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| Alexander Nepomnyashchy | Günter Reiter | Uwe Thiele |
| Technion | Institut de Chimie des | Max-Planck-Institut für |
| Israel Institute of Technology | Surfaces et Interfaces | Physik komplexer Systeme |
| Haifa, Israel | Mulhouse, France | Dresden, Germany |
The scope of the workshop is to discuss recent developments and
future directions in the investigation and application
of pattern formation through instabilities in driven and non-driven
thin films of soft matter.
The acting mechanisms are already intricate for films of simple liquids on
horizontal substrates without additional driving forces. However, they
become more involved for complex or reactive liquids, for
multilayer
systems, for patterned substrates or in driven systems.
The workshop aims at bringing together researchers
working on different problems like
dynamics and morphology of dewetting, instabilities of moving liquid
fronts,
surface instabilities of heated or falling films,
patterning on heterogeneous substrates, or the interaction of
wetting and
chemical reactions. Thereby, the contributions shall cover the range
from basic experimental and theoretical work to
applications from engineering to biology. The individual fields shall be
discussed, with a special emphasis on common properties and
differences to foster the transfer of
methods, techniques and results between the different fields.
S. G. Bankoff, M. Bär, M. Bestehorn, F. Brochard-Wyart, A.-M. Cazabat, H.-C. Chang, S. H. Davis, E. Demekhin, S. Dietrich, A. A. Golovin, G. Grün, K. Jacobs, O. A. Kabov, S. Kalliadasis, E. Knobloch, L. Kondic, G. Krausch, L. Limat, R. Lipowsky, S. G. Lipson, R. Magerle, A. Mikhailov, A. Oron, L. Pismen, Y. Pomeau, D. Queré, H. Raszillier, H. Riegler, M. F. Schatz, L. W. Schwartz, A. Sharma, S. Slavtchev, U. Steiner, S. M. Troian
Application forms can be filled in online on the conference's webpage.
The deadline for applications is May 31, 2004.
The registration fee is 100 Euro.
Costs for accommodation and meals will be
covered by the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems.
In exceptional cases, limited funding is available to
partly cover travel expenses.
For further information please contact:
Visitors Program
Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme,
Nöthnitzer Str. 38, D-01187 Dresden
Tel.: +49-351-871-2107 / Fax: +49-351-871-2199
pattfilm@mpipks-dresden.mpg.de
http://www.mpipks-dresden.mpg.de/~pattfilm/