41st New England Workshop on Complex Fluids

Friday, December 4, 2009
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. Bettina Sobotka, BASF
"Bio-Surfaces at BASF"
10:00–10:30 a.m. Stefano Tonzani, Nature
"How to get published in Nature journals (and what else we are up to)"
10:40–11:00 a.m. Coffee, Maxwell-Dworkin, Ground Floor Lobby
11:00–12:00 p.m. Sound Bites Session I

Deepak Arora, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"Large strain requirements for shear-induced crystallization of Isotactic poly-1-butene"

Rajratan Basu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
"Nematic anchoring on carbon nanotubes"

Sergey Buldyrev, Yeshiva University
"Collapse transition of hydrophobic polymers in a simplified water model"

Krishna Sigdel, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
"Calorimetric study of phase transitions in barium titanate-liquid crystal nano-colloidal dispersions"

Nihar Ranjan Pradhan, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
"Phase transitions of liquid crystals confined inside carbon nanopipes"

Shanju Zhang, Yale University
"Liquid crystalline complexes of conjugated polymers"

Sebastian Seiffert, Harvard University
"Functional microgels tailored by droplet microfluidics"

Tobias M. Schneider, Harvard University
"Directed assembly in designed flow fields"

Zhiyong Meng, Yale University
"Investigation of rheology of cross-linker-free miocrogels"

Manesh Gopinadhan, Yale University
"Facile Alignment of amorphous poly(ethylene oxide) microdomains in a liquid crystalline block copolymer using magnetic fields towards ordered electrolyte membranes"

Pawel Majewski, Yale University
"Lamellar soft matter materials aligned to near single crystal quality by rotation in magnetic fields"

Ajay Negi, Yale University
"Frequency dependent aging in colloidal glass"

Yue Hu, Wellesley College
"Effects of surfactants on the stability of silica-silicone oil gels"

Jerome Fung, Harvard University
"Measuring colloid interactions with digital holographic microscopy and multi-particle scattering theory"

Jessica Baker, Clark University
"Random packing densities of the platonic solids"

Thomas Dimiduk, Harvard University
"Simple digital holographic microscope"

Guangnan Meng, Harvard University
"Crystallography on droplet interfaces"

Kan Du, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"Adsorption energy of nanoparticles at liquid-liquid interfaces"

Marina Ruths, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
"Odd-even effects in friction of phenyl-terminated SAMs"

Sharma Dipti, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
"Friction of gold nanoparticle-covered surfaces using AFM and colloidal probes"
12:00–1:30 p.m. Lunch, Maxwell-Dworkin, Room 119
Afternoon Presentations, Maxwell Dworkin, Room G115
1:30–2:00 p.m. Hartmut Löwen, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
"Particle-resolved instabilities in colloidal dispersions"
2:00–2:30 p.m. Tuomas Knowles, Harvard University
"Self-assembly of misfolded proteins"
2:30–3:30 p.m. Sound Bites Session II

Liang Haiyi, Harvard University
"How the lily blooms"

Mark Henle, Harvard University
"Thermal fluctuations of red blood cell membranes"

Natasha Lisitza, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard University
"Monitoring protein aggregation by NMR"

Vasily Zaburdaev, Harvard University
"Statistical analysis of trypanosome's motility"

Dichuan Li, Rice University
"Bending dynamics of DNA-linked colloidal particle chains"

Jesse Collins, Harvard University
"Light scattering measurements of protein-protein interaction energy"

Allen Ehrlicher, Harvard University
"Mechanotransduction in filamin A"

Thomas Angelini, Harvard University
"Collective swimming of Bacillus subtilis bacteria"

Connie Wilking, Harvard University
"Morphology and growth of bacteria in agar"

David Vader, Harvard University
"Microrheology of stiff biopolymer networks"

Wynter J. Duncanson, Harvard University
"Monodisperse biodegradable porous particles using droplets as templates"

Peng Li, University of Rhode Island
"A planar labyrinth micromixer"

Barry Scharfman, University of Pennsylvania
"Spatially-dependent elastic instabilities in flow around an array of cylinders"

Benjamin Chapman, Schlumberger-Doll Research
"Extracting connectivity in porous media from 2-D NMR relaxation measurements"

Justin Kao, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Drag-out of bubbles in coating flow"

Jacy Bird, Harvard University
"The bubble-bursting cascade"

Stephen Chapin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"High throughput flow alignment of barcoded hydrogel microparticles"

Ki Wan Bong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Hydrodynamic focusing lithography"

Sorell Massenburg, Harvard University
"Biological clogging in microfluidic channels"
3:30–4:00 p.m. Coffee and Cookies, Maxwell-Dworkin, Ground Floor Lobby
4:00 p.m. Condensed Matter Seminar, Pierce 209
Michael Rubinstein, University of North Carolina
"Physics of a lung (a simplified view of airway surface layer of a lung)"