Complex fluids in evolving domains

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Workshop theme

This three-day workshop focuses on dynamic processes in complex media where internal degrees of freedom interact with interfaces and domain boundaries resulting in an interdependent evolution of domains and their internal structure. Typical examples are:

Structured films (nanoparticle suspensions, copolymers, polymer networks) whose thickness and domain morphology dynamics is controlled by external and internal influences
Adsorption, structure, and rheology of particles, proteins, and polymers at interfaces
Emulsions of complex media (e.g. liquid crystals, diblock-copolymers) that deform and change shape
Membranes and vesicles that deform and bud depending on phase transitions, interactions, orientations, and chemical reactions of their components (included adsorbed proteins and polymers)
Active films such as biofilms and bacterial colonies, endothelial layers, and ligaments
Flow through compliant tubes or channels (e.g. blood, adaptable microfluidics)
The Golgi apparatus of living cells

During the workshop we will discuss, on the one hand, particular systems where such interactions of internal degrees of freedom and domain boundaries occur; and on the other hand the general principles that underlie these phenomena.

Timetable

Monday 19th August 2013
08:00 to 08:50	Registration	Meeting Room
08:50 to 09:00	Welcome - Uwe Thiele/Peter Olmsted	Meeting Room
09:00 to 09:30	Todd Squires University of California, Santa Barbara Dynamics of grainy liquid crystalline monolayers: visible and hidden grain boundaries and chiral rheology	Meeting Room
09:30 to 10:00	Martin Buzza University of Hull Two-Dimensional Colloidal Alloys	Meeting Room
10:00 to 10:30	Soundbites from Attendees	Meeting Room
10:30 to 11:00	Morning Coffee	Meeting Room
11:00 to 11:30	Rhoda Hawkins University of Sheffield Active gel flow in finite domains with applications to cell motility in confinement	Meeting Room
11:30 to 12:00	Enkeleida Lushi Imperial College London Active suspensions in domains with static or moving boundaries	Meeting Room
12:00 to 12:30	Eric Keaveny Imperial College London Undulatory locomotion in structured media	Meeting Room
12:30 to 15:00	Lunch	Meeting Room
15:00 to 15:30	Stefan Karpitschka Max-Planck-Institut für Kolloid- und Grenzflächenforschung Sharp Border between Coalescence and Noncoalescence of Sessile Drops from Miscible Liquids	Meeting Room
15:30 to 16:00	Buddhapriya Chakrabarti Durham University Shaping and sculpting of liquid drops using laser beams	Meeting Room
16:00 to 16:30	Afternoon Tea	Meeting Room
16:30 to 17:00	Michael Koepf Technion - Israel Institute of Technology A continuum model of epithelial spreading	Meeting Room
17:00 to 17:30	Mathis Plapp CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique) Equilibrium and growth shapes of fiber-covered surfaces	Meeting Room
18:00 to 18:30	Wine reception	Meeting Room
19:00 to 20:00	Dinner	Meeting Room

Tuesday 20th August 2013
09:30 to 10:00	Anne Juel University of Manchester Oscillatory bubbles induced by geometric constraint	Meeting Room
10:00 to 10:30	Tiezheng Qian Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Droplet Motion with Evaporation and Condensation in One-Component Fluids	Meeting Room
10:30 to 11:00	Morning Coffee	Meeting Room
11:00 to 11:30	Edgar Knobloch University of California, Berkeley Front motion and the growth of localized patterns	Meeting Room
11:30 to 12:00	Marco Fontelos ICMAT The dynamics of jets of polymeric liquids	Meeting Room
12:30 to 14:30	Lunch	Meeting Room
14:30 to 15:00	Jan Vermant KU Leuven Swirling and swarming in bacterial colonies: Interfacial driven flows and rheological complexity	Meeting Room
15:00 to 15:30	Axel Voigt Technische Universität Dresden Vesicle flickering, surface viscosity and exterior differential calculus - a mathematical approach to coarsening dynamics in lipid membranes	Meeting Room
15:30 to 16:00	Afternoon Tea	Meeting Room
16:00 to 16:30	Alastair Rucklidge University of Leeds Quasipatterns in problems with two length scales: Faraday waves and soft-matter polymer micelles	Meeting Room
16:30 to 17:00	Suzanne Fielding Durham University Hydrodynamics and phase behaviour of active suspensions	Meeting Room
19:30 to 22:00	Conference Dinner at Hinsley Hall	Meeting Room

Wednesday 21st August 2013
09:30 to 10:00	Andy Archer Loughborough University Solidification fronts: how rapid fronts can lead to disordered glassy solids	Meeting Room
10:00 to 10:30	Pierre Sens ESPCI ParisTech Maturation and exchange in cellular organelles	Meeting Room
10:30 to 11:00	Morning Coffee	Meeting Room
11:00 to 11:30	Qi Wang Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Analysis and computation of a polar active liquid crystal model	Meeting Room
11:30 to 12:00	Stephen Watson University of Glasgow The Annealing-to-Driven Transition of Coarsening Nano-Faceted Crystals	Meeting Room
12:30 to 14:00	Lunch	Meeting Room
14:00 to 14:30	Depart by coach	Meeting Room

Speakers

Andy Archer Loughborough University
Martin Buzza University of Hull
Buddhapriya Chakrabarti Durham University
Suzanne Fielding Durham University
Marco Fontelos ICMAT
Rhoda Hawkins University of Sheffield
Anne Juel University of Manchester
Stefan Karpitschka Max-Planck-Institut für Kolloid- und Grenzflächenforschung
Eric Keaveny Imperial College London
Edgar Knobloch University of California, Berkeley
Michael Koepf Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Enkeleida Lushi Imperial College London
Mathis Plapp CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique)
Tiezheng Qian Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Alastair Rucklidge University of Leeds
Pierre Sens ESPCI ParisTech
Todd Squires University of California, Santa Barbara
Jan Vermant KU Leuven
Axel Voigt Technische Universität Dresden
Qi Wang Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC)
Stephen Watson University of Glasgow

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