Schedule of events

Faraday Discussion Graduate Research Seminar, FD-GRS
April 9-11, 2010

VCU, School of Engineering - West Hall, 601 West Main Street

Friday, April 9th, 2010

6:00-7:00pm Students Registration (Lobby)
7:00-8:00 pm Welcoming Reception/Dinner Buffet (Lobby)
8:00-10:00pm First Poster Session (Lobby)

8:00-8:45am Breakfast (Lobby)
8:45am Introductory Remarks: Alenka Luzar (Classroom West 106)

9:00am Ben Widom - Theory of Liquids and Interfaces
10:30am-10:45am Coffee Break
10:45am-12:15pm Julia Yeomans - Coarse-Grained Modeling of Dynamic Transitions
12:30 - 13:30pm Lunch (Lobby)
Saturday Lecture Session II- Chair: Kenneth Wynne
2:00-3:30pm Bob Evans - Heterogeneous Surfaces, Theory
3:30 - 3:45pm Coffee Break
3:45 - 5:15pm Jacob Klein - Heterogeneous Surfaces, Experiment
5:15 - 6:45pm David Quere - Superhydrohobic Surfaces
7:00-8:00 pm Dinner (Lobby)
8:00-10:00pm Second Poster Session (Lobby)

8:00-9:00am Breakfast (Lobby)
Sunday Lecture Session - Chair: Alenka Luzar
Student Oral Presentations (20 min presentation plus 10 min for questions)
9:00- 9:30am Jonathan B. Boreyko - Restoring superhydrophobictiy of lotus leaves with
vibration-induced dewetting
9:30-10:00am Anindarupa Chunder - Wetting dynamics of the nanostructured materials and their applications
10:00-10:30am Sean McBride - An improved determination of the spring constant and
slip length using large colloidal probe atomic force microscopy
10:30-10:45am Coffee Break
10:45-11:15am Lidiya Mischenko - Temperature induced dynamic pinning on structured
superhydrophobic surfaces
11:15-11:45am Robin Underwood - Oil drop hydration and coalescence
11:45am-12:15pm Davide Vanzo - Computer simulation of a nematic nanodroplet
wetting a flat surface
12:15pm Closing Remarks: Alenka Luzar