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Len Fisher (After dinner talk)

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i) Frontiers in Intermolecular Forces and Interfacial Phenomena
Chair: Professor Jacob Israelachvili; co-Chair: Professor Fyl Pincus

Élisabeth Charlaix UCB Lyon I, France	Nanohydrodynamics : investigating boundary flows with surface force experiments
William Ducker University of Melbourne, Australia	Shedding Light on the Dark Side of Surface Forces
Norma Alcantar University of South Florida	Using intermolecular forces and interfacial phenomena to help humanity
Roger Horn Ian Wark Research Institute University of South Australia, Adelaide	Extension of SFA techniques to investigations of fluid interfaces
Derek Chan University of Melbourne, Australia	Modelling and comparisons with direct experimental measurements of forces involving deformable drops and interfaces
Carl Meinhart University of California Santa Barbara	A three component force transducer for atomic force microscopy

ii) Intermolecular Forces between Biomolecules and Their Role in Interfacial Phenomena of Biological Systems
Chair: Professor Joyce Wong; co-Chair: Professor Deborah Leckband

Tonya Kuhl University of California Davis, US	Membrane Adhesion: The Role of Spacers and Ligand-Receptor Bond Strength
Joyce Wong Boston University, US	Coming Soon
Jacob Klein University of Oxford, UK and Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel	Charge, hydration, and lubrication under water
Éric Perez École Normale Supérieure Paris, France	Spontaneous and Reversible Switch from Amphiphilic to Oil-Like Structures
Deborah Leckband	Chemistry of Biological Adhesion

iii) Distances and Time Regimes of Intermolecular Forces and their Impact in Materials Behaviour
Chair: Professor Norma Alcantar; co-Chair: Professor Tomas Viveros

Boxin Zhao University of California Santa Barbara, US	Dynamic adhesion and cracking behaviors of surfaces and films at micro/nano scales
Yuval Golan Ben-Gurion University, Israel	Nanowires, nanorods and between them: surfactant mediated synthesis and assembly of nanostructures
Mustafa Akbulut University of California Santa Barbara, US	Dynamics in confining nanoparticle systems
Uzi Landmann	Title to be confirmed : Ordering of water molecules at surfaces
Fil Pincus University of California Santa Barbara, US	Charge Quantization Effects on the Interactions Between Highly Charged Surfaces
Manfred Heberger EMPA, Switzerland	Structural forces at aqueous interfaces

iv) Adhesion and Tribological Properties of Films and their Impact in Macroscopic Performance
Chair: Professor Suzanne Giasson; co-Chair: Professor Octavio Manero Brito

Philippe Richetti and Carlos Drummond CNRS- Bordeaux, France	The different faces of boundary lubrication: what nanotribology can learn from rheophysics
Mark Robbins Johns Hopkins University, US	Contact, adhesion and friction between rough surfaces: From atomic to macroscopic scales
Marina Ruths University of Massachusetts Lowell, US	Friction in contacts of different adhesive strength
Kenny Rosenberg University of California Santa Barbara, US	The behaviour of lubricated rough surfaces under compression and shear
Shinji Yamada Kao Corporation, Japan	Molecular Layering and Tribology of Poly(dimethylsiloxane) Melt in Confinement

v) Intermolecular Forces and Interfacial Phenomena affecting Structure and Properties of Thin Liquid Films
Chair: Professor Roger Horn; co-Chair: Professor Dan Schwartz

Michelle Gee University of Melbourne, Australia	Film drainage at deformable interfaces - an exotic cocktail of surface forces and hydrodynamics
Emily Meyer University of California Santa Barbara, US	Hydrophobic Interactions at Long and Short Range
Lee White Carnegie Mellon, US	The role and measurement of disjoining pressure in lubricant nano-films
Hugo Christenson University of Leeds, UK	Adsorption from binary fluids - the transition from critical to van der Waals wetting
Itai Cohen Cornell University, US	Using Colloidal Suspensions to Model Atomic Scale Plasticity and Lubrication Phenomena

vi) Nanoscale Forces and Interfacial Phenomena in Soft Materials
Chair: Professor Tonya Kuhl; co-Chair: Professor Matthew Tirrell

Eugenia Kumacheva University of Toronto, Canada	Coming Soon
Daniel Schwartz University of Colorado, US	Molecular Mobility in Self-Assembled Monolayers
Stjepan Marcelja Australian National University	Selective Coalescence of Bubbles in Simple Electrolytes
Pat McGuiggan	Coming soon
Matthew Tirrell University of California Santa Barbara, US	Forces between polyelectrolyte brushes in various ionic environments
Suzanne Giasson University of Montreal, Canada	Behavior of Charged Polymers at Surfaces
Eric Kaler University of Delaware	Polyelectrolyte and Surfactant Complexes

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