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Workshop on Multiscale Modeling of Complex Fluids

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Site: ROOM 1218, 12th Floor, Resource Plaza

May 26, 2008 Monday
09:00	Opening Remarks
09:10	On the analysis of multi-scale systems	Peter Constantin
10:10	Break
10:30	A General Energetic Variational Method with C^0 finite element in certain complex fluids	Chun Liu
11:30	Macromolecular Self-Assembly in Confined Spaces	Robert Wickham
12:30	Lunch
13:30	Rheology of lamellar mesophases	Jorge Vinals
14:30	TBA	Qi Wang

May 27, 2008 Tuesday
09:00	Recent developments in the multiscale modelling and numerical simulation of entangled polymers	Roland Keunings
10:00	Break
10:30	TBA	Claude Le Bris
11:30	Gel Models in Studies of Biological Fibers and Bilmedical Devices	Maria-Carme T Calderer
12:30	Lunch
13:30	Steady states of the 1D Doi-Onsager model in the strong shear flow	Hui Zhang
13:55	Quasi-equilibrium approximation in FENE model and its numerical challenge	Kun Li
14:20	TBA	Guanghua Ji
14:45	Break
15:15	An Efficient Numerical Method for Diblock Copolymer Systems Based on the Mean Field Theory	Xinwei Zhang
15:40	Numerical Simulation of Cylindrical Membranes Under Simple Shear Flow	Peng Song
18:00	Welcome Reception

May 28, 2008 Wednesday
09:00	Shear Banding in Polymer Solutions	Peter David Olmsted
10:00	Break
10:30	TBA	Andrew Belmonte
11:30	Discovering Ordered Phases of Block Copolymers: A New reciprocal-Space Method	An-chang Shi
12:30	Lunch

May 29, 2008 Thursday
09:00	Block Copolymers at Surfaces: Self-assembly, Templates and Electric Fields	David Andelman
10:00	Break
10:30	Dynamic self-consistent field theory for dense polymeric systems under external fields and constraints	Toshihiro Kawakatsu
11:30	Energy-law Preserving C^0 Finite Element Methods for Liquid Crystal Flows and Phase Field Models	Ping Lin
12:30	Lunch
13:30	Global Solutions to Some Regularized Free-Energy-Preserving Oldroyd Models	Sebastien Boyaval
14:30	Flow of incompressible viscoelastic fluids	Fanghua Lin

Workshop on Structure Formation and Evolution in Soft Matter/Complex Fluid Systems

Site: ROOM 1218, 12th Floor, Resource Plaza

3^rd December, 2007 Monday
08:50-09:00	Opening Remark
09:00-10:00	Modeling of Polymer Adhesives	Masao Doi The University of Tokyo，Japan
10:00-10:30	Coffee Break
10:30-11:30	Relaxation of Residual Stress and Reentanglement of Polymers in Spin-Coated Films	Elie Raphael Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie Théorique, France
11:30-12:30	Confined Self-Assembly of Diblock Copolymers	Baohui Li Nankai University, China
12:30-13:30	Lunch
13:30-14:30	Responsive Tethered Polymer Layers:Structure, Phase Transitions and Nanoparticle Adsorption	Igal Szleifer Northwestern University, USA
14:30-15:30	Adsorption and Depletion of Polymers in Polymer-Colloid Mixture	Dadong Yan Institute of Chemistry, CAS, China

4^th December, 2007 Tuesday
09:00-10:00	Multiscale Modeling of Soft Matter: Where Chemical Details and Generic Properties Meet	Kurt Kremer Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany
10:00-11:00	Amphiphilic Systems under shear flow	Hongxia Guo Institute of Chemistry, CAS, China
11:00-11:30	Coffee Break
11:30-12:30	Symmetric Diblock Copolymers under Nano-Confinement	David Qiang Wang Colorado State University, USA
12:30-13:30	Lunch
13:30-14:30	Hydrodynamics in Multicomponent Biomembranes	Shigeyuki Komura Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
14:30-15:30	Dissipative particle dynamics simulation on micelle inversion dynamics	Feng Qiu Fudan University, China

5^th December, 2007 Wednesday
09:00-10:00	Biased brownian motion of monomers brings a coil-stretch transition to their polymers	Wenbing Hu Nanjing University, China
10:00-11:00	Pattern formation during membrane adhesion	Thomas Weikl Max-Planck-Institut für Kolloid- und Grenzflachenforschung, Germany
11:00-11:30	Coffee Break
11:30-12:30	Phases and Phase Transitions of Block Copolymers	Anchang Shi McMaster University, Canada

6^th December, 2007 Thursday
09:00-10:00	TBA	Francesco Greco Institute of Composite Materials Technology, Italy
10:00-11:00	Self-assembly behavior of triblock copolymers in selective solution	Wei Jiang Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, CAS, China
11:00-11:30	Coffee Break
11:30-12:30	Understanding Protein Folding from Statistical Physics	Jeff Z.Y Chen University of Waterloo, Canada
12:30-13:30	Lunch
13:30-14:30	Rheology and structure of polymer-nanoparticulate nanocomposites	Qi Wang Florida State University, USA
14:30-15:30	Numerical Methods of Phase Separation and Nucleation	Pingwen Zhang Peking University

7^th December, 2007 Friday
09:00-10:00	Charge Renormalization and Phase Behavior in Colloidal Suspensions	Alan Denton North Dakota State University, USA
10:00-11:00	Capillary Models for Liquid Crystal Fibers, Membranes, Films, and Drops	Alejandro D. Rey Mcgill University, Canada
11:00-11:30	Coffee Break
11:30-12:30	Phase transitions under shear flow	Akira Onuki Kyoto University, Japan

Worskop on Mathematical Issues in Complex Fluids

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15th October, 2007  Monday
08:30	Opening Remarks
08:40-12:00	Chair:
08:40	Finite Element Approximation of some Dumbbell Models for Dilute Polymers	John W. Barrett Imperial College London
09:40	Break
10:00	The Multi-level Simulations of Polymer Flow	Jie Ouyang Northwestern Polytechnical University
11:00	Quantum Fokker-Planck Models: Global Solutions, Steady States, and Large-time Behavior	Anton Arnold Vienna University of Technology
12:00	Lunch
13:30-17:00	Chair:
13:30	Numerical Methods for Some Models of Polymeric Fluids	Tony Lelievre ENPC and INRIA
14:30	TBA	Zhouping Xin The Chinese University of HK
15:30	Break
16:00	Fluid-Particles Interaction Models: Asymptotic Models and Simulation	Jose Carillo Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

16th October, 2007   Tuesday
09:00-12:30	Chair:
09:00	Global Weak Solutions of an Initial Boundary Value Problem for Screw Pinches in Plasmas Physics	Jiang Song Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, CAS
10:00	Break
10:30	Mathematical Analysis of a Multiscale Model for Concentrated Suspensions	Isabelle Catto University of Paris-Dauphine
11:30	On the Vanishing Viscosity Limit for the Navier-Stokes Equations with a Navier Slip Boundary Condition	Yuelong Xiao Xiangtan University
12:30	Lunch
13:30-17:00	Chair:
13:30	Probabilistic Approximation of a Nonlinear Parabolic Equation Occuring in Rheology	Mohammed Ben Alaya Université PARIS 13
14:30	Two Phase Fluid on Rough and Patterned Surface	Xiaoping Wang The HK Univ. of Science and Technology
15:30	Break
16:00	Kinetic Theory and Simulations of LCPs in Plane Shear Flow: 1+2 Dimensional Case	Guanghua Ji Beijing Normal University
18:00	Welcome Reception

17th October, 2007   Wednesday
09:00-12:30	Chair:
09:00	Modeling Viscoelastic Flows using Reflected Stochastic Differential Equations	Alexei Lozinski University of Toulouse 3
10:00	Break
10:30	Numerical High Symmetric 3D Euler]{Numerical Study of 3D Incompressible  Euler Equations with Highly Symmetric Initial Data	Ruo Li Peking University
11:30	Numerical Issues in the Multiscale Modeling of Complex Fluid Flows: Past, Present and Future	Francisco Chinesta ENSAM - Paris
12:30	Lunch

18th October, 2007   Thursday
09:00-12:30	Chair:
09:00	Progress and Challenges in Computational Rheology	Raz Kupferman The Hebrew University
10:00	Break
10:30	Numerical Analysis of the Stochastic Methods for Multiscale Models of Complex Fluids	Tiejun Li Peking University
11:30	Free-energy-preserving Schemes for the Oldroyd-B Model	Sebastien Boyaval ENPC and INRIA
12:30	Lunch
13:30-15:30	Chair:
13:30	Existence Results for Some Polymeric Flows	Nader Masmoudi New York University
14:30	On the Global Existence of Smooth Solution to the 2-D FENE Dumbbell Model	Ping Zhang Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, CAS

19th October, 2007   Friday
09:00-12:30	Chair: