Focus Session: Fluctuation-Induced Forces in Soft Matter and Polymeric Systems - Charge, Shape and Nucleation

Presentations

• DILLON MEDAL BREAK

  COFFEE_KLATCH

  Feb. 28, 2012, 2:30 PM – Feb. 28, 2012, 3:06 PM

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• Ion-induced interactions between charged macroions and dielectric inhomogeneities

  ORAL

  Feb. 28, 2012, 3:06 PM – Feb. 28, 2012, 3:18 PM

  Authors

  • Jos Zwanikken

    • Northwestern University

  • Monica Olvera de la Cruz

    • Northwestern University

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• Dielectric many-body effects in arrays of charged cylindrical macromolecules

  ORAL

  Feb. 28, 2012, 3:18 PM – Feb. 28, 2012, 3:30 PM

  Authors

  • Daniel W Sinkovits

    • University of Illinois at Urbana--Champaign

  • Kipton Barros

    • Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Jure Dobnikar

    • University of Cambridge, UK
    • University of Cambridge and Jo\v{z}ef Stefan Institute (IJS)

  • Matej Kandu\v{c}

    • Technische Universit\"{a}t M\"{u}nchen and IJS

  • Ali Naji

    • Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM)

  • Rudolf Podgornik

    • IJS and University of Ljubljana

  • Erik Luijten

    • Northwestern University

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• ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN

  Feb. 28, 2012, 3:30 PM – Feb. 28, 2012, 3:42 PM

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• Influence of probe shape on polymer configurations and entropic forces

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  Feb. 28, 2012, 3:42 PM – Feb. 28, 2012, 4:18 PM

  Authors

  • Yacov Kantor

    • Tel Aviv University

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• Topological obstacles and the forces on them in systems of strongly interacting directed polymers

  ORAL

  Feb. 28, 2012, 4:18 PM – Feb. 28, 2012, 4:30 PM

  Authors

  • David Zeb Rocklin

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Paul Goldbart

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Shina Tan

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

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• Critical exponents in the presence of a tip

  ORAL

  Feb. 28, 2012, 4:30 PM – Feb. 28, 2012, 4:42 PM

  Authors

  • Mohammad F. Maghrebi

    • MIT

  • Yacov Kantor

    • Tel Aviv University

  • Mehran Kardar

    • MIT

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• Trapping fluctuations in confined carbon dioxide near the supercritical ridge

  ORAL

  Feb. 28, 2012, 4:42 PM – Feb. 28, 2012, 4:54 PM

  Authors

  • Manfred Heuberger

    • EMPA, Materials Science and Technology, CH-9014 St. Gallen

  • Erich Schurtenberger

    • EMPA, Materials Science and Technology, CH-9014 St. Gallen

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• Homogeneous crystal nucleation from the melts of flexible $n$-alkanes by molecular simulation

  ORAL

  Feb. 28, 2012, 4:54 PM – Feb. 28, 2012, 5:06 PM

  Authors

  • Peng Yi

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Gregory C. Rutledge

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

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• ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN

  Feb. 28, 2012, 5:06 PM – Feb. 28, 2012, 5:18 PM

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