MTG Fest

Programme (updated 20/6/16)


	Monday 27 June
8:45 - 9:00	Opening remarks
	Chairperson: Paulo Teixeira
9:00 - 9:30	Bob Evans The drying transition is critical for (models of) liquids at solvophobic and hydrophobic substrates
9:30 - 10:00	Pedro Tarazona Atomically-resolved three-dimensional structures ofelectrolyte aqueous solutions near a solid surface: 3D-AFM experiments and DFT results
10:00 - 10:30	Keith Gubbins Corresponding states theory for property prediction at the nanoscale
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee break
	Chairperson: Benilde Saramago
11:00 - 11:30	Henrique Leitão MTG & TGV: Memories of my Supervisor
11:30 - 12:00	Nelson Bernardino Interfaces in liquid crystals, network fluids, and finance
12:00 - 12:30	André Moreira A curiosity-fueled random walk: from Physics to Business
12:30 - 14:30	Lunch break
	Chairperson: Francisco de los Santos
14:30 - 15:00	Mykola Tasinkevych Guiding chemical microswimmers with patterned surfaces
15:00 - 15:30	José Manuel Romero Enrique Roughness-induced anchoring transitions in nematic liquid crystals
15:30 - 16:00	Nuno M. Silvestre A non-chronological story on liquid crystal colloids
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee break
	Chairperson: João Lopes dos Santos
16:30 - 17:00	Siegfried Dietrich Capillary forces on colloids at fluid interfaces
17:00 - 17:30	Daniel de las Heras Bulk phase behaviour of mixtures of patchy colloids
17:30 - 18:00	Matthew Blow A growing bacterial microcolony as a "Hubble active nematic"
20:00 - 22:00	Workshop dinner

	Tuesday 28 June
	Chairperson: José Maria Tavares
9:00 - 9:30	Francesco Sciortino Gelling on heating
9:30 - 10:00	Helena Godinho Statics and dynamics of ring disclinations trapped by micro/nano fibers
10:00 - 10:30	Augusto Barroso A tribute to a friend
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee break
	Chairperson: Pedro Patrício
11:00 - 11:30	Nuno Araújo Field-driven dynamics of binary colloidal mixtures
11:30 - 12:00	Zahra Eskandari Collision between two chemically active particles
12:00 - 12:30	Cristovão Dias Temperature driven dynamical arrest of a network fluid: the role of loops
12:30 - 12:45	Concluding remarks