SUNDAY |
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Ice |
| Discussion leader: Christopher Yip (Univ. Toronto) |
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Kenneth Libbrecht (Caltech)
"Morphogenesis on ice: A close look at the physics of snowflakes" |
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Charles Knight (NCAR)
"Effects of biological, nonequilibrium antifreezes on ice growth from water" |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:45 am | Group Photo |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Nucleation and Growth of Condensed Phases |
| Discussion Leader: Anthony Dinsmore (Univ. of Massachusetts) |
9:00 am - 10:00 am | George Benedek (MIT)
"Condensation of proteins into liquid and crystal phases: With application to colloid science, medicine, and biology" |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:30 am | David Oxtoby (Univ. of Chicago)
"Density functional approaches to crystal nucleation and growth" |
11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Daan Frenkel (FOM-AMOLF)
"Freezing and non-freezing in colloidal systems" |
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 | Thin Films
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| Discussion Leader: Charles Ahn (Yale Univ.) |
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Jürgen Kirschner (MPI für Mikrostrukturphysik)
"Thin film growth modes and stress evolution" |
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Harold Hwang (Lucent)
"Atomic structure in oxide thin films" |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Heteroepitaxy and Quantum Dots |
| Discussion Leader: Vivek Shenoy (Brown Univ.) |
9:00 am - 10:00 am | Gunther Springholz (Johannes Kepler Univ.)
"Self-organization and ordering in the growth of quantum dot multilayers" |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:30 am | Leonard Sander (U. Michigan)
"Fast Monte Carlo for heteroepitaxy: The ghost Green's function method" |
11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Rachel Goldman (U. Michigan)
"Self-Assembly Processes in Compound Semiconductor Films" |
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 | Macromolecular Crystallization |
| Discussion Leader: Abraham Lenhoff, Univ. of Delaware
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7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Robert Thorne (Cornell Univ.)
"Materials physics problems in structural genomics" |
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Seth Fraden (Brandeis Univ.)
"Kinetics of phase transitions in colloidal liquid crystals" |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Control of Nucleation and Morphology |
| Discussion Leader: Christine Orme (Lawrence Livermore National Lab) |
9:00 am - 10:00 am | Joanna Aizenberg (Lucent)
"Fabrication of single crystals with controlled orientation and micropattern: A bio-inspired approach" |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:30 am | Lian Yu (Lilly Research Labs)
"Selective nucleation and discovery of organic polymorphs through crystal epitaxy" |
11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Catherine Murphy (Univ. of S. Carolina)
"Surfactant-directed growth and assembly of inorganic nanorods and nanocubes in water" |
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 | Molecular-level Dynamics of Crystal Surfaces |
| Discussion Leader: John Venables (Arizona State Univ.) |
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Karina Morgenstern (Freie Univ. Berlin)
"Dynamics of nanostructures investigated by STM" |
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Olaf Magnussen (Christian Albrechts Univ.)
"In-situ video-STM studies of metal growth and dissolution" |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm |
Surface Nanostructures |
| Discussion Leader: Daniel Kandel (Weizmann Institute) |
9:00 am - 10:00 am | James Hannon (IBM)
"LEEM investigations of surface thermodynamics" |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:30 am | Joachim Krug (Univ. Essen)
"Mechanisms for growth-induced step bunching" |
11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Johannes Barth (Ecole Polytechnique)
"Molecular architectures at surfaces: Dynamics and self-assembly" |
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 | Hot Topics and Contributed Talks |
| Discussion Leader: David Cahill (U. Illinois) |
7:30 pm | Ted Einstein (Univ. Maryland) Asymmetry and subtleties of step stiffness: novel findings and their implications |
7:54 pm | Carsten Busse (RWTH Aachen) Nucleation, growth, and self-healing of stacking-faults on Ir(111) |
8:18 pm | Nicholas Booth (Univ. Houston) Limiting step bunch height during growth of crystals from flowing solutions |
8:42 pm | Markus Travaille (Univ. Nijmegen) Epitaxial growth of calcite crystals on self-assembled monolayers |
9:06 pm | John Spencer Evans (New York Univ.) Identification and classification of polypeptide-inorganic crystal binding domains in biomineralization and nanotech-designer proteins |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Depart |