Soft Matter - Theoretical and Industrial Challenges

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Background

Sam Edwards was a pivotal figure in soft matter physics. Taking forward the work of earlier theorists working in other areas such as quantum field theory, he had the vision to harness the power of mathematical tools to study this new class of materials, and base our understanding of them on a more rigorous foundation. Sir Sam combined his deep theoretical knowledge with a clear view of the way that theoretical science can help resolve practical engineering and industrial problems and managed on many occasions to bring theorists and industrialists to work together.

Soft matter is defined loosely as matter that can display properties intermediate between liquid and solid behaviour, depending on timescales, temperature and flow conditions. It encompasses a broad range of materials, from powders and colloidal suspensions to flexible long-chain polymers and solutions of amphiphilic, or soap-like, molecules. All these are not only ubiquitous in Industry but also arise in many biological contexts.

Today, there continues to be fundamental theoretical interest in the underlying physics and self-organising mechanisms present in soft materials. Many of these share a common mathematical structure that can be exploited for theoretical advances. The legacy of Sam Edwards includes not only the specific scientific advances he made (for instance in entangled polymer rheology and in the packing of powders) but also the many mathematical tools he developed, and his broader realization that whole classes of soft material are governed by unifying physical principles that stem from the geometry and topology of their microscopic components, independent of their precise molecular or chemical character.

Timetable

Wednesday 7th September 2016
12:30 to 13:30	Registration and Lunch	No Room Required
13:30 to 13:45	Jane Leeks Newton Gateway to Mathematics ; John Toland University of Bath ; Mike Cates University of Edinburgh Welcome and Introduction	Room 1
13:45 to 14:30	Tom McLeish University of Leeds Sam Edwards - Continuing the Legacy for Industry-Facing Science	Room 1
14:30 to 15:30	Monica Olvera de la Cruz Northwestern University Polymer Electrolytes	Room 1
15:30 to 15:45	Tea and Coffee	No Room Required
15:45 to 16:15	Stuart Little Croda Soft Matter Challenges - Chemicals Industry	Room 1
16:15 to 17:15	Kurt Kremer Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung Topological Constraints Do Matter: Polymer Melts, Elastomers, Collapsed Polymer Globules, Chromosome Territories etc	Room 1
17:15 to 18:15	Poster Exhibition and Networking Drinks Reception	No Room Required

Thursday 8th September 2016
09:00 to 10:00	Jean-Philippe Bouchaud SPEC, CEA-Saclay Chair: Francoise Brochard-Wyart Synchronisation: From Stick-Slip Instabilities in Jammed Fluids to Endogeneous Economic Crises	Room 1
10:00 to 10:45	Louise Bailey Schlumberger Cambridge Research Soft Matter Challenges - Oil and Gas Sector	Room 1
10:45 to 11:00	Tea and Coffee	No Room Required
11:00 to 12:00	Glenn Fredrickson University of California Building on Sir Sam's Formalism: Molecularly-Informed Field-Theoretic Simulations of Soft Matter	Room 1
12:00 to 13:00	Geoff Maitland Imperial College London The Intriguing World of Clay-Inorganic Nanoparticle Suspensions: Practical Opportunities and Theoretical Challenges	Room 1
13:00 to 14:00	Lunch	No Room Required
14:00 to 15:00	Matthieu Wyart EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Elementary Excitations in Amorphous Materials	Room 1
15:00 to 15:30	Isabella Van Damme Mars Soft Matter Challenges - Food Manufacturing	Room 1
15:30 to 15:45	Tea and Coffee	No Room Required
15:45 to 16:45	Hans Hermann ETH Zürich The Rotational Degrees of Freedom of a Granular Packing	Room 1
16:45 to 17:15	Jason Crain National Physical Laboratory Predictive Modelling & Cognitive Computing for Soft Materials Discovery	Room 1
18:00 to 19:00	Memorial Event to Celebrate the Life of Sir Sam Edwards	Meeting Room

Friday 9th September 2016
09:00 to 10:00	Jasna Brujic Columbia University Pattern Formation outside of Equilbrium as a Template for Drug Delivery Vehicles	Room 1
10:00 to 10:30	Simeon Stoyanov Queen Mary University of London Soft Matter Challenges - Consumer Products	Room 1
10:30 to 10:45	Tea and Coffee	No Room Required
10:45 to 11:45	Masao Doi Toyota Physical and Chemical Research Institute Onsager Principle - A Principle Useful for Solving Industrial Problems	Room 1
11:45 to 12:45	David Andelman Tel Aviv University Electrified Interfaces: One Hundred Years of the Poisson-Boltzmann Theory and More	Room 1
12:45 to 13:15	Robin Ball University of Warwick Open Panel Discussion Chair: Robin Ball	Room 1
13:15 to 14:00	Lunch & Finish	No Room Required

Soft Matter - Theoretical and Industrial Challenges

Soft Matter - Theoretical and Industrial Challenges

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