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 Research Activities > Programs > Complex Fluids 2007


Multiscale Modeling and Simulation of Complex Fluids

April 13-19, 2007

CSIC Building (#406), Seminar Room 4122.
Directions: home.cscamm.umd.edu/directions

Due to space limitations, please register/RSVP at:
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TUTORIALS

Friday, April 13

9:00 - 9:25 COFFEE
MORNING SESSION Chair:  Athanasios Tzavaras (University of Maryland)
9:25 - 9:30 Eitan Tadmor (CSCAMM)
Welcoming Remarks
9:30 - 10:10 Antony Beris (University of Delaware)
“NonEquilibrium Thermodynamics of Flowing Systems”
Introduction: One Mode Viscoelasticity.
10:15 - 10:55 Antony Beris (University of Delaware)
“NonEquilibrium Thermodynamics of Flowing Systems”
Coupled Transport: Two-fluid Model.
11:00 - 11:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:30 - 12:10 John Brady (California Institute of Technology)
“The Micromechanics of Colloidal Dispersions”. I.
12:15 - 2:00 LUNCH BREAK
AFTERNOON
SESSION
Chair: Eitan Tadmor (CSCAMM)
2:00 - 2:40 John Brady (California Institute of Technology)
“The Micromechanics of Colloidal Dispersions”. II
2:45 - 3:25 John Brady (California Institute of Technology)
“The Micromechanics of Colloidal Dispersions”. III

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Saturday, April 14

9:00 - 9:25 COFFEE
MORNING SESSION Chair: Eitan Tadmor (CSCAMM)
9:30 - 10:10 Eric Vanden-Eijnden (New York University)
“Problems with Multiple Time Scales: Theoretical and Computational Aspects”. I
10:15 - 10:55 Eric Vanden-Eijnden (New York University)
“Problems with Multiple Time Scales: Theoretical and Computational Aspects”. II
11:00 - 11:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:30 - 12:10 Eric Vanden-Eijnden (New York University)
“Problems with Multiple Time Scales: Theoretical and Computational Aspects”. III
12:15 - 2:00 LUNCH - hosted by CSCAMM
AFTERNOON
SESSION
Chair: Athanasios Tzavaras (University of Maryland)
2:00 - 2:40 Antony Beris (University of Delaware)
“NonEquilibrium Thermodynamics of Flowing Systems”
Modeling Under Constraints: Liquid Crystals.
3:00 - 3:40 Antony Beris (University of Delaware)
“NonEquilibrium Thermodynamics of Flowing Systems”
Non-homogeneous Systems: Surface Effects and Multiscale Modeling.

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CONFERENCE

Monday, April 16

9:00 - 9:25 COFFEE
MORNING SESSION Chair: Eitan Tadmor (CSCAMM)
9:25 - 9:30 Eitan Tadmor (CSCAMM)
Welcoming Remarks
9:30 - 10:10 Claude Le Bris (CERMICS - ENPC)
"Numerical Simulations of Suspensions and Thixotropic Fluids"
10:15 - 10:55 Hailiang Liu (Iowa State University)
"Critical Thresholds in Kinetic Equations for Polymers"
11:00 - 11:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:30 - 12:10 Athanasios Tzavaras (University of Maryland)
"On Kinetic Models for Dilute Suspensions of Rigid-rods"
12:15 - 2:00 LUNCH - hosted by CSCAMM
AFTERNOON
SESSION
Chair: Antony Beris (University of Delaware)
2:00 - 2:40 Venkat Ganesan (The University of Texas at Austin)
“Origins of Mechanical and Rheological Properties of Polymer Nanocomposites”
2:45 - 3:25 Vlasis Mavrantzas (University of Patras)
"Thermodynamically Guided Atomistic Monte Carlo Simulation of Polymer Melts Beyond Equilibrium"
3:30 - 4:00 COFFEE BREAK
4:00 - 4:40 John Brady (California Institute of Technology)
"The Micromechanics of Colloidal Dispersions"

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Tuesday, April 17

9:00 - 9:30 COFFEE
MORNING SESSION Chair: Stuart Antman (University of Maryland)
9:30 - 10:10 Kurt Kremer (Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research)
"Scale Bridging Simulations of Soft Matter"
10:15 - 10:55 Weiqing Ren (New York University)
"Analytical and Numerical Study of Coupled Atomistic-continuum Methods for Fluids "
11:00 - 11:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:30 - 12:10 Jan V. Sengers (University of Maryland)
"Computer Simulations of Critical Dynamics in Fluids"
12:15 - 2:00 LUNCH BREAK
AFTERNOON
SESSION
Chair: Jian-Guo Liu (University of Maryland)
2:00 - 2:40 Eric Vanden-Eijnden (New York University)
“Numerical Techniques for Systems with Multiple Time Scales”
2:45 - 3:15 COFFEE BREAK
3:15 - 3:55 Chun Liu (Penn State University)
"On Viscoelastic Materials"
4:00 - 4:40 Weinan E (Princeton University)
"Seamless Multiscale Methods via Dynamics on Fiber Bundles"
EVENING
ACTIVITIES

 
6:30 DINNER AT UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND GOLF COURSE RESTAURANT (Mulligan's Grill)
Directions to the golf course

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Wednesday, April 18

9:00 - 9:30 COFFEE
MORNING SESSION Chair: Dionisios Margetis (University of Maryland)
9:30 - 10:10 Pingwen Zhang (Peking University)
"Dynamical Modeling Based on Energy Dissipation"
10:15 - 10:55 Ibrahim Fatkullin (The University of Arizona)
"On the Role of Free Energy in Complex Systems: From Rigorous Results to Phenomenological Models"
11:00 - 11:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:30 - 12:10 An-Chang Shi (McMaster University)
"Confined Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers"
12:15 - 2:00 LUNCH  (hosted by CSCAMM)
AFTERNOON
SESSION
Chair: Athanasios Tzavaras (University of Maryland)
2:00 - 2:40 Peter Constantin (University of Chicago)
"Energetics, Regularity and Asymptotic Behavior of Smoluchowski-Navier-Stokes Systems"
  FREE AFTERNOON

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Thursday, April 19

9:00 - 9:30 COFFEE
MORNING SESSION Chair: Pingwen Zhang (Peking University)
9:30 - 10:10 Michael Renardy (Virginia Tech)
"Global Existence and Stability Results for Shear Flows of Viscoelastic Fluids"
10:15 - 10:55 Tiejun Li (Peking University)
"Convergence Analysis for the BCF Method in Complex Fluids Simulations"
11:00 - 11:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:30 - 12:10 Antony Beris (University of Delaware)
"Modeling Strong Extensional Flows of Polymer Solutions and Melts"
12:15 - 2:00 LUNCH BREAK
AFTERNOON
SESSION
Chair: Konstantina Trivisa (University of Maryland)
2:00 - 2:40 Qi Wang (Florida State University)
"Modeling Biofluid Mixtures Using Complex Fluid Models"
2:45 - 3:25 Alejandro Rey (McGill University)
"Modeling Liquid Crystal Materials and Processes in Biological Systems"
3:30 - 4:00 COFFEE BREAK
4:00 - 4:40 Yannis Kevrekidis (Princeton University)
"Some Examples of Coarse-grained Computation"
4:45 CLOSING

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