The 2016 program of the symposium has been released.
USM (University of Southern Mississippi) announced their 43rd Annual International Waterborne, High‐solids and Powder Coatings Symposium Program line‐up. The symposium will be held in the New Orleans Marriott, 555 Canal Street, New Orleans. The week starts with short courses, January 31 ‐ February 2, followed by the Technology Showcase Exhibit Hall, February 2‐4, and the main technical symposium February 3 ‐ 5, 2016.
USM has a wonderful conference lined up with technical sessions including Waterborne, Nanotube, Bio‐based, Academia, Corrosion, Additives, and a General session for all other talks.
The 2016 Plenary speaker is Kurt Olson, Fellow, Coatings Research and Development from PPG Industries. Kurt will be speaking on Wednesday morning at 8:00 am. Following will be the keynote speaker, John Gilbert, Sr. Vice President, Research and Development, BEHR Process Corporation. Rounding out the opening session will be USM expert advisory panel.
The annual Sidney Lauren Memorial Lecture will be given by Kristen Blankenship, AGC Chemicals America's and winner of the Siltech Best Paper Award for Innovation at the 2015 Waterborne Symposium.
The student's day will be on Thursday, February 4, 2016 featuring a student poster session/competition, resume books, informal interviews and a student reception. This is a great time to come and meet the students and see the work that is being done here at the School of Polymers and High Performance Materials at The University of Southern Mississippi. Resume books for the 2015‐16 Academic year will be available shortly. You can request your copy or be added to their annual mailing list by emailing melanie.heusser@usm.edu.
Other companies represented with papers this year include: BASF SE, Nasa, Dow Coatings Materials, Croda, Nuplex Resins, Cardolite Corporation, Dow Chemical Company, Worlee Chemie, Battelle, Molecular Rebar Design, Berger Paints India, Mississippi State University, Stoney Brook University, University of Concepcion, The University of Southern Mississippi, Evonik, SIltech, Dow Corning, BYK Chemie GmbH, Axalta Coatings Systems, Troy Corporation, Clariant, Oxiteno, Emerlad Kalama Chemicals, Colmet Engineered Finishing Solutions, Rust‐Oleum Corporation, Argex, TBF Environmental Technology Inc., STERIS, Wacker and more.
USM will be holding 2 short courses, January 31 ‐ February 2 (prior to the technical symposium). There is a beginning short course in the Fundamentals of Coatings (optional 1 day add on for Sunday, January 31, 2016) and the Science of Formulating, and also the more advanced short course in Reformulating to Waterborne Coatings.
For further information: www.waterbornesymposium.com