Program

Schedule

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

•  2:00-4:30 pm :: Registration (Convention Center)
  
  
•  4:30 pm :: Buses depart from hotels to IUCF
  
  
•  5:00 pm :: Welcome Reception and Tour of Indiana University Cyclotron Facility
  (co-sponsored by Indiana University Cyclotron Facility and Blake Industries, Inc.)

Thursday, June 15, 2006

•  8:00-8:45 am :: Registration (Convention Center)
  
  
•  8:45-9:00 am :: Welcome Remarks (Great Hall)

Session 1  Chair: Paul E. Sokol

•  9:00-9:50 am :: Plenary Speaker – Dan Neumann (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
   "QENS: Recent Trends and future opportunities"
  
  
•  9:50-10:30 am :: Keynote Speaker – Jörg Pieper (Technische Universität Berlin)
   "Time-Resolved QENS Studies of Light-Induced Protein Dynamics"
  
  
•  10:30-11:00 am :: Coffee break

Session 2  Chair: Alexei Sokolov

•  11:00-11:30 am :: Janna K. Maranas (Pennsylvania State University)
   "The influence of trehalose on melting and dynamics in dehydrated phospholipid bilayers"
  
  
•  11:30-11:50 am :: Alexandra Buchsteiner (Hahn-Meitner-Institut, Berlin)
   "Dynamics in a Biological Membrane from QENS and DS Experiment"
  
  
•  11:50-12:10 pm :: Ruep E. Lechner (Internatl.Graduate College, The Free University, Berlin)
   "Biological-Function Related Dynamics in Bacteriorhodopsin: Method of QENS Analysis"
  
  
•  12:10-12:30 pm :: Sebastian Busch (Technische Universität Munich)
   "Protein Diffusion in Crowded Environments"
  
  
•  12:30-2:00 pm :: Lunch

Session 3   Chair: Ruep Lechner

•  2:00-2:30 pm :: Joseph Curtis (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
   "Temperature and Hydration Dependence of the Dynamics of Proteins and Nucleic Acids:
    Microscopic Insight from Molecular Dynamics Simulations"
  
  
•  2:30-2:50 pm :: Vandana Kurkal-Siebert (University of Heidelberg)
   "Investigation of protein/enzyme dynamics using molecular dynamics simulations and
    neutron scattering spectroscopy"
  
  
•  2:50-3:10 pm :: Daniela Russo (CNR-INFM & CRS-SOFT, OGG Grenoble)
   "The role of protein-solvent interactions in protein folding/unfolding:
    from a dynamics point of view"
  
  
•  3:10-3:40 pm :: Coffee break

Session 4   Chair: David Baxter

•  3:40-4:10 pm :: Alexei P. Sokolov (The University of Akron)
   "Influence of Solvents on Protein Dynamics"

•  4:10-4:40 pm :: Helen Thompson (ISIS, Rutherford Laboratory)
   "Proton dynamics in metal ammonia solutions and expanded metals: experiments and simulations"

•  4:40-5:00 pm :: Ireneusz Natkankiec (Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics)
   "Neutron scattering studies of molecular dynamics in solid phases of neohexane and diisopropyl"

•  5:00 pm :: Poster session

•  7:00 pm :: Dinner on your own

Friday, June 16, 2006

Session 5   Chair: Dan Neumann

•  9:00-9:40 am :: Keynote Speaker – Eugene Stanley (Boston University)
   "Relation between the Widom Line and the Fragility Transition in Bulk Water
    and in Protein Hydration Water"

•  9:40-10:10 am :: Toshio Yamaguchi (Fukuoka University)
   "Dynamics of water in confined media"

•  10:10-10:30 am :: Eugene Mamontov (SNS, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
   "Mobility of water on oxide surfaces studied by QENS"

•  10:30-11:00 am :: Coffee break

Session 6   Chair: Masatoshi Arai

•  11:00-11:20 am :: Felix Fernandez-Alonso (ISIS, Rutherford Laboratory)
   "Water Dynamics on a Nanocapsule Surface: from Librational Trapping to
    Coverage-dependent Translational Diffusion"

•  11:20-11:40 am :: Nancy J. Hess (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
   "Proton dynamics of bulk ammonia borane and ammonia borane confined in
    mesoporous silica by Quasielastic Neutron Scattering"

•  11:40-12:00 pm :: Niina Jalarvo (Hahn-Meitner-Institut, Berlin)
   "Water dynamics in superconducting Na_xCoO₂·yH₂O"

•  12:00-12:20 pm :: Kenneth W. Herwig (SNS, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
   "A quasielastic neutron scattering study of the dynamics of alkane and
    ether molecules tethered to the surface of MCM-41"

•  12:20-2:00 pm :: Lunch

Session 7  Chair: Mark Leuschner

•  2:00-2:30 pm :: Dobrin Bossev (Indiana University Cyclotron Facility)
   "Dynamics of self-assembled membranes"

•  2:30-3:00 pm :: Mitsutaka Nakamura (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
   "Low-energy dynamics of superionic glass: Evidence for a direct relation with ionic conductivity"

•  3:00-3:20 pm :: André Kusmin (Internatl.Graduate College, The Free University, Berlin)
   "Negative Solubility Coefficient and Dynamics of Hydrophobic Interactions in
    Aqueous Solutions of Native and Methylated Cyclodextrins"

•  3:20-3:50 pm :: Coffee break

Session 8  Chair: Dobrin Bossev

•  3:50-4:20 pm :: Toshiji Kanaya (Kyoto University)
   "Inelastic and quasielastic neutron scattering from polymer thin films"

•  4:20-4:50 pm :: Jean-Marc Zanotti (Laboratoire Léon Brillouin, C.E.A. Saclay)
   "A unified approach to the dynamics of a bulk polymer melt.
    Extension to the regime of nano-confinement"

•  5:45 pm :: Buses depart all hotles for IU Auditorium

•  6:15 pm :: Conference Dinner (IU Auditorium)
  (co-sponsored by Indiana University Cyclotron Facility and Varian, Inc.)

Saturday, June 17, 2006

Session 9  Chair: Jörg Pieper

•  9:00-9:30 am :: Tobias Unruh (Technische Universität Munich)
   "The new time-of-flight spectrometer TOFTOF at FRM-II"

•  9:30-10:00 am :: Georg Ehlers (SNS, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
   "The Cold Neutron Chopper Spectrometer at the SNS - Scientific Opportunities and Project Status"

•  10:00-10:30 am :: John Copley (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
   "The DCS experience"

•  10:30-11:00 am :: Coffee break

•  11:00-11:45 am :: Summary and concluding remarks>

•  11:45 pm :: End of Conference
  
  

Optional Saturday Afternoon Excursions

•  Taste of Bloomington and Art Fair on the Square
•  Indianapolis Speedway
•  Columbus Architectural Tour
•  Wyandotte Caves