The 13th Annual International Light Scattering Colloquium


was held: October 21-22, 2002 at the Four Seasons Biltmore Hotel in
Santa Barbara, CA

Four Seasons Biltmore Hotel

The Plenary Speakers included:

  • Walther Burchard--Professor, University of Freiburg, GERMANY
    " The power of static and dynamic light scattering in combination with viscometry"
  • R. John Collier--Professor, Harvard University, USA
    " Assembly of Anthrax Toxin Complexes"
  • Adi Eisenberg--Professor, McGill University, CANADA
    " Self-assembly for Asymmetric Amphiphilic Diblock Copolymers into Aggregates of Various Morphologies"
  • John Hennessey--Senior Director, Bioprocess & Bioanalytical Research,
    Merck & Co., Inc., USA
    " Molecular Size Specifications for a Multivalent Polysaccharide Vaccine"
  • Tim Lodge--Professor, University of Minnesota, USA
    "Anomalous Micellization in Block Copolymers: A Case Study of Inadequate Characterization"
  • Jacques Penelle--Professor, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
    " Measuring the Absolute Molecular Weights of Synthetic Polymers: Current Status and Remaining Challenges"
  • Ewa Folta-Stogniew--Director of Biophysical Resource HHMI Biopolymer/Keck Laboratory, Yale University School of Medicine
    " Analysis of protein complexes by size exclusion chromatography coupled with light scattering"
  • Bengt Wittgren--Associate Principal Scientist, AstraZeneca; SWEDEN
    " MALS - A Necessary Tool for Advanced Characterisation of Polymers and Sub-Micron Particles"