70th New England Workshop on Complex Fluids
Friday, March 24th, 2017
Mason Laboratory
Yale University
8:45 a.m. – 4:35 p.m.

All talks take place in the Mason Lab Auditorium at 9 Hillhouse Ave.

Invited Speakers:

• Andrej Kosmrlj, Princeton University
• Maria Santore, UMass-Amherst
• Nicolas Giovanbatista, CUNY
• Robert MacFarlane, MIT
• Zahra Fakhraai, UPenn

AGENDA:

8:45 – 9:25 a.m.	Breakfast and Registration, Welcome Lobby
Morning Presentations
9:30–10:05 a.m.	Andrej Kosmrlj, Princeton University "Statistical Mechanics of Microscopically Thin Thermalized Structures"
10:05–10:40 a.m.	Maria Santore, UMass-Amherst "Near Surface Particle and Bacteria Motion Signatures in Flow"
10:40–11:00 a.m.	Coffee I, Welcome Lobby
11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.	Sound Bites Session I: Auditorium
12:00–1:15 p.m.	Lunch:, Welcome Lobby & Mason Lab 107
Afternoon Presentations
1:15–1:50 p.m.	Robert MacFarlane, MIT "Polymer- and DNA-Directed Assembly of Nanocomposites"
1:50–2:25 p.m.	Nicolas Giovambattista, CUNY "Understanding the Complex Behavior of Liquid and Glassy Water Using the Potential Energy Landscape Approach"
2:30–3:30 p.m.	Sound Bites Session II: Auditorium
3:30–4:00 p.m.	Coffee II: Welcome Lobby
4:00–4:35 p.m.	Zahra Fakhraai, UPenn "Measuring Long-range Correlated Dynamics in Organic Glasses"