Amsterdam-New Amsterdam Workshop
on Soft Condensed Matter Physics
9-11 November 2006
Organized by the Center for Soft Matter Research
of the Physics Department
at New York University
Photographs of meeting
Location of meeting
| New York Academy of Sciences |
| 250 Greenwich Street, 40th Floor |
| New York (Manhattan), NY 10007-2157 |
| (Directions & Maps) |
Meeting times
| November | 9 | (Thursday) | 3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m |
| November | 10 | (Friday) | 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. |
| November | 11 | (Saturday) | 8:30 a.m. – noon |
Schedule
| Thursday November 9 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 15:30 | Coffee & Tea | |
| 16:00 | Daan Frenkel | Evidence for "anti-Van der Waals" behavior in colloids |
| 17:00 | Reception | |
| Friday November 10 | ||
| 9:00 | Christoph Schmidt | Dynamics of motor-activated semiflexible polymer networks |
| 9:30 | Fred Mackintosh | Non-linear elasticity and contractile fluctuations in active biopolymer gels |
| 10:00 | Marileen Dogterom | Microtubule polymerization forces in vitro and in vivo |
| 10:30 | BREAK | |
| 11:00 | Jasna Brujić | Glimpses of the protein folding landscape from AFM force spectroscopy experiments |
| 11:30 | Joel Stavens | How is DNA compacted to form the bacterial chromosome? |
| 12:00 | LUNCH | |
| 13:00 | Erika Eiser | DNA-coated colloids |
| 13:30 | Wim Van Saarloos | Soft hard matter – the response of granular media near jamming |
| 13:50 | Larry Hough | Rheology of HASE polymer solutions: Analogies to adhesive colloids and soft glassy materials |
| 14:10 | Gerard Wegdam | Controlling colloidal interactions by the temperature |
| 14:30 | BREAK | |
| 15:00 | David Reichman | Growing Dynamic Length Scales in Glassy Systems |
| 15:30 | Cornelis Storm | Large-scale structure in supercooled glycerol |
| 15:50 | Peter Schall | Strain distribution in sheared colloidal crystals and glasses |
| 16:20 | David Grier | Particles in optical vortices |
| 16:50 | GO TO NYU | |
| 17:30 | POSTERS | Physics Department, 6th floor Meyer Hall 4 Washington Place (at Broadway) |
| Saturday November 11 | ||
| 9:00 | Alfons van Blaaderen | Colloids in electric fields |
| 9:30 | Paul Chaikin | Crystalline Emulsions and Colloids: Electrostatics of Oil/Water and Oil/Water/Solid Mixtures |
| 10:00 | Bill Meyer | Data Synthesis, Analysis, and Dynamic Light Scattering Instrumentation Design |
| 10:20 | BREAK | |
| 10:40 | Willem Kegel | Charge regulation as a stabilization mechanism for shell-like assemblies |
| 11:10 | David Pine | Reversibility and self-organization in particle suspensions |
| 11:40 | Discussion & wrap-up | |
| 12:00 | END OF MEETING | |
Contacts
- Jessica Ong
Electronic mail: jo234@nyu.edu
Telephone: 212-998-3579
Please contact Jessica Ong about lodging, travel arrangements, and other administrative matters as she is the most knowledgeable person. - David Pine
Electronic mail: pine@nyu.edu
Telephone: 212-998-7744
Contact David Pine about the scientific program or if you are desperate for inaction on some administrative matter.
Sponsored by the Center for Soft Matter Research at New York University and by the New York Academy of Sciences.