14th New England Complex Fluids Workshop

Friday, March 21, 2003

University of Massachusetts Boston, 8:45 am - 5 pm
Healey Library, 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 dim past by Fraden and Weitz.

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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.

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)
10:00 - 10:30 am, Thomas R. Powers (Brown U.)
10:35 - 11:00 am, Coffee
11:00 - 12:00 pm, Sound Bites I
Grad student 1, MIT
Grad student 2, BU
Post doc 1, Tufts Univ.
12:00 - 1:30 pm Lunch, University Club, Healey Library, 11th floor
1:30 - 2:00 pm, Mark C. Williams (Northeastern U.)
2:00 - 2:30 pm, George B. Benedek (MIT), "Self-assembling biological springs: Force transducers on the micron and nano scale"
2:30 - 3:30 pm Sound Bites II
Grad student 1, MIT
Grad student 2, BU
Post doc, Tufts Univ.
3:35 - 4:00 pm, Coffee & Snacks
4:00 - 4:50 pm, Erwin Frey (Berlin)

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