Jülich Soft Matter Days 2018
20-23 November 2018
Campus of Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany
Scientific Programme
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Tuesday, 20 November | |
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| 18.00-21.00 h | Registration/Welcome Buffet |
Wednesday, November 21 | |
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| 8.00-8:50 h | Registration (continued) |
| 8.50 h | Opening |
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| 9.00 h | Laurent Blanchoin (Grenoble, France) Directed actin cytoskeleton self organization, contractility and motility |
| 9.30h | Thomas Speck (Mainz, Germany) Self-organization of active particles |
| 10.00 h | Marino Arroyo (Barcelona, Spain) Active superelasticity revealed by three-dimensional epithelial sheets of controlled size and shape |
| 10.30 h | Benno Liebchen (Düsseldorf, Germany) Self-assembled motility in colloidal clusters |
| 10.50 h | Coffee/Tea Break |
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| 11.20 h | Vinothan Manoharan (Harvard, USA) Responsive and dynamic DNA-grafted colloids |
| 11.50 h | Laura Na Liu (Heidelberg, Germany) The DNA origami route for nanoplasmonics |
| 12.20 h | Manolis Stiakakis (Jülich, Germany) Molecular engineering of model soft-matter systems using DNA |
| 12.50 h | Lunch |
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| 14.20 h | Dirk Aarts (Oxford, United Kingdom) Contact values of pair distribution functions in colloidal hard disks by test-particle insertio |
| 14.50 h | Erika Eiser (Cambridge, United Kingdom) Design and rheology of DNA hydrogels: Experiments & simulations |
| 15.20 h | Leo Gury (Heraklion, Greece) Jamming of multi-arm star polymers viewed as model soft hairy colloids |
| 15.40 h | Qimeng Wu (Wageningen, The Netherlands) Exploring physics governing syneresis in colloid polymer mixtures |
| 16.00 h | Paul van der Schoot (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) The shape and structure of nematic liquid crystalline droplets |
| 16.20 h | Poster session I & Coffee/Tea Break |
| 18.00 h | Departure for the Conference Dinner |
Thursday, November 22 | |
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Session: Flow and Microfluidics | |
| 8.30 h | Christian Wagner (Saarbrücken, Germany) 3D tomography of blood flow |
| 9.00 h | Lorenzo Botto (London, United Kingdom) Graphene hydrodynamics: insights into microscale flow processes through theory and simulation |
| 9.30 h | Charles Baroud
(Palaiseau, France) Studying Ostwald ripening in microfluidic devices: Wet foams and armored bubbles |
| 10.00 h | Armin Knoll (Zürich, Switzerland) Nanofluidic rocked Brownian motors for precise separation of nanoparticle populations |
| 10.20 h | Coffee/Tea Break |
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| 11.00 h | Andreas Herrmann (Aachen, Germany) Dynamic and functional nanoarchitectures from DNA amphiphiles and supercharged polypeptides |
| 11.30 h | Thomas Waigh (Manchester, United Kingdom) Single-molecule imaging of self-assembled peptide gel dynamics demonstrates states of self-stress |
| 12.00 h | Martin Dulle (Jülich, Germany) Quasicrystals from block copolymer micelles |
| 12.20 h | Klaus Huber (Paderborn, Germany) Investigation of filament formation of an intermediary filament protein with in-situ multi-angle light scattering |
| 12.40 h | Daniela Russo (Grenoble, France) Structure and dynamics of protein-polymer conjugates: the effect of polymer coating and interaction |
| 13.00 h | Lunch |
| 14.30 h | Poster session II & Coffee/Tea Break |
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| 16.30 h | Robin Ras
(Aalto, Finland) The challenge of accurate characterization of surface wetting |
| 17.00 h | Cécile Monteux (Paris, France) Bubbles and drops encapsulation by assembling polymers and colloids at liquid interfaces |
| 17.30 h | Kilian Dietrich (Zürich, Switzerland) Active atoms and interstitials in two-dimensional colloidal crystals |
| 17.50 h | Joeri Opdam (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) Phase behaviour of colloidal superball-polymer mixtures |
| 18.10 h | Alessio Squarcini (Stuttgart, Germany) Critical Casimir interaction between generalized colloidal Janus particles in two spatial dimensions |
| 19.00 h | Dinner Buffet See Casinor |
Friday, November 23 | |
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| 8.30 h | Felix Rico (Marseille, France) Probing the mechanics of living cells at short timescales |
| 9.00 h | Mark Tibbitt (Zürich, Switzerland) Photoresponsive hydrogels to investigate dynamic cell-matrix interactions and cellular mechanical memory |
| 9.30 h | Joachim Rädler (München, Germany) Cell migration on artificial micro-patterns |
| 10.00 h | Benedikt Sabass (Jülich, Germany) Surface colonization by bacteria: force measurement and modelling |
| 10.30 h | Coffee/Tea Break |
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| 11.00 h | Pascal Silberzan (Paris, France) Active cellular nematics: spontaneous flows and topological defects |
| 11.30 h | Vasily Zaburdaev (Dresden, Germany) From single bacterial cells to microcolonies: the role of active force generation |
| 12.00 h | Oleksandr Chepizhko (Innsbruck, Austria) Ideal circle microswimmers in crowded media |
| 12.20 h | Corinna Maass (Göttingen, Germany) From “run-and-spiral” to “stop-and-go”: tuning the dynamics of active emulsions |
| 12.40 h | Ahmet Demirörs (Zürich, Switzerland) Colloidal shuttles for programmable cargo delivery |
| 13.00 h | Closing |
| 13.10 h | Lunch |
| 14.30 h | Departure |
Last updated: 23 Nov 2020
Additional Information
JSMDAYS 2018
Active polymers
Contact:
Workshop Secretary
Angelika Schmitz
Phone: +49 2461 61-2292
Fax: +49 2461 61-2765
Email: jsmdays@fz-juelich.de
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