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Postponement of the Conference “PolyMerTec 2020” and 17^th Conference “Deformation and Fracture Behaviour of Polymers”

The worldwide progression of the COVID-19 pandemic is increasingly affecting public and private life. An assessment of the future development and the hopefully imminent weakening of the situation cannot be seriously made at present.

Under these circumstances, it is not possible to suitably organise and safely conduct the PolyMerTec 2020 conference, which is held together with the 17th conference “Deformation and Fracture Behaviour of Polymers” on the university campus in Merseburg in June. Thus, a safe arrival and general planning reliability of the participants is, especially from the particularly affected countries, not given.

For this reason, the chairpersons of the conference – Prof. Dr. Beate Langer and Prof. Dr. Peter Michel – has decided to postpone both events until 2021.

The conference will now take place from 9 June to 11 June 2021.

All registrations and bookings of exhibitors remain valid. Cancellations are possible without complications if necessary. Similarly, payments already made will be refunded in the event of cancellation.

We are particularly pleased that the financial support provided by the DFG for foreign participants will also be valid for the year 2021.

We are looking forward to an interesting and exciting conference in 2021 and until then, stay healthy!

The organization team of PolyMerTec 2020

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The conference commmittee is pleased to welcome the following speakers at the PolyMerTec:

• Master Maren Krieger
  Schadensanalyse aus Sicht eines Automobilherstellers
  Dr. Ing. h. c. F. Porsche AG
  
• Dipl.-Ing. Uwe Laukant
  Highlights der Schadensanalyse an Kunststoffen
  Robert Bosch GmbH, Renningen 
• Prof. Dr. Leif Kari
  Modelling of tough, doubly crosslinked, single network hydrogel components in a mechanical context
  KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm SWEDEN
• Prof. Dr. Henrik Müller
  Weltwirtschaftsordnung in Gefahr. Konsequenzen für die Wirtschaftsnation Deutschland.
  Technische Universität Dortmund
• Dr. Fredy Dinkel
  Ist Recycling eine notwendige oder hinreichende Bedingung für eine nachhaltige Verpackung?
  carbotech AG, Basel SWITZERLAND
• Prof. Dr. Stepan Podzimek
  Dealing with polymer processing and morphology–property relationships
  University of Pardubice CZECH REPUBLIC
• Prof. Dr. Jürgen Stampfl
  Improving thermomechanical properties of photopolymers for additive manufacturing
  Technische Universität Wien AUSTRIA
• Herr Matthias Stratmann
  Überblick über den Biokunststoffmarkt (Arbeitstitel)
  Nova-Institut for Ecology and Innovation, Hürth
• Dr. Armin Zankel
  In situ and correlative electron microscopy for the characterization of polymeric materials
  Graz University of Technology and Centre for Electron Microscopy, Graz AUSTRIA
• Michael Hillenbrand
  PlasticsEurope Deutschland, Berlin

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Invitation to the conference PolyMerTec 2021

The Polymer Competence Center Halle-Merseburg (KKZ), the Institute of Polymeric Materials e.V. (IPW), the foundation Academy Polymer Innovations of Central Germany (AMK) and the University of Applied Sciences Merseburg (HS Merseburg) invite to the international scientific conference 

from June 9th to 11th 2021 at the campus of the Hochschule Merseburg.

„PolyMerTec“ focuses on the following polymeric topics: