Conference Program
 
SOFT CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS

June 19-24, 2005
Connecticut College
New London, CT

Chair:
Paul McEuen

Vice Chair:
Robert Magerle

SUNDAY
2:00 pm - 9:00 pmArrival and Check-in
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmBIOLOGY MEETS MATERIALS SYNTHESIS
Discussion Leader: Deborah Fygenson (UCSB)
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm Joanna Aizenberg (Lucent)
"Biomaterials: lessons from Nature"
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm Angela Belcher (MIT)
"Viruses as vehicles for nanostructure growth and assembly"
MONDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmMEMBRANE INTERFACES AND NETWORKS
Discussion Leader: Jennifer Hovis (Purdue)
9:00 am - 10:00 amOwe Orwar (Chalmers)
"Vesicle Networks"
10:00 am Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:30 amJay Groves (UC-Berkeley)
"Hybrid live cell synthetic membrane junctions"
11:30 am - 12:30 pmAmit Meller (Rowland institute)
"DNA translocation through nanopores"
12:30 pmPhoto / Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmCOLLOIDS AS MOLECULES, LIQUIDS, AND SOLIDS
Discussion Leader: John Crocker (Penn)
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm David Weitz (Harvard)
"Colloids as model solids: defect dynamics in thin crystalline films"
8:30 pm - 9:30 pmDavid Pine (NYU)
"Time reversibility of fluid flows containing particles"
TUESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmNANO MEETS BIO
Discussion Leader: Lydia Sohn (UC-Berkeley)
9:00 am - 10:00 amSerge LeMay (DELFT)
"Probing ion interactions and electron transfer reactions on the nm scale"
10:00 am Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:30 amLuke Lee (UC-Berkeley)
"Soft-state biologic devices: BASICs and BioPOEMs"
11:30 am - 12:30 pmMichael Roukes (Caltech)
"NEMs for biological research and clinical medicine"
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 pmVORTICES
Discussion Leader: Jenny Hoffman (Harvard)
7:30 pm - 8:30 pmCynthia Olson Reichhardt (Los Alamos)
"Nanomanipulation of superconducting vortices"
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm David Nelson (Harvard)
"Vortices and Luttinger liquids"
WEDNESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmNOVEL MANIPULATION AND IMAGING TECHNIQUES
Discussion Leader: Peter Grutter (McGill)
9:00 am - 10:00 amDavid Grier (NYU)
"Holographic optical tweezers"
10:00 am Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:30 amLois Pollack (Cornell)
"Ion-nucleic acid interactions: new insights from x-ray scattering experiments"
11:30 am - 12:30 pmRobert Westervelt (Harvard)
"CMOS / Microfluidic Chips for the Manipulation of Biological Systems"
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 5:00 pmFree Time
5:00 pm - 6:00 pmBusiness Meeting
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmTHE FUTURE OF CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
Discussion Leader: Paul Chaikin (Princeton/NYU)
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm Sidney Nagel (Chicago)
"The future as seen from the soft side"
8:30 pm - 9:30 pmSteve Kivelson (Stanford)
"The future as seen from the hard side"
THURSDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmSYNTHESIS
Discussion Leader: Francesco Stellacci (MIT)
9:00 am - 10:00 am Katharina Landfester (Ulm)
"Synthesis of nanostructured particles and materials via miniemulsions"
10:00 am Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:30 amRustem Ismagilov (Chicago)
"Microfluidics using multiphase fluid flow"
11:30 am - 12:30 pmTom Mallouk (Penn State)
"Template synthesis and patterning for catalytically driven motion"
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 pmEVENING SESSION
Discussion Leader: James Hone (Columbia)
7:30 pm - 8:30 pmJohn Rogers (UIUC)
"Carbon nanotubes and other printable semic. for macroelectronics"
8:30 pm - 9:30 pmHenning Sirringhaus (Cambridge)
"Organic Electronics"
FRIDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 amDepart

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