We are currently soliciting papers in a number of topic areas. Accepted papers are to be presented orally and will be printed in full length in the Conference Proceedings. If you would like to present a paper at MetCon2004, please complete the appropriate section on the reply form and submit it with a short abstract for technical committee review.

Examples of Session Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Challenges/Hurdles in Integrating Advanced Catalysts into Commercial Reactor Process Technologies
• New or Modified Reactor Process Technologies for PE and PP
• Structure-Property Relationships for M- and SSC- Polymers
• New Applications and Progress in Product/Market Developments
• Academic Efforts with Potential Industrial Implications
• End-User/Fabricator Perspectives and Experiences
• Metallocene, Single-Site Catalyst and Co-Catalysts Manufacturing
  - Production Issues - Service/Support Issues

Technical areas for MetCon2004 include, but are not limited to:

Catalysts/Cocatalysts

• Functional and Polar Comonomer Incorporation via SSCs
• Ziegler-Natta Systems in Novel Reactor Design/Operation
• "Post-Metallocene" Organometallics for Polymerization
• New Ligand Structures and Their Use with Early or Late Transition Metals
• Metallocene Catalyst Analogues: Performance and Properties
  

Resins

• Functional and Polar Comonomer Based Resins
• Advanced Ziegler-Natta Based Resins
• Structures and Properties of M- and SSC-based Polymers
• Enduser "Competitive Assessment" of Z/N, Metallocenes and SSC Resins
  

Other Topics

• In-situ Comonomer Generation/Polymerization
• Licensing Opportunities and Limitations in MPOs and SSCs
• Intellectual Property Issues

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