Seminar Dynamik komplexer Fluide - 2012

Gerd E. Schröder-Turk- Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Circular dichroism in Photonic Crystals: From butterflies to chiral Metallic Meta-Materials

Ran Holtzman- The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Crossover from Fingering to Fracturing in Fluid-Fluid Displacement in Granular Media

Thomas Hiller- Freie Universität Berlin
3D Karst evolution modeling: From conceptual models to realistic scenarios

Marco G. Mazza- TU Berlin
Nonequilibrium domain formation by pressure fluctuations

Yannick Peysson- French institute for petroleum research
Drying and salt precipitation induced by gas injection in porous media

Wiebke Drenckhan- Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
And if all bubbles were equal? Science and applications of monodisperse foams

Pinar Kilickiran- Materials Science Laboratory, SONY Deutschland GmbH, Stuttgart
Liquid crystal materials for display applications

Vanessa Magnanimo- University Twente
A DEM based constitutive model with anisotropy for ratcheting in axial-symmetric deformations of granular material

Lawrence Fon- Institut für Geophysik, Uni Göttingen
Magnetotellurics and Geomagnetic Depth Sounding in Queensland, South Eastern Australia. Evidence for the Tasman line?

Achille Giacometti- Universita' Ca' Foscari Venezia, Italy
Self-assembly processes in proteins and patchy colloids

Josh Bostwick- North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
Spreading and bi-stability of droplets driven by thermocapillary and centrifugal forces

Hartmut Heinrich- Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie, Hamburg
Sea-level in a changing climate: après nous, le déluge?

Corinna Maass- NYU
Self replicating DNA nanostructures

Claas Bierwisch- Fraunhofer-Institut fuer Werkstoffmechanik IWM, Freiburg
Coarse graining, hopper discharge, and cavity filling -- Insights into dense granular systems by discrete element simulations

Ahmed Mourran- RWTH Aachen
From structural hierarchy to material with collective photo-response

Maximilian Schmitt - Technische Universität Berlin
A swimming active droplet

Kattera Suresh - Centre for Soft Matter Research, Bangalore
Nanoscale electrical conductivity of Langmuir –Blodgett films of some novel discotic mesogenic molecules

Junaid M. Laskar - Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz
Structural transitions of colloids under matgnetic field & compressive stress

Klaus Kassner - Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
Phase field and crystal growth: from bending doublons to merry-go-round fingers

Anthony Anderson - Institute of Theoretical Geophysics, University of Cambridge
Periodic Ice-banding in Freezing Colloidal Suspensions

Katharina Vollmayr-Lee - Bucknell University, Lewisburg, USA
Simulation of Aging in SiO2: Single Particle Jump Analysis

Oskar Werner - University of Maribor, Slovenia
Superhydrophobicity in theory and practice

Oliver Bäumchen - McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Stepped Polymer Films - A New Nanofluidic Tool to Explore Polymer Physics at Interfaces

Marie-Pierre Krafft - Institut Charles Sadron, Universite de Strasbourg
Molecular Systems Self-Assembled from Perfluoro- Alkylated Amphiphiles

Axelle Amon - Université de Rennes1, Institut de Physique de Rennes
Local rearrangements and failure in granular materials

Rehearsal for Ludwigstein

Venkata Jampani - Josef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana
Chiral Nematic Colloidal Interactions and Photonic Properties of Nematic Colloids

Kuang Wu Lee- Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau
Current-driven instabilities and spontaneous equilibrium transition in plasma system: theoretical analysis and numerical simulations