Complex fluids in evolving domains

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.

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Timetable

Monday 19th August 2013
08:00 to 08:50	Registration	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
08:50 to 09:00	Welcome - Uwe Thiele/Peter Olmsted	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
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	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
09:30 to 10:00	Martin Buzza University of Hull Two-Dimensional Colloidal Alloys	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
10:00 to 10:30	Soundbites from Attendees	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
10:30 to 11:00	Morning Coffee	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
11:00 to 11:30	Rhoda Hawkins University of Sheffield Active gel flow in finite domains with applications to cell motility in confinement	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
11:30 to 12:00	Enkeleida Lushi Imperial College London Active suspensions in domains with static or moving boundaries	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
12:00 to 12:30	Eric Keaveny Imperial College London Undulatory locomotion in structured media	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
12:30 to 15:00	Lunch	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
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	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
15:30 to 16:00	Buddhapriya Chakrabarti Durham University Shaping and sculpting of liquid drops using laser beams	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
16:00 to 16:30	Afternoon Tea	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
16:30 to 17:00	Michael Koepf Technion - Israel Institute of Technology A continuum model of epithelial spreading	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
17:00 to 17:30	Mathis Plapp CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique) Equilibrium and growth shapes of fiber-covered surfaces	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
18:00 to 18:30	Wine reception	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]
19:00 to 20:00	Dinner	Admin Office [UNAVAILABLE]

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

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

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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