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IMA Workshop:
Modeling of Soft Matter
September 27-October 1, 2004
Organizers:
Maria-Carme T. Calderer
School of Mathematics
University of Minnesota
mcc@math.umn.edu
http://www.math.umn.edu/~mcc
Eugene M. Terentjev
Cavendish Laboratory
University of Cambridge
emt1000@cam.ac.uk
http://www.poco.phy.cam.ac.uk/~emt1000
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Description:
The physics of soft matter--materials such as gels, foams, liquid crystals, elastomers, and soft ferroelectrics--is an area of intense interest and contemporary study. Moreover, soft matter plays a role in a wide variety of important processes and application. For example, gel swelling is an essential part of many biological processes such as motility mechanisms in bacteria and the transport and absorption of drugs. Ferroelectrics, liquid crystals, and elastomers are being used to design ever faster switching devices. Electron microscopy and experimental activity have provided a great deal of detailed information on structures. But the integration of mathematical modeling and analysis with experimental approaches promises to greatly increase our understanding. This workshop will take such an integrated approach. The workshop will bring together researchers in applied and computational mathematical fields such as differential equations, dynamical systems, analysis, and fluid and solid mechanics, and scientists and engineers from a variety of disciplines relevant to soft matter physics. An important goal of the workshop is to identify beautiful and novel scientific problems arising in soft matter that are in need of mathematical modeling and appear amenable to it and so to set the stage for further research.
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| MONDAY,
SEPTEMBER 27 All talks are in Lecture Hall EE/CS 3-180 unless otherwise noted. |
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| 8:30 | Coffee and Registration | Reception Room EE/CS 3-176 |
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| 9:15 | Douglas N. Arnold and Organizers | Welcome and Introduction | |||||
| 9:30 | David C. Morse University of Minnesota |
Entanglement in Solutions of Semiflexible Polymers |
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| 10:20 | |
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| 11:00 | Masao Doi Tokyo University |
Motion of Complex Shaped Particle in Newtonian Fluid Slides: pdf |
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| 11:50 | |
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| 12:00 | Lunch Break |
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| 1:30 | Alexander Grosberg University of Minnesota |
Knots in Polymer Physics | |||||
| 2:20 | |
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| 3:00 | SECOND CHANCES | A discussion period to revisit workshop topics and issues and look towards future directions | |||||
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| 3:40 | IMA
Tea and more (with POSTER SESSION) |
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| TUESDAY,
SEPTEMBER 28 All talks are in Lecture Hall EE/CS 3-180 unless otherwise noted. |
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| 9:00 | Coffee | Reception Room EE/CS 3-176 | |||||
| 9:30 | Robert Pelcovits Brown University |
Visualization of Topological Defects in Liquid Crystals Slides: pdf |
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| 10:20 | |
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| 11:00 | Randall D. Kamien University of Pennsylvania |
Slides: pdf |
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| 11:50 | |
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| 12:00 | Lunch Break |
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| 1:30 | David Kinderlehrer Carnegie Mellon University |
Cooperative Effects in a Dye/Liquid Crystal System | |||||
| 2:40 | SECOND CHANCES | A discussion period to revisit workshop topics and issues and look towards future directions | |||||
| 3:45 | |
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| 4:30 | Ordway Lecture
by P.L. Lions |
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| WEDNESDAY,
SEPTEMBER 29 All talks are in Lecture Hall EE/CS 3-180 unless otherwise noted. |
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| 9:00 | Coffee | Reception Room EE/CS 3-176 | |||||
| 9:30 | Antonio DeSimone International School of Advanced Studies (SISSA) |
Soft Elasticity of Nematic Elastomers and Wetting Properties of Rough Surfaces Slides: pdf |
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| 10:20 | |
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| 11:00 | Eliot Fried Washington University, St. Louis |
Universal States in Nematic Elastomers Slides: pdf |
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| 11:50 | |
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| 12:00 | Lunch Break |
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| 1:30 | Harald Pleiner Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research |
A Physicists' View on Constitutive Equations | |||||
| 2:20 | |
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| 2:45 | Didier Long
Université Paris-Sud/CNRS |
Non-Linear Behavior of Filled Elastomers by Molecular Dissipative Dynamics Slides: pdf |
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| 3:35 | SECOND CHANCES | A discussion period to revisit workshop topics and issues and look towards future directions | |||||
| 4:30 | Ordway Lecture
by P.L. Lions |
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| THURSDAY,
SEPTEMBER 30 All talks are in Lecture Hall EE/CS 3-180 unless otherwise noted. |
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| 9:00 | Coffee | Reception Room EE/CS 3-176 | |||||
| 9:30 | Andrei A. Gusev ETH Zentrum |
Finite Element Mapping for Spring Network Representations of the Mechanics of Solids Slides: pdf |
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| 10:20 | |
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| 11:00 | Francois Graner Université Joseph Fourier |
Foams: Models for Elastic, Plastic, Fluid Materials Slides: pdf |
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| 11:50 | |
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| 12:00 | Lunch Break |
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| 1:30 | Raphael Blumenfeld Cavendish Laboratory |
Stress Field Equations in Granular Solids - A Shift of Paradigm Slides: pdf |
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| 2:40 | SECOND CHANCES | A discussion period to revisit workshop topics and issues and look towards future directions | |||||
| 3:30 | Ordway Lecture
by P.L. Lions |
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| Banquet (joint IMA-School of Mathematics) | |||||||
| FRIDAY,
OCTOBER 1 All talks are in Lecture Hall EE/CS 3-180 unless otherwise noted. |
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| 9:00 | Coffee | Reception Room EE/CS 3-176 | |||||
| 9:30 | Robert B. Meyer Brandeis University |
Electrically and Mechanically Driven Instabilities in Thin Layers of Nematic Liquid Crystal Gel Slides: pdf |
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| 10:20 | |
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| 11:00 | Cheng-Cher Huang University of Minnesota |
Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Liquid Crystal SmC* Variant Phases Slides: pdf |
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| 12:00 | Lunch Break |
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| 1:30 | Eugene M. Terentjev University of Cambridge |
Kinetic Theory of Rotational Diffusion and Anisotropic Viscosity of Liquid Crystals Slides: pdf |
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| 2:40 | SECOND CHANCES | A discussion period to revisit workshop topics and issues and look towards future directions | |||||
| 3:30 | |
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LIST OF CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS
| Name | Department | Affiliation |
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| Douglas N. Arnold | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Donald G. Aronson | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Gerard Awanou | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Peter W. Bates | Department of Mathematics | Michigan State University |
| Patricia Bauman | Department of Mathematics | Purdue University |
| Martin Z. Bazant | Department of Mathematics | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Josef Bemelmans | Institute for Mathematics | Aachen University of Technology |
| Yuxing Ben | Department of Mathematics | MIT |
| Daniel E. Bentil | Department of Mathematics & Statistics | University of Vermont |
| Jorge Berger | Department of Physics | Technion - Israel Institute of Technology |
| Keith Berrier | Rice University | |
| Fulvio Bisi | Dipartimento di Matematica | Università di Pavia |
| Raphael Blumenfeld | Department of Physics | Cambridge University |
| Helmut Brand | Physikalisches Institut | Universität Bayreuth |
| Maria-Carme Calderer | School of Mathematics | University of Minnesota |
| Qianyong Chen | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| L. Pamela Cook | Department of Mathematical Science | University of Delaware |
| Zhenlu Cui | Department of Mathematics | Florida State University |
| Antonio DeSimone | Applied Mathematics | SISSA-Italy |
| Brian DiDonna | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Masao Doi | Department of Applied Physics | University of Tokyo |
| Georg Dolzmann | Department of Applied Mathematics | University of Maryland |
| James J. Feng | Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering | University of British Columbia |
| Xiaobing Feng | Department of Mathematics | University of Tennessee |
| Eliot Fried | Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics | University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign |
| Tim Garoni | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Matthias Gobbert | Department of Mathematics and Statistics | University of Maryland - Baltimore County |
| Francois Graner | SpectroMetrie Physique | Université Joseph Fourier |
| Alexander Grosberg | Department of Physics and Astronomy | University of Minnesota |
| Colette Guillope | Department of Mathematics | University of Paris XII |
| Robert Gulliver | School of Mathematics | University of Minnesota |
| Andrei Gusev | Institut fuer Polymere | ETH Zentrum |
| Cheng-Cher Huang | School of Physics and Astronomy | University of Minnesota |
| Michel E. Jabbour | Department of Mathematics | University of Kentucky |
| Antal Jakli | Liquid Crystal Institute | Kent State University |
| Richard D. James | Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics | University of Minnesota |
| Sookyung Joo | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Randall D. Kamien | Department of Physics and Astronomy | University of Pennsylvania |
| Chiu Yen Kao | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| David Kinderlehrer | Department of Mathematics | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Bernhard Klampfl | Department of Materials Science | Klaiss Inc. |
| Isaac Klapper | Department of Mathematical Sciences | Montana State University |
| Richard Kollar | Institute of Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Matthias Kurzke | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Frederic Legoll | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Benedict Leimkuhler | Department of Mathematics and Computer Science | University of Leicester |
| Debra Lewis | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Xiantao Li | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Fanghua Lin | Department of Mathematics | New York University |
| Chun Liu | Department of Mathematics | Pennsylvania State University |
| Zuhan Liu | Xuzhou Normal University | |
| Didier Long | Laboratoire de Physique des Solids | Universite Paris Sud |
| Mitchell Luskin | School of Mathematics | University of Minnesota |
| Govind Menon | University of Wisconsin | |
| Robert Meyer | Martin Fisher School of Physics | Brandeis University |
| David Morse | Department of Chemical Engineering | University of Minnesota |
| Jinhae Park | School of Mathematics | University of Minnesota |
| Robert Pelcovits | Department of Physics | Brown University |
| Peter Philip | Institute for Mathematics and its Application | University of Minnesota |
| Petr Plechac | Mathematics Institute | University of Warwick |
| Harald Pleiner | Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research | |
| Lea Popovic | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Yitzhak Rabin | Department of Physics | Bar-Ilan University |
| Amit Ranjan | Department of Chemical Engineering and Material Sciences | University of Minnesota |
| Riccardo Rosso | Dipartimento di Matematica | Università di Pavia |
| Rolf Ryham | Department of Mathematics | Pennsylvania State University |
| Arnd Scheel | Institute for Mathematics and its Applications | University of Minnesota |
| Jonathan V. Selinger | Center for Bio/Molecular Science & Engineering | Naval Research Laboratory |
| George R Sell | School of Math | University of Minnesota |
| Tien-Tsan Shieh | Department of Mathematics | Indiana University |
| André M. Sonnet | Department of Mathematics | University of Strathclyde |
| Peter J. Sternberg | Department of Mathematics | Indiana University |
| Vladimir Sverak | Department of Mathematics | University of Minnesota |
| Ellad Tadmor | Department of Mechanical Engineering | Technion - Israel Institute of Technology |
| Eugene Terentjev | Cavendish Laboratory | Cambridge University |
| Robert T. Tranquillo | Dept. of Chemical Eng. and Material Sciences | University of Minnesota |
| Erkan Tuzel | Department of Physics & Astronomy | University of Minnesota |
| Jon Fredric Urban | Department of Biomedical Engineering | University of Minnesota |
| Epifanio G. Virga | Dipartimento di Matematica | Universita di Pavia |
| Karl Voss | Department of Mathematics | Bucknell University |
| Jimmy Wang | Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics | University of Minnesota |
| Xiaoqiang Wang | Pennsylvania State University | |
| Zhi-Qiang Wang | Department of Mathematics & Statistics | Utah State University |
| Stephen J. Watson | ESAM | Northwestern University |
| Jon Wilkening | New York University | |
| Baisheng Yan | Department of Mathematics | Michigan State University |
| Toshio Yoshikawa | Liu Bie Ju Centre for Mathematical Sciences | City University of Hong Kong |