44th New England Workshop on Complex Fluids
Shapiro Campus Center Theater
Brandeis University

Friday, September 10, 2010
9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Invited Speakers:

Susan J. Muller (Chemical Engineering, UC Berkeley)
John Bechhoefer, (Physics, Simon Fraser University)
Katia Bertoldi (Applied Mechanics, Harvard University)
Yue Hu (Physics, Wellesley College)

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9:00-9:30 a.m. Registration & Coffee
Shapiro Campus Center, Room 236
Sponsored by the Brandeis University MRSEC
9:30-10:00 a.m. Susan J. Muller, Chemical Engineering, UC Berkeley
Experiments in microfluidic stagnation point flows: opportunities for trapping, deforming, and analyzing DNA, vesicles & other microscale objects
10:00-10:15 a.m. 10 minute discussion
10:15-10:45 a.m. John Bechhoefer, Physics, Simon Fraser University
DNA replication: for better or for worse
10:45-11:00 a.m. 10 minute discussion
11:00-11:30 a.m. Coffee I, Shapiro Center, Room 236
11:30-12:30 p.m. Sound Bites Session I
12:30-1:30 p.m. Lunch, Shapiro Center, Room 236
1:30-2:00 p.m. Katia Bertoldi, Applied Mechanics, Harvard University
The Use of Instabilities to Create Materials with Tunable Properties
2:00-3:15 a.m. 10 minute discussion
2:15-2:45 p.m. Yue Hu, Physics, Wellesley College
The role of surfactants in suppressing aging of silica-PDMS gels
2:45-3:00 a.m. 10 minute discussion
3:00-3:30 a.m. Coffee I, Shapiro Center, Room 236
3:30-4:30 p.m. Sound Bites Session II