Jülich Soft Matter Days 2012
13-16 November 2012
Seminaris Hotel Bad Honnef, Germany
Scope and Topics
New challenges for and applications of Soft Matter Science are emerging. For example, active particle suspensions have properties unknown to complex fluids in equilibrium; nano and microfluidic devices allow the study of minute samples, sometimes on the single molecule level; soft materials provide new solutions for energy and medical applications, as well as for nanotechnology.
Therefore, in this years meeting, which will take place in the vicinity of Jülich from 13 to 16 November 2012, we intend to focus on:
- Active Fluids
- Biosystems
- Complex Fluids
- Nanofluidics
- Soft Matter & Energy
- Soft Matter & Medical
Soft Nanotechnology
Important Dates
| 15 June 2012 | Submission of Abstracts and Notification |
| 6 Juli 2012 | Notification of acceptance and start of final registration |
| August 2012 | 2nd Announcement |
| 14 September 2012 | Deadline for final Registration |
| 13-16 November 2012 | Jülich Soft Matter Days |
Tuesday, November 13 | |
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| at 16.00 h | Registration is possible |
| 18.00 – 21.00 h | Registration/Welcome Buffet |
Wednesday, November 14 | |
| 8.00 h - 8:50 h | Registration (continued) |
Session: Active Fluids | |
| 9.00 h | J.F. Brady (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA) Chemical Swimming |
| 9.30 h | P.Tierno (Universitat de Barcelona Diagonal Sud, Spain) Paramagnetic micro-ellipsoids: from guided motion to Janus composites |
| 10.00 h | R. Di Leonardo (Universita di Roma ’La Sapienza’, Italy) Off-equilibrium dynamics of colloidal particles in active baths of swimming bacteria |
| 10.30 h | D. Pushkin (University of Oxford, United Kingdom) Mixing by individual swimmers |
| 10.50 h | Coffee/Tea Break |
Session: Nanofluidics | |
| 11.20 h | D. Lohse (University of Twente, The Netherlands) Droplet impact on (superheated) surfaces |
| 11.50 h | R. Seemann (Universität des Saarlandes u. MPI Göttingen, Germany) Dynamic reorganizations of droplet arrangements |
| 12.20 h | L. Bocquet (Université Claude Bernard, Lyon, France) Strange fluid transport inside a single nanotube |
| 12.50 h | J. van der Gucht (Wageningen University, The Netherlands) Ordering of particles on curved interfaces by capillary interactions |
| 13.10 h | Lunch |
Session: Biosystems I | |
| 14.30 h | W.C.K. Poon (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom) Bacteria as active colloids |
| 15.00 h | D. Danino (Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel) Insight from Cryo-EM into Self-Assembly, Dynamics and Nanostructure of Soft Matter |
| 15.30 h | G. Fuller (Stanford University, USA) Response of endothelial cells to stagnation point flows |
| 16.00 h | S. Grumbein*to be confirmed (Technische Universität München, Germany) Viscoelastic properties of bacterial biofilms challenged with chemicals |
| 16.20 h | A. Heuer (Westf. Wilhems-Universität Münster, Germany) Raft formation in a multicomponent membrane: insight from coarse grained and microscopic simulations |
| 16.40 h | Poster session I & Coffee/Tea Break |
| 19.00 h | Dinner |
Thursday, November 15 | |
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Session: Soft Matter & Energy | |
| 8.30 h | R.C. Agrawal (Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, India) Nano-Composite Polymer Electrolytes (NCPE’s): Novel Energy Materials for All-Solid-State Batteries |
| 9.00 h | A.L. Frischknecht (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, USA) Simulation of Ionic Aggregation and Dynamics in Ion-Containing Polymers |
| 9.30 h | K. Kremer (Max-Planck-Institut f. Polymerforschung, Mainz, Germany) |
| 10.00 h | J. Thijssen (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom) Particle-stabilized bi-liquid foams for energy-storage applications |
| 10.20 h | Coffee/Tea Break |
Session: Complex Fluids I | |
| 11.00 h | T. Hellweg (Universität Bielefeld, Germany) Diffusion of proteins inside bicontinuous microelmulsions: A model system to simulate "controlled" crowding |
| 11.30 h | O. Holderer (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany) Accelerated membrane dynamics adjacent to a flat interface |
| 12.00 h | M.P. Lettinga (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany) Frustrating colloidal rods |
| 12.30 h | V. Steinberg (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel) Amplification of thermal noise by vesicle dynamics |
| 12.50 h | A. Voigt (Universität Dresden, Germany) Coarsening in lipid bilayers - the influence of bulk and surface viscosity |
| 13.10 h | Lunch |
| 14.30 h | Poster session II & Coffee/Tea Break |
Session: Soft Nanotechnology | |
| 16.30 h | J. Howse (The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom) Colloidal nanoswimmers - From Run and Tumble to a Strategy for Synthetic Chemotaxis using a volume change |
| 17.00 h | C. Weder (Adolphe Merkle Institut, Universität Fribourg, Switzerland) Mechanically adaptive polymer nanocomposites |
| 17.30 h | J. Dobnikar (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom) Collective ordering of micro- and nanoparticles in grafted polymer layers |
| 18.00 h | G.P. Baeza ( Laboratoire Charles Coulomb, Montpellier, France) Crossroads between structure and mechanics in nanocomposites styrene-butadien-rubber / silica for tire applications |
| 18.20 h | J.W.J. de Folter (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) Generic, thermoreversible assembly of colloids in microtubes |
| 19.30 h | Conference Dinner |
Friday, November 16 | |
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Session: Biosystems II / Soft Matter Medical | |
| 8.30 h | J-F. Joanny (Institut Curie, Paris, France) Mechanics and instabilities of growing tissues |
| 9.00 h | D.A. Fedosov (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany) Blood rheology and blood flow in microvessels |
| 9.30 h | B. Fabry (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany) Cell migration in confined porous environments |
| 10.00 h | A.G. Denkova (Technical University Delft, The Netherlands) Polymersomes as nano-carriers in nuclear medicine |
| 10.20 h | S. Zakharchenko (Leibniz-Institut f. Polymerforschung Dresden e.V., Germany) Hierarchically self-assembled hydrogel-based materials with aligned pores for tissue engineering scaffolds |
| 10.40 h | Coffee/Tea Break |
Session: Complex Fluids II | |
| 11.30 h | M. Sano (University of Tokyo, Japan) Nonequilibrium fluctuation and dynamics of active colloids |
| 12.00 h | G.T. Barkema (Instituut-Lorentz for Theoretical Physics, Leiden, The Netherlands) Long-time dynamics simulations of polymers |
| 12.30 h | H.-P. Hsu (Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Germany) Effect of stiffness on the adsorption transition of single semiflexible polymer chains attached to a flat solid surface |
| 12.50 h | J. Vermant (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) Extensional rheometry at interfaces |
| 13.10 h | F. Lehmkühler (DESY Hamburg, Germany) Detecting local order beyond the pair correlations in hard-sphere systems |
| 13.30 h | Closing |
| 13.40 h | Lunch |
| 14.30 h | Departure |
Last updated: 23 Nov 2020
