Preliminary Program

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Monday, September 28  
   
08:00 - 12:00 Registration
   
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch
   
14:00 - 14:30 Jan-Michael Rost (Director MPIPKS) & Scientific Coordinators
  Opening
   
  Session: Biomolecular bonds I
   
14:30 - 15:00 Evan A. Evans (University of British Columbia)
  Kinetics of nucleation in 1- and 2-dimensions: Breaking bioadhesion bonds and rupturing biomembranes
   
15:00 - 15:30 Ulrich Schwarz (University of Karlsruhe)
  Stochastic dynamics of clusters of biomolecular bonds
   
15:30 - 16:00 Peter Hinterdorfer (University of Linz)
  Single molecule force spectroscopy and recognition imaging
   
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
   
16:30 - 17:30 EDINAM09 Colloquium
  Robert W. Carpick (University of Pennsylvania)
  New insights into dissipative processes: Damping, adhesion, friction, and wear at the nanometer and atomic scale
   
18:00 - 19:00 Dinner
   
19:30 - 21:30 Poster session
  (including beverages)
   
   
Tuesday, September 29  
   
  Session: Biomolecular bonds II
   
09:00 - 09:30 Dario Anselmetti (Bielefeld University)
  Single molecule force spectroscopy of carbohydrate-carbohydrate cell adhesion - With stochastic cluster dynamics analysis to a novel Cambrian explosion hypothesis
   
09:30 - 10:00 Felix Ritort (University of Barcelona)
  Irreversibility and dissipation in mechanically unzipped nucleic acids
   
10:00 - 10:30 Daniel Ebeling (Münster University)
  Dynamic force spectroscopy of single chain-like molecules
   
10:30 - 10:35 Group photo
   
10:35 - 11:00 Coffee break
   
  Session: Nano/bio-machines and Irreversibility
   
11:00 - 11:30 Gerhard Hummer (National Institute of Health, Bethesda)
  Kinetic gating in cytochrome c oxidase, the proton pump that powers aerobic life
   
11:30 - 12:00 Christian Van den Broeck (Hasselt University)
  Universality of efficiency at maximum power
   
12:00 - 12:30 Udo Seifert (Stuttgart University)
  Stochastic thermodynamics: Foundations and processes of minimal dissipation
   
12:30 - 15:00 Lunch
   
  Session: Atomic friction
   
15:00 - 15:30 Martin Müser (University of Western Ontario)
  Instabilities and solid friction: From linear response to Coulomb friction
   
15:30 - 16:00 Mark Robbins (Johns Hopkins University)
  Energy dissipation and the atomic origins of kinetic friction
   
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
   
  Session: Control of friction
   
16:30 - 17:00 Ernst Meyer (University of Basel)
  Control of atomic friction
   
17:00 - 17:30 Andrea Vanossi (SISSA Trieste)
  Friction suppression through mechanical oscillations
   
18:00 - 19:30 Dinner
   
  Evening session: Sliding friction of nano- and mesoscopic contacts I
   
19:30 - 20:00 Jay Fineberg (The Hebrew University)
  Slip-stick (local frictional dynamics from short to long timescales)
   
20:00 - 20:30 Bo N.J. Persson (Research Center Jülich)
  Heat transfer between elastic solids with randomly rough surfaces
   
20:30 - 21:00 Roger Smith (Loughborough University)
  Large scale atomistic simulations of nanoscratching
   
   
Wednesday, September 30  
   
  Session: Dissipation in dynamic mode atomic force microscopy I
   
09:00 - 09:30 Shigeki Kawai (University of Basel)
  Adhesion-induced energy dissipation and atom-tracked tip changes on KBr(001)
   
09:30 - 10:00 Diethelm Johannsmann (Clausthal University of Technology)
  High frequency contact mechanics studied with MHz acoustic resonators
   
10:00 - 10:30 Robert Stark (München University)
  Compositional surface mapping by torsional shear force atomic force microscopy
   
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
   
  Session: Sliding friction of nano- and mesoscopic contacts II
   
11:00 - 11:30 Martin Dienwiebel (Karlsruhe University)
  Dissipation in microscale sliding of metal surfaces
   
11:30 - 12:00 Dirk Dietzel (Münster University)
  Frictional duality of sliding nanoparticles
   
12:00 - 12:30 Ivan Stich (Slovak Academy of Sciences)
  Motion of Sb nanoparticles on HOPG: Simulation study of frictionless behaviour
   
12:30 - 13:00 Mykhaylo Evstigneev (Bielefeld University)
  Rolling nanoparticles in 2D
   
13:00 - 14:15 Lunch
   
14:15 - ... Conference excursion & dinner
   
   
Thursday, October 01  
   
  Session: Dissipation in dynamic mode atomic force microscopy II
   
09:00 - 09:30 Udo D. Schwarz (Yale University)
  Atomic-scale mapping of surface energy fields with meV resolution using three-dimensional atomic force microscopy
   
09:30 - 10:00 Ricardo Garcia (Instituto de Microelectronica de Madrid)
  Identification of nanoscale dissipation processes by dynamic atomic force microscopy
   
10:00 - 10:30 Ruben Perez (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)
  Understanding dissipation processes in dynamic atomic force microscopy
   
10:30 - 11:00 Oscar Custance (National Institute for Materials Science Japan)
  Energy dissipation in single-bond formation and vertical atom manipulation measured with an atomic force microscope
   
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
   
  Session: Sliding friction of nano- and mesoscopic contacts III
   
11:30 - 12:00 René Overney (University of Washington)
  Dissipative coupling with material intrinsic relaxation modes during nanocontact sliding
   
12:00 - 12:30 Bernd Gotsmann (IBM Zurich Research Laboratory)
  Nanoscale frictional dissipation into shear-stressed polymer relaxations
   
12:30 - 13:15 Special final talk
  Michael Urbakh (Tel Aviv University)
  Temperature dependence of nanoscale friction
   
13:15 - 13:45 Conclusion
   
13:45 Lunch
   
   



Last update: 23/09/2009