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
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