Abstract
The 18th Bratislava International Conference on Modified Polymers: ModPol2003 was held in Stara Lesna, The High Tatras, from October 6-9, 2003. This is the 18th in a sequence of "Bratislava Conferences" that started about 35 years ago in Bratislava. This conference also coincided with the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Polymer Institute in Bratislava. The conference was held in the Conference Center of the Hotel Academia, which is used by the Slovak Academy of Sciences for a number of their symposia and seminars. The conference was organized by the Organizing Committee, consisting of Peter Cifra (Chairman), Jozef Rychly (Director of the Polymer Institute), Maria Omastova, Katarina Csomorova, Zuzana Hlouskova, Sidonia Kalinova, and Nadja Kulickova.