History
FROM THE FIRST MEETING TO THE FIRST SEMINARS
PolyRay was launched in 2003 by Christian Decker (Research Director at the Department of General Photochemistry, Mulhouse), following a Workshop of the European Federation of Polymers on the topic “Radiation polymerization”, in the spring of 2002 at the University of Paris VI by François Ganachaud and Jean-Pierre Vairon.
Polyray’s objectives were to (1) create an open club of members whose activities centered on polymerization under radiation and, (2) organize an annual scientific and technological meeting.
Les dates marquantes :
- 2003 : 2nd & 3rd July UHA-ENSC Mulhouse || Founding meeting at CNRS / Paris
- 2004 : 24 & 25 march USTL-ENSCL Villeneuve d’Ascq
- 2005 : 28 & 29 march INSA Rouen – Mont Saint Aignan
- 2006 : 7 & 8 march ENSC Montpellier
- 2007 : 22 & 23 may UHA-ENSC Mulhouse
- 2008 : 26 & 27 march INSA Lyon-UCB Villeurbanne || Creation of PolyRay 2008
- 2009 : 18 & 19 march URCA Reims || Modification of the statuses and the adoption of the naming PolyRay
- 2010 : 31 march & 1st april UMH Mons (B)
- 2011 : 5 & 6 april ENSTIB, Epinal
- 2012 : 28 & 29 march CTTM, Le Mans
- 2013 : 11 & 12 april INSA de Rouen, Rouen
- 2014 : 20 & 21 march IAM-ICGM, Montpellier
- 2015 : 20 & 21 may INSA Lyon, Oyonnax
- 2016 : 15 & 16 march IST Metz GmbH, Nürtingen
- 2017 : 20 & 21 march UHA-ENSC, Mulhouse
- 2018 : 19 et 20 mars ICM, Reims
- 2019 : 11 et 12 mars IAM-ICGM, Montpellier
- 2022 : 6 et 7 juillet Elkem-INSA Lyon, Lyon || First short-course
- 2023 : 29 et 30 mars UHA-ENSC, Mulhouse
THE SPIRIT OF THE POLYRAY ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM
- A place for many exchanges between industrial actors and academia
- Recognition of a french specialty: the chemistry of polymers under radiation:
- A fresh, topical program ; an event that never disappoints!