50th New England Workshop on Complex Fluids

Friday, March 16, 2012
Luce Hall
34 Hillhouse Avenue
Yale University
8:45 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Invited Speakers:

8:45–9:25 a.m. Breakfast and Registration, Luce Hall Common Room
9:30–10:05 a.m. Prof. Jan Schroers, Yale University
"Metallic glasses form like plastics"
10:05–10:40 a.m. Prof. Ilona Kretzschmar, CCNY
"Reaction-driven Janus and patchy particle dynamics"
10:40–11:00 a.m. Coffee I, Luce Hall Common Room
11:00–12:00 p.m. Sound Bites Session I: Luce Hall Auditorium

12:00–1:30 p.m. Lunch, Luce Hall Common Room
1:30–2:05 p.m. Prof. Craig Maloney, Carnegie Mellon University
"Diffusion in soft particle suspensions near jamming"
2:05–2:40 p.m. Prof. Daniel Blair, Georgetown University
"How size and stran determine the strength of soft materials"
2:40–3:45 p.m. Sound Bites Session II

3:45–4:15 p.m. Coffee and Cookies
4:15–4:50 p.m. Prof. Michael Falk, Johns Hopkins University
"Plastic flow and failure in metallic glass/nanocrystal composites"