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| Topic |
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Invited Speakers |
Supercooled Liquids and the Glass Transition |
| Experiment | C. Austen Angell | Arizona State University, USA |
| ''Slow Processes in Liquids and Biomolecules: Ergodic versus 'Quench-then-Look' Strategies.'' | ||
| Mark D. Ediger | Wisconsin University, USA | |
| ''Self-Diffusion near the Glass Transition Temperature: Influence of Spatially Heterogeneous Dynamics.'' | ||
| Akihisa Inoue | Tohoku University, Japan | |
| ''Stabilization of Supercooled Metallic Liquid and Bulk Glassy Alloys'' | ||
| Alexei Sokolov | University of Akron, USA | |
| ''Dynamics of Complex Systems: from a "Simple Liquid" to a Protein'' | ||
| Theory | Pablo Debenedetti | Princeton University, USA |
| ''Thermodynamics of Supercooled Water'' | ||
| Kia Ling Ngai | Naval Research Laboratory, USA | |
| ''From Fast Caged Dynamics to Slow Many-body Coupled Dynamics in Complex Systems'' | ||
| Matthias Sperl | Technische Universität München, Germany | |
| ''Dynamics near a Higher-Order Glass-Transition Singularity'' | ||
| H. Eugene Stanley | Boston University, USA | |
| ''Slow Dynamics of the Complex Fluid, Liquid Water'' | ||
| Gilles Tarjus | Lab. de Physique Theorique, France | |
| ''The Glass Transition of Liquids: A Theoretical Approach in Terms of Frustration'' | ||
| Simulation | Kurt Binder | Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Germany |
| ''Computer Simulation of the Glass Transition in Thin Films'' | ||
| Sharon Glotzer | University of Michigan, USA | |
| ''Cages, Clusters and Conga Lines: Anatomy of a Supercooled Liquid'' | ||
| Peter Harrowell | University of Sydney, Australia | |
| ''Crystallisation and Local Order in Glass-Forming Binary Mixtures'' | ||
| Walter Kob | Universite Montpellier II, France | |
| ''On the Relaxation Dynamics of a Rigid Rod in a Disordered Environment'' | ||
| Srikanth Sastry | JNCASR, India | |
| ''Dynamics and the Glass Transition in Liquids'' | ||
| Complex Fluids |
| Experiment | Sow-Hsin Chen | MIT, USA |
| ''Neutron and Light Scattering Studies of the Liquid-to-Glass and Glass-to-Glass
Transitions in a Copolymer Micellar Systems'' |
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| Georg Maret | University of Konstanz, Germany | |
| ''Glass Transition in a Two-Dimensional System of Magnetic Colloidss'' | ||
| David A. Weitz | Harvard University, USA | |
| ''Jamming Phase Diagram for Colloidal Particles'' | ||
| Theory | Mike Cates | University of Edinburgh, UK |
| ''Glass Transitions, Jamming and Colloid Rheology'' | ||
| Hartmut Löwen | Heinrich-Heine-Universitat Dusseldorf, Germany | |
| ''Colloidal Suspensions Driven by External Fields'' | ||
| Simulation | Berni J. Alder | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA |
| ''Molecular Dynamics Compared to Hydrodynamics for Rayleigh-Taylor Instability'' | ||
| Robin C. Ball | Dept. of Physics, University of Warwick, UK | |
| ''Granular Materials as a New State of Matter'' | ||
| Polymer Dynamics |
| Experiment | Alan J. Heeger | UCSB, USA |
| ''Ultrafast Photoinduced Electron Transfer: "Superquenching" as a Route to Biosensors Using Luminescent Conjugated Polymer'' | ||
| Dieter Oswald Richter | Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany | |
| ''Intermediate Length Scale Dynamics in Polymer Melts'' | ||
| Theory | Philip Pincus | UCSB, USA |
| ''Polyelectrolyte Animals and Slow Modes'' | ||
| Michael Rubinstein | University of North Calolina, USA | |
| ''“Gelling” Transition of hydrophobic Polyelectrolytes'' | ||
| Simulation | Kurt Kremer | Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany |
| ''Polymer Melts and Networks: The Polymer Entanglement Concept Revisited'' | ||
| Biological Systems |
| Experiment | Steven Chu | Stanford University,USA |
| ''Watching Molecular Systems Work, One at a Time'' | ||
| Ivar Giaever | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA | |
| ''Electrical Impedance Analysis of Mammalian Cells'' | ||
| Didier Roux | CNRS, France | |
| ''Shear Instabilities in Lyotropic Lamellar Phases : Toward Rheochaos'' | ||
| Simulation | Murugappan Muthukumar | University of Massachusetts, USA |
| ''How DNA Worms through Protein Channels'' | ||
| Complex Systems |
| Experiment | Daniel Beysens | CEA-ESEME, France |
| ''Dynamics of Liquid-Vapor Phase Transition under High Frequency Vibrations'' | ||
| Yuri Feldman | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel | |
| ''Non-Debye Dielectric Response in Complex Systems at Mesoscale'' | ||
| Ronald G. Larson | University of Michigan, USA | |
| ''The Flow and Adsorption of DNA Polymers near Surfaces'' | ||
| Theory | Rudolph Arthur Marcus | California Institute of Technology, USA |
| ''Electron Transfer in Fast and Slow Media'' | ||
| Special Guest Speakers |
| Junichi Nishizawa | President, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan |
| ''Pioneering Work of THz Wave and Its Application for Molecular Sciences'' | |
