CXF07 - Complex Fluids

April 13-19, 2007

CSIC Building (#406), Seminar Room 4122.
Directions: www.cscamm.umd.edu/directions

Due to space limitations, please register/RSVP at:
https://www.cscamm.umd.edu/programs/registration/login.aspx?event=cxf07

Friday, April 13
9:00 - 9:25	*COFFEE*
MORNING SESSION	Chair: Athanasios Tzavaras (University of Maryland)
9:25 - 9:30	Eitan Tadmor (CSCAMM) Welcoming Remarks
9:30 - 10:10	Antony Beris (University of Delaware) “NonEquilibrium Thermodynamics of Flowing Systems” Introduction: One Mode Viscoelasticity.
10:15 - 10:55	Antony Beris (University of Delaware) “NonEquilibrium Thermodynamics of Flowing Systems” Coupled Transport: Two-fluid Model.
11:00 - 11:30	*COFFEE BREAK*
11:30 - 12:10	John Brady (California Institute of Technology) “The Micromechanics of Colloidal Dispersions”. I.
12:15 - 2:00	*LUNCH BREAK*
AFTERNOON SESSION	Chair: Eitan Tadmor (CSCAMM)
2:00 - 2:40	John Brady (California Institute of Technology) “The Micromechanics of Colloidal Dispersions”. II
2:45 - 3:25	John Brady (California Institute of Technology) “The Micromechanics of Colloidal Dispersions”. III
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Saturday, April 14
9:00 - 9:25	*COFFEE*
MORNING SESSION	Chair: Eitan Tadmor (CSCAMM)
9:30 - 10:10	Eric Vanden-Eijnden (New York University) “Problems with Multiple Time Scales: Theoretical and Computational Aspects”. I
10:15 - 10:55	Eric Vanden-Eijnden (New York University) “Problems with Multiple Time Scales: Theoretical and Computational Aspects”. II
11:00 - 11:30	COFFEE BREAK
11:30 - 12:10	Eric Vanden-Eijnden (New York University) “Problems with Multiple Time Scales: Theoretical and Computational Aspects”. III
12:15 - 2:00	LUNCH - hosted by CSCAMM
AFTERNOON SESSION	Chair: Athanasios Tzavaras (University of Maryland)
2:00 - 2:40	Antony Beris (University of Delaware) “NonEquilibrium Thermodynamics of Flowing Systems” Modeling Under Constraints: Liquid Crystals.
3:00 - 3:40	Antony Beris (University of Delaware) “NonEquilibrium Thermodynamics of Flowing Systems” Non-homogeneous Systems: Surface Effects and Multiscale Modeling.
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Monday, April 16
9:00 - 9:25	*COFFEE*
MORNING SESSION	Chair: Eitan Tadmor (CSCAMM)
9:25 - 9:30	Eitan Tadmor (CSCAMM) Welcoming Remarks
9:30 - 10:10	Claude Le Bris (CERMICS - ENPC) "Numerical Simulations of Suspensions and Thixotropic Fluids"
10:15 - 10:55	Hailiang Liu (Iowa State University) "Critical Thresholds in Kinetic Equations for Polymers"
11:00 - 11:30	*COFFEE BREAK*
11:30 - 12:10	Athanasios Tzavaras (University of Maryland) "On Kinetic Models for Dilute Suspensions of Rigid-rods"
12:15 - 2:00	LUNCH - hosted by CSCAMM
AFTERNOON SESSION	Chair: Antony Beris (University of Delaware)
2:00 - 2:40	Venkat Ganesan (The University of Texas at Austin) “Origins of Mechanical and Rheological Properties of Polymer Nanocomposites”
2:45 - 3:25	Vlasis Mavrantzas (University of Patras) "Thermodynamically Guided Atomistic Monte Carlo Simulation of Polymer Melts Beyond Equilibrium"
3:30 - 4:00	*COFFEE BREAK*
4:00 - 4:40	John Brady (California Institute of Technology) "The Micromechanics of Colloidal Dispersions"
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Tuesday, April 17
9:00 - 9:30	*COFFEE*
MORNING SESSION	Chair: Stuart Antman (University of Maryland)
9:30 - 10:10	Kurt Kremer (Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research) "Scale Bridging Simulations of Soft Matter"
10:15 - 10:55	Weiqing Ren (New York University) "Analytical and Numerical Study of Coupled Atomistic-continuum Methods for Fluids "
11:00 - 11:30	*COFFEE BREAK*
11:30 - 12:10	Jan V. Sengers (University of Maryland) "Computer Simulations of Critical Dynamics in Fluids"
12:15 - 2:00	*LUNCH BREAK*
AFTERNOON SESSION	Chair: Jian-Guo Liu (University of Maryland)
2:00 - 2:40	Eric Vanden-Eijnden (New York University) “Numerical Techniques for Systems with Multiple Time Scales”
2:45 - 3:15	*COFFEE BREAK*
3:15 - 3:55	Chun Liu (Penn State University) "On Viscoelastic Materials"
4:00 - 4:40	Weinan E (Princeton University) "Seamless Multiscale Methods via Dynamics on Fiber Bundles"
EVENING ACTIVITIES
6:30	*DINNER AT UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND GOLF COURSE RESTAURANT (Mulligan's Grill)* *Directions to the golf course*
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Wednesday, April 18
9:00 - 9:30	*COFFEE*
MORNING SESSION	Chair: Dionisios Margetis (University of Maryland)
9:30 - 10:10	Pingwen Zhang (Peking University) "Dynamical Modeling Based on Energy Dissipation"
10:15 - 10:55	Ibrahim Fatkullin (The University of Arizona) "On the Role of Free Energy in Complex Systems: From Rigorous Results to Phenomenological Models"
11:00 - 11:30	*COFFEE BREAK*
11:30 - 12:10	An-Chang Shi (McMaster University) "Confined Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers"
12:15 - 2:00	LUNCH (hosted by CSCAMM)
AFTERNOON SESSION	Chair: Athanasios Tzavaras (University of Maryland)
2:00 - 2:40	Peter Constantin (University of Chicago) "Energetics, Regularity and Asymptotic Behavior of Smoluchowski-Navier-Stokes Systems"
	*FREE AFTERNOON*
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Thursday, April 19
9:00 - 9:30	*COFFEE*
MORNING SESSION	Chair: Pingwen Zhang (Peking University)
9:30 - 10:10	Michael Renardy (Virginia Tech) "Global Existence and Stability Results for Shear Flows of Viscoelastic Fluids"
10:15 - 10:55	Tiejun Li (Peking University) "Convergence Analysis for the BCF Method in Complex Fluids Simulations"
11:00 - 11:30	*COFFEE BREAK*
11:30 - 12:10	Antony Beris (University of Delaware) "Modeling Strong Extensional Flows of Polymer Solutions and Melts"
12:15 - 2:00	*LUNCH BREAK*
AFTERNOON SESSION	Chair: Konstantina Trivisa (University of Maryland)
2:00 - 2:40	Qi Wang (Florida State University) "Modeling Biofluid Mixtures Using Complex Fluid Models"
2:45 - 3:25	Alejandro Rey (McGill University) "Modeling Liquid Crystal Materials and Processes in Biological Systems"
3:30 - 4:00	*COFFEE BREAK*
4:00 - 4:40	Yannis Kevrekidis (Princeton University) "Some Examples of Coarse-grained Computation"
4:45	CLOSING
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