April 17 – 19, 2013
Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter
University of Pennsylvania
3231 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
COMPLOIDS Speakers:
Michael E. Cates, University of Edinburgh
2013 LRSM Burstein Lecturer
April 17, 2013, 3:30pm
Paul S. Clegg, University of Edinburgh
Erika Eiser, University of Cambridge
Christos N. Likos, University of Vienna
Wilson C. K. Poon, University of Edinburgh
Jean-Christoph Loudet, CNRS/University of Bordeaux
Primoz Ziherl, University of Ljubljana
MRSEC Speakers:
- Paulo Arratia
- John Crocker
- Dan Hammer
- Andrea Liu
- Tom Lubensky
- Chris Murray
- Zahra Fakhraai
more to come
Agenda:
| April 17 | location | ||
| 10:45am | Opening remarks | Singh Nanotechnology Center |
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| 10:50 | Chris Murray, Chemistry & Materials Science and Engineering, Penn Chemical design of nanocrystal based periodic and aperiodic metamaterials [ abstract ] |
Singh Nanotechnology Center |
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| 11:40 | Lei Zhang, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Penn Using Shape Anisotropy to Toughen Disordered Particle Packings [ abstract ] |
Singh Nanotechnology Center |
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| 12:00pm | Lunch | LRSM – Reading Room | |
| 1:20 | Dan Hammer, Bioengineering & Chem and Biomolecular Eng, Penn Designer vesicles from synthetic surfactants ‐ block‐co‐polymers and recombinant proteins [ abstract ] |
Levin Hall Wu & Chen Aud. |
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| 2:00 | Erika Eiser, Physics, Cambridge Designing Disorder [ abstract ] |
Levin Hall Wu & Chen Aud. |
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| 3:30 | Michael E. Cates, University of Edinburgh The Physics of Cellular Motility [ abstract ] |
LRSM – Auditorium | |
| 4:30 | Reception & Poster Session | LRSM – Reading Room | |
| April 18 | |||
| 8:50am | Christos Likos, Physics, Universitat Wien Hierarchical self-‐assembly of associating soft patchy particles [ abstract ] |
Singh Nanotechnology Center |
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| 9:35 | Andrea Liu, Physics, Penn Mechanical Wavefronts in Developing Embryos [ abstract ] |
Singh Nanotechnology Center |
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| 10:05 | Joonwoo Jeong, Physics, Penn Spherical Droplets of Chromonic Liquid Crystals [ abstract ] |
Singh Nanotechnology Center |
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| 10:25 | Coffee | LRSM – Reading Room | |
| 10:40 | Paul Clegg, Physics, University of Edinburgh Post-processing bijels: all binary fluids are not born equal [ abstract ] |
Levin Hall Wu & Chen Aud. |
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| 12:00pm | Lunch break | ||
| 1:30 | Wilson Poon, Physics, University of Edinburgh Bacteria as Active Colloids [ abstract ] |
Meyerson Hall, B1 | |
| 2:45 | John Crocker, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Penn Interactions, directed assembly and transformations of colloids using DNA handshaking [ abstract ] |
Meyerson Hall, B1 | |
| 3:15 | Paulo Arratia, Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics, Penn Swimming & Self-Propulsion in Complex Fluids [ abstract ] |
Meyerson Hall, B1 | |
| 4:00 | Individual meetings | ||
| April 19 | |||
| 9:00am | JC Loudet, CNRS Radiation pressure makes ellipsoidal particles tumble [ abstract ] |
LRSM – Auditorium | |
| 9:45 | Mohamed Amine Gharbi, CBE/MSE/Physics, Penn Microbullet Assembly in Confined Nematic Liquid Crystal [ abstract ] |
LRSM – Auditorium | |
| 10:05 | Tom Lubensky, Physics, Penn Two- and Three-dimensional Lattice Models for Fiber Networks with Maximum Coordination of Four [ abstract ] |
LRSM – Auditorium | |
| 10:40 | Coffee break | LRSM – Reading Room | |
| 11:00 | Primoz Ziherl, Physics, University of Ljubljana Mosaic Two-lengthscale Quasicrystals [ abstract ] |
LRSM – Reading Room | |
| 11:45 | Zahra Fakhraai, Chemistry, Penn Liquid-Like Behavior of Glassy Surfaces [ abstract ] |
LRSM – Reading Room | |
| 12:15pm | Concluding remarks and lunch | LRSM – Reading Room |