Jülich Soft Matter Days 2008
Gustav-Stresemann-Institut Bonn, Germany
11-14 November 2008
Foreground: Electric field induced chiral-nematic of fd-virus; Background: Spinodally decomposing fd-virus under shear
Copyright: Coutesy P. Lettinga, K. Kang, Forschungszentrum Jülich, IFF
In this years meeting, which as in previous years will take place in the vicinity of Jülich from 11 to 14 November 2008, we intend to focus on:
- Colloids
- Hydrodynamics
- Physics of the Cell
- Polymers
- Proteins
Self Assembly
| First Announcement JSMD 2008 (pdf.file) | |
| Poster JSMD 2008 (pdf.file) Second Announcement JSMD 2008 (pdf.file) Payment form for credit card (pdf.file) |
| 23 June 2008 | Submission of Abstract |
| August 2008 | 2nd Announcement |
| 8 September 2008 | Deadline for Registration |
| 11-14 November 2008 | Jülich Soft Matter Days |
ISMC 2010
The result of the vote for the location of the next
International Soft Matter Conference
has been announced during the Conference Dinner ISMC 2007:
it will be held in
GRANADA (Spain)
Supported by
Preliminary Program Jülich
Tuesday, November 11 | |
| 18.00 - 21.00 h | Registration/Welcome Buffet |
Wednesday, November 12 | |
| 8.00 h - 8:30 h | Registration (continued) |
| 8.40 h | Opening S. Schmidt (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany) |
| Session : Colloids I | |
| 9.00 h | C. Bechinger (Universität Stuttgart, Germany) Archimedean-like tilings on decagonal quasicrystalline surfaces |
| 9.30 h | Ch. Likos (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany) Multiple glassy states in star polymer mixtures |
| 10.00 h | W.K. Kegel (Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands) Colloids at oil-water interfaces |
| 10.30 h | A. Schweikart (Universität Bayreuth, Germany) Patterning of colloids based on controlled wrinkling |
| 10.50 h | Coffee/Tea Break |
| Session : Proteins | |
| 11.20 h | D.I. Svergun (EMBL Hamburg, Germany) Structural studies of biological macromolecules in solution by small-angle X-ray and neutron scattering |
| 11.50 h | G. Kneller (CNRS Orléans, France) Self-similar protein dynamics - computer simulations and experiments |
| 12.20 h | R. Biehl (Forschungszentrum Jülich, IFF, Germany) Diffusion and interdomain dynamics in yeast alcohol dehydrogenase |
| 12.50 h | E. Eiser (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom) Unusual protein aggregation in chinese century eggs |
| 13.10 h | Lunch |
| Session : Self Assembly | |
| 14.30 h | R. Lund (Universidad del Pais Vasco, San Sebastián, Spain) Self-assembly kinetics of block copolymer micelles |
| 15.00 h | T. Ohta (Kyoto University, Japan) Structural rheology of microphase separated diblock copolymers |
| 15.30 h | J. Elgeti (Forschungszentrum Jülich, IFF, Germany) Microscopic swimmers at surfaces |
| 16.00 h | M. Nakano (Kyoto University, Japan) Lipid transfer dynamics in nanoparticle systems |
| 16:30 h | C. Sykes (CNRS/Institut Curie, Paris, France) Reconstitution of cytoskeletal dynamics at a liposome membrane |
| 17.00 h | Poster Session | & Coffee/Tea Break |
| 19.00 h | Dinner |
Thursday, November 13 | |
| Session : Colloids II | |
| 8.30 h | L.M. Liz-Marzán (Universidade de Vigo, Spain) Gold nanoparticle-microgel composites: soft colloids with golden heart |
| 9.00 h | A. Imhof (Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands) Elastic deformation and buckling of microcapsules |
| 9.30 h | G. Nägele (Forschungszentrum Jülich, IFF, Germany) Dynamics of charged colloids and macromolecules: hydrodynamic and electrokinetic effects |
| 10.00 h | M. Oettel (Universität Mainz, Germany) Depletion potentials between colloids in a solvent confined to a slit |
| 10.20 h | Coffee/Tea Break |
| Session : Polymers I | |
| 11.00 h | T.P. Russell (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA) Capillary wrinkling of floating thin films |
| 11.30 h | M. Rubinstein (UNC-Chapel Hill, USA) Amplification of tension in branched macromolecules |
| 12.00 h | B. Loppinet (FORTH/IESL, Heraklion, Greece) Optically induced filaments in transparent entangled polydienes solutions |
| 12.20 h | T. Gisler (Universität Konstanz, Germany) Force-induced structural transitions in cross-linked DNA films |
| 12.40 h | C. Svaneborg (University of Aarhus, Denmark) Strain dependence of model polymer networks and their primitive-path meshes |
| 13.00 h | Lunch |
| 14.30 h | Poster session || & Coffee/Tea Break |
| Session : Hydrodynamics | |
| 16.30 h | M.J. Solomon (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA) Ordering colloids and anisotropic particles by means of flow and sedimentation |
| 17.00 h | R. Bar-Ziv (Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel) Microfluidic crystals: impossible order |
| 17.30 h | J.-L. Barrat (Université Claude Bernard Lyon, France) Some aspects of heat and mass transport at interfaces |
| 18.00 h | F. Mugele (University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands) Electrowetting-based nanoliter drop rheology and tensiometry of gelatine solutions |
| 18.20 h | J. Deschamps (Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel) Single vesicle dynamics in various flow |
| 19.30 h | Conference Dinner |
Friday, November 14 | |
| Session : Physics of the Cell | |
| 8.30 h | R. Metzler (TU München, Germany) Role of DNA conformations in gene control |
| 9.00 h | U. Schwarz (Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany) Cell shape and forces in patterned microenvironments |
| 9.30 h | F. Nédélec (EMBL Heidelberg, Germany) Modeling fiber organization in living cells |
| 10.00 h | J. Vermant (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) Bacterial Swarming: social behaviour or hydrodynamics? |
| 10.30 h | Coffee/Tea Break |
| Session : Polymers II | |
| 11.00 h | K. Yoshikawa (Kyoto University, Japan) Discrete transition of DNA: physical and biological significance |
| 11.30 h | D.J. Read (University of Leeds, United Kingdom) Predicting the rheology of multiply and randomly branched entangled polymer melts |
| 12.00 h | F. Stadler and C. Bailly (Université Catolique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) Using metallo-supramolecular associations to control the rheology of copolymer micellar networks |
| 12.20 h | F. Lequeux (ESPCI - CNRS, Paris, France) Dynamical wetting of water on hydrophilic polymer thin-films |
| 12.40 h | P. Schuetz (Unilever, Sharnbrook, United Kingdom) Stepwise self-assembly in PCL-PEO copolymer systems |
| 13.00 h | Closing |
| 13.10 h | Lunch |
| 14.30 h | Departure |
Last updated: 23 Nov 2020
