About Bayer THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON Bayer is a global company with over 95,000 employees worldwide, DEPARTMENT OF POLYMER ENGINEERING and is organized as three operating companies-Bayer HealthCare, Bayer CropScience, and Bayer MaterialScience. An important goal of the company is to improve people’s lives through a broad range of essential products that help diagnose and treat diseases, protect crops and produce high quality materials for a variety of applications.

About Bayer MaterialScience

With 2008 sales of EUR 9.7 billion, Bayer MaterialScience is among the world’s largest polymer companies. Business activities are focused on the manufacture of high-tech polymer materials and the development of innovative solutions for products used in many areas of daily life. The main segments served are the automotive, electrical and electronics, construction and sports and leisure industries. Bayer MaterialScience has 30 production sites around the globe and employed approximately 15,100 people at the end of 2008. Bayer MaterialScience is a Bayer Group company.

PRESENTS

BAYER LECTURESHIP

Dr. Steve Granick Founder Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Professor of , , and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign

LECTURE 1 Thursday, October 29, 2009 2:00 p.m., PEAC Aggarwal Lecture Hall Room 130

LECTURE 2 Friday, October 30, 2009 2:00 p.m., PEAC Aggarwal Lecture Hall Room 130

SPONSORED BY BAYER MATERIAL SCIENCE, PITTSBURGH BAYER LECTURESHIP IN POLYMER ENGINEERING THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2009 Watching Polymers Diffuse at Surfaces and in Complex Environments

Rich new chemistry and physics emerge when one considers confined fluids, where the environment is distinctly different than in bulk. The intuition of what to expect based on bulk Steve Granick has been on the faculty of the properties is found to break down. This talk will University of Illinois since 1985, where he is emphasize recent findings using a combination currently Founder Professor of Materials Science of single-particle imaging and fluorescence and Engineering, as well as Professor of correlation spectroscopy of polymers at hard Chemistry, Physics, and Chemical and surfaces, soft surfaces, and random network Biomolecular Engineering. He graduated from environments. A surprising dependence is found Princeton in 1978 with a B.A. cum laude and in on the polymer molecular weight and concentra- 1982 earned his Ph.D. in chemistry at the tion, as well as on the substrate makeup. University of Wisconsin, working with John Ferry. As a postdoc, he worked first with Pierre-Gilles de Gennes at the Collège de France and then with FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30 2009 Matthew Tirrell at the . Fun and Profit with Colloids, Nanoparticles, Honors include the Polymer Physics Prize of the Phospholipids American Physical Society, the Paris-Sciences Medal, Chair of the APS Polymer Physics Division, A new frontier of polymer science involves new member of the editorial board of numerous materials that enrich our field with novel ideas and journals, and Guest Professor at Peking University, applications. Prominent among these are at Zhejiang University, and at University of Science phospholipid assemblies, colloids, and and Technology of China. He has more than 200 nanoparticles. This talk will emphasize some of refereed publications and has long-standing the amazing surprises when one constructs hybrid research interests in tribology as well as in the materials with these motifs. dynamics of polymers, complex fluids, colloids, and phospholipid membranes.