42nd New England Workshop on Complex Fluids

Friday, March 5, 2010
Luce Hall
34 Hillhouse Avenue
Yale University
8:45 a.m.–4:30 p.m.

8:45–9:25 a.m. Breakfast and Registration
9:30–10:00 a.m. Prof. Patrick Underhill, Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
"Examining the coil-stretch transition in flexible polymers"
10:00–10:30 a.m. Prof. Michael Choma, Dept. of Diagostic Radiology, Yale University School of Medicine
"Microfluidic cardiovascular systems - lessons learned from the fruit fly"
10:30–11:00 a.m. Coffee I
11:00–12:00 p.m. Sound Bites Session I

Rafael Aguade Cabanas Brandeis University
"Dynamics of Rods and Spheres"

Dipti Sharma University of Massachusetts Lowell
"Smectic A to Nematic Phase Transition of the Aligned Octylcyanobiphenyl Could Bring Faster Response in Smectic Liquid Crystal Devices"

Woo-Sik Jang, Jodie L. Lutkenhaus; Yale University
"Thermal behaviors of poly(allylamine hydrochloride)/poly(acrylic acid) ultra thin layer-by-layer assembly"

Manesh Gopinadhan, Pawel Majewski, Chinedum Osuji; Yale University
"Alignment of Hydrogen Bonded Liquid Crystalline Block Copolymers by Magnetic Fields"

Maria Sammalkorpi, Paul R. Van Tassel; Yale University
"Polyelectrolyte adsorption at a conducting surface"

Sara Hashmi, Abbas Firoozabadi; Yale University
"Stability in Asphaltene Suspensions"

Ajay Negi, Chinedum Osuji; Yale University
"Stress activated dynamics during structural arrest"

Lin Shao, Jodie L. Lutkenhaus; Yale University
"Thermal properties of free-standing electrostatic layer-by-layer assemblies"

Lu Zhang, Yale University
"Dielectrophoresis of Janus Particles in AC Electric Fields"

Tom Kodger, Joris Sprakel, Rodrigo Guerra, David A. Weitz; Harvard University
"Aqueous Hard Sphere Colloids"

Pawel Majewski, Manesh Gopinadhan, Woo Sik-Jang, Jodie Lutkenhaus, Chinedum Osuji; Yale University
"Magnetically aligned lithium-conducting polymer membranes"

Melik Demirel; Pennsylvania State University
"Directional Properties of Polymeric Nanofilms"

Zhiyong Meng, Menachem Elimelech; Yale University
"JaAggregation of Fullerene Nanoparticles in Aquesous Phase"
12:00–1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30–2:00 p.m. Prof. Surita Bhatia, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, UMass-Amherst
"Microstructural Characterization of Glasses and Gels"
2:00–2:30 p.m. Prof. Julio Fernandez, Dept. of Biology, Columbia University
"The folding and chemistry of single proteins under force"
2:30–3:30 p.m. Sound Bites Session II

Sujit Datta, Rodrigo Guerra, Kosta Ladavac, Anderson Shum, David A. Weitz; Harvard University
"Mechanics of Particle-Stabilized Emulsions"

Heeso Noh, Hui Cao; Yale University
"How non-iridescent colors are generated by quasi-ordered structures of bird feathers"

Robert Hoy, Corey S. O'Hern; Yale University
"Minimal Energy Polymer Packings"

Guy German, E. Pashkovski, E.R. Dufresne; Yale University
"Imaging stress in skin"

S.S. Ashwin, Jerzy Blawzdziewicz, Corey O'Hern, Mark Shattuck; Yale University/CCNY
"Effect of Thermalization in Jamming Protocols"

Jin Gyu Park, Eric R. Dufresne; Yale University
"Self-assembly of nano-dumbbells into 3D photonic crystals"

Carl Schreck, Jin-Gyu Park, Eric Dufresne, S.S. Ashwin, Corey O'Hern; Yale University
"Simulation and Analytic Studies on Packings of Anisotropic Objects in a Confined Space"

Tianqi Shen, Corey S. O'Hern; Yale University
"Coarse Grained Modelling of Protein Gels"

Vinodkumar Saranathan, Richard O. Prum; Yale University
"Structure and Optical Function of Avian Amorphous Photonic Nanostructures in Feather Barbs"

Ye Xu, Yury Yarovoy, Eric Dufresne; Yale University/Unilever R&D
"Imaging micro-stress in drying soap films"

Jason Forster, Yale University
"Biomimetic isotropic nanostructures for structural coloration"

Kang, Brannon R. McCullough, Matthew Akamatsu, Enrique M. De La Cruz; Yale University
"The role of ion binding in F-actin assembly"

Jason Merrill, Hui Cao and Eric R. Dufresne; Yale University
"Random lasing as a probe of soft matter systems"
3:30–4:00 p.m. Coffee and Cookies II
4:00–4:30 p.m. Prof. Michael Brenner, SEAS, Harvard University
"Scaling and shear transformations capture beak shape variation in Darwina~@~Ys Finches"