Institute for Mathematics and its Applications

University of Minnesota

114 Lind Hall

207 Church Street S.E.

Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455

Web: http://www.ima.umn.edu | Email: ima-staff@ima.umn.edu | Telephone: (612) 624-6066 | Fax: (612) 626-7370
Schedules available at http://www.ima.umn.edu/happening

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

10:45am-11:15am Coffee break

Lind Hall 400
11:15am-12:15pm Vasileios Maroulas, University of Minnesota
TBA

Lind Hall 305 PS

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

10:45am-11:15am Coffee break

Lind Hall 400
2:30pm-3:20pm Vladimir Sverak, University of Minnesota
Topics in the theory of the Navier-Stokes equations

Lind Hall 305

Thursday, December 3, 2009

10:45am-11:15am Coffee break

Lind Hall 400

Friday, December 4, 2009

10:45am-11:15am Coffee break

Lind Hall 400
1:25pm-2:25pm J. Michael Gray, Medtronic
TBA

Vincent Hall 570 IPS12.4.09

Saturday, December 5, 2009

8:15am-8:45am Registration and coffee

EE/CS 3-176 T12.5-6.09
8:45am-9:00am Fadil Santosa, University of Minnesota
Welcome to the IMA

EE/CS 3-180 T12.5-6.09
9:00am-10:30am Todd Squires, University of California, Santa Barbara
Electrokinetics of highly charged surfaces

EE/CS 3-180 T12.5-6.09
10:30am-10:45am Coffee break

EE/CS 3-176 T12.5-6.09
10:45am-12:15pm David Saintillan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Electrokinetic phenomena in particulate suspensions: an introduction

EE/CS 3-180 T12.5-6.09
12:15pm-2:00pm Lunch

T12.5-6.09
2:00pm-3:30pm Sandip Ghosal, Northwestern University
Electroosmotic flow and dispersion in microfluidics

EE/CS 3-180 T12.5-6.09
3:30pm-4:00pm Coffee break

EE/CS 3-176 T12.5-6.09
4:00pm-5:30pm Boris Zaltzman, Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research
Concentration polarization phenomena and the electric double layer

EE/CS 3-180 T12.5-6.09

Sunday, December 6, 2009

8:30am-9:00am Coffee

EE/CS 3-176 T12.5-6.09
9:00am-10:30am Ali Nadim, Claremont Graduate University
Electrowetting and digital microfluidics

EE/CS 3-180 T12.5-6.09
10:30am-10:45am Coffee break

EE/CS 3-176 T12.5-6.09
10:45am-12:15pm Susan J. Muller, University of California, Berkeley
Confinement effects with macromolecules

EE/CS 3-180 T12.5-6.09
12:15pm-2:00pm Lunch

T12.5-6.09
2:00pm-3:30pm Shelley L. Anna, Carnegie Mellon University
An Introduction to interfaces and multiphase flows in microfluidics

EE/CS 3-180 T12.5-6.09
3:30pm-4:00pm Coffee break

EE/CS 3-176 T12.5-6.09
4:00pm-5:30pm Martin Z. Bazant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Induced-charge Electrokinetics

EE/CS 3-180 T12.5-6.09

Monday, December 7, 2009

All Day Chair: Sandip Ghosal (Northwestern, University)

W12.7-11.09
8:15am-8:45am Registration and coffee

EE/CS 3-176 W12.7-11.09
8:45am-9:00am Fadil Santosa, University of Minnesota
Welcome to the IMA

EE/CS 3-180 W12.7-11.09
9:00am-9:40am Manu Prakash, Harvard University
TBA

EE/CS 3-180 W12.7-11.09
9:40am-10:20am Kevin D. Dorfman, University of Minnesota
DNA electrophoresis in microfabricated arrays

EE/CS 3-180 W12.7-11.09
10:20am-10:50am Coffee break

EE/CS 3-176 W12.7-11.09
10:50am-11:30am Sumita Pennathur, University of California, Santa Barbara
TBA

EE/CS 3-180 W12.7-11.09
11:30am-1:30pm Lunch

W12.7-11.09
1:30pm-2:10pm Reinhard Lipowsky, Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces
Wetting of structured substrates and flexible membranes

EE/CS 3-180 W12.7-11.09
2:10pm-2:50pm Frieder Mugele, Universiteit Twente
Mixing and internal flows in drops in AC electrowetting

EE/CS 3-180 W12.7-11.09
2:50pm-3:00pm Group Photo

W12.7-11.09
3:00pm-3:30pm Coffee break

EE/CS 3-176 W12.7-11.09
3:30pm-4:00pm Second chances

EE/CS 3-180 W12.7-11.09
4:00pm-6:00pm Reception and Poster Session
Poster submissions welcome from all participants
Instructions

Lind Hall 400 W12.7-11.09
Riccardo Sacco, Politecnico di Milano:
  Multi-physics computational models for neuro-chip simulation
Jonathan D. Posner, Arizona State University:
  Locomotion of synthetic nanomotors
Antonio Ramos, University of Sevilla:
  Traveling-wave electroosmosis and faradaic currents: the diffusion layer
Aditya Satish Khair, University of California, Santa Barbara:
  Influence of ion sterics and hydrodynamic slip on electrophoresis of a colloidal particle
Shahriar Afkhami, New Jersey Institute of Technology:
  Numerical simulations of dynamic wetting
Frieder Mugele, Universiteit Twente:
  Surface charge measurement and control by gate voltage in electroosmotic flow
Ulrich Tallarek, Philipps-Universität Marburg:
  Electric field gradient focusing in microchannels with embedded bipolar electrode
Thomas B. Jones, University of Rochester:
  Dielectrophoretic deflection and rebound of continuous droplet streams
Shelley L. Anna, Carnegie Mellon University:
  Scaling arguments for tipstreaming of submicron droplets
Petia M. Vlahovska, Dartmouth College:
  Dynamics of drops and vesicles in electric fields
Monika Nitsche, University of New Mexico:
  High order quadratures for the evaluation of interfacial velocities in axi-symmetric Stokes flows

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

All Day Chair: Martin Z. Bazant (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

W12.7-11.09
8:30am-9:00am Coffee

EE/CS 3-176 W12.7-11.09
9:00am-9:40am Ehud Yariv, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Migration of ion-exchange particles under the action of a uniformly applied electric field

EE/CS 3-180 W12.7-11.09
9:40am-10:20am Jens Eggers, University of Bristol
Making small things

EE/CS 3-180 W12.7-11.09
10:20am-10:50am Coffee break

EE/CS 3-176 W12.7-11.09
10:50am-11:30am Eric S. G. Shaqfeh, Stanford University
The microfluidics of colloidal particle-vesicle-capsule mixtures with application to blood additives

EE/CS 3-180 W12.7-11.09
11:30am-1:30pm Lunch

W12.7-11.09
1:30pm-2:10pm Patrick S. Doyle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
DNA dynamics in confinement and complex electric fields

EE/CS 3-180 W12.7-11.09
2:10pm-2:50pm Minami Yoda, Georgia Institute of Technology
Nonuniform interfacial colloidal tracer distributions and implications for microscale PIV

EE/CS 3-180 W12.7-11.09
2:50pm-3:20pm Coffee break

EE/CS 3-176 W12.7-11.09
3:20pm-4:00pm Linda J. Cummings, New Jersey Institute of Technology
TBA

EE/CS 3-180 W12.7-11.09
4:00pm-4:30pm Second chances

EE/CS 3-180 W12.7-11.09

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

All Day Chair: Todd Squires (University of California, Santa Barbara)

W12.7-11.09
8:30am-9:00am Coffee

EE/CS 3-176 W12.7-11.09
9:00am-9:40am David Quéré, École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris (ESPCI)
Impact figures

EE/CS 3-180 W12.7-11.09
9:40am-10:20am Detlef Lohse, Universiteit Twente
Hydrodynamics challenges in inkjet printing

EE/CS 3-180 W12.7-11.09
10:20am-10:50am Coffee break

EE/CS 3-176 W12.7-11.09
10:50am-11:30am Thomas B. Jones, University of Rochester
The electromechanics of liquids

EE/CS 3-180 W12.7-11.09
11:30am-1:30pm Lunch

W12.7-11.09
1:30pm-2:10pm Michael J. Miksis, Northwestern University
TBA

EE/CS 3-180 W12.7-11.09
2:10pm-2:50pm Chun Liu, University of Minnesota
Energetic variational approaches in calcium and sodium channels

EE/CS 3-180 W12.7-11.09
2:50pm-3:20pm Coffee break

EE/CS 3-176 W12.7-11.09
3:20pm-4:00pm Hsueh-Chia Chang, University of Notre Dame
Electrokinetic ion transport and liquid flux across nanochannels

EE/CS 3-180 W12.7-11.09
4:00pm-4:30pm Second chances

EE/CS 3-180 W12.7-11.09

Thursday, December 10, 2009

All Day Chair: Ali Nadim (Claremont Graduate University)

W12.7-11.09
8:30am-9:00am Coffee

EE/CS 3-176 W12.7-11.09
9:00am-9:40am John Denis Sherwood, University of Cambridge
Electrical streaming potential generated by 2-phase flow

EE/CS 3-180 W12.7-11.09
9:40am-10:20am Chaouqi Misbah, Université de Grenoble I (Joseph Fourier)
Vesicles and red blood cells under shear and Poiseuille flow

EE/CS 3-180 W12.7-11.09
10:20am-10:50am Coffee break

EE/CS 3-176 W12.7-11.09
10:50am-11:30am Paul H. Steen, Cornell University
Countering capillarity with electrokinetics: from micro-manipulation to Debye-layer diagnostics

EE/CS 3-180 W12.7-11.09
11:30am-1:30pm Lunch

W12.7-11.09
1:30pm-2:10pm Isaak Rubinstein, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Extended space charge effects in concentration polarization

EE/CS 3-180 W12.7-11.09
2:10pm-2:40pm Coffee break

EE/CS 3-176 W12.7-11.09
2:40pm-3:20pm Michael P. Brenner, Harvard University
TBA

EE/CS 3-180 W12.7-11.09
3:20pm-3:50pm Second chances

EE/CS 3-180 W12.7-11.09
6:30pm-8:30pm Workshop Dinner

TBA W12.7-11.09

Friday, December 11, 2009

All Day Chair: Susan J. Muller (University of California, Berkeley)

W12.7-11.09
8:30am-9:00am Coffee

EE/CS 3-176 W12.7-11.09
9:00am-9:40am TBA

EE/CS 3-180 W12.7-11.09
9:40am-10:20am Zuzanna S. Siwy, University of California, Irvine
Ion transport through nanopores: From living cells to diodes and transistors

EE/CS 3-180 W12.7-11.09
10:20am-10:50am Coffee break

EE/CS 3-176 W12.7-11.09
10:50am-11:30am Peter D. Olmsted, University of Leeds
The influence of boundaries on shear banding in complex fluids

EE/CS 3-180 W12.7-11.09
11:30am-12:00pm Second chances/closing remarks

EE/CS 3-176 W12.7-11.09

Monday, December 14, 2009

2:30pm-3:20pm Vladimir Sverak, University of Minnesota
Topics in the theory of the Navier-Stokes equations

Lind Hall 305

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

2:30pm-3:20pm Vladimir Sverak, University of Minnesota
Topics in the theory of the Navier-Stokes equations

Lind Hall 305

Friday, December 18, 2009

1:25pm-2:25pm Lalitha Venkataramanan, Schlumberger-Doll
TBA

Vincent Hall 570 IPS12.18.09

Monday, December 21, 2009

2:30pm-3:20pm Vladimir Sverak, University of Minnesota
Topics in the theory of the Navier-Stokes equations

Lind Hall 305

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

2:30pm-3:20pm Vladimir Sverak, University of Minnesota
Topics in the theory of the Navier-Stokes equations

Lind Hall 305

Thursday, December 24, 2009

All Day Floating holiday. The IMA is closed.


Friday, December 25, 2009

All Day Christmas Day. The IMA is closed.


Monday, December 28, 2009

2:30pm-3:20pm Vladimir Sverak, University of Minnesota
Topics in the theory of the Navier-Stokes equations

Lind Hall 305

Legend:

IPS12.18.09: Lalitha Venkataramanan; IPS12.4.09: Michael Gray; PS: IMA Postdoc Seminar; T12.5-6.09: Mathematics of Microfluidic Transport Phenomena; W12.7-11.09: Microfluidics: Electrokinetic and Interfacial Phenomena;