37th New England Workshop on Complex Fluids

Friday, December 5, 2008
Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
Harvard University

AGENDA

8:45–9:25 a.m. Breakfast and Registration, Maxwell-Dworkin, Ground Floor Lobby
Morning Presentations, Maxwell-Dworkin, Room G115
9:30–10:00 a.m. Robert J. Wood, Harvard University
"Robotic Flies"
10:00–10:30 a.m. Hera Vlamakis, Havard Medical School
"Cellular Differentiation in Bacterial Biofilms"
10:40–11:00 a.m. Coffee, Maxwell-Dworkin, Ground Floor Lobby
11:00–12:00 p.m. Sound Bites Session I

Greg Huber, University of Connecticut and University of Connecticut Health Center
"Diffusion in a Dynamic Crowded Space"

Seila Selimovic, Brandeis University
"Microfluidic Phase Chip for Exploration of Concentration/Temperature Phase Diagrams"

Katherine Humphry, Harvard University
"Microwave Dielectric Heating of Drops in Microfluidic Devices"

Edward Barry, Harvard University
"Chiral Influences in a Self-Assembling System"

Sang-Kee Eah, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
"Charged Nanopaticles in Nonpolar Solvents"

Toshimitsu Kanai, Harvard University
"Crystallization of Charged Colloids in Nonpolar Solvents Enabled by Reverse Micelles"

Guangnan Meng, Harvard University
"Optical Properties of Core-Shell Colloidal Particles"

Sunil Sainis, Rowland Institute at Harvard
"Colloidal Physics Using Microresonator Cavities"

Matthias Schneider, University of Augsburg/Center of Nanoscience, Munich, Germany
"Driven Microfluidics in Bulk and Soft Interfaces"

Dipti Sharma, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
"Shear-Induced Rearrangement of Gold Nanoparticles on Self-Assembled Monolayers of p-Aminothiophenol"

Eli Sloutskin, Harvard University
"Nonspherical Crystal Nuclei are Stabilized by Entropy"

Rajratan Basu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
"Carbon Nanotube Dispersed Liquid Crystal: A Nano-Electromechanical System"

Badr Kaoui, CNRS, Université de Grenoble, France
"Modeling and Simulation of Vesicle Dynamics"

Gwennou Coupier, Université de Grenoble, France
"Solute Concentration Profiles around Vesicles in Microchannels"

Eric Dufresne, Yale University
"Imaging Stress in Drying Colloidal Films"

Ian Morrison, Cabot Corporation
"Are Clouds Soft Matter? Is the Physics Squishy?"

Danielle Raad, Brown University
"Fabrication of Reversibly Adhesive Fluidic Devices by Magnetic Adhesion"

Krishna Sigdel, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
"Calorimetric Study of the Isotropic-Nematic and the Nematic-Smectic: A Phase Transition in Carbon Nanotubes and Liquid Crystal"

John Kolinski, Harvard University
"Rolling Rucks in Rugs"

Mark Romanowsky, Harvard University
"Valve-based Flow Focusing for Drop Formation"

Jason Merril, Yale University
"Pairwise Additivity in Colloidal Electrostatics"
12:00–1:30 p.m. Lunch, Maxwell-Dworkin, Room 119
Afternoon Presentations, Maxwell Dworkin, Room G115
1:30–2:00 p.m. Steven Becker, RainDance Technologies
"The Unique Power of Droplet-based Biological Research"
2:00–2:30 p.m. Evelyn Wang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Tunable Nanoengineered Surfaces for Microfluidics and Energy"
2:30–3:30 p.m. Sound Bites Session II

David R. Nelson, Harvard University
"Gene Segregation in Microorganisms"

Daniel Reeves, Brandeis University
"Biochemistry on a Leash: Regulation of Biochemical Reaction Rates by Flexible Tethers"

Yi-Chia Lin, Harvard University
"Elastic Properties of Vimentin Networks"

Patrick Underhill, Rensselear Polytech Institute
"Mechanism for Collective Bacteria in Suspensions of Swimming Microorganisms"

Vivek Sharma, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Breath-Figure-Templated Assembly of Ordered Arrays of Pores in Polymer Films"

Sarah Veatch, Cornell University
"Critical Fluctuations in Biomembranes"

Petia Vlahovska, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College
"Vesicles in Poiseuille Flow"

Wesley Wong, Harvard University
"Beyond the Frame Rate: Measuring High-Frequency Fluctuations with Light Intensity Modulation"

Randy Ewoldt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Controllable Adhesion Using Field-Responsive Yield Stress Fluids"

Otger Campas, Harvard University
"Tip Growth of Pollen Tubes"

Henry Fu, Brown University
"Theory of Swimming Filaments in Viscoelastic Fluids"

Johannes Soulages, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"New Opposed-Nozzle Fixture for Measuring the Extensional Properties of Low Viscosity Liquids"

Hyeran Kang, Brown University
"Mechanics of Biomimetic Systems Propelled by Actin Comet Tails"

Sigolene Lecuyer, Harvard University
"Geometric Cue for Protein Localization in a Bacterium"

Guanglai Li, Brown University
"Accumulation of Microswimmers near Surface due to Steric Confinement and Rotational Brownian Motion"

Haiyi Liang, Harvard University
"The Shapes of Leaves"

Etienne Reyssat, Harvard University
"Hygromorphs"

Ling Chao, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Sphingomyelinase-Induced Phase Transformations and Spatial Morphology Switches in Model Raft Membranes"

Thomas Angelini, Harvard University
"Matrix Production in Response to Nutrient Depletion in Bacillus Subtillis Biofilms"

Amy Rowat, Harvard University
"Tracking Single Cell Lineages Using a Microfluidic Device"

Jeremy Agresti, Harvard University
"Ultra High-Throughput Screening of Enzyme Repertoires in Microfluidic Drops"

Greg Morrison, Harvard University
"Reversibility in Microfluidic Systems"
3:30–4:00 p.m. Coffee and Cookies, Maxwell-Dworkin, Ground Floor Lobby
4:00 p.m. Condensed Matter Seminar, Pierce 209
Daniel Fletcher, University of California at Berkeley
"Microfluidic Jets for Medicine and Biology"