Series 8 - Professional associations and conferences

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UTA 1337-8

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Professional associations and conferences

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  • 1955-2002 (Creation)

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0.28 m of textual records

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(1927-2005)

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The files in this series are related primarily to conferences that Professor Guillet attended, editorial boards on which he sat, and trips as a visiting academic to Japan (1997 and 1999), Russia (1966) and the United Kingdom (1991 and 1993). There are, in addition, files on three groups in which he played an active role: the Science and Media Group, University of Winnipeg/CIDA Project (which studied the application of solar systems to water treatment in Egypt), and the United Church of Canada’s Task Group on Nuclear Energy. There is also a file on ‘Science policy in Canada’. The arrangement is alphabetical.

The conference files reflect Professor Guillet’s wide intellectual interests. He seldom missed the annual conference of the Canadian Society of Chemistry; some of the later ones are documented here. Several conferences focus on polymers – the Canadian High Polymer Forums (1964, 1965, and 1998), the Gordon Conferences (including the chemistry and physics of coatings and films), the High Polymer Research Group conferences in England, and the IUPAC (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry) World Polymer Congress in 1998 and 2000. Guillet’s visit to Russian polymer institutes in 1966 was a factor in bringing Valery Kuleznev and Russian students to Toronto. In Japan, in 1997, he attended the 6th Society of Polymer Science, Japan International Polymer Conference, and in 1999 he was honoured with that Society’s International Award. Other conference files cover biodegradable plastics, electron beam radiation, inverse gas chromatography, and solar energy storage. In 1997 Guillet participated in the IUPAC General Assembly in Geneva and then delivered the plenary lecture at its conference in Krakow, Poland.

The files contain correspondence, memoranda, minutes, notes, programmes, reports, and drafts of addresses.

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      B2005-0015/044 - /045

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      B2006-0029/008

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