14th New England Complex Fluids Workshop

Friday, March 21, 2003

University of Massachusetts Boston, 8:45 am - 5 pm
Media Auditorim, Healey Library (Lower Level)
Registration/breakfast 8:45 am

The New England Complex Fluids Workshop series continues at UMass Boston on Friday, March 21, 2003. The purpose of the day long meeting is to bring together researchers in the New England area interested in soft condensed matter, to discuss their work and explore collaborations. The quarterly meetings were started in the last millennium by Fraden and Weitz.

Directions to UMass Boston

Registration

REGISTRATION is required. Deadline: ASAP, so that we can order food.
(Cash or checks should be brought to the meeting.)

There will be a $10/person charge to cover breakfast, coffee and lunch. Parking will be free with registration.

To register, go to the NECF meetings page. Please include a title and abstract for your "sound bite" -- a five-minute update of current research. All attendees are encouraged to do so.

Greg Huber
(greg.huber@umb.edu)

Schedule

• 8:45 - 9:25 am, Breakfast & Registration, Healey Library
• 9:30 - 10:00 am, Arpita Upadhyaya (MIT) - "Probing polymerization forces using actin-propelled lipid vesicles"
• 10:00 - 10:30 am, Thomas R. Powers (Brown U.) - "Mechanics of bacterial flagella"
• 10:35 - 11:00 am, Coffee
• 11:00 - 12:00 pm, Sound Bites I
• 12:00 - 1:30 pm Lunch, University Club, Healey Library, 11th floor
• 1:30 - 2:00 pm, Mark C. Williams (Northeastern U.) - "Force spectroscopy of single molecule DNA-protein interactions"
• 2:00 - 2:30 pm, George B. Benedek (MIT) - "Self-assembling biological springs: Force transducers on the micron and nanoscale"
• 2:30 - 3:30 pm Sound Bites II
• 3:35 - 4:00 pm, Coffee & Snacks
• 4:00 - 4:50 pm, Erwin Frey (HMI, Berlin) - "Collective phenomena in intracellular networks"

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