The 2008 Young Persons’ World Lecture Competition (YPWLC) will be held at the University of Florida, Gainsville, in the USA, on 23 September. The international competition will see competitors deliver a short presentation on a materials-related topic of their choice.

The YPWLC entrants are all winners of a national competition in their home country. Confirmed participants in the 2008 competition, organised by the Younger Members’ Committee, are –

• Sinan Al Bermani, representing the UK, discussing ‘Digital manufacture for medicine’.
• Portuguese entrant Anabela Alves, on ‘The extraction and modification of polymers obtained from renewable marine residues’.
• Shang Lei, from Singapore, examines the ‘Drug release rate control principles of hydrogel-based drug delivery systems’.
• Irish competitor John Lyons will explore ‘The incorporation of an organically modified layered silicate in monolithic polymeric matrices using hot melt extrusion’.
• From the USA, Chris Woan on ‘The materials science of metal oxide nanoparticle antioxidants’.

The 2008 competition is sponsored by Rolls-Royce, CBMM, and Anglo America.

Further information
Young Persons’ World Lecture Competition home page

 

Author : Zoe ChivertonYounger members, 01 Sep 2008