3rd Virginia Soft Matter Workshop

Scientific Program

Agenda of 3rd VSM Workshop

  8:15 - Registration and Breakfast

  9:00 - Opening remarks: David Green (UVA)
  9:03 - Introduction:Pam Norris (UVA)

  Session 1: Chair, Michal Sabat (MSE, University of Virginia)
  9:15 - Invited Speaker: Michael Bevan (Johns Hopkins Univ.)
            "Colloidal Interactions, Dynamics, and Assembly on Energy Landscapes"
  9:50 - Sound bite presentations I
 
  10:20 - Coffee break

  Session 2: Chair, Geoff Geise (ChE, University of Virginia)
  10:50 - Invited Speaker: Daniel Sunday (NIST)
              "Characterizing Block Copolymers for Directed Self-Assembly Using Soft
               X-rays"
  11:25 - Sound bite presentations II

  11:45 - Lunch

  Session 3: Chair, Kyle Lampe (ChE, University of Virginia)
  1:15 - Invited Speaker: Eric Loth (UVA)
            "Blood on Superhydrophobic Surfaces: Polymers in Liquids interacting with
            Polymers on Complex Topology Solids"
  1:50 - Sound bite presentations III

  2:20 – Coffee break

  Session 4: Chair, Kateri DuBay (Chemistry, University of Virginia)
  2:50 – Sound bite presentations IV
  3:20 – Invited Speaker: Gary Koenig (UVA)
            "Particle Dispersion Flow Batteries"

  Session 5: Chair, Josh Choi (ChE, University of Virginia)
  3:55 – Sound bite presentations V
  4:25 – Invited Speaker: Greg Liu (Virginia Tech)
             "Sensitivity of Plasmonic Nanoparticles"

  5:00 – Concluding remarks