Institute for Mathematics and its Applications

University of Minnesota

114 Lind Hall

207 Church Street S.E.

Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455

Web: http://www.ima.umn.edu | Email: ima-staff@ima.umn.edu | Telephone: (612) 624-6066 | Fax: (612) 626-7370
Schedules available at http://www.ima.umn.edu/happening

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

10:45am-11:15am	Coffee break	Lind Hall 400
11:15am-12:15pm	Vasileios Maroulas, University of Minnesota Variational representations, small noise large deviations and applications	Lind Hall 305	PS

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Wednesday, December 2, 2009

10:45am-11:15am	Coffee break	Lind Hall 400
2:30pm-3:20pm	Vladimir Sverak, University of Minnesota Topics in the theory of the Navier-Stokes equations	Lind Hall 305

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Thursday, December 3, 2009

10:45am-11:15am	Coffee break	Lind Hall 400

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Friday, December 4, 2009

10:45am-11:15am	Coffee break	Lind Hall 400
1:25pm-2:25pm	J. Michael Gray, Medtronic TBA	Vincent Hall 570	IPS12.4.09

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Saturday, December 5, 2009

8:15am-8:45am	Registration and coffee	EE/CS 3-176	T12.5-6.09
8:45am-9:00am	Fadil Santosa, University of Minnesota Welcome to the IMA	EE/CS 3-180	T12.5-6.09
9:00am-10:30am	Todd Squires, University of California, Santa Barbara Electrokinetics of highly charged surfaces	EE/CS 3-180	T12.5-6.09
10:30am-10:45am	Coffee break	EE/CS 3-176	T12.5-6.09
10:45am-12:15pm	David Saintillan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Electrokinetic phenomena in particulate suspensions: an introduction	EE/CS 3-180	T12.5-6.09
12:15pm-2:00pm	Lunch		T12.5-6.09
2:00pm-3:30pm	Sandip Ghosal, Northwestern University Electroosmotic flow and dispersion in microfluidics	EE/CS 3-180	T12.5-6.09
3:30pm-4:00pm	Coffee break	EE/CS 3-176	T12.5-6.09
4:00pm-5:30pm	Boris Zaltzman, Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research Concentration polarization phenomena and the electric double layer	EE/CS 3-180	T12.5-6.09

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Sunday, December 6, 2009

8:30am-9:00am	Coffee	EE/CS 3-176	T12.5-6.09
9:00am-10:30am	Ali Nadim, Claremont Graduate University Electrowetting and digital microfluidics	EE/CS 3-180	T12.5-6.09
10:30am-10:45am	Coffee break	EE/CS 3-176	T12.5-6.09
10:45am-12:15pm	Susan J. Muller, University of California, Berkeley Confinement effects with macromolecules	EE/CS 3-180	T12.5-6.09
12:15pm-2:00pm	Lunch		T12.5-6.09
2:00pm-3:30pm	Shelley L. Anna, Carnegie Mellon University An Introduction to interfaces and multiphase flows in microfluidics	EE/CS 3-180	T12.5-6.09
3:30pm-4:00pm	Coffee break	EE/CS 3-176	T12.5-6.09
4:00pm-5:30pm	Martin Z. Bazant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Induced-charge Electrokinetics	EE/CS 3-180	T12.5-6.09

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Monday, December 7, 2009

All Day	Chair: Sandip Ghosal (Northwestern, University)		W12.7-11.09
8:15am-8:45am	Registration and coffee	EE/CS 3-176	W12.7-11.09
8:45am-9:00am	Fadil Santosa, University of Minnesota Welcome to the IMA	EE/CS 3-180	W12.7-11.09
9:00am-9:40am	Manu Prakash, Harvard University TBA	EE/CS 3-180	W12.7-11.09
9:40am-10:20am	Kevin D. Dorfman, University of Minnesota DNA electrophoresis in microfabricated arrays	EE/CS 3-180	W12.7-11.09
10:20am-10:50am	Coffee break	EE/CS 3-176	W12.7-11.09
10:50am-11:30am	Sumita Pennathur, University of California, Santa Barbara TBA	EE/CS 3-180	W12.7-11.09
11:30am-1:30pm	Lunch		W12.7-11.09
1:30pm-2:10pm	Reinhard Lipowsky, Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces Wetting of structured substrates and flexible membranes	EE/CS 3-180	W12.7-11.09
2:10pm-2:50pm	Frieder Mugele, Universiteit Twente Mixing and internal flows in drops in AC electrowetting	EE/CS 3-180	W12.7-11.09
2:50pm-3:00pm	Group Photo		W12.7-11.09
3:00pm-3:30pm	Coffee break	EE/CS 3-176	W12.7-11.09
3:30pm-4:00pm	Second chances	EE/CS 3-180	W12.7-11.09
4:00pm-6:00pm	Reception and Poster Session Poster submissions welcome from all participants Instructions	Lind Hall 400	W12.7-11.09
	Riccardo Sacco, Politecnico di Milano:   Multi-physics computational models for neuro-chip simulation
	Jonathan D. Posner, Arizona State University:   Locomotion of synthetic nanomotors
	Antonio Ramos, University of Sevilla:   Traveling-wave electroosmosis and faradaic currents: the diffusion layer
	Aditya Satish Khair, University of California, Santa Barbara:   Influence of ion sterics and hydrodynamic slip on electrophoresis of a colloidal particle
	Shahriar Afkhami, New Jersey Institute of Technology:   Numerical simulations of dynamic wetting
	Frieder Mugele, Universiteit Twente:   Surface charge measurement and control by gate voltage in electroosmotic flow
	Ulrich Tallarek, Philipps-Universität Marburg:   Electric field gradient focusing in microchannels with embedded bipolar electrode
	Thomas B. Jones, University of Rochester:   Dielectrophoretic deflection and rebound of continuous droplet streams
	Shelley L. Anna, Carnegie Mellon University:   Scaling arguments for tipstreaming of submicron droplets
	Petia M. Vlahovska, Dartmouth College:   Dynamics of drops and vesicles in electric fields
	Monika Nitsche, University of New Mexico:   High order quadratures for the evaluation of interfacial velocities in axi-symmetric Stokes flows

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Tuesday, December 8, 2009

All Day	Chair: Martin Z. Bazant (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)		W12.7-11.09
8:30am-9:00am	Coffee	EE/CS 3-176	W12.7-11.09
9:00am-9:40am	Ehud Yariv, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Migration of ion-exchange particles under the action of a uniformly applied electric field	EE/CS 3-180	W12.7-11.09
9:40am-10:20am	Jens Eggers, University of Bristol Making small things	EE/CS 3-180	W12.7-11.09
10:20am-10:50am	Coffee break	EE/CS 3-176	W12.7-11.09
10:50am-11:30am	Eric S. G. Shaqfeh, Stanford University The microfluidics of colloidal particle-vesicle-capsule mixtures with application to blood additives	EE/CS 3-180	W12.7-11.09
11:30am-1:30pm	Lunch		W12.7-11.09
1:30pm-2:10pm	Patrick S. Doyle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology DNA dynamics in confinement and complex electric fields	EE/CS 3-180	W12.7-11.09
2:10pm-2:50pm	Minami Yoda, Georgia Institute of Technology Nonuniform interfacial colloidal tracer distributions and implications for microscale PIV	EE/CS 3-180	W12.7-11.09
2:50pm-3:20pm	Coffee break	EE/CS 3-176	W12.7-11.09
3:20pm-4:00pm	Linda J. Cummings, New Jersey Institute of Technology TBA	EE/CS 3-180	W12.7-11.09
4:00pm-4:30pm	Second chances	EE/CS 3-180	W12.7-11.09

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Wednesday, December 9, 2009

All Day	Chair: Todd Squires (University of California, Santa Barbara)		W12.7-11.09
8:30am-9:00am	Coffee	EE/CS 3-176	W12.7-11.09
9:00am-9:40am	David Quéré, École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris (ESPCI) Impact figures	EE/CS 3-180	W12.7-11.09
9:40am-10:20am	Detlef Lohse, Universiteit Twente Hydrodynamics challenges in inkjet printing	EE/CS 3-180	W12.7-11.09
10:20am-10:50am	Coffee break	EE/CS 3-176	W12.7-11.09
10:50am-11:30am	Thomas B. Jones, University of Rochester The electromechanics of liquids	EE/CS 3-180	W12.7-11.09
11:30am-1:30pm	Lunch		W12.7-11.09
1:30pm-2:10pm	Michael J. Miksis, Northwestern University Dynamics of lipid bilayer membranes	EE/CS 3-180	W12.7-11.09
2:10pm-2:50pm	Chun Liu, University of Minnesota Energetic variational approaches in calcium and sodium channels	EE/CS 3-180	W12.7-11.09
2:50pm-3:20pm	Coffee break	EE/CS 3-176	W12.7-11.09
3:20pm-4:00pm	Hsueh-Chia Chang, University of Notre Dame Electrokinetic ion transport and liquid flux across nanochannels	EE/CS 3-180	W12.7-11.09
4:00pm-4:30pm	Second chances	EE/CS 3-180	W12.7-11.09

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Thursday, December 10, 2009

All Day	Chair: Ali Nadim (Claremont Graduate University)		W12.7-11.09
8:30am-9:00am	Coffee	EE/CS 3-176	W12.7-11.09
9:00am-9:40am	John Denis Sherwood, University of Cambridge Electrical streaming potential generated by 2-phase flow	EE/CS 3-180	W12.7-11.09
9:40am-10:20am	Chaouqi Misbah, Université de Grenoble I (Joseph Fourier) Vesicles and red blood cells under shear and Poiseuille flow	EE/CS 3-180	W12.7-11.09
10:20am-10:50am	Coffee break	EE/CS 3-176	W12.7-11.09
10:50am-11:30am	Paul H. Steen, Cornell University Countering capillarity with electrokinetics: from micro-manipulation to Debye-layer diagnostics	EE/CS 3-180	W12.7-11.09
11:30am-1:30pm	Lunch		W12.7-11.09
1:30pm-2:10pm	Isaak Rubinstein, Ben Gurion University of the Negev Extended space charge effects in concentration polarization	EE/CS 3-180	W12.7-11.09
2:10pm-2:40pm	Coffee break	EE/CS 3-176	W12.7-11.09
2:40pm-3:20pm	Michael P. Brenner, Harvard University TBA	EE/CS 3-180	W12.7-11.09
3:20pm-3:50pm	Second chances	EE/CS 3-180	W12.7-11.09
6:30pm-8:30pm	Workshop Dinner	TBA	W12.7-11.09

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Friday, December 11, 2009

All Day	Chair: Susan J. Muller (University of California, Berkeley)		W12.7-11.09
8:30am-9:00am	Coffee	EE/CS 3-176	W12.7-11.09
9:00am-9:40am	TBA	EE/CS 3-180	W12.7-11.09
9:40am-10:20am	Zuzanna S. Siwy, University of California, Irvine Ion transport through nanopores: From living cells to diodes and transistors	EE/CS 3-180	W12.7-11.09
10:20am-10:50am	Coffee break	EE/CS 3-176	W12.7-11.09
10:50am-11:30am	Peter D. Olmsted, University of Leeds The influence of boundaries on shear banding in complex fluids	EE/CS 3-180	W12.7-11.09
11:30am-12:00pm	Second chances/closing remarks	EE/CS 3-176	W12.7-11.09

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Monday, December 14, 2009

2:30pm-3:20pm	Vladimir Sverak, University of Minnesota Topics in the theory of the Navier-Stokes equations	Lind Hall 305

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Wednesday, December 16, 2009

2:30pm-3:20pm	Vladimir Sverak, University of Minnesota Topics in the theory of the Navier-Stokes equations	Lind Hall 305

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Friday, December 18, 2009

1:25pm-2:25pm	Lalitha Venkataramanan, Schlumberger-Doll TBA	Vincent Hall 570	IPS12.18.09

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Monday, December 21, 2009

2:30pm-3:20pm	Vladimir Sverak, University of Minnesota Topics in the theory of the Navier-Stokes equations	Lind Hall 305

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Wednesday, December 23, 2009

2:30pm-3:20pm	Vladimir Sverak, University of Minnesota Topics in the theory of the Navier-Stokes equations	Lind Hall 305

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Thursday, December 24, 2009

All Day	Floating holiday. The IMA is closed.

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Friday, December 25, 2009

All Day	Christmas Day. The IMA is closed.

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Monday, December 28, 2009

2:30pm-3:20pm	Vladimir Sverak, University of Minnesota Topics in the theory of the Navier-Stokes equations	Lind Hall 305

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