SUNDAY |
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Dynamics of Crystal Growth |
| Discussion Leader: Jonathan Pelz (Ohio State Univ.) |
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Michael D. Ward (Univ. of Minnesota)
"Probing crystallization and adhesion at crystal surfaces with AFM" |
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Miquel Salmeron (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
"Growth, structure, and wetting properties of water films on surfaces" |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:45 am | Group Photo |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Quantum Dots and Semiconductor Growth |
| Discussion Leader: Rachel S. Goldman (Univ. of Michigan) |
9:00 am - 10:00 am | Oliver Schmidt (MPI für Festkörperforschung)
"From island nucleation to 3D quantum dot crystals" |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:30 am | Vivek Shenoy (Brown University)
"Self-assembly and shape transitions of epitaxial nanowires and strained monolayer islands" |
11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Jeff Drucker (Arizona State Univ.)
"Kinetic composition control and stability of heteroepitaxial semiconductor nanocrystals" |
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 | Biological Control of Crystallization |
| Discussion Leader: Lara A. Estroff (Cornell University) |
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Peter L. Davies (Queen's University)
"Antifreeze proteins and the control of ice crystal growth" |
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Naomi Chayen (Imperial College)
"Interactions of proteins with inorganic materials: Novel nucleation-inducing substrates for protein crystallization" |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Organic Crystals and Pharmaceuticals |
| Discussion Leader: Lian Yu (Ohio State Univ.) |
9:00 am - 10:00 am | Jules Remenar (TransForm Pharmaceuticals)
"Impact of crystal growth on pharmaceutical formulations" |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:30 am | Michael Doherty (Univ. of California at Santa Barbara)
"New models for predicting the relative growth rates and shape evolution of organic crystals grown from solution" |
11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Adam J. Matzger (Univ. of Michigan)
"Controlling crystal polymorphism" |
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 | Interactions of Crystals with Light |
| Discussion Leader: Peter Reynders (Merck) |
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Bruce A. Garetz (Polytechnic University)
"Non-photochemical laser-induced nucleation: Controlling crystal structure with light" |
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Bart E. Kahr (Univ. of Washington)
"Encounters with spherulites" |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Thin Film Growth Dynamics |
| Discussion Leader: Zhenyu Zhang (Oak Ridge National Lab) |
9:00 am - 10:00 am | Marcel J. Rost (Leiden University)
"Seeing thin films evolve with real-time, in-situ STM: Film growth and grain growth" |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:30 am | Kristin Fichthorn (Penn State University)
"Multi-scale simulations of thin film epitaxy" |
11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Jonah Erlebacher (Johns Hopkins University)
"Thin films on thin films: Epitaxial growth on mesoporous metal membranes" |
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 Crystals |
| Discussion Leader: Seth Fraden (Brandeis University) |
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | David Weiss (Harvard University)
"Defect dynamics in crystalline thin films studied using colloidal crystals" |
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | David J. Norris (Univ. of Minnesota)
"Opaline photonic crystals: How does self-assembly work?" |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Hot Topics & Contributed Talks |
| Discussion Leader: Melissa Hines (Cornell University) |
9:00 am - 9:30 am | Hot Topic Talk #1 |
9:30 am - 10:00 am | Hot Topic Talk #2 |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:00 am | Hot Topic Talk #3 |
11:00 am - 11:30 am | Hot Topic Talk #4 |
11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Hot Topic Talk #5 |
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm | Hot Topic Talk #6 |
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 | Biomineralization |
| Discussion Leader: Peter Vekilov (Univ. of Houston) |
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | David Kisailus (Univ. of California at Santa Barbara)
"Biotechnology and biomimetics opens new routes to the fabrication of silica and metal oxide semiconductors" |
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | John S. Evans (New York University)
"Magic with minerals: Inhibition and catalysis of inorganic crystal growth by polypeptides" |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Depart |