Complex Fluids 2000

Soft Interfaces Under Stress

Salve Regina University,
Newport, Rhode Island, August 13—18, 2000
Tom Witten, Chair    Armand Ajdari, Cochair
Sunday PM
2—11  arrival and registration, O'hare 1st floor
6:00 dinner
7:25 session, O'hare 2nd floor liquid interfaces, patterned wetting, electrofluidicsPincus
7:30 Witten welcome and introduction
7:40 Abbott: Electrical and Optical Control of Interfacial Properties of Complex Fluids: Principles for Microfluidics
8:25 discussion
8:40 Yerushlami-Rozen: Alternative Dewetting Pathways of Thin Liquid Films
9:25 discussion
9:40 reception O'hare 1st floor
Monday AM
7:30-8:30 breakfast, Miley Hall
8:30-9 informal exchange, Miley Hall
9:00 photo, behind Ochre Court
9:25 session, O'hare 2nd floor free liquid interfaces: singular flowsGuyon
9:30 Nagel Selective Withdrawal and  Encapsulation in Fluid Threads
10:15 discussion
10:30 Shin The Formation of Polymer Nanofibers from Fluid Instabilities in High Electric Fields
11:15 discussion
11:30 coffee
11:50 Mahadevan  Buckling of Newtonian Fluids: folding, coiling and wrinkling
12:35 discussion
12:50-1:30 lunch
Monday PM
1:30-4 free
4:15 - 6 posters Ohare 1st floor: author initials M-Z* 
6 - 7 dinner
7:25 session interfaces in structured fluids    Weitz
7:30 Kumaran Stress transmission by a defect network in a lamellar liquid crystalline phase
8:15 discussion
8:30 Belmonte  Cusped Bubbles Rising in Polymeric and Micellar Fluids
9:15 discussion
9:30 free
Tuesday AM
7:30-8:30 breakfast
8:55 session distorted droplets and bubbles   Cates
9:00 Stone  Foam drainage: Experiments, models, and the influence of surface rheology
9:45 discussion
10:00 Mason  Shear History Effects in Emulsification
10:45 discussion
11:00 coffee
11:20 Frisken  Vesicle formation by extrusion through micropores
12:05 discussion
12:30-1:30 lunch
Tuesday PM
1:30-4 free
4:15-6 posters: author initials A-L*
6-7 dinner
7:25 session  thin elastic shells   Brenner
7:30 Superfine  buckling and rippling of carbon nanotubes: mechanical and electronic implications
8:15 discussion
8:30 Audoly   Geometric rigidification of thin elastic shells
9:15 discussion
9:30 free
Wednesday AM
7:30-8:30 breakfast
8:55 session  soft elastic membranes: polymer shells and capsules Boué
9:00 Möhwald  hollow shells with defined ultrathin polymeric and inorganic walls
9:45 discussion
10:00 Rehage   From ultrathin-crosslinked networks to microcapsules: structure, rheological properties and new technical applications
10:45 discussion
11:00 coffee
11:20 Kyriakides Propagating Instabilities in Shell and Membrane Structures
12:05 discussion
12:30-1:30 lunch
Wednesday PM
1:30-4 free
4:15-6 posters
6-7 dinner
7:25 session  distorted lamellar fluids   Roux
7:30 Buchanan  Dynamics of interfaces in surfactant lamellar phases
8:15 discussion
8:30 Stavans coiling of highly multilamellar tubes
9:15 discussion
9:30 free
Thursday AM
7:30-8:30 breakfast
8:55 session  membrane-surface interactions   Ajdari
9:00 Cantat  Unbinding transition of vesicles under shear flow
9:45 discussion
10:00 Sackmann adhesive switching of membranes via tension
10:45 discussion
11:00 coffee
11:20 Austin  cell-surface interactions under hydrodynamic flow
12:05 discussion
12:30-1:30 lunch
Thursday PM
1:30-4 free
4:15  posters
5:15 business meeting
6-7 dinner
7:25 session  stress in biostructures  Witten
7:30 Fygenson  A unifying hypothesis for conformational change in microtubules
8:15 discussion
8:30 Lee  Collapse Mechanism in Model Lung Surfactant Systems
9:15 discussion
9:30 free
Friday AM
7:30-8:30 breakfast
9:00-9:30 bus departs 
*  Posters may be displayed throughout the conference.  These times have been designated for authors to discuss their posters with viewers.