Bayer Lectures

Focusing on polymer chemistry, this series began in 1987 as the Bayer/Mobay Lectures. The inaugural lecturer was Helmut Ringsdorf, followed by Harry R. Allcock, Dotsevi Y. Sogah, C. Grant Willson, Robert H. Grubbs, Günter Wulff, W. J. Feast, Robert Langer, J. Fraser Stoddart, Fred Wudl, Bert Meijer, David Tirrell, Roeland J.M. Nolte, Hans-Herbert Brintzinger, Takuzo Aida, George Whitesides, and Jeffrey S. Moore. Our Spring 2009 Bayer lecturer is Jimmy Mays from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The first lecture, Branched Block Copolymers: Synthesis, Morphology, and Properties, is on Wednesday, April 8, 2009. The second lecture, Novel Charged Polymers: From Mineralization to Fuel Cell Membranes, is on Thursday, April 9, 2009. Both lectures are at 4:40 p.m. in 119 Baker Laboratory. For a list of previous lectures, please click here.