DNMW03
13 May 2019 to 17 May 2019
Soft matter systems range from fluids, colloids, to active and biological matter. Such materials have prominent role in Nature and are key to various applications used in our daily lives, from rubbers, paints, adhesives, displays to biological elements and biopharmaceuticals. Modern soft matter is starting to get into the capacity that desired material properties can be controllably designed, with design routes including self-assembly, microfluidics, micro manipulation, genetic encoding, and other. Can such design routes be optimized? Can one design “optimal matter”, of course for some application? Are there mathematical and other tools and methodologies that can lead in such optimal design?
The goal of this workshop is to address challenges in the optimal design of soft matter, identifying the most productive directions for research and applications and discussing the development of new methodological approaches. The workshop will bring together scientists of various backgrounds –from physics, mathematics, engineering, to chemistry- to discuss and work in this one week in the stimulating environment of Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge. The program will consist of invited talks, contributed talks, and posters.
The proportion of women working in selected areas of materials science significantly exceeds the proportion of women working in mathematics more broadly and in recognition of this, we have embedded a Celebration of Women in Materials Science (WMS) programme into this workshop. Finally, the optimal design of matter -in general- is a topic of growing interest and this workshop aims to contribute to future spectacular advances in the world of complex materials.
Monday 13th May 2019 | |||
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09:00 to 09:30 | No Room Required | ||
09:30 to 09:40 | No Room Required | ||
09:40 to 10:20 |
Randall Kamien University of Pennsylvania |
Room 1 | |
10:20 to 10:40 |
Thomas Machon University of Bristol |
Room 1 | |
10:40 to 11:10 | No Room Required | ||
11:10 to 11:50 |
Margarida Telo da Gama Universidade de Lisboa |
Room 1 | |
11:50 to 12:30 |
Anja Schlömerkemper Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg |
Room 1 | |
12:30 to 13:30 | No Room Required | ||
13:30 to 14:10 |
Hillel Aharoni Weizmann Institute of Science |
Room 1 | |
14:10 to 14:50 |
Ard Louis University of Oxford |
Room 1 | |
14:50 to 15:20 | No Room Required | ||
15:20 to 16:00 |
Gareth Alexander University of Warwick |
Room 1 | |
16:00 to 16:40 |
Alex Travesset Iowa State University |
Room 1 | |
16:40 to 17:00 |
Shayandev Sinha Harvard University |
Room 1 | |
17:00 to 18:00 | No Room Required |
Tuesday 14th May 2019 | |||
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09:00 to 09:40 |
Daniel Joseph Needleman Harvard University |
Room 1 | |
09:40 to 10:20 |
Jorn Dunkel Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Room 1 | |
10:20 to 10:40 |
Nicholas Tito Technische Universiteit Eindhoven |
Room 1 | |
10:40 to 11:10 | No Room Required | ||
11:10 to 11:50 |
Bianca Stroffolini Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II |
Room 1 | |
11:50 to 12:30 |
Carme Calderer University of Minnesota |
Room 1 | |
12:30 to 13:30 | No Room Required | ||
13:30 to 14:10 |
Julia Yeomans University of Oxford |
Room 1 | |
14:10 to 14:50 |
Elisabetta Matsumoto Georgia Institute of Technology |
Room 1 | |
14:50 to 15:20 | No Room Required | ||
15:20 to 16:00 |
Anton Souslov University of Bath |
Room 1 | |
16:00 to 16:40 |
Martin Copic Univerza v Ljubljani; Jozef Stefan Institute |
Room 1 | |
16:40 to 17:00 |
Mikhail Osipov University of Strathclyde |
Room 1 | |
Wednesday 15th May 2019 | |||
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09:00 to 09:40 |
Monica Olvera de la Cruz Northwestern University |
Room 1 | |
09:40 to 10:20 |
Daphne Klotsa University of North Carolina |
Room 1 | |
10:20 to 10:40 |
Anja Pusovnik University of Ljubljana |
Room 1 | |
10:40 to 11:10 | No Room Required | ||
11:10 to 11:50 |
Miha Ravnik University of Ljubljana; Jozef Stefan Institute |
Room 1 | |
11:50 to 12:30 |
Davide Marenduzzo University of Edinburgh |
Room 1 | |
12:30 to 13:30 | No Room Required | ||
13:30 to 14:30 |
Tom Lubensky University of Pennsylvania; 5G Innovation Centre |
Room 1 | |
14:30 to 18:00 | No Room Required | ||
19:30 to 22:00 | No Room Required |
Thursday 16th May 2019 | |||
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09:00 to 09:40 |
Igor Musevic Jozef Stefan Institute; University of Ljubljana |
Room 1 | |
09:40 to 10:20 |
Sriram Ramaswamy Indian Institute of Science |
Room 1 | |
10:20 to 10:40 |
Ziga Kos University of Ljubljana |
Room 1 | |
10:40 to 11:10 | No Room Required | ||
11:10 to 11:50 |
Tom Lubensky University of Pennsylvania; 5G Innovation Centre |
Room 1 | |
11:50 to 12:30 |
John Ball Heriot-Watt University |
Room 1 | |
12:30 to 13:30 | No Room Required | ||
13:30 to 14:10 |
Claudio Zannoni Università di Bologna |
Room 1 | |
14:10 to 14:50 |
Simon Copar University of Ljubljana |
Room 1 | |
14:50 to 15:20 | No Room Required | ||
15:20 to 16:00 |
Apala Majumdar University of Bath |
Room 1 | |
16:00 to 16:40 |
Lidia Mrad University of Arizona |
Room 1 | |
16:40 to 17:00 |
Katherine Macmillan Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf |
Room 1 |
Friday 17th May 2019 | |||
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09:00 to 09:40 |
Ivan Smalyukh University of Colorado |
Room 1 | |
09:40 to 10:20 |
Antonio DeSimone SISSA; Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa |
Room 1 | |
10:20 to 10:40 |
Henrik Ronellenfitsch Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Room 1 | |
10:40 to 11:10 | No Room Required | ||
11:10 to 11:50 |
Douwe Jan Bonthuis Freie Universität Berlin; Graz University of Technology |
Room 1 | |
11:50 to 12:10 |
Antonio Prados Universidad de Sevilla |
Room 1 | |
12:10 to 12:30 |
Dwaipayan Chakrabarti University of Birmingham |
Room 1 | |
12:30 to 13:30 | No Room Required |
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