Wetting and Capillarity in Complex Systems
International Workshop: February 18 - 22, 2013
Scientific coordinators:
Siegfried Dietrich (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany)
Gleb Oshanin (Université Pierre et Marie Curie/CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de la Matière Condensée, France)
Mihail N. Popescu (Ian Wark Research Institute, Australia)
Mykola Tasinkevych (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany)
Organization:
Sabine Strecker (MPI für Physik komplexer Systeme, Dresden, Germany)
The growing interest in the properties of interfaces involving complex fluids, such as colloidal
suspensions, organic ionic liquids, electrolytes, or liquid crystals, in contact with patterned or
responsive substrates is nurtured by the development of techniques capable to prepare substrates with
designed and well-controlled micro- or nano-structures. In addition to its relevance for basic research,
a comprehensive understanding of such systems is important in view of potential applications, e.g.,
creating novel super-lyophobic materials, various "lab-on-a-chip" devices, or the fabrication of
synthetic micro-engines. The underlying common feature in all these examples is that a wealth of
length and time scales is introduced by hierarchical structures of substrates, by the sizes and shapes of
the particles forming the complex liquids, or by the time and lengths scales of responsive substrates.
Understanding such intrinsically complex systems requires innovative approaches, which bundle
experimental, theoretical, and computational efforts. The workshop aims at bringing together
experienced scientists with complementary skills in the fields of wetting phenomena and capillarity.
Topics:
Invited speakers:
| Dirk Aarts (UK) | José Bico (FR) | Kurt Binder (DE) |
| Lyderic Bocquet (FR) | Fernando Bresme (UK) | Alvaro Domínguez (ES) |
| Oleg Gang (USA) | Piotr Garstecki (PL) | Ramin Golestanian (UK) |
| Stephan Herminghaus (DE) | Frank Jülicher (DE) | Regine von Klitzing (DE) |
| Joel Koplik (USA) | Alexei Kornyshev (UK) | Oleg D. Lavrentovich (USA) |
| Yan Levin (BR) | Hartmut Löwen (DE) | Igor Muševič (SI) |
| Marek Napiórkowski (PL) | Ben Ocko (USA) | Andrew Parry (UK) |
| David Quéré (FR) | Eli Raphaël (FR) | Markus Rauscher (DE) |
| Paddy Royall (UK) | Eduardo Saiz (UK) | Kathleen J. Stebe (USA) |
| Howard Stone (USA) | Yutaka Sumino (JP) | Hajime Tanaka (JP) |
| Margarida Telo da Gama (PT) | Erio Tosatti (IT) | Sandra Troian (USA) |
| Raphaël Voituriez (FR) | Edmund B. Webb III (USA) | Julia Yeomans (UK) |
| Natsuhiko Yoshinaga (JP) |
Applications for oral and poster contributions are welcome and should be made by using the application form. The number of attendees is limited. The registration fee for the workshop is 120 EUR and should be paid by all participants. Costs for accommodation and meals will be covered by the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems. Limited funding is available to partially cover travel expenses. Please note that childcare is available upon request.
The Deadline for applications is extended until November 17, 2012.
For further information please e-mail to: wccs13
pks.mpg.de
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