Conference on "Nucleation, Aggregation and Growth"
Conference Programme
January 29, 2007
8:45 - 09:00 : Registration
9:00 - 9:15 : Introductory Remarks
Session I
9:15 - 9:55 : D. Frenkel Crystal Nucleation - one century after Ostwald
9:55 - 10:35 : U. Gasser Surface Tension and Structure of Crystal Nuclei in Concentrated Colloidal Suspensions
10:35 - 11:00 : Coffee Break
Session II
11:00 - 11:40 : S. V. Teeffelen Crystallization Dynamics of Superparamagnetic Colloids in Two Dimensions
11:40 - 12:20 : G. Kumaraswamy Colloid Synthesis and Organization in Liquid Crystalline Phases
12:20 - 14:00 : Lunch
14:00 - 14:30 : Poster Session I
Session III
14:30 - 15:10 : F. Sciortino Gel-forming Patchy Colloids and Network Glass Formers: Thermodynamic and Dynamic Analogies
15:10 - 15:50 : P. Charbonneau Simulation and Theory of Model Colloidal Interactions
15:50 - 16:15 : Coffee break
Session IV
16:15 - 16:55 : Z. G. Wang Nucleation and Local Fluctuations in Polymeric Fluids
16:55 - 17:35 : N. Balsara Observing the Initial Stages of Nucleation in Metastable Polymer Blends
January 30, 2007
Session I
9:15 - 9:55 : M. Gruenwald Phase Transformations in Nanocrystals under Pressure and Binary Symmetric Fluid Mixtures
9:55 - 10:35 : D. D. Sarma Understanding the Growth Mechanisms of Semiconducting Nanocrystals in the Bottom-up Approach using Time-Resolved Techniques
10:35 - 11:00 : Coffee Break
Session II
11:00 - 11:40 : S. Puri Inhomogeneous Cooling in Freely-evolving Granular Gases.
11:40 - 12:20 : E. Beerdsen Understanding Diffusion in Nanoporous Materials.
12:20 - 14:00 : Lunch
14:00 - 14:30 : Poster Session II
Session III
14:30 - 15:10 : S. Ranganathan Nucleation and Growth in the Devitrification of Bulk Metallic Glasses
15:10 - 15:50 : D. Reguera Catching Nanodroplets at Birth: Homogeneous Nucleation of Noble Gases
15:50 - 16:15 : Coffee break
Session IV
16:15 - 16:55 : A. Planes Hysteresis and Avalanches at Phase Transitions of Ferroic Materials
16:55 - 17:35 : T. Lookman Microstructure Evolution in Functional Materials
17:35 - 18:15 : S. R. Shenoy Strain Patterning, Elastic Compatibility, and Power Law Correlations in Martensitic Models
January 31, 2007
Session I
9:15 - 9:55 : P. Harrowell Self Assembly in Non-Polar Liquids: What Stabilizes Reverse Micelles?
9:55 - 10:35 : M. Rao Active Actin Dependent Organization of Lipid Anchored Proteins on the Surface of Living Cells
10:35 - 11:00 : Coffee Break
Session II
11:00 - 11:40 : D. Thirumalai Scenarios for Protein Aggregation
11:40 - 12:20 : J. Udgaonkar Mechanism of Formation of Amyloid Protofibrils of Barstar from Soluble Oligomers: Evidence for Multiple Steps and Lateral Association Coupled to Conformational Conversion
12:20 - 14:00 : Lunch
14:00 - 14:30 : Poster Session III
Session III
14:30 - 15:10 : S. Maiti Tracking a Killer: the Kinetics and the Intermediates of Amyloid Aggregation
15:10 - 15:50 : S. Kumar Minimal Models for Modeling Protein Crystallization
15:50 - 16:15 : Coffee break
Session IV
16:15 - 16:55 : P. Sens Kinetic Switch for Vesicle Formation by Coat Protein Assembly
16:55 - 16:15 : E. Eiser DNA-Coated Colloids: Self-limited Aggregation
17:35 - 18:15 : Y. Krishnan Stringing Quartets: 1D-DNA Scaffolds from Tetraplex Building Blocks