Virginia Soft Matter Workshop VI Agenda
8:15 - Registration and Breakfast
9:00 - Opening remarks: Shengfeng Cheng (Virginia Tech)
9:05 - Welcome: Randy Heflin (Virginia Tech, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies of College of Science)
9:08 - Welcome: Mark Pitt (Virginia Tech, Professor and Chair, Dept. of Physics)
Session 1: Chair, Uwe Tauber (Virginia Tech)
9:10 - Invited Speaker: Rana Ashkar (Virginia Tech)
Title: Nanoscale Structure and Dynamics in Nanoparticle-Polymer Composites
9:50 - Sound bite presentations I
10:50 - Coffee break
Session 2: Chair, James Hanna (Virginia Tech)
11:20 - Invited Speaker: Gary Grest (Sandia National Laboratories)
Title: Nanoparticle Self-Assembly
12:00 - Lunch
Session 3: Chair, Vinh Nguyen (Virginia Tech)
1:20 - Invited Speaker: Hong Zhao (Virginia Commonwealth University)
Title: Material Interactions and Self-Assembly through Additive Printing Processes
2:00 - Sound bite presentations II
2:20 - Invited Speaker: Kendra Letchworth-Weaver (James Madison University)
Title: Integrating First Principles Theory and Experimental Characterization at the Solid/Liquid Interface
3:00 - Coffee break
Session 4: Chair, Michel Pleimling (Virginia Tech)
3:30 - Sound bite presentations III
4:30 - Invited Speaker: Marija Vucelja (University of Virginia)
Title: Thermal Relaxations and the Mpemba Effect
5:10 - Concluding remarks
