INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS

Electrostatic Effects in Complex Fluids and Biophysics

October 19-23, 1998

Coordinators: W. Gelbart, A. Parsegian and P. Pincus

Schedule

All sessions in ITP Main Seminar Room, Kohn Hall, unless otherwise indicated.

Time	Speaker	Title
8:00 am	Registration	Lobby, ITP, Kohn Hall
8:45	David Gross William Gelbart	Welcome to ITP Welcome to Conference
	Session Chair: Avinoam Ben-Shaul
9:00	Cyrus Safinya UCSB	Cationic Liposomes used in Synthetic Drug Delivery Applications[Audio]
10:00	Nily Dan U. Delaware	Mechanism for Density Instability in Polyelectrolyte Solutions near Surfaces [Audio]
11:00	Refreshment Break	ITP Courtyard
11:30	Rudi Podgornik NIH	DNA Equation of State in Condensed Mesophases[Audio]
12:30	Lunch	ITP Courtyard
	Session Chair: Roland Kjellander
2:00	Niels Gronbech-Jensen LANL	Effective Interactions and Pressure Calculations in Electrostatic Systems[Audio]
3:00	Andrea Liu UCLA	Counterion-mediated Attractions in Charged Rod Solutions[Audio]
4:00	Refreshment Break	ITP Courtyard
4:30	Vic Bloomfield U. Minnesota	DNA Condensation by Multivalent Cations[Audio]
5:00	Boris Shklovskii U. Minnesota	Wigner Crystal Model of Polyelectrolyte Self-Assembly[Audio]
5:30 6:15	Poster Session Buffet Dinner	Main Seminar Room ITP Courtyard

Time	Speaker	Title
	Session Chair: Robijn Bruinsma
9:00	Lesser Blum U. Puerto Rico	Extensions and Variations on the Mean- Spherical-Approximation [Audio]
10:00	George Stell SUNY-Stony Brook	Criticality and Phase Separation in Ionic Solutions [Audio]
11:00	Refreshment Break	ITP Courtyard
11:30	Michael E. Fisher U. Maryland	Density and Charge Fluctuations in Electrolytes and Generalized Debye-Huckel Theory
12:30	Lunch	ITP Courtyard
	Session Chair: Stjepan Marcelja
2:00	Barry Honig Columbia	Electrostatic Interactions in Biology[Audio]
3:00	Paul Dubin Indiana-Purdue U.	Complexes of Polyelectrolytes with Oppositely-Charged Colloids -- Proteins, Micelles and Dendrimers[Audio]
4:00	Refreshment Break	ITP Courtyard
4:30	Luc Belloni I C.E.A. Saclay	Integral Equation Study of Linear Flexible Polyelectrolytes[Audio]

Time	Speaker	Title
	Session Chair: Magdaleno Medina-Noyola
9:00	Gerald Manning Rutgers	Bending Forces and Force Inversion in Polyelectrolyte Electrostatics[Audio]
10:00	David Grier U. Chicago	When Like Charges Attract![Audio]
11:00	Refreshment Break	ITP Courtyard
11:30	Sergey Leikin U. Minnesota	Macromolecular Recognition through Surface Charge Patterns -- The Rules Imposed by Helical Symmetry[Audio]
12:30	Beach Barbeque	Goleta Beach, Area "A"
	Afternoon Free

Time	Speaker	Title
	Session Chair: Marcia Barbosa
9:00	Alexander Grosberg MIT	In Search of the Freezing Transition in Polyampholytes[Audio]
10:00	Mehran Kardar MIT	Transverse Fluctuations in Polyelectrolytes[Audio]
11:00	Refreshment Break	ITP Courtyard
11:30	Michael Rubinstein U. North Carolina	Adsorption of Polyampholytes at Charged Surfaces[Audio]
12:30	Lunch	ITP Courtyard
	Session Chair: Marcelo Lozada-Cassou
2:00	Alexei Kornyshev Julich-Germany	Nonlocal Dielectric Response of Water -- Nonlocal Electrostatics[Audio]
3:00	Max Berkowitz U. North Carolina	Electric-Field-Dependent Dielectric Properties of Water
4:00	Refreshment Break	ITP Courtyard
4:30	Haaken Wennerstrom U. Lund	The Retarded Dispersion Interaction at Finite Temperatures -- From Quantum Electrodynamics to Classical Electrostatics

Time	Speaker	Title
	Session Chair: Christian Holm
9:00	Kurt Kremer M.P.I.-Mainz	Polyelectrolyte Solutions -- Good vs Bad Solvent[Audio]
10:00	M. Muthukumar U. Massachusetts	Structure and Dynamics of Polyelectrolyte Assemblies[Audio]
11:00	Refreshment Break	ITP Courtyard
11:30	Mark Stevens Sandia	Effect of Multivalent Ions on the Structure of Polyelectrolyte Solutions[Audio]
12:30	Lunch	ITP Courtyard
	Session Chair: Dan Hone
2:00	Armand Ajdari E.S.P.C.I.-France	Electrophoretic Motion of Complex Objects[Audio]
3:00	Tom Witten U. Chicago	Summary and Commentary[Audio]
4:00	Refreshment Break	ITP Courtyard

5:30	Conference Ends

Contributed Posters

Poster	Michael E. Fisher and Anatoly B. Kolomeisky Univ of Maryland	Debye-Huckel Theory of Electrolytes on a Lattice
Poster	D.B. Lukatsky and S.A. Safran Weizmann Institute	Effect of Counterion Fluctuations on Pressure in Charged Thin Films
Poster	John E. Sader and Derek Y.C. Chan Univ of Melbourne	Long Range Electrostatic Attractions Between Identically-Charged Particles in Confined Geometries: An Unresolved Problem
Poster	R. Tao S. Illinois Univ	High T_c Superconducting Granular Particles in an Electric Field

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