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).