Agenda
8:15 – Registration and Breakfast
9:00 – Opening remarks: Shengfeng Cheng (Virginia Tech)
9:05 – Introduction: Tim Long (ICTAS Macromolecules and Interfaces Institute
Director, Professor of Chemistry, Virginia Tech)
9:20 – Welcome: Leo Piilonen (Professor and Chair, Dept. Physics, Virginia Tech)
Scott Case (Professor and Engineering Science and Mechanics
Program Chair, Dept. Biomedical Engineering and
Mechanics, Virginia Tech)
Session 1: Chair, Uwe Tauber (Virginia Tech)
9:30 – Invited Speaker: Will Mather (Virginia Tech)
Title: Biological Cell Dynamics in Microfluidic Environments
10:10 – Sound bite presentations I
11:00 – Coffee break
Session 2: Chair, James Hanna (Virginia Tech)
11:25 – Invited Speaker: Michael Rubinstein (Univ. North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Title: Dynamics of Particles in Soft Matter
12:05 – Lunch
Session 3: Chair, Sunny Jung (Virginia Tech)
1:30 – Invited Speaker: Hannes Schniepp (College of William and Mary)
Title: Brown Recluse Spider’s Nanometer Scale Ribbons of Strong Sticky Silk
2:10 – Sound bite presentations II
2:55 – Coffee break
Session 4: Chair, Michel Pleimling (Virginia Tech)
3:20 – Sound bite presentations III
4:10 – Invited Speaker: David Green (University of Virginia)
Title: Impact of Graft Polymer Wetting Transitions on Colloidal Stability and
Dynamics in Polymer Matrices
4:50 – Concluding remarks
8:15 – Registration and Breakfast
9:00 – Opening remarks: Shengfeng Cheng (Virginia Tech)
9:05 – Introduction: Tim Long (ICTAS Macromolecules and Interfaces Institute
Director, Professor of Chemistry, Virginia Tech)
9:20 – Welcome: Leo Piilonen (Professor and Chair, Dept. Physics, Virginia Tech)
Scott Case (Professor and Engineering Science and Mechanics
Program Chair, Dept. Biomedical Engineering and
Mechanics, Virginia Tech)
Session 1: Chair, Uwe Tauber (Virginia Tech)
9:30 – Invited Speaker: Will Mather (Virginia Tech)
Title: Biological Cell Dynamics in Microfluidic Environments
10:10 – Sound bite presentations I
11:00 – Coffee break
Session 2: Chair, James Hanna (Virginia Tech)
11:25 – Invited Speaker: Michael Rubinstein (Univ. North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Title: Dynamics of Particles in Soft Matter
12:05 – Lunch
Session 3: Chair, Sunny Jung (Virginia Tech)
1:30 – Invited Speaker: Hannes Schniepp (College of William and Mary)
Title: Brown Recluse Spider’s Nanometer Scale Ribbons of Strong Sticky Silk
2:10 – Sound bite presentations II
2:55 – Coffee break
Session 4: Chair, Michel Pleimling (Virginia Tech)
3:20 – Sound bite presentations III
4:10 – Invited Speaker: David Green (University of Virginia)
Title: Impact of Graft Polymer Wetting Transitions on Colloidal Stability and
Dynamics in Polymer Matrices
4:50 – Concluding remarks
