Thursday, November 2, 2006
10:30 am - 4:00 pm
Hoff Lynch Lecture Room

Sponsors:

University of Pennsylvania Physics & Astronomy Department
The Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter (Penn's MRSEC)
Physics Department, New York University

Organizers:

Douglas Durian (Penn), David Pine (NYU)

Format:

• Long Talks from Penn & NYU grad students & postdocs

• Soundbites from grad students & postdocs

• Burstein Lecture, Paul M. Chaikin (4:00PM, LRSM Auditorium).

Long Talks:

• Adam Abate "Growing dynamical length scale on approach to jamming" (Penn)

• Irmgard Bischofberger: "Towards a colloidal DNA" (NYU)

• Laurent Corté: "Reversibility threshold in non-Brownian suspensions" (NYU)

• Yilong Han "2D Melting" (Penn)

• Jun Hyuk Moon "Synthesis of rod particles and their assembly by DNA" (Penn)

• Yael Roichman: "All in a spin: chaos and optical vortices" (NYU)

• Yair Shokef "When do effective temperatures agree?" (Penn)

• Kandy Vijayan "Glassiness, Crystallization, and Demixing WITHIN Block Copolymer Worms" (Penn)

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