| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 PM | Arrival & Registration (continues to end of evening session) |
| 6:00 PM | Dinner |
| 7:30 - 9:30 PM | Self -Assembly on Surfaces |
| Discussion Leader: Shuichi Takayama |
| 7:30 PM | Paula Hammond (MIT)
Surface Directed Assembly and Patterning of Funcional Mateials: From Polyelectrolytes to Colloids |
| 8:30 PM | Helmut Strey (Univ. Massachusetts, Amherst)
From Micro To Nano: Polymer Transport In Long-Range Ordered Porous Materials |
| MONDAY |
| 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM | Self-Assembly in Solution |
| Discussion Leader: Gerhard Nägele |
| 9:00 AM | Eric Kaler (Univ. of Delaware)
Surfactant Microstructures Captured by Polymerization |
| 10:00 AM | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 AM | Lee Magid (Univ. of Tennessee)
Structure and Dynamics of Wormlike Micelles |
| 11:30 AM | Jean Francois Berret (CNRS-Rhodia)
Rheophysics of Associating Polymer Networks |
| 12:30 PM | Lunch |
| 1:30 - 4:30 PM | Free Of All Formal Activity |
| 4:30 - 6:00 PM | Poster Session I and reception |
| 6:00 PM | Dinner |
| 7:30 - 9:30 PM | Proteins and Membranes |
| Discussion Leader: Stephanie R. Dungan |
| 7:30 PM | Sol Gruner (Cornell)
The Effect Of Hydrostatic Pressure On Membrane Lyotropes and Proteins |
| 8:30 PM | Abraham Lenhoff (University of Delaware)
Measuring, Manipulating, Modeling and Making the Most of Protein-Protein Interactions |
| TUESDAY |
| 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM | Colloidal Suspensions - Confinement, Fields and Rheology |
| Discussion Leader: Ralph Colby |
| 9:00 AM | David W.M. Marr (Colorado School of Mines)
Field-Induced Colloidal Structures In Confined Geometries |
| 10:00 AM | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 AM | B. Jose Luis Arauz-Lara (Universidad San Luis Potosi)
Structural Properties of Confined Colloidal Suspensions |
| 11:30 AM | Derek Chan (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Direct Measurement and Interpretation of Colloidal Forces between Deformable Bodies |
| 12:30 PM | Lunch |
| 1:30 - 4:30 PM | Free Of All Formal Activity |
| 4:30 - 6:00 PM | Poster Session I continued |
| 6:00 PM | Dinner |
| 7:30 - 9:30 PM | Supported Membranes and Thin Film Nanostructures |
| Discussion Leader: Benjamin Chu |
| 7:30 PM | Marjorie Longo (UC Davis)
Biomimetic Systems for Probing Protein Biomembrane Interactions |
| 8:30 PM | Mohan Srinivasaro (Georgia Tech)
Three-Dimensionally Ordered Array Of Holes In A Polymer Film: It's Not All Hot Air |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM | Polymers and Proteins At Surfaces |
| Discussion Leader: Seth Fraden |
| 9:00 AM | Maria Santore (Univ. Mass. At Amherst)
Protein Denaturing and Reconformation Dynamics on Surfaces |
| 10:00 AM | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 AM | Deborah Leckband (University of Illinois)
Probing Adhesion Protein Function By Direct Measurements |
| 11:30 AM | Michael Rubinstein (University of North Carolina)
Adsorption of Charged Polymers |
| 12:30 PM | Lunch |
| 1:30 - 4:30 PM | Free Of All Formal Activity |
| 4:30 - 6:00 PM | Poster Session II and reception |
| 6:00 PM | Dinner |
| 7:30 - 9:30 PM | DNA in Flow |
| Discussion Leader: Andrea Chow |
| 7:30 PM | Ron Larson (University of Michigan)
Single-Molecule Polymer Hydrodynamics and Rheology |
| 8:30 PM | Eric Shaqfeh (Stanford University)
Dynamic Simulation Of DNA In Mixed Flows With Application To Cleaving For Sequencing |
| THURSDAY |
| 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM | Polyelectrolytes in Biophysics |
| Discussion Leader: Andrea J. Liu |
| 9:00 AM | Roland Netz (MPI Golm)
DNA-Polyelectrolyte Complexes |
| 10:00 AM | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 AM | William Gelbart (UCLA)
Association of Semi-flexible Polyelectrolytes, and Models for the Bundling of DNA and Actin |
| 11:30 AM | Nancy Stellwagen (University IOWA)
Probing the Biophysical Properties of DNA with Capillary Electrophoresis |
| 12:30 PM | Lunch |
| 1:30 - 4:30 PM | Free Of All Formal Activity |
| 4:30 - 6:00 PM | Poster Session II continues |
| 6:00 PM | Dinner |
| 7:15 - 9:30 PM | Future Direction in Colloidal, Polyelectrolyte
and Macromolecular Solutions |
| Discussion Leader: Mark Burns |
| 7:15 PM | Esin Gulari (NSF)
Brief Overview: Trends in Colloidal, Polyelectrolyte and Macromolecular research at the National Science Foundation |
| 7:30 PM | David J. Pine (UC Santa Barbara)
Engineering New Colloids For Photonics Using Microfluidics |
| 8:30 PM | Glenn McGall (Affymetrix)
Application Of Colloidal Silica Films In High-Density DNA Array Biosensors |
