Program

Last modified: Monday 23rd June
Program


Wednesday 25th June

21:00    Get together party

Thursday 26th June
Morning Session:

09:00-09:10 Welcome 
            Len Pismen, Technion

09:10-10:00 H. Riegler, MPIKG Golm
            Mobility and Aggregation Behaviour of Long Chain n-Alkanes at 
            Solid/Gas Interfaces

10:00-10:50 A. Sharma, Indian Institute of Technology
            Self-Organized Patterns in Thin Soft Films

10:50-11:10 Coffee Break

11:10-11:50 I. Leizerson & S. Lipson, Technion
            Mystery of pattern formation in thin volatile water film on mica 
            substrate

11:50-12:30 M. Deutsch, Bar-Ilan University
            Short-Range Wetting at Liquid Gallium-Bismuth
            Alloy Surfaces

12:30-13:00 S. Srebnik, Technion
            Lattice theory of enzyme surface immobilization 

13:00-14:30 Lunch Break

Afternoon Session

14:30-15:20 D. Andelman, Tel Aviv University
            Templates, surface patterns and electric field effects in 
            copolymer films

15:20-16:10 A. Golovin, Northwestern University, Evanston IL
            Self-Organization of Quantum Dots in Thin Solid Films

16:10-16:30 Coffee Break

16:30-17:20 M. Rauscher, MPIMF, Stuttgart 
            Fluid transport on chemically structured surfaces

17:20-18:10 B. Meerson, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
            Scaling anomalies in the coarsening of fractal viscous
            fingering patterns.

Friday 27th June
Morning Session:

09:00-09:50 Y. Pomeau   ENS, Paris
            Introducing Arrhenius long time scales in phase field models

09:50-10:40 Y. Tovbin, Karpov Institute of Physical Chemistry, Moscow
            Micro-aero-hydrodynamics: new molecular approach to fluid flows
            in nanoscale temporal and spatial domains 

10:40-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-11:50 D. Quere, College de France
            Non-wetting behaviours

11:50-12:40 L. Pismen, Technion
            Diffuse interfaces near hydrodynamic singularities

12:40-14:00 Lunch Break

Afternoon Session
14:00-14:50 O. Biham, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
            Reactions on nanometer size grains

14:50-15:40 A. Nepomnyashchy, Technion
            Instabilities of thermocapillary flows

15:40-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-16:50 S. Brandon, Technion
            Coupling between crystal growth mechanisms during large-scale
            directional crystal growth from the melt: modeling the effect of
            nano-scale events on macro-scale features

16:50-17:40 A. Marmur, Technion
            Wetting on Superhydrophobic Surfaces

Saturday, 28th June

Morning:    Conference excursion

16:00-16:50 R. Narayanan, University of Florida, Gainesville  
            Patterns at interfaces during phase change

16:50-18:30 Roundtable: Unsolved problems of dynamic wetting
            Moderator:  Yves Pomeau
            (Including presentation of DVD and slides by David Jacqmin
            [NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio] "Wetting
            stability and instability: Three studies".)

Gala Dinner

Sunday 29th June
Morning Session:

09:00-09:40 U. Shavit, Technion
            Free Flow at the Interface of Porous Surfaces: A generalization 
            of the Taylor Brush Configuration

09:40-10:20 S. Friedman, Volcani Center
            Hysteretic saturation-pressue relationships incorporating
            dynamic contact angle effects during high capillary number
            imbibition and drainage processes in porous media

10:20-10:50 S. Assouline, Volcani Center
            A new approach in modeling the water retention curve and
            the relative hydraulic conductivity functions of soils

10:50-11:10 Coffee Break

11:10-11:50 A. Pototsky & M. Bestehorn, Cottbus University
            Large scale Marangoni convection in thin liquid films

11:50-12:40 A. Nir, Technion
            Can droplets fall in love? 
            On thermo-capillary attraction of droplets in a suspension

12:40       Closing