Preliminary Program
| Overview |
Sunday, 10 Oktober
Monday, 11 Oktober
Tuesday, 12 Oktober
Wednesday, 13 Oktober
Thursday, 14 Oktober
Friday, 15 Oktober
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| Sunday, 10 October | |
| 18:00 - 20:00 | Registration |
| 19:00 - 21:00 | Welcome reception |
| Monday, 11 October | |
| 08:45 - 09:00 | Frank Jülicher (Director MPIPKS) & Scientific Coordinators |
| Opening | |
| Chairman: Gleb Oshanin | |
| 09:00 - 09:40 | Rudolf Podgornik (University of Ljubljana) |
| Disorder effects in coulomb interactions | |
| 09:40 - 10:20 | Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi (University of Camerino) |
| Effective forces in confined flowing liquids | |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Adam Feiler (Institute for Surface Chemistry Stockholm) |
| Superlubrication using repulsive van der Waals force | |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | Coffee break |
| 11:20 - 12:00 | Anna Maciolek (MPI for Metals Research) |
| Critical Casimir forces: Diversity within universality | |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | David Dean (Universite Paul Sabatier) |
| Out of equilibrium thermal Casimir forces | |
| 12:30 - 14:30 | Lunch break |
| Chairman: Ricardo Brito | |
| 14:30 - 15:10 | Haim Diamant (Tel Aviv University) |
| Medium-induced interactions in confined geometries | |
| 15:10 - 15:50 | Igor Muševic (J. Stefan Institute) |
| Forces in nematic liquid crystals | |
| 15:50 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | FIFCM10 Colloquium - Chairman: Roderich Moessner (Director MPIPKS) |
| Mehran Kardar (MIT) | |
| Manipulating fluctuation-induced forces | |
| 17:45 - 18:15 | Francesco Intravaia (Los Alamos National Laboratory) |
| Thermodynamical aspects of the Casimir effect at equilibrium and out of equilibrium and their connection to material science | |
| 18:30 | Supper |
| Tuesday, 12 October | |
| Chairman: Douglas Abraham | |
| 09:00 - 09:40 | Benjamin Ocko (Brookhaven National Laboratory) |
| Nanaoscale confined liquids: X-ray and AFM studies | |
| 09:40 - 10:20 | Joseph Rudnick (University of California, Los Angeles) |
| Critical Casimir forces: Dimensionality and boundary conditions | |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Marek Napiórkowski (University of Warsaw) |
| Scaling of solvation forces in 2D ising stripes | |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | Coffee break |
| 11:20 - 12:00 | Clemens Bechinger (University of Stuttgart) |
| Direct measurement of critical Casimir forces | |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Yoav Tsori (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) |
| Instability of liquids and liquid mixtures to electric field gradients | |
| 12:30 - 14:30 | Lunch break |
| 14:30 - 16:20 | Poster session & Coffee break |
| Chairman: Andreas Hanke | |
| 16:20 - 17:00 | Robert Evans (University of Bristol) |
| Solvation forces and phase transitions of fluids confined between opposing (solvophobic and solvophilic) walls | |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Roland Roth (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg) |
| Effective interaction in lock and key systems | |
| 17:30 - 18:10 | David Pine (New York University) |
| Specific colloidal binding using the depletion interaction | |
| 18:30 | Supper |
| Wednesday, 13 October | |
| Chairman: Stefan Buhmann | |
| 09:00 - 09:40 | Thorsten Emig (Université Paris Sud) |
| Fluctuation-induced forces: Geometry and material dependence | |
| 09:40 - 10:20 | Alexej Weber (Université Paris Sud) |
| Worldline approach to Casimir phenomena | |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Erich Eisenriegler (Forschungszentrum Jülich) |
| Densities, forces, and distant perturbations | |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | Coffee break |
| 11:20 - 12:00 | Gleb Oshanin (University of Paris) |
| Bias- and bath-mediated pairing of particles driven through a quiescent medium | |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Matthias Tröndle (MPI for Metals Research) |
| Critical Casimir effect: Lateral forces, levitation, and torques | |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 14:40/14:45 | Guided visit at the Semper Opera |
| (Theaterplatz 2, tram stop Theaterplatz, trams 4/8/9) | |
| 16:00/16:30 | Visit of the Historic Green Vault |
| Residenzschloss, Taschenberg 2, tram stop Theaterplatz, trams 4/8/9) | |
| 19:00 | Workshop dinner at the restaurant "Central" |
| (Am Altmarkt 6, phone: 497 61 24, tram stop Altmarkt, trams 1/2/4) | |
| Thursday, 14 October | |
| Chairman: Martin Hasenbusch | |
| 09:00 - 09:40 | Dirk Aarts (University of Oxford) |
| 2D is the new 3D: Fluctuations in confinement | |
| 09:40 - 10:20 | Martin Oettel (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) |
| Fluctuation forces between colloids at interfaces | |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Frank Jülicher (MPI for Physics of Complex Systems) |
| Generic aspects of colloidal transport | |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | Coffee break |
| 11:20 - 12:00 | Hajime Tanaka (University of Tokyo) |
| Wetting-induced interactions between colloids immersed in a critical binary mixture | |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Moshe Deutsch (Bar-Ilan University) |
| Surfactant-induced interfacial phenomena at water/alkane interfaces | |
| 12:30 - 14:30 | Lunch break |
| Chairman: Markus Bier | |
| 14:30 - 15:10 | Matthias Ballauf (Humboldt University Berlin) |
| Study of fluctuations in colloidal systems by small-angle scattering | |
| 15:10 - 15:40 | Daniel Bonn (University of Amsterdam) |
| Casimir forces in binary liquid systems | |
| 15:40 - 15:50 | Andrea Gambassi (SISSA) |
| Colloidal aggregation and critical Casimir forces | |
| 15:50 - 16:20 | Coffee break |
| 16:20 - 17:00 | Hans Werner Diehl (University Duisburg-Essen) |
| Studying fluctuation-induced forces via field-theoretic renormalization-group methods | |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Daniel Dantchev (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) |
| Interplay of critical Casimir and dispersion forces | |
| 17:30 - 18:10 | Philip Pincus (University of California, Santa Barbara) |
| Gap junction aggregation in biomembranes | |
| 18:30 | Supper |
| Friday, 15 October | |
| Chairman: Anthony Maggs | |
| 09:00 - 09:40 | Erika Eiser (University of Cambridge) |
| Fluctuation driven self-assembly of colloids on a 'soft' DNA monolayer | |
| 09:40 - 10:20 | Jean-Baptiste Fournier (University Paris Diderot) |
| Fluctuation-induced forces in fluid membranes | |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Mihail Popescu (University of South Australia) |
| Shape and catalyst-decoration effects in self-diffusiophoresis of chemically-active colloids | |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | Coffee break |
| 11:20 - 12:00 | Frédéric Caupin (ENS Paris) |
| The range of forces and the melting of polycrystals | |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Simen A. Ellingsen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) |
| Casimir-Polder effect out of thermal equilibrium: Temperature (in)dependence, Rydberg atoms and cold molecules | |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
Last update: 11/10/2010
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