Preliminary Program



Last updated: October 27, 2008

Tuesday, November 11  
   
18:00 - 21:00 Registration
19:00 - 22:00 Welcome banquet
   
Wednesday, November 12  
   
09:00 - 09:15 Opening
  Sergej Flach (MPIPKS)
and Scientific Coordinators
   
09:15 - 10:00 Tapio Ala-Nissilä (Helsinki University of Technology)
  Phase-Field Model Approaches to Dynamics of Driven Interfaces
   
10:00 - 10:45 Mathis Plapp (CNRS Paris)
  Phase-Field Models with Nematic Order Parameters
   
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break
   
11:15 - 12:00 Alain Karma (Northeastern University)
  Crack Front Instability in Mixed Mode Fracture
   
12:00 - 12:45 Alexander Umantsev (University of North Carolina)
  Thermal Effects of Phase Transformations
   
12:45 - 14:00 Lunch break
   
14:00 - 16:00 Poster Session I
   
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
   
16:30 - 17:15 Mario Castro (Universidad Pontificia Comillas de Madrid)
  Phase-Field Approach to Tumor Growth
   
17:15 - 18:00 Rui Travasso (Universidade de Coimbra)
  Phase-Field Description of Tumor Angiogenesis
   
18:00 - 18:45 Peter Galenko (DLR Köln)
  Diffuse-interface Model for fast Transitions in Non-Equilibrium Systems
   
18:45 - 20:30 Dinner
   
20:30 - 22:00 Poster Session II
   
Thursday, November 13  
   
09:00 - 09:45 Ken Elder (Oakland University)
  Phase Field Crystal Modeling of Non-Equilibrium Structure
   
09:45 - 10:30 Laszlo Gránásy (Brunel University London)
  Phase-Field Modeling of Complex Polycrystalline Morphologies in three Dimensions
   
10:30 - 10:35 Group photo
   
10:35 - 11:00 Coffee break
   
11:00 - 11:45 Jonathan Dantzig (University of Illinois)
  Interaction of Defects and Interfaces using the PFC Model
   
11:45 - 12:30 Robert Spatschek (Forschungszentrum Jülich)
  Ginzburg-Landau Theory of Grain Boundary Premelting
   
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break
   
14:00 - 14:45 Roger Folch (Universitat de Tarragona)
  Non-Newtonian Viscous Fingering
   
14:45 - 15:30 Jaume Casademunt (Universitat de Barcelona)
  Phase-Field Approach to the Physics of Pinch-off Singularities in Hele-Shaw Flows
   
15:30 - 16:15 Craig Carter (Massachussets Institute of Technology)
  Morphological Transitions in Soft Materials
   
16:15 - 16:45 Coffee break
   
16:45 - 17:30 Aurora Hernández-Machado (Universitat de Barcelona)
  Phase-Field Models for Avalanche Growth in Cancer Tumors
   
17:30 - 18:15 Michal Benes (Technical University Prague)
  Segmentation of MRI Data Using the Partial Differential Equation of Allen-Cahn Type
   
18:15 - 19:00 EU Network Formation Meeting
 
   
19:00 - 20.00 Dinner
   
20:00 EU Network Formation Meeting
   
   
Friday, November 14  
   
09:00 - 09:45 Klaus Kassner (Universität Magdeburg)
  Selection of Patterns in External Flows
   
09:45 - 10:30 Chaoqui Misbah (CNRS and University Grenoble)
  Phase Field for Vesicles under Flow and for Actin-assisted Motility
   
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
   
11:00 - 11:45 Gustav Amberg (KTH - Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm)
  Small Scale Fluid Flows Dominated by Capillarity and Wetting
   
11:45 - 12:30 Heike Emmerich (RWTH Aachen)
  Nucleation and successive microstructure evolution via phasefield and phasefield crystal method
   
12:30 - 13:00 Conclusion
   
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch break
   
14:00 Departure