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I remember my first Australasian Polymer Symposium (APS) in Beechworth in 2001, when the RACI Polymer division held a combined meeting with the Australian Society of Biomaterials. Back then, it was a timid looking at each other and getting to know each other. At the next combined meeting in 2006, the 28th APS and Australasian Society for Biomaterials 16th Annual Conference, the members of both societies greeted each other as friends, there was now familiarity between both societies and an understanding that both can learn from each other. And in 2011 at the 32ndAPS? Therewere talks on drug delivery, on cell encapsulation, on tissue engineering. Another combined meeting? No, these were polymer scientists talking biology! But it was not only the marriage of polymers and biology that attracted a lot of attention. There were talks on membranes, lithography, food science, on analytical techniques that were previously more common for physicists or organic chemists than polymer scientists, sensors and other advanced materials. I think it became clear that a lot has happened to polymer science and polymer scientists dared leaving their traditional fields of expertise and venture in new areas, where their skills canmake a difference. However, it was clear that even themost adventurous polymer scientists have not forgotten where they come from and they still honor fundamental polymer science.Where else would you find talkswhichmention proteins, cells and propagation rate coefficients within one slide? Even the most applicationoriented polymer chemist was drawn to the presentations on the latest developments in polymer synthesis. After all, many polymer applications have been made possible because some creative polymer scientists came up with new ideas on how to prepare new polymer architectures and somebody developed a good technique that allows the full characterization of the polymer structure. In summary, the 4-daymeeting seemed like a feast of polymer science. Let’s start at the beginning: Sunday greeted us with weather that was just glorious for a conference and every conference organizer’s dream: pouring rain, which barely stopped over the next few days. This did not dampen the good spirits and after two plenary lectures by Ric Kaner, University of California, USA and Christopher Ober (Fig. 1), Cornell University, USA, the almost 300 delegates, including around 100 international delegates, gathered for the welcome reception. The following 3 days sawmore than 150 oral presentations andmore than 100 posters. Next to a range of excellent contributed lectures, the delegates were treated with four more outstanding plenary lectures by Takuzo Aida, University of Tokyo, Japan, David Castner, University of Washington, USA, Katharina Landfester, Max-Planck-Institute, Germany and Thomas Russell, University of Massachusetts, USA. In addition, several keynote lectures were presented from all areas of polymer science: Kohji Ohno, Institute for Chemical Research of Kyoto University, Rachel O’Reilly (Fig. 1), University of Warwick, UK, Vivek Prahbu, Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, Geoff Spinks, University of Wollongong, Australia, Kelly Velonia (Fig. 1), University of Crete, Greece, Yusuf Yagci, Istanbul TechnicalUniversity, Turkey, PerZetterlund, University of NSW, Australia, Kristi Anseth, University of Colorado, USA, Christopher Bowman (Fig. 2), University of Colorado, USA, Michael Brook, McMaster University, Canada, Neil Cameron, University of Durham, UK, Richard Hoogenboom (Fig. 1), Ghent University, Belgium, Marc Hillmyer, University of Minnesota, USA, Bert Klumperman, Universiteit Stellenbosch, South Africa, Andrew Lowe, University of NSW, Australia, Laurence Meagher, CSIRO, Australia and George Simon, Monash University, Australia. The international year of chemistry 2011 did not go unnoticed past the polymer community. Christopher Ober, president of the IUPAC Polymer Division, addressed the audience and greeted the delegates on behalf of IUPAC. His laudation to polymer science was complemented by a plenary lecturer by Richard Evans (CSIRO, Australia), who shed light on polymer

The Ever Changing Faces of Polymer Science: The 32nd Australasian Polymer Symposium