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Activities
International Conference (13 - 17 January 2014)
Venue: IAS Lecture Theater, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
Schedule: (Updated on 16 January 2014)
13 Jan | 14 Jan | 15 Jan | 16 Jan | 17 Jan
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13 January 2014 (Monday) |
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Time |
Event |
Chair |
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08:25 – 08:45 |
Registration with refreshment |
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08:45 – 09:00 |
Welcome & Opening by President Tony F. Chan |
Penger Tong,
HKUST |
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09:00 – 10:00 |
Keynote Talk #1: Tom Lubensky, University of Pennsylvania
“Isostatic Lattice: From Jamming to Topological Surface Phonons”
[Abstract] |
Ping Sheng,
HKUST |
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10:00 – 10:40 |
Talk #1: Itai Cohen, Cornell University
“Using a Confocal Rheoscope to Investigate Soft Squishy
Materials”
[Abstract] |
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10:40 – 11:10 |
Tea Break |
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11:10 – 11:50 |
Talk #2: Eric Weeks, Emory University
“Flow of Jammed Quasi-two-dimensional Emulsion Droplets”
[Abstract] |
Itai Cohen,
Cornell University |
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11:50 – 12:30 |
Talk #3: Zexin Zhang, Soochow University
“Dynamical Heterogeneities and Cooperative Rearrangements in
Attractive Colloidal Glasses”
[Abstract] |
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12:30 – 14:00 |
Lunch (self-arranged) |
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14:00 – 15:00 |
Keynote Talk #2: Masao Doi, Beihang University
“Physics in Drying of Polymer Solutions”
[Abstract] |
Pik-Yin Lai, National
Central University |
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15:00 – 15:40 |
Talk #4:
Haiping Fang, Chinese Academy of Sciences
“Surf-riding in Thermal Fluctuations of Asymmetric Molecules –
Orientation-dependent Free Diffusion and Directional
Transportation of Asymmetrical Molecules at Room Temperature”
[Abstract] |
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15:40 – 16:10 |
Tea Break |
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16:10 – 16:50 |
Talk #5:
Yilong Han,
HKUST
“Nucleation in Solid-solid Transitions of Colloidal Crystals”
[Abstract] |
Hsuan-Yi Chen,
National Central University |
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16:50 – 17:30 |
Talk #6, Lei Xu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
“Visualizing Kinetic Pathways of Homogeneous Nucleation in
Colloidal Crystallization”
[Abstract] |
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14 January 2014 (Tuesday) |
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Time |
Event |
Chair |
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09:00 – 10:00 |
Keynote Talk #3: Robert Kohn, New York University
“An Approach to the Analysis of Wrinkling through Scaling Laws
and Bounds”
[Abstract] |
Xiao-Ping Wang, HKUST |
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10:00 – 10:40 |
Talk #7: Chun Liu, The Penn State University
“An Energetic Variational Approach for Ionic Fluids and Ion
Channels”
[Abstract] |
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10:40 – 11:10 |
Tea Break |
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11:10 – 11:50 |
Talk #8:
Ming-Chih Lai, National Chiao Tung University
“Numerical Simulations of Vesicle Dynamics by Immersed Boundary
Method”
[Abstract] |
Chun Liu,
The Penn State University |
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11:50 – 12:30 |
Talk #9: Xiao-Ping Wang, HKUST
“Analysis of Contact Angle Hysteresis”
[Abstract] |
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12:30 – 14:00 |
Lunch (self-arranged) |
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14:00 – 14:40 |
Talk #10: Ming Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences
“Kinetics of Single DNA Compaction by Multivalent Cations:
Effect of Twist Constraint”
[Abstract] |
Eric Weeks,
Emory University |
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14:40 – 15:20 |
Talk #11: Xiangjun Xing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
“Some Recent Results on Coulomb Many-body Systems”
[Abstract] |
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15:20 – 15:30 |
Group Photo |
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15:30 – 17:30 |
Poster Session
IAS Refreshments |
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18:00 – 20:00 |
Reception at UC Bistro, HKUST |
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15 January 2014 (Wednesday) |
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Time |
Event |
Chair |
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9:00 –
10:00 |
Keynote Talk #4: David Weitz, Harvard University
“Fluctuations and Stiffness of Cells”
[Abstract] |
Eric Perez,
École Normale Supérieure |
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10:00 – 10:40 |
Talk #12: Fred MacKintosh, VU University
“Elasticity on the Edge of Stability: Soft Matter Inspired by
the Cell”
[Abstract] |
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10:40 – 11:10 |
Tea Break |
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11:10 – 11:50 |
Talk #13: Eric Perez, École Normale Supérieure
“Membrane Fusion in Intracellular Trafficking and Fertilisation:
Molecules, Forces, Energies and Networking”
[Abstract] |
Ming Li,
Chinese Academy of Sciences |
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11:50 – 12:30 |
Talk #14 Shi Jue,
Hong Kong Baptist University
“Unraveling Cell Fate Control by Differential Pathway Dynamics
at the Single Cell Level”
[Abstract] |
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12:30 – 17:30 |
Local Tour with Lunch (Paying Activity) |
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16 January 2014 (Thursday) |
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Time |
Event |
Chair |
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09:00 – 10:00 |
Keynote Talk #5: Daan Frenkel, University of Cambridge
“Granular Entropy and the Gibbs Paradox”
[Abstract] |
Fred MacKintosh, VU University |
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10:00 – 10:40 |
Talk #15: Ning Xu,
University of Science and Technology of China
“Understanding the Glass Transition from Structural and
Vibrational Properties of the Zero-temperature Glasses”
[Abstract] |
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10:40 – 11:10 |
Tea Break |
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11:10 – 11:50 |
Talk #16: Nico van der Vegt, Technical University of
Darmstadt
“Molecular Driving Forces for Cosolvent-induced Conformational
Changes of Water-soluble Macromolecules and Proteins”
[Abstract] |
Haiping
Fang, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
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11:50 – 12:30 |
Talk #17:
Alex Levine, University of California, Los Angeles
“Non-equilibrium Semiflexible Networks: Aging, Ripping, and
Motor-driven Fluctuations”
[Abstract] |
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12:30 – 14:00 |
Lunch (self-arranged) |
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14:00 – 14:40 |
Talk #18: Sriram Ramaswamy, TIFR Centre for
Interdisciplinary Sciences
“Motile Fluids: Granular, Colloidal and Living”
[Abstract] |
Ning Xu,
University of Science and Technology of China |
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14:40 – 15:20 |
Talk #19: Yu-qiang Ma, Nanjing University
“Disclination Dynamics Revealing Collective Motions in
Active Nematics”
[Abstract] |
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15:20 – 16:00 |
Talk #20: James Feng,
The University of British Columbia
“Bubble Migration and Size Segregation in Sheared
Two-dimensional Foam”
[Abstract] |
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16:00 – 16:30 |
Tea Break |
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16:30 – 17:10 |
Talk #21: Hsuan-Yi Chen,
National Central University
“Symmetry Breaking Bacterial Motility”
[Abstract] |
Sriram Ramaswamy, TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences |
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17:10 – 17:50 |
Talk #22: Hepeng Zhang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
“Mechanics and Statistics of Bacterial Locomotion”
[Abstract] |
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18:00 – 21:00 |
Banquet at Sai Kung (Seafood will be served) |
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17 January 2014 (Friday) |
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Time |
Event |
Chair |
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09:00 – 10:00 |
Keynote Talk #6: Paul Chaikin, New York University
“Self-Replication, Exponential Growth and Evolutionary Selection
of Artificial Systems”
[Abstract] |
Daniel Ou-Yang,
Lehigh University |
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10:00 – 10:40 |
Talk #23: John Crocker,
University of Pennsylvania
“Transforming Colloidal Crystals and Clusters with DNA
Handshaking”
[Abstract] |
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10:40 – 11:10 |
Tea Break |
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11:10 – 11:50 |
Talk #24: Jerome Bibette, ESPCI Paris Tech
"Adaptative
Radiation Within Microbial Populations Under Stress"
[Abstract] |
John Crocker,
University of
Pennsylvania |
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11:50 – 12:30 |
Talk #25: Elisabeth Charlaix, Université Joseph Fourier
de Grenoble
"Effect
of Surface Elasticity on the Rheology of Nanometric Liquids" |
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12:30 – 14:00 |
Lunch (self-arranged) |
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14:00 – 14:40 |
Talk #26: Weiqing Ren, National University of Singapore
“Modeling and Simulation of Moving Contact Lines in Multi-phase
Flows”
[Abstract] |
James Feng,
The University of British Columbia |
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14:40 – 15:20 |
Talk #27: Shuyu Sun, King Abdullah University of Science
and Technology
“Simulating Compositional Two-Phase Fluid Systems using a
Diffusive Interface Model”
[Abstract] |
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15:20 – 15:50 |
Tea Break |
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15:50 – 16:30 |
Talk #28: Tiezheng Qian, HKUST
“Droplet Motion Driven by Liquid-vapor Transition at Three-phase
Contact Line”
[Abstract] |
Penger Tong,
HKUST |
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16:30 – 17:10 |
Talk #29: Anderson Shum,
The University of Hong Kong
“All-aqueous Emulsions – Formation, Characterization and
Stability”
[Abstract] |
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17:10 – 17:20 |
Concluding Remarks
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Penger Tong
HKUST |
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