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