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

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"