All conference events take place at the Complexo Interdisciplinar da Universidade de Lisboa (Avenida Professor Gama Pinto, 2), unless specified otherwise.
The conference is organised around five topics in an order reflecting the evolution of Bob Evans's scientific interests ...
Liquids in the bulk: Thursday 9.40 - 11.10
Interfaces: Thursday 11.40 - Friday 12.00
Confined fluids: Friday 12.00 - 16.30
Colloids and polymers: Friday 16.30 - Saturday 12.00
Biological perspectives: Saturday 12.00 - 13.00
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| May 24th | Afternoon |
| 14:00 17:00 |
Registration
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We expect that some of you will arrive early and may wish to register on Wednesday.
The others may register on Thursday, during the day. |
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| May 25th | Morning |
| 9:30 - 9:40 |
Opening remarks |
| 9:40 - 10:10 |
Balibar
"Nucleation and the metastability of liquids" |
| 10:10 - 10:40 |
Allen
"Structure of molecular liquids" |
| 10:40 - 11:10 |
Sullivan
"Liquid crystalline ordering of wormlike polymers: bulk and confined systems" |
| 11:10 - 11:40 |
Coffee break |
| 11:40 - 12:10 |
Freyland
"Interfacial phase transitions in fluid metals and ionic liquids" |
| 12:10 - 12:40 |
Pershan
"X-ray scattering studies of liquid surfaces and thin films: fluctuations, surface order, and the Casimir effect" |
| 12:40 - 15:00 |
Lunch break |
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| May 25th | Afternoon |
| 15:00 - 15:30 |
Tarazona
"Intrinsic density profiles and their density functional description" |
| 15:30 - 16:00 |
Parry
"Hard lessons from hard walls: or how I learnt to stop worrying and love the Bob" |
| 16:00 - 16:30 |
Löwen
"Walls, interfaces, and colloidal suspensions" |
| 16:30 - 17:00 |
Coffee break |
| 17:00 - 17:30 |
Frenkel
"Interfacial effects in crystal nucleation" |
| 17:30 - 18:00 |
Fisher
"The saga of ionic criticality: some new chapters" |
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| May 26th | Morning |
| 9:30 - 10:00 |
Widom
"Three-phase contact-line analog of the Gibbs adsorption equation" |
| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Lekkerkerker
"Life at ultralow interfacial tension: the interface of a demixed colloid-polymer mixture" |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Ralston
"Control of surface wettability by direct manipulation of surface interactions" |
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
Coffee break |
| 11:30 - 12:00 |
Güntherodt
"Impact of scanning probe methods on soft matter and interfaces" |
| 12:00 - 12:30 |
Binder
"Interface controlled phase transitions in nanosystems" |
| 12:30 - 14:30 |
Lunch break |
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| May 26th | Afternoon |
| 14:30 - 15:00 |
Maciolek
"Critical Casimir forces in superfluid films" |
| 15:00 - 15:30 |
White
"Mircoscopic structure of a hard-sphere fluid in a nanopore: dimensional crossover and ensemble effects" |
| 15:30 - 16:00 |
Roth
"Fluids adsorbed in narrow pores" |
| 16:00 - 16:30 |
Coffee Break |
| 16:30 - 17:00 |
Leiderer
"Colloids in restricted geometry: model systems for matter on the nanoscale" |
| 17:00 - 17:30 |
Bechinger
"Direct measurements of depletion interactions in colloidal suspensions" |
| 17:30 - 18:00 |
Dijkstra
"Binary crystal structures: from charged spheres to hard spheres" |
| 20:00 - 23:00 |
Dinner at Pousada de Palmela
Enderby, "Bob's contribution to physics" |
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| May 27th | Morning |
| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Pusey
"Colloidal glasses" |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Reatto
"Critical phenomena in soft matter fluids" |
| 11:00- 11:30 |
Coffee break |
| 11:30 - 12:00 |
Hansen
"A multi-scale description of diblock copolymer self-asembly: from monomers to ordered micelles" |
| 12:00 - 12:30 |
Faisca
"From toy models to real protein folding: how far can we go?" |
| 12:30 - 13:00 |
Gompper
"Forced crumpling of self-avoiding elastic sheets" |
| 13:00 - 14:30 |
Closing remarks
Lunch |
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