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Conference Program
 
Complex Fluids
June 30 - July 5, 2002
The Queen's College
Oxford, United Kingdom
Chair:
Armand Ajdari

Vice Chair:
David J. Pine

SUNDAY
2:00 pm - 9:00 pmArrival and Check-in
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmColloidal Crystals
Chair: David Pine (UCSB)
7:30 pm - 8:30 pmVicky COLVIN (Rice University)
Colloidal Crystals: From Opals to Optics
8:30 pm - 9:30 pmDavid GRIER (U. Chicago)
Colloidal Hydrodynamics in Exotic Optical Traps
MONDAY
7:45 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmNon Equilibrium Dynamics I
Chair: David Grier (Chicago)
9:00 am - 10:00 amEric WEEKS (Emory - Atlanta)
Observing nonequilibrium behavior in colloidal glasses and liquids
10:00 amCoffee Break
10:30 am - 11:30 amDaan FRENKEL (AMOLF- Amsterdam)
Nucleation in colloids and polymers.
11:30 am - 12:30 pmMatthias FUCHS (ICS Strasbourg)
Transitions to novel glassy states in colloidal suspensions with short ranged attractions
12:45 pmLunch
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmPolymers I
Chair: Armand Ajdari (Paris)
7:30 pm - 8:30 pmThomas THURN-ALBRECHT (Freiburg)
Controlling Small Polymeric Structures with External Fields
8:30 pm - 9:30 pmRichard FRIEND (Cambridge)
Self organized and fabricated structures of conjugated polymers for electro-optical applications
TUESDAY
7:45 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmSpecial Colloids
Chair: Phil Pincus (UCSB)
9:00 am - 10:00 amVirginie PONSINET (Cnrs-Rhodia Cranbury)
Nano-objects of controlled shape from self-assembled amphiphilic diblock copolymers
10:00 amCoffee Break
10:30 am - 11:30 amSeth FRADEN (Brandeis U.)
The Baffling Role of Ionic Strength in Chiral Colloidal Liquid Crystals
11:30 am - 12:30 pmPhilippe POULIN (CRPP Bordeaux)
Colloidal ordering in liquid crystals
12:30 pmLunch
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmPolymers II
Chair: Ludwik Leibler (ESPCI)
7:30 pm - 8:30 pmMark ROBBINS (JHU Baltimore)
Yield and crazing in glassy polymers
8:30 pm - 9:30 pmAnthony RYAN (U. Sheffield)
Structure development during processing: crystallisation & reaction induced phase separation in polymers
WEDNESDAY
7:45 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmComplex flows of Complex Fluids
Chair: Didier Roux (CRPP Bordeaux)
9:00 am - 10:00 amPeter OLMSTED (Leeds)
Flow properties of lyotropic systems
10:00 amCoffee Break
10:30 am - 11:30 amGeorges DEBREGEAS (Strasbourg)
Stress fluctuations and plastic flow in slowly sheared foams
11:30 am - 12:30 pmDoug DURIAN (UCLA)
Statistical mechanical experiments on unjammed materials
12:30 pmLunch
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmNon equilibrium dynamics
Chair: Daan Frenkel (Amsterdam)
7:30 pm - 8:30 pmLaurence RAMOS (Montpellier)
Aging and rheology in a multilamellar vesicle systems
8:30 pm - 9:30 pmPatrick WARREN (Unilever)
Studying kinetic processes in complex fluids using dissipative particle dynamics
THURSDAY
7:45 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmManipulating and observing with light
Chair: Francois Lequeux (ESPCI Paris)
9:00 am - 10:00 amChristoph SCHMIDT (VU Amsterdam)
One- and two-particle microrheology in synthetic and biopolymer solutions
10:00 amCoffee Break
10:30 am - 11:30 amAlfons VAN BLAADEREN (Utrecht)
Manipulation of Colloidal Crystallization
11:30 am - 12:30 pmFrank SCHEFFOLD (Fribourg)
Light Scattering Probes of Dense Colloidal Supensions and Gels
12:30 pmLunch
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmMicrofluidics
Chair: Howard Stone (Harvard)
7:30 pm - 8:30 pmVictor STEINBERG (Weizmann Institute)
Elastic Turbulence and Mixing in Polymer Solution Flows
8:30 pm - 9:30 pmSteve QUAKE (Caltech)
Complex fluids in microfluidic devices
FRIDAY
7:45 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 amDeparture

 
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