Preliminary Program
| Talk Abstracts (pdf) |
| Sunday, February 17 | |
| 18:00 - 20:00 | Registration |
| 18:30 - 21:00 | Welcome reception at the guest house no. 4 (behind the institute's main building) |
| Monday, February 18 | |
| 08:45 - 09:00 | Siegfried Dietrich (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart |
| Opening | |
| Chairperson: Robert Evans | |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Kathleen Stebe (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia) |
| Microparticle at interfaces of isotropic and anisotropic liquids | |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Sandra Troian (California Institute of Technology) |
| Modulated interface lithography: The nanoworld beyond Bénard instability | |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Marek Napiórkowski (University of Warsaw) |
| Wetting on structured substrates | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Margarida Telo da Gama (University of Lisbon) |
| Wetting by complex fluids | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Alexei Kornyshev (Imperial College London) |
| Ultra low voltage electrowetting and beyond | |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Yan Levin (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre) |
| Ions at interfaces: Surface tensions and surface potentials of electrolyte solutions | |
| 12:30 - 14:30 | Lunch |
| Chairperson: Martin Brinkmann | |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Julia Yeomans (University of Oxford) |
| Stirring by microswimmers | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Frank Jülicher (MPIPKS Dresden) |
| Dynamics of active films | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Piotr Garstecki (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw) |
| Flow of droplets in microchannels - From fundamentals to applications | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
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WCCS13 Colloquium |
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| Chairperson: Vasily Zaburdaev (MPIPKS Dresden) | |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Howard Stone (Princeton University) |
| Wetting and drying of fibers | |
| Chairperson: Antonio Checco | |
| 17:45 - 18:15 | Oksana Manyuhina (Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stockholm) |
| Frustrated smectics | |
| 18:15 - 18:45 | Oleg Lavrentovich (Kent State University) |
| Liquid crystal enabled dynamics of colloidal particles | |
| 18:45 - 20:15 | Dinner |
| Tuesday, February 19 | |
| 08:50 - 09:00 | Frank Jülicher (Director MPIPKS Dresden) |
| Welcome | |
| Chairperson: Paul Leiderer | |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | David Quéré (ESPCI & École polytechnique, Paris) |
| A tribute to Leidenfrost | |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | José Bico (ESPCI PMMH, Paris) |
| From elastocapillarity to delamination and cracks | |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Thierry Ondarçuhu (CEMES-CNRS, Toulouse) |
| Contact angle hysteresis at the nanometer scale | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Hajime Tanaka (The University of Tokyo) |
| Glassy slow dynamics of confined hard spheres | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | David Dean (University Bordeaux 1) |
| Out of equilibrium relaxation of thermal van der Waals forces | |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Klaus Mecke (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) |
| Fundamental measure theory for inhomogeneous fluids of non-spherical hard particles | |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 - 16:00 |
Poster session |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| Chairperson: Paulo Teixeira | |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Lyderic Bocquet (University Lyon 1) |
| Fluid transport: Strange phenomena at the nanoscale | |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Thibault Roques-Carmes (Université de Lorraine, Nancy) |
| Influence of drop volume and surfactant concentration on the Marangoni flow and contact-line instabilities during the spreading of surfactant solutions on hydrophilic surface | |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Jayant Singh (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur) |
| Understanding the behaviour of supercooled liquid on nanostructured surfaces: A molecular dynamics study | |
| 18:30 - 20:00 | Dinner |
| Wednesday, February 20 | |
| Chairperson: Marek Napiórkowski | |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Haim Taitelbaum (Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan) |
| Rich spatio-temporal patterns in reactive-wetting at room temperature | |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Kurt Binder (Johnannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) |
| Simulation approach for computing the surface excess free energies of vapor-like, liquid-like and solid-like phases in colloid-polymer mixtures | |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Elie Raphaël (ESPCI, UMR CNRS, Paris) |
| Profile shape and energy dissipation in stepped bilayer thin polymer films | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Paddy Royall (University of Bristol) |
| The colloidal corral: A model system for nanoconfinement | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Uwe Thiele (Loughborough University) |
| From pattern deposition at receding contact lines to dewetting mixtures | |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Igor Muševič (J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana) |
| Wetting and topology in liquid crystal colloids | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 16:00 |
Guided tour through the SLUB book museum (Maya calendar) |
| 16:45 - 18:00 |
Guided tour through the New Masters Gallery at the Albertinum |
| 19:00 - 22:00 |
Conference dinner at the Café Central (Am Altmarkt 6, 01067 Dresden) |
| Thursday, February 21 | |
| Chairperson: Anna Maria Maciolek | |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Patrick Huber (Hamburg University of Technology) |
| Soft matter in hard confinement: How molecular fluids arrange in and huddle through nanoporous solids | |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Stephan Herminghaus (MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen) |
| A universal phase diagram for wetting on mesoscale roughness | |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Markus Rauscher (MPI for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart) |
| Nanofluidics: Dynamics of thin films and nano-droplets | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Regine von Klitzing (Technische Universität Berlin) |
| Ion specific effects in wetting films (and foam films) | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Benjamin Ocko (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton) |
| Drops and wetting on nanopatterned surfaces: AFM, X-ray and theory | |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Oleg Gang (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton) |
| Nanoscale self-assembly guided by DNA and geometry: Structures, transformations and rational design | |
| 12:30 - 14:30 | Lunch |
| Chairperson: Uwe Thiele | |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Eduardo Saiz (Imperial College of London) |
| Kinetics of high-temperature spreading | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Edmund Webb III (Lehigh University, Bethlehem) |
| Atomistic scale study of cratering induced droplet splashing | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Erio Tosatti (SISSA, and ICTP, Trieste) |
| Colloids and nanofriction: A strange pair | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| Chairperson: Uwe Thiele | |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Hartmut Löwen (University of Düsseldorf) |
| Collective dynamics of self-propelled particles | |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Yutaka Sumino (Aichi University of Education, Kariya-shi) |
| Emergence of droplet motion induced by a chemical flux of surfactant | |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Natsuhiko Yoshinaga (Tohoku University, Sendai) |
| Self-propulsive motion of a droplet driven by Marangoni effect | |
| 18:30 - 20:00 | Dinner |
| Friday, February 22 | |
| Chairperson: Samuel Sanchez | |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Fernando Bresme (Imperial College London) |
| Wetting phenomena of soft ultrathin films | |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Martin Brinkmann (Saarland University) |
| Contact lines advancing over regularly patterned substrates | |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Ramin Golestanian (Oxford University) |
| Collective behavior of thermally active colloids | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Alvaro Domínguez (Universidad de Sevilla) |
| Capillary interactions in colloidal monolayers at fluid interfaces | |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Raphaël Voituriez (CNRS UPMC, Paris) |
| Different aspects of cell motility in confinement | |
| 12:30 | Lunch & departure |
Last update: 02/21/2013
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