MRS Symposium 2003MRS Symposium P: Dynamics in Small Confining Systems VII December 1-5, 2003 |
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Interfacial science has rapidly expanded beyond the original realm of chemistry to include physics, mechanical and chemical engeneering, biology, materials science, and other specialized subfields. This seventh international symposium in a series sponsored by the MRS will emphasize a wide range of topic covering static and dynamic properties of small confining systems. Participants from various disciplines will share different points of view on the questions of how ultrasmall geometries can force a system to behave in ways significantly different than its behaviour in the bulk, how this difference affects molecular properties, and how it is probed. We encourage researchers from all scientific disciplines to present theoretical, experimental, and computational evidence of the effects of confinement on gaseous, liquid, and solid systems.
Both oral and poster presentations will be accepted relating the following topical areas:
- Confined and anomalous dynamics in porous, supramolecular, and biological systems
- New methods to probe dynamics in confinement (scattering, NMR, optical probes, and direct imaging techniques)
- Diffusion and reactions in confinement
- Adsorption and phase transitions of simple and complex fluids at interfaces
- Liquids at interfaces
- Microfluidics and hydrodynamics near solid surfaces
- Friction and structural properties of fluids under shear
- Dynamic force spectroscopy
- Numerical modeling and computational techniques of confined systems
- Synthesis and design of new confined geometries and supramolecular systems
Invited speakers (tentative) include:
A.Ajdari (ESPCI-Paris, France), Y.Braiman (Oak Ridge National Lab), F.Bright (SUNY-Buffalo), E.Evans (Univ. of British Columbia and Boston Univ.), F.Family (Emory Univ.), K.Gubbins (N. Carolina State Univ.-Raleigh), J.Israelachvili (Univ. of California-Santa Barbara), R. Kimmich (Univ. Ulm, Germany), J.Klafter (tel Aviv Univ., Israel), J.Klein (Oxford Univ., UK and Weizmann Inst., Israel), J.P.Korb (CNRS-Palaiseau, France), L.Leger (College de France), N.E.Levinger (Colorado Univ.), J.Livage (College de France), A.Meller (Rowland Inst., Harvard Univ.), R.Metzler (Nordita, Denmark), E.Meyer Univ. Basel, Switzerland), U.Mohanty (Boston College), M.H.Muser (Univ Western Ontario, Canada), A.V. Neimark (TRI-Princeton), G.Oshanin (Univ. Paris, France), R.Overney (Washington Univ.), J.Prost (ESPCI-Paris, France), R.Richert (Arizona State Univ.), M.O.Robbins (Johns Hopkins Univ.), C.Alba Simionesco (Univ. Paris-Sud, France), G.Scherer (Princeton Univ.), Ch.Schmuttenmaer (Yale Univ.), K.Tominaga (Kobe Univ.), S.Xie (Harvard Univ.), and J.M.Zanotti (Argonne National Lab).
Symposium Organizers:
John T. Fourkas
Boston College, Eugene F. Merkert Chemistry Center, Boston, 2609 Beacon St., Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Tel: 617-552-3611, Fax: 617-552-2705, fourkas@bc.edu
Pierre Levitz
PMC-CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau, France
Tel: 33-1-6933-4702, Fax: 33-1-6933-3004, levitz@pmc.polytechnique.fr
Michael Urbakh
Tel Aviv University, School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
Tel: 972-3-640-8254, Fax: 972-3-640-9293, urbakh@post.tau.ac.il
Kathryn J. Wahl
Naval Research Laboratory, Code 6176, Bldg. 207 Washington, DC 20375-5342
Tel: 202-767-5419, Fax: 202-767-3321, wahl@stm2.nrl.navy.mil
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