institute, you can either walk through Zeyerova Alej along the high-voltage line to the student dormitory (600 m), or take any of buses No. 179, 184, 191 (direction of Nové Butovice or Na Knížecí) to the "Nad Markétou" stop (2 stops). The student dormitory is the house across the street.

Taxi

Taxis can be hired at the airport or the railway stations. The fare is max. 22 Kč per kilometre and 30 Kč is the boarding fee within the city boundaries (2003 January prices). A special taxi fare from the Prague Airport to the Hvězda student dormitory or the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry is 500-600 Kč, to downtown 600-700 Kč. The Airport minibus service CEDAZ provides transport to any place within the City for 360 Kč (1-4 persons).

We recommend negotiating the fare before entering a taxi.

REFRESHMENTS AND LUNCHES

Coffee, tea, and soft drinks (included in the registration fee) will be available during the breaks of the programme sessions.

Lunches (included in the registration fee) will be served from Monday to Thursday from 12:30 to 13:30) for active participants and registered accompanying persons (for the latter except for Tuesday) in the refectory of the "Větrník" student dormitory, which is at a walking distance from the Institute (about 1 km, 2 stops by tram). Admission by tickets only.

CORRESPONDENCE

All correspondence should be addressed to the