The International Polymer Colloids Group

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The conference web-site will be available soon; the delay is due to some uncertainties in calculating the GRS and IPCG-Conference fee for students. For the design of the webpage we need some nice electron micrographs. If you send me one which we are allowed to use for the Conference webpage, it will be highly appreciated. The web-site will provide details about the conference and will be used to register for the conference. After registration all participants who need a visa will get a letter from the Organizing Committee. This letter is an official invitation to the IPCG Research Conference, which is needed to apply for a visa at the Chinese Embassy.

At previous IPCG Conferences there was always only one fee for participation and departure was always on Friday morning. This time we offer different rates, a full rate for hotel rooms with single occupancy at Fuxuan Hotel (http://www.ee.ucr.edu/~stan/iwecs_workshop/2009/hotel_info.pdf) and a reduced rate for students for rooms with double occupancy at Han Ting Hotel (http://ir.htinns.com). Both hotels are in walking distance to the lecture hall.

And we want to organize “Visit a Company” on Friday morning and will ask four (4) companies to arrange a tour at their R+D facilities in Shanghai for 20-30 participants of the IPCG Conference. The companies should be somehow related to polymer colloids and they should have R+D activities in Shanghai (like 3M, BASF, Unilever, DSM, etc.). If you can help us facilitating contacts to local persons of those or other companies with R+D activities in Shanghai, we will highly appreciate this.   

"Visit a Company" should be combined with sponsoring the student's meals. The estimated cost for lunch & dinner at all days for all students is between 80,000 and 100,000 CNY (13,000-16,000 USD). If four companies provide 25,000 CNY each, we will be able to lower the participation fee for students from 3,100 CNY to 1,500 CNY. These are more affordable fees and they will hopefully increase the number of participating students.

The four companies sponsoring the meals for students and providing a guided tour at their R+D facilities (preferably for students) will be mentioned in a particular way on the webpage and during the whole conference.

If we can find those four sponsoring companies, this will be a great opportunity to attract a lot of students to join this conference. And when local students can participate at a fee of only 500 CNY (without accommodation), we are envisioning the lecture hall will be full of young people. And this would be great!  By the way, the capacity of the lecture hall is 230 total.