Sunday |
4:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | Assembly: Colloidal, Nanoparticlulate, and Biological |
| Discussion Leader: Philip Pincus (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) |
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm | James Gilchrist (Lehigh University, USA) "Shaking Up Convective Assembly: Unsteady Flows for New Structures" |
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
8:35 pm - 9:15 pm | Trevor Douglas (Indiana University, USA) "Virus Based Reactor Assembly Across Multiple Length Scales" |
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Monday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:30 am | Group Photo |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Polyelectrolytes and Active/Biomimetic Gels |
| Discussion Leader: Monica Olvera De La Cruz (Northwestern University, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Krystyn Van Vliet (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) "Chemomechanical Resuscitation, Sensing, and Signaling in Active Synthetic Gels" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Eugenia Kharlampieva (University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA) "Shape-Adaptable Polyelectrolyte Microgels for Controlled Delivery" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Ping Sheng (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR China) "Poisson-Boltzmann Equation and the Charge Separation Phenomenon at the Water-Silica Interface: A Holistic Approach" |
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Adhesion and Interaction at Soft Interfaces |
| Discussion Leader: William Ducker (Virginia Tech, USA) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Joelle Frechette (Johns Hopkins University, USA) "Elastohydrodynamic Deformations in Soft Matter Under Confinement" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Ralf Richter (CIC biomaGUNE, Spain) "Superselective Targeting with Multivalent Polymers" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Tuesday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Glassy and Constrained Phases |
| Discussion Leader: Mahn Won Kim (University of Santa Barbara, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | David Weitz (Harvard University, USA) "Constrained Macromolecules and Glassy Colloids" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Gregory McKenna (Texas Tech University, USA) "Structural Recovery and Physical Aging in Colloidal Dispersions: Comparison with the Kovacs Signatures in Molecular Glasses" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Jodie Lutkenhaus (Texas A&M University, USA) "Do Polyelectrolyte Multilayers Have a Tg?" |
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Rheology in Concentrated Suspensions |
| Discussion Leader: Eric Weeks (Emory University, USA) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Peter Schall (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) "Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions in Soft Material Rheology" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Matteo Pasquali (Rice University, USA) "Soft Carbon Nanotube Phases and Materials" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Wednesday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Cooperative Systems: Active and Living Colloids |
| Discussion Leader: Igor Aronson (Argonne National Laboratory, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Michael Cates (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom) "Directed Assembly of Active Colloid Devices" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Gerard Wong (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) "Bacteria as Living Colloids" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Jacinta Conrad (University of Houston, USA) "Surface Motility of Single Bacteria During Early Biofilm Formation" |
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Translating Assemblies from Fundamental Concepts to Applications |
| Discussion Leader: Sibani Lisa Biswal (Rice University, USA) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Frank Caruso (The University of Melbourne, Australia) "Assembly of Responsive, Amorphous Films of Natural Substances for Biological Applications" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Ronald Larson (University of Michigan, USA) "Layer-by-Layer Assembly of Polyelectrolytes and Charged Colloid Multilayers - Experiments, Theory, and Applications" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Thursday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Coacervates and Solution-Phase Assemblies |
| Discussion Leader: Chi Wu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Sarah Perry (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA) "Patterning and Structure in Biomimetic Polypeptide-Based Coacervates" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Vivek Prabhu (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA) "Hierarchical Structure and Dynamics of Triblock Copolymer Solutions" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Russel Walters (Johnson & Johnson, USA) "Surfactants for Delivery to Skin" |
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Colloidal Assembly on Surfaces and in Solution |
| Discussion Leader: Michael Rubinstein (University of North Carolina, USA) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Carol Hall (North Carolina State University, USA) "Multipolar Colloidal Assembly: Directed or Hit and Stick?" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Paul Chaikin (New York University, USA) "Melting of Two-Dimensional Wigner Crystals on Flat and Curved Surfaces" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Friday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |