2nd CLASS Workshop

Programme

Book of abstracts: click here


	Wednesday 10 October
	Superhydrophobicity
8:45 - 9:00	Opening remarks
	Chairperson: P. Teixeira
9:00 - 10:00	C. Cottin-Bizonne (invited) Slippage of simple liquids past super-hydrophobic surfaces
10:00 - 10:30	M. Popescu (invited) Buoyancy driven small drops or air bubbles colliding with fluid-fluid interfaces
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee break
	Chairperson: B. Ocko
11:00 - 12:00	M. Brinkmann (invited) Wetting of regularly structured substrates
12:00 - 12:30	A. Checco Liquid infiltration and air trapping into hydrophobic nanocavities
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch break
14:00 - 16:00	Discussion led by A. Checco Superhydrophobic surfaces and flows over heterogeneous solids
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee Break
	Self-assembly
	Chairperson: M. Tasinkevych
16:30 - 17:30	F. Martinez-Veracoechea (invited) Targeting and self-assembly using super-selective nanoparticles
17:30 - 18:00	A. Tkachenko Programmable self-assembly of DNA-nanoparticle mesostructures
18:00 - 18:30	B. Ocko Surface induced order in molecular and polymer systems

	Thursday 11 October
	Self-assembly
	Chairperson: J.M. Tavares
9:00 - 10:00	P. Poulin (invited) Self-assembly of carbon nanotubes for thin conductive films
10:00 - 10:30	O. Gang Nanoscale self-assembly guided by DNA and geometry: Structures, transformations and rational design
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee break
	Chairperson: M. Rauscher
11:00 - 11:30	A. Law Self-assembly of two-dimensional colloidal clusters
11:30 - 12:00	A. Maciolek Phase behaviour, structure and aggregation of colloids immersed in near-critical solvents
12:00 - 12:30	N. Bernardino Re-entrant wetting of network fluids
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch break
	Chairperson: N.G. Almarza
14:00 - 15:00	F. Sciortino (invited) Colloidal self-assembly of triblock Janus particles and other patchy colloids
15:00 - 15:30	D. de las Heras (invited) Bicontinuous and mixed gels in binary mixtures of patchy colloids
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee break
	Chairperson: Y. Kalyuzhnyi
16:00 - 16:30	M.M. Telo da Gama Self-assembly of anisotropic particles: nematic and patchy colloids
16:30 - 18:30	Discussion led by M. M. Telo da Gama Colloidal self-assembly and interactions with interfaces
20:00 - 22:00	Workshop dinner

	Friday 12 October
	Liquid crystals at patterned surfaces
	Chairperson: N.M. Silvestre
9:00 - 10:00	D. Aarts (invited) Confined colloids: rods and spheres
10:00 - 10:30	A. Parry (invited) Capillary condensation revisited: two Kelvin equations
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee break
	Chairperson: P. Patrício
11:00 - 11:30	J.M. Romero-Enrique (invited) Theoretical characterization of the surface free energy of a nematic in contact with microstructured substrates
11:30 - 12:00	V. Reshetnyak (invited) Frederiks transition in ferroic liquid crystal suspension
12:00 - 12:30	M. Blow Switching between nematic filled states: flexoelectric and order-electric coupling
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
	Chairperson: V. Choliy
14:00 - 15:00	J. Yeomans (invited) Stirring by microswimmers
15:00 - 15:30	M. Tröndle Chemically patterned surfaces and critical Casimir forces
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee break
16:00 - 18:00	Discussion led by S. Dietrich Patterned surfaces and complex fluids
18:00 - 18:30	Concluding remarks