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Science of Adhesion (GRS)

Gordon Research Seminar

July 13 - 14, 2013
Chair Elizabeth Martin
Mount Holyoke College
50 College Street
South Hadley, Massachusetts, United States
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Conference Description

The Gordon Research Seminar on Adhesion, Science of is a unique forum for graduate students, post-docs, and other scientists with comparable levels of experience and education to present and exchange new data and cutting edge ideas.

The 2013 seminar will cover a wide range of topics such as friction, wetting and molecular mechanisms of adhesion, soft matter mechanics and physics, bio-inspired adhesives, and the use of quantitative approaches to understand adhesion in biological systems. The aim of this meeting is to promote discussions and potential collaborations between young scientists from diverse backgrounds, due to the interdisciplinary nature of adhesion and interface science.

Related Meeting

This GRS will be held in conjunction with the "Science of Adhesion" Gordon Research Conference (GRC). Those interested in attending both meetings must submit an application for the GRC in addition to an application for the GRS. Refer to the associated GRC program page for more information.

Conference Program

SATURDAY
1:00 pm - 5:00 pmArrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pmIntroductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair
3:45 pm - 4:30 pmRibbon Adhesion
Discussion Leader: Kenneth Desmond (University of California, Santa Barbara)
3:45 pm - 4:05 pmAnthony Altieri (Cornell University)
"Adhesion upon solidification and detachment in the melt-spinning of metals"
4:05 pm - 4:15 pmDiscussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session I
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmBiomimetics
Discussion Leaders: Ashley Bell (University of Leeds) and Emilie Campbell (Northwestern University)
7:30 pm - 7:50 pmUyiosa Abusomwan (Carnegie Mellon University)
"Contact self-cleaning of gecko inspired microfiber adhesives"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pmDiscussion
8:00 pm - 8:20 pmIla Badge (The University of Akron)
"The role of surface wettability: Towards understanding of gecko adhesion mechanism underwater"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pmDiscussion
8:30 pm - 8:50 pmMareike Frensemeier (INM-Leibniz Institute for New Materals)
"Switchable adhesion in NiTi-PDMS hybrid materials"
8:50 pm - 9:00 pmDiscussion
9:00 pm - 9:20 pmDavid Labonte (University of Cambridge)
"How to stick but not get stuck - functional principles of dynamic attachment in insects"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pmDiscussion
SUNDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 10:00 amRoughness Effects on Adhesion
Discussion Leader: Julia Syurik (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
9:00 am - 9:20 amTevis Jacobs (University of Pennsylvania)
"The strong effect of roughness on adhesion of nanoscale contacts: The case of carbon-based materials with roughness down to the atomic-scale"
9:20 am - 9:30 amDiscussion
9:30 am - 9:50 amLars Pastewka (Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials)
"The effect of roughness on adhesion"
9:50 am - 10:00 amDiscussion
10:00 am - 11:00 amAdhesion at Soft Interfaces
Discussion Leader: Hemalatha Annepu (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi)
10:00 am - 10:20 amChelsea Davis (ESPCI Paristech)
"Polymer-polymer adhesion at short contact times"
10:20 am - 10:30 amDiscussion
10:30 am - 10:50 amRobert Style (Yale University)
"Droplets on squishy surfaces"
10:50 am - 11:00 amDiscussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pmPoster Session II
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pmMentoring Session on Career Development
Discussion Leader: Rebekka Konig (Clausthal University of Technology)
1:30 pm - 2:00 pmMegan Robertson (University of Houston, Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering)
2:00 pm - 2:30 pmDiscussion
2:30 pm - 3:00 pmEvaluation Period
Fill out GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pmGordon Research Seminar ends. For those attending the associated Gordon Research Conference, please check in at the GRC Office beginning at 4:00 pm.

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