Telluride Workshop on Polymer Physics June 20 – 24, 2011
List of invited talks
Marcus Cicerone On the relationship between fast beta and slow relaxation modes in glass forming materials
Juan de Pablo "Collective phenomena in liquid crystals and their interfaces"
Jack Douglas Influence of Nanoparticle and Molecular Additives on Structural Relaxation and Collective Particle Motion in a Simulated Glass-Forming Polymer Liquid
Jacek Dudowicz Self-assembly phenomena
John Dutcher Surface-active proteins on different surfaces: the effect of hydrophobicity and surface curvature on the conformation and oligomerization of adsorbed beta-lactoglobulin molecules
Mark Ediger Direct measurement of molecular motion in freestanding films of polystyrene and other polymers
Karl Freed The descent into glass formation in polymers
Venkat Ganesan Mechanistic origins of transport properties of polymer nanocomposites and block copolymer electrolytes
Jan Genzer Insight into the structure of macromolecular grafts formed by surface-initiated polymerization
Ferenc Horkay Ion-polymer interactions in biopolymer solutions and gels
Sanat Kumar Polymer Nanocomposites: Tailoring their Properties through Particle Size and Surface Functionalization
Tim Lodge Gels from ABA and ABC Triblock Copolymers: Structure and Dynamics
Erik Luijten Controlled Condensation of Plasmid DNA with Block Copolymers
Jim Martin Field-structured polymer composites for heat transfer and chemical sensing
M. Muthukumar Dilute polyelectrolyte solutions
Monica Olvera de la Cruz Heterogeneous Elastic Membranes
Ken Schweizer Adventures in Polymer Dynamics: Entangled Liquids, Glasses and Nanocomposites
Francis Starr DNA-linked Nanoparticle Assemblies
Svetlana Sukhishvili Polyelectrolyte Assemblies: Dynamics, Structure and Response
Igal Szleifer Modeling polymers in cell nucleus: chromatin compaction and nuclear pore complexes
Richard Vaia Single Component Polymer-Inorganic Nanocomposites: Interfacial Dynamics and Structure
Shi-Qing Wang How entangled polymeric liquids transform from the elastic state to flow: instabilities from shear to extension and beyond