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33rd New England Workshop on Complex Fluids
November 30, 2007
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.	Jens Rieger, BASF, Germany and Harvard University "Precursor Structures in Crystallization"
10:00–10:30 a.m.	Jin-Woong Kim, Amore Pacific R&D Center, Korea "Nonspherical Colloidal Particles"
10:40–11:00 a.m.	Coffee, Maxwell-Dworkin, Ground Floor Lobby
11:00–12:00 p.m.	Sound Bites I
	L. Mahadevan, Harvard University and University of Toronto Watching Mud Crack
	Alexander Kuehne, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom Novel Deep UV Transparent Photo-Polymers and their Applications in Photonic Devices and Labs-on-Chips
	Guangnan Meng, Harvard University Self-Assembly of Colloidal Particles at Small N
	Sean Ling, Brown University Balkanization and Co-existence of 2-D Charged Colloids on a Rough Landscape
	Adeline Perro, Harvard University Self-Assembly of Hybrid Colloidal Particles
	Ernst van Nierop, Harvard University Soap Film Thickness: Revisiting the Frankel Law
	Kisun Yoon, Harvard University Measuring Separation Distances of Colloid Particles Using Light Scattering
	Natalie Arkus, Harvard University Directed Self-Assembly of Spherical Particles
	Justin Caram, Harvard University Rotational Motion of Colloidal Clusters in Three Dimensions
	Shreyas Mandre, Harvard University Singing Bottles
	Etienne Reyssat, Harvard University and ESPC, Paris Air Entrainment by a Jet
	Jerome Fung, Harvard University Digital Holographic Microscopy Under Time-Averaged Zero Gravity
	Trush Majmudar, MIT Instabilities in Viscoelastic Jets
	Randy Ewoldt, MIT Nonlinear Viscoelasticity: Do You Trust Your Rheometer?
	Elise Novitski, Yale University The Effect of Electric Field Gradients on Phase Separation in a Binary Fluid
	Kashma Rai, Drexel University and University of Bologna Microscopy and Spectroscopy Studies of Liquid Crystal Dispersions in Thin Films
	Kashma Rai, Drexel University and University of Bologna Fabrication Technique for Broadening Reflected Wavelengths of Thin-Film Holograms
	David Kaz, Harvard University The Uber Scope
	Keqin Zhang, National University of Singapore Tuneable Phase Behavior of Colloidal Spheres Under an Alternating Electric Field
	Philipp Erni, MIT The Shear History Extensional Rheology Experiment on the International Space Station
12:00–1:30 p.m.	Lunch, Maxwell-Dworkin, Room 119
	Afternoon Presentations, Maxwell Dworkin, Room G115
1:30–2:00 p.m.	Azedah Samadani, Brandeis University "Single Cell Visualization of the DNA Repair in vivo"
2:00–2:30 p.m.	Jay X. Tang, Brown University "Physics of Bacterial Swimming"
2:30–3:30 p.m.	Sound Bites II
	Greg Huber, University of Connecticut Health Center and University of Connecticut A Bit of Randomness from the Ministry of Silly Walks: The Barber-Pole Walk
	John Higgins, Harvard, Brigham and Womens Hospital, MIT, University of Illinois-Chicago Random Walks of Flowing Red Blood Cells
	Emily Gardel, Harvard University Imaging Stem Cell Aggregation Using Digital Holographic Microscopy
	Adam Abate, Harvard University Glass Coating for PDMS Microfluidic Channels by Sol-Gel Methods
	Yanwei Jia, Brandeis University Linear after the Exponential Polymerase Chain Reaction --LATE-PCR
	Dipti Sharma, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Arrhenius-like Activated Kinetics of Protein Folding
	Hector Gonzalez, Brandeis University Spontaneous Processes in Emulsions
	Igor Kulic, Harvard University A Hitchhikers Guide through the Cell
	Guanglai Li, Brown University Simulation of Bacterial Swimming Near a Surface
	Frédéric Gobeaux, Brandeis University Tailoring Biomaterials with Type I Collagen
	Jesse Collins, Harvard University, Dana Farber Cancer Institute Dynamic Light Scattering Studies of Dscam
	Rajeev Kumar, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Finite Size Effects in the Free Energy of Flexible Polyelectrolytes Under Spherical Confinement
	ChiuTai Andrew Wong, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Regulating Single Polymer Molecule Transport by Nanopore Charge Sites
	Phil F. Huang, Brandeis University Interactions Between Star Polymers: Microspheres Grafted with Filamentous Phage Virus
	Haiyi Liang, Harvard University Mechanical Properties of Disordered Spring Networks
	Jun He, Brown University Anisotropic Microrheological Properties of F-actin Solutions in Nematic Phase
	Petia Vlahovska, Dartmouth College Electrohydrodynamic Deformation of Vesicles
	Erica Saltzman, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Translocation in Connected Chambers Under Hydrodynamic-like Force
	Jinkee Lee, Brown University and University of Rhode Island Exploration of New Transient Amphiphilic Structures using a Microfluidic Chip Integrated with Cryo-TEM
	Yongqiang Ren, Brown University Electrokinetic Energy Conversion in a Nanofluidic Channel
	Thomas Angelini, Harvard University Mechanical Waves in Swirling Cell Layers
3:30–4:00 p.m.	Coffee and Cookies, Maxwell-Dworkin, Ground Floor Lobby
4:00 p.m.	Condensed Matter Seminar, Pierce 209 Arjun Yodh, University of Pennsylvania "Phases, Phase-Transitions and Frustration in Temperature-Sensitive Colloidal Suspensions"