Seminar dynamics of complex fluids - 2013

Arnaud Hemmerle - Institut Charles Sadron, Strasbourg
Supported bilayers: effects of charges and electric fields

Andrew Parry - Imperial College London, UK
Capillary emptying and short-range wetting: Why the tragedy of spilling beer is an interfacial phase transition

Jörg Schumacher - TU Ilmenau
Entrainment and mixing at the edge of a cloud

Ramón Peralta y Fabi - FC-UNAM, Mexico; PMMH-ESPCI, France
Elastic shells: Silo collapse and root growth

Devaraj van der Meer - University of Twente, The Netherlands
A granular ratchet: Spontaneous symmetry breaking and fluctuation theorems in a granular gas

Brian Tighe - Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Stretching, Shearing, and Squeezing: Nonlinear elasticity of spring networks and soft sphere packings

Dirk van den Ende - University of Twente, The Netherlands
Flow behavior and microstructure of dispersions and emulsions in bulk and microchannels

Saeedeh Aliaskarisohi - Universität Bayreuth
On the diffusion of circular domains on a spherical vesicle

Mehdi Habibi - IASBS Zanjan, Iran
Coiling instability in liquid and solid ropes

So Kitsunezaki - Research Group of Physics, Faculty of Nara Women's University, Japan
Drying and cracking of paste-like materials

Akio Nakahara - Nihon University, Tokio, Japan
Memory of densely packed colloidal suspension and its application to control pattern formation of dessication cracks

Takeaki Araki - Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Japan
Connectivity of topological defects of nematic liquid crystals confined in complex geometries

Myfanwy Evans - Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Network-like propagation of cell-level stress in random foams

Sujata Tarafdar- Jadavpur University, Kolkata , India
Formation of Desiccation Crack Patterns in Clay under DC and AC Electric Fields

Estelle Gauquelin, Oshin Katulkar, David Meulemeester, Bogomil Paralchev, Shashwat Shivam
Final reports on LP internship

Patrick Charbonneau - Duke University, Durham, USA
High-dimensional surprises near the glass and the jamming transitions

Steve Granick- University of Illinois, Urbana, USA
Some Surprises and Open Questions in Soft Matter

Narain Karedla- III. Physikalisches Institut, Universität Göttingen
Flow measurements using Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy (FCS): Recent advances and related studies

Uroš Tkalec - University Maribor, Slovenia
Topological aspects of knotted nematic colloids

Katherine Thomas - Physical Review Letters, American Physical Society
Publishing in Physical Review Letters - and how to write a (good) PRL

François Boulogne - CNRS et Universités Paris 6 et 11, France
Flow of complex fluids on a vertical fiber

Vasili Baranau - University Marburg
On the entropy and the random-close packing limit of hard sphere packings

Julian Vogel - MPIDS
The Influence of Time-Dependent Driving on the Formation of Precipitation

Desislava Todorova- Loughborough University, UK
Influence of solute-dependent wettability on films of liquid mixtures and suspensions

Milad Abolhasani - University of Toronto, Canada
Cruise Control of Microscale Bubble and Droplet Flows Provides
Predictive Control over Mass Transfer Behavior and Chemical Reactions

Thomas Eggers - MPIDS
Encryption of emails

Karthik Peddireddy - MPIDS
Thermotropic liquid crystals in aqueous ionic micellar solutions: interfacial instabilities and optical applications

Eric Clement - ESPCI, Paris, France
Experiments in bacterial suspensions

Paolo Oresta- Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Mechanical and thermal effects induced by  particles and bubbles  on Rayleigh-Bénard convection

Eckard Specht, Lukas Zwirner- Uni Magdeburg
Numerical generation of packings

Marco Rivetti- MPIDS
Capillarity and elasticity: from pinned contact lines to dynamical origami