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Colloidal, Macromolecular & Polyelectrolyte Solutions
February 5-10, 2012
Four Points Sheraton / Holiday Inn Express
Ventura, CA
Chairs:
Norman Wagner & Andrey Dobrynin

Vice Chair:
Darrell Velegol

The Gordon Research Conference on Colloidal, Macromolecular & Polyelectrolyte Solutions presents the frontiers of research about solution properties of charged, macromolecular and colloidal systems and their interfaces. This conference has a strong interdisciplinary tradition bringing together materials scientists, soft-matter and complex fluids physicists, engineers, chemists, biophysicists and biochemists. The conference attracts industrial, government and academic scientists to a stimulating set of presentations and discussions. The program highlights the exciting and fast growing areas of colloidal, macromolecular and polyelectrolyte solutions and their impact on materials design, self-assembly and nanostructures. The conference will present the latest exciting results of the leaders in the colloid, polymer and polyelectrolyte fields. Poster sessions will also provide a mechanism for presentation and discussion of the work of conference participants; participants are strongly encouraged to present a poster and should contact the vice chair for details.

Contributors
SUNDAY
4:00 pm - 8:00 pmArrival and Check-in (Office Closed 6:00 pm - 7:45 pm)
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pmWelcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff
7:40 pm - 9:30 pmPolymer Brushes & Lubricaiton
Discussion Leader: Sergei Sheiko (UNC)
7:40 pm - 8:20 pmJacob Klein (Weizmann Inst.)
"Hydration Lubrication: Exploring a New Paradigm"
8:20 pm - 8:35 pmDiscussion
8:35 pm - 9:15 pmEkaterina Zhulina (Russ. Aca. Sci.)
"Theoretical Study of Interactions between Polyelectrolyte Brushes"
9:15 pm - 9:30 pmDiscussion
MONDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
8:30 amGroup Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pmCharged Polymers and Ionomers for Energy Applications
Discussion Leader: Nitash Balsara (Berkeley)
9:00 am - 9:40 amYet-Ming Chiang (MIT)
"Complex Suspensions as Flowable Electrochemical Fuels for Energy Storage"
9:40 am - 10:00 amDiscussion
10:00 amCoffee Break
10:30 am - 11:10 amThomas Epps (UDel)
"Block Copolymer Assemblies for Ion-Conduction Applications"
11:10 am - 11:30 amDiscussion
11:30 am - 12:10 pmEric Amis (United Technologies Corp.)
"The Pareto Principle of Practical Polyelectrolytes"
12:10 pm - 12:30 pmDiscussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmSelf-Assembly & Polyelectrolytes in Ionic Liquids
Discussion Leader: David Hoagland (UMASS)
7:30 pm - 8:10 pmTim Lodge (UMN)
"Block Polymer Micelles and Gels in Ionic Liquids"
8:10 pm - 8:30 pmDiscussion
8:30 pm - 9:10 pmGreg Warr (Univ. of Sydney)
"Self-Assembly in and by Ionic Liquids"
9:10 pm - 9:30 pmDiscussion
TUESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmPolymeric and Biological Networks and Gels
Discussion Leader: Michael Gradzielski (TU Berlin)
9:00 am - 9:40 amFred MacKintosh (Faculty of Sciences, Vrije Universiteit)
"Criticality, Marginal Stability and Motor Stiffening of Biopolymer Networks"
9:40 am - 10:00 amDiscussion
10:00 amCoffee Break
10:30 am - 11:10 amFrancesco Sciortino (Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza")
"Patchy Colloid Gels"
11:10 am - 11:30 amDiscussion
11:30 am - 12:10 pmThomas Truskett (Univ. of Texas at Austin)
"A gel-avoiding strategy for concentrating native proteins: From theoretical models to mice"
12:10 pm - 12:30 pmDiscussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmPolymers & Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery
Discussion Leader: Maria Santore (UMASS)
7:30 pm - 8:10 pmMillicent Sullivan (UDel)
"Synthesis and Self-Assembly of Bio-Responsive Block Copolymers"
8:10 pm - 8:30 pmDiscussion
8:30 pm - 9:10 pmAli Khademhosseini (Harvard)
"Microengineered Polymers for Stem Cell Bioengineering and Tissue Regeneration"
9:10 pm - 9:30 pmDiscussion
WEDNESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmNanoparticles
Discussion Leader: Andreas Stein (UMN)
9:00 am - 9:40 amSanat Kumar (Columbia)
"Tailoring Nanocomposite Properties through Nanoparticle Assembly"
9:40 am - 10:00 amDiscussion
10:00 amCoffee Break
10:30 am - 11:10 amEugenia Kumacheva (Univ. of Toronto)
"Self-Assembly of Colloidal Polymers"
11:10 am - 11:30 amDiscussion
11:30 am - 12:10 pmOleg Gang (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
"Multicomponent Nanostructures Assembled by DNA"
12:10 pm - 12:30 pmDiscussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pmDinner
7:00 pm - 7:30 pmBusiness Meeting
Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmLayer-by-Layer Assembly
Discussion Leader: Michael Rubinstein (UNC)
7:30 pm - 8:10 pmMike Rubner (MIT)
"Multifunctional Polyelectrolyte Multilayers: Challenges and Opportunities"
8:10 pm - 8:30 pmDiscussion
8:30 pm - 9:10 pmSvetlana Sukhishvili (Stevens Inst. of Technology)
"Multiresponsive Layer-by-Layer Assemblies"
9:10 pm - 9:30 pmDiscussion
THURSDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmDynamics, Microrheology & Rheology
Discussion Leader: David Green (UVA)
9:00 am - 9:40 amClemens Bechinger (Universitat Stuttgart)
"Phase Behavior and Friction of Colloidal Monolayers on Quasicrystals Surfaces"
9:40 am - 10:00 amDiscussion
10:00 amCoffee Break
10:30 am - 11:10 amMatthais Fuchs (Universitaet Konstanz)
"Nonlinear and Non-Stationary Rheology of Dense Colloidal Dispersions at High Weissenberg Numbers: Insights from Brownian Dynamics Simulations and Mode Coupling Theory"
11:10 am - 11:30 amDiscussion
11:30 am - 12:10 pmAditya Khair (CMU)
"Nonlinear Sedimentation and Electrophoresis of Charged Colloids"
12:10 pm - 12:30 pmDiscussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmFuture Trends
Discussion Leaders: Norman Wagner (UDel) and Andrey Dobrynin (UConn)
7:30 pm - 8:10 pmDennis Prieve (CMU)
"Charge Effects in Doped Nonpolar Media"
8:10 pm - 8:30 pmDiscussion
8:30 pm - 9:10 pmPhil Pincus (UC Santa Barbara)
"Water as an Explicit Solvent"
9:10 pm - 9:30 pmDiscussion
FRIDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 amDeparture
 
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