WORKSHOP PROGRAM


Monday, June 28, 1999

8:45 - 9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks

Effective Interactions and Phase Transitions in Charged Colloids

9:00 - 9:45 Mark Stevens: "Attraction Between Like-Charged Macroions"
9:45 - 10:30 René van Roij: "Gas-Liquid and Gas-Solid Coexistence in Low-Salt Suspensions of Mutually Repelling Charged Colloids"
10:30 - 10:45 -- Break --
10:45 - 11:30 Alan Denton: "Effective Interactions in Charge-Stabilized Colloidal Suspensions"
11:30 - 12:15 Luc Belloni: "Phase Separation and Effective Interactions in Colloid-Polyelectrolyte Mixtures"
12:15 - 14:00 -- Lunch --

Effective Depletion Interactions in Colloidal Mixtures

14:00 - 14:45 Daniel Rudhardt: "Direct Measurements of Entropic Forces in Colloid/Polymer Mixtures"
14:45 - 15:30 Marjolein Dijkstra: "Direct Simulation of the Phase Behaviour of Binary Hard-Sphere Mixtures: Test of the Depletion Potential Description"
15:30 - 16:15 Jose A. Cuesta: "Density Functional Approach to Depletion Interaction"
16:15 - 16:30 -- Break --
16:30 - 17:15 Roland Roth: "Depletion Potential in Hard Sphere Mixtures"
17:15 - 18:00 Wim Briels: "Density Functional Calculations Near Structured Walls"


Tuesday, June 29, 1999

From Effective Interactions to Phase Transitions and Stability

9:00 - 9:45 Willem K. Kegel: "Geometric Character of the Hard Sphere Freezing Transition"
9:45 - 10:30 Alfred Delville: "Influence of Electrostatic Interactions on the Stability of Charged Colloids"
10:30 - 10:45 -- Break --
10:45 - 11:30 Moises Silbert: "Sterically Stabilised Colloidal Dispersions: Beyond Hard Spheres"
11:30 -12:15 Marc Baus: "How Does Confinement Influence the Pressure Profile Across an Interface?"
12:15 - 14:00 -- Lunch --

Structure and Thermodynamics of Model Systems

14:00 - 14:45 Jean-Pierre Hansen: "Effective Interactions Between Confined Charged Colloidal Particles"
14:45 - 15:30 Alice P. Gast: "Soft Sphere Freezing : A Density Functional Model of Freezing in Complex Fluids"
15:30 - 16:15 Gerhard Kahl: "Structure and Thermodynamics of a Polydisperse Liquid Mixture"
16:15 - 16:30 -- Break --
16:30 - 17:15 Christos N. Likos: "Structure and Thermodynamics of Star Polymers"
17:15 - 18:00 Matthias Schmidt: "Density-Functional Theory for Penetrable Spheres"


Wednesday, June 30, 1999

Nonequilibrium Behaviour, Fluctuations and More

9:00 - 9:45 Gerhard Nägele: "Viscoelasticity and Generalized Stokes-Einstein Relation in Colloidal Dispersions"
9:45 - 10:30 Johan Bergenholtz: "Gel Transitions in Colloidal Suspensions with Attractive Interactions"
10:30 - 10:45 -- Break --
10:45 - 11:30 An-Chang Shi: "Nature of Anisotropic Fluctuation Modes in Ordered Systems"
11:30 - 12:15 Peter Bolhuis: "Transition Path Sampling of Capillary Evaporation Between Hydrophobic Particles"
12:15 - 12:30 Closing Remarks

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