Conference Presentations

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Sunday, August 14, 2005

Arrival

• 3:00-5:30 pm :: Registration in Indiana Memorial Union Conference Lounge (Mezzanine level)
• 6:00 pm :: Welcome Reception and Tour, Indiana University Cyclotron Facility

Monday, August 15, 2005

• 7:45-8:45 am :: Registration (cont.), IMU, Mezzanine Level
• 7:45-8:45 am :: Breakfast

The issues

• 8:45-9:00 am :: Welcome Remarks

Session 1: Length and time scales in thin complex-fluid films

• 9:00-9:45 am :: Prof. Phil A. Pincus, University of California at Santa Barbara "A Review of Self-assembling Membranes”
• 9:45-10:00 am :: Dr. Atul Parikh, University of California at Davis "Emergent structures in mixed lipid membranes"
• 10:00-10:30 am :: Discussion. Moderator: Dr. Paul E. Sokol
• 10:30-11:00 am :: Coffee break

Session 2: On bent and crumpled membranes

• 11:00-11:45 am :: Prof. Tom Witten, University of Chicago “Crumpling and buckling events in membranes”
• 11:45 am-12:00 pm :: Dr. William Hamilton, Oak Ridge National Laboratory "Topological relaxation of a shear-induced lamellar phase to sponge equilibrium and the energetics of membrane fusion"
• 12:00-12:30 pm :: Discussion. Moderator: Dr. Atul Parikh
• 12:30-2:00 pm :: Lunch

Session 3: Coexisting fluid phases in model and biological membranes

• 2:00-2:45 pm :: Prof. Tobias Baumgart, University of Pennsylvania “Fluid phase coexistence in freely suspended model membranes and biological membranes”
• 2:45-3:00 pm :: Prof. Henrich H. Paradies: University of Salford, UK, and University of Applied Sciences, Germany "Fluid phases and transitions of charged lipid A-Phosphates dispersions"
• 3:00-3:30 pm :: Discussion. Moderator: Dr. Millicent Firestone
• 3:30-4:00 pm :: Coffee break

Session 4: Nanostructures in polymer membranes

• 4:00-4:45 pm :: Prof. Ed Kramer, University of California at Santa Barbara "Order and disorder in block copolymer monolayer and multilayer films"
• 4:45-5:00 pm :: Dr. Karen Edler, University of Bath, UK "Formation of nanostructured surfactant-templated thin films at the air-solution interface"
• 5:00-5:30 pm :: Discussion. Moderator: Dr. Dobrin Bossev
• 5:30 pm :: Dinner on your own

Tuesday, August 16, 2005

• 8:00-9:00 am :: Breakfast

Scattering experiments

Session 5: Liquid/solid interfaces

• 9:00-9:45 am :: Dr. Giovanna Fragneto, Institut Laue-Langevin, France “Lipid/protein interactions: neutron reflectivity studies”
• 9:45-10:00 am :: Dr. Hanna Wacklin, Oxford University, UK "Formation and characterization of complex phospholipid membranes by neutron reflection"
• 10:00-10:30 am :: Discussion. Moderator: Dr. Michael Kent
• 10:30-11:00 am :: Coffee break

Session 6: Localized functions at membrane interfaces

• 11:00-11:45 am :: Prof. Mathias Lösche, John Hopkins University "Contrast variation approaches to characterize functional biological membrane mimics"
• 11:45 am-12:00 pm :: Dr. Stephen Holt, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK "Channel opening of the mechanosensitive channel MscL studied by small angle neutron scattering and neutron reflection"
• 12:00-12:30 pm :: Discussion. Moderator: Dr. Robert Briber
• 12:30-2:00 pm :: Lunch

Session 7: Structures induced in membranes

• 2:00-2:45 pm :: Prof. Huey Wen Huang, Rice University “Structures induced in membranes studied by grazing-angle diffraction”
• 2:45-3:00 pm :: Dr. David Worcester, University of Missouri "Dynamics in lecithin/cholesterol membranes by deuterium labeling"
• 3:00-3:30 pm :: Discussion. Moderator: Dr. John Ankner
• 3:30-4:00 pm :: Coffee break

Session 8: Grazing Incidence Neutron Scattering

• 4:00-4:45 pm :: Dr. Roger Pynn, Indiana University Cyclotron Facility “Using neutrons to study the in-plane structure of thin films”
• 4:45-5:15 pm :: Dr Ad van Well, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands “Probing real space by spin-echo small-angle neutron scattering”
• 5:15–5:45 pm :: Discussion. Moderator: Dr. Mike Snow
• 7:00 pm :: Conference Dinner at Oliver Winery

Wednesday, August 17, 2005

• 8:00-9:00 am :: Breakfast

The spin-echo approach

Session 9: Relaxation in membranes

• 9:00-9:45 am :: Dr. Maikel C. Rheinstädter, Institut Laue-Langevin, France “Collective long wavelength dynamics of lipid membranes studied by quasi-elastic neutron reflectivity on spin-echo spectrometers”
• 9:45-10:30 am :: Discussion, Moderator: Dr. Thomas Gutberlet.
• 10:30-11:00 am :: Coffee break

Session 10: Spin-echo and scattering

• 11:00-11:30 am :: Dr. Peter Falus, Argonne National Laboratory “EVA -- a prototype instrument for Spin-Echo Resolved Grazing Incidence Neutron Scattering (SERGIS)”
• 11:30-11:50 am :: Dr. Janos Major, Max-Planck-Institut, Germany “The new N-REX⁺ reflectometer at FRM-I: research plans for the study of capillary dynamics and dewetting in thin polymer films”
• 11:50 am -12:20 pm :: Workshop Summary: Prof. Tom Witten
• 12:20 - 1:00 pm :: Discussion
• 1:00 pm :: Lunch

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