andel's Hotel, Lodz, Poland
October 2, 2011 – October 5, 2011
Invitation
It is a great pleasure to invite you to the Polymers for Advanced Technologies Conference, which will be held 2nd -5th October, 2011 in Lodz, Poland (PAT 2011). PAT conferences are organized under auspices of the Polymers for Advanced Technologies journal and cover all aspects of polymer science related to new routes of synthesis, processing and application of polymer materials. The first PAT conference took place in Jerusalem in 1987, the following were held in: Oxford (1993), Pisa (1995), Leipzig (1997), Tokyo (1999), Eilat (2001), Fort Lauderdale (2003), Budapest (2005), Shanghai (2007), and Jerusalem (2009). We invite you to the second biggest Polish city of Lodz – a post-industrial place, called in the past "Polish Manchester", where old textile factories serve now as luxury hotels and shopping malls. It is easily accessible by motorway A2 from Berlin and Poznan, by train from Warsaw (90 minutes) and by air to the local Lublinek Airport (currently from Dortmund DTM, London STN, Edinburgh, Dublin, Liverpool, Mediolan and Stockholm). I look forward to meeting you in Lodz.  Stanislaw (Stan) Słomkowski
The Conference is supported by the Major of Lodz and co-founded by City of Lodz. |       |
The PAT 2011 Conference is devoted to the memory of Professor Menachem Lewin, who passed away on 18th February 2011 leaving the whole polymer community and many other friends in a grief and sorrow.
Menachem Lewin was born on 26th March 1918 and received his high school education in his birth-land of Poland. In the late 1930’s he moved to Israel and studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (HU) where he received MSc and PhD degrees in 1944 and 1947, respectively.
In 1950, after military service Menachem Lewin joined the HU faculty. In 1953, on his initiative, the Institute for Fibers and Forest Products Research (later named "The Israel Fiber Institute") was established where Menachem served as director from its inception until his retirement in 1986.
In 1985 Menachem received the Research Professor position at the Herman F. Mark Polymer Research Institute, Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, New York however his ties with HU (where he continued to work in parallel for several months of each year) were always very close. Scientific activity bound Professor Lewin to many universities where he performed as a visiting scientist. On the list of these institutions, among others: North Carolina State University, at Raleigh,, (1974; 1977); Kyoto University, Japan, (1978; 1983) and the Polytechnic University (1982–1984). Professor Lewin was also the chairman of an expert panel regarding Wood and Plastics of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (1958–1968); and a member of the International Panel on Wood Chemistry (1956–1968).
Professor Lewin has received numerous honors and awards. In 1959, the Habif Prize of the University of Geneva, Switzerland for outstanding research in cellulose chemistry. In 1993, he was elected as an Honorary Citizen of the City of Jerusalem, the Honorary Membership of Israel Society of Polymers and Plastics (2001), and the Founder’s Award of The Fiber Society (2003). He has been Honorary Chairman of the Polymers for Advanced Technologies symposium since 2003 and received the Hungarian Semplen Award for Outstanding Chemical Research in 2005. He was a fascinating teacher instructing HU courses on polymer and fiber chemistry and physics. He supervised over 100 M.Sc. and Ph.D. theses.
We will remember Professor Menachem Lewin not only as a great scientist, founder of the Polymers for Advanced Technologies journal and related conferences but also as loving husband to his wife Runia, father of three children: Dorit, Yitzhak, and Yehudit, grandfather of thirteen grandchildren, great-grandfather of three great-grandchildren and as a very good friend of so many of us. Everybody who was lucky enough to meet Menachem will keep good memory of him as an excellent scientist and a great man. We will miss him very much at the first Polymers for Advanced Technologies conference he will not attend.
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