35th New England Workshop on Complex Fluids
Friday, June 27, 2008
University of Rhode Island
Cherry Auditorium, Kirk Engineering Center
AGENDA
| 8:45–9:25am | Breakfast and Registration, Atrium – Cherry Auditorium |
| Morning Presentations | |
| 9:30–10:05 am | Prof. Pankaj Karande, RPI "Tailoring Surfactant Mixtures for Transdermal Drug Delivery" |
| 10:05–10:40 am | Prof. Diane Hoffman-Kim, Brown University "Axon Guidance in Complex Environments—Keystones for Nerve Repair Technologies" |
| 10:40–11:00 am | Coffee I, Atrium – Cherry Auditorium |
| 11:00–12:00 pm | Sound Bites Session I Donald Aubrecht, School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, Harvard University "Dim drop, bright drop, wrong drop, right drop." Alexis Berges, Harvard "Drying of a colloid-emulsion mixture" Divya Chandra, Dept. of Chemical & Biological Eng Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute "Multifunctional Therapeutics" Ashish Jha, URI "Microstructural tuning of mixed-surfactant vesicles through Interaction with surface functionalized polystyrene nanopheres" Rebecca Christianson, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering "Thermal Transport in Colloidal Suspensions" Geoffrey Bothun, URI Chemical Engineering "Lipid-assisted formation and dispersion of aqueous nano-C60" Kringle Daly, Clark University "Metropolis algorithm for thermodynamically stable vesicle shapes" Elissa Dunn, Yale University "Self-Assembled Monolayers of Hard Colloidal Dimers" Jerome Fung, Harvard University, Department of Physics "Digital holographic microscopy of colloidal particles on a droplet" Hector Gonzalez, Brandeis University "Coupling between chemical oscillators in two-dimensional arrays" Manesh Gopinadhan, Department of Chemical Engineering, Yale University "Supramolecular Self-Assembly of Hydrogen-Bonded Liquid crystalline Polymer in the Melt State" Edouard Hannezo, SEAS Harvard "Understanding collective cell dynamics using continuum mechanics and drugs" Katherine Humphry, Department of Physics, Harvard University "Beating Poisson statistics: Controlled encapsulation in monodisperse droplets" Grace Li, Brown University "Neurite Outgrowth Multimolecular Gradients" |
| 12:00–1:30 pm | Lunch, University Club |
| Afternoon Presentations | |
| 1:30–2:05 pm | Dr. Darren Link, Raindance Technologies "NanoReactors: High Throughput Biology in Droplets" |
| 2:05–2:40 pm | Prof. Paul Calvert, UMass Dartmouth "Inkjet Printing of Biomaterials and Cells" |
| 2:40–3:45 pm | Sound Bites Session II Pandurang Kulkarni, Levich Institute and Dept of Chemical Engineering "Inertial migration of particles in a pressure-driven rectangular duct flow" Sandeep Kulkarni, City College, City University of New York "Transient Jamming: Intermittency in concentrated suspension flow" Jinkee Lee, Harvard University, SEAS and OEB "Xylem hydraulic resistance in plants" Michael Greenfield, University of Rhode Island, Dept. Chemical Eng. "Intermolecular Packing in Model Asphalt Systems" Airan Ashish, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Rhode Island "Mathematically modeling a fermentation bioreactor" Ajay Negi, Yale University "Vorticity Aligned Structures in Shear Thickening Colloidal Gels" Walter Reisner, Brown University, Danish Technical University "Digital DNA: Physics of DNA in Nanopit Lattices" Erica Saltzman, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts at Amherst "Model Polymer Dynamics in Linear Series of Chambers and Pores" Dr. Dipti Sharma, UMass Lowell, Lowell, MA "Adsorption of Gold NanoColloids on p-Aminothiophenol-Modified Au Substrates" Gurtej Singh, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute "Transdermal delivery of short peptides as sub-unit vaccines" Eli Sloutskin, Physics Department & SEAS, Harvard "Critical damping of thermal capillary waves in an ionic liquid" "Crystal Nucleation in Hard Sphere Colloids" Thomas Angelini, SEAS, Harvard "cell density waves emerge from collective cell migration" Baoguo Wang, Harvard University "Shape transition of polymer particles made in microchannel" Jayashri Sarkar, URI "Catalysis of support/nanocatalyst composites" Celinda Kofron, Brown University "Neurite Outgrowth on Aligned Glial Cell Topographies" |
| 3:45–4:15 pm | Coffee and Cookies, Atrium – Cherry Auditorium |
| 4:15–4:50 pm | Dr. Ian Morrison, Cabot Corporation "Finally, Foams!" |