PROGRAM
Wednesday, 20th June 2012
19:00 – 21:30
Get Together Party at Collegium Physicum; Morasko
Thursday, 21th June 2012
Session 1 - Macromolecules
8:45-9:00
9:00-9:30
9:30-10:00
10:00-10:30
10:30-11:00
11:00-11:30
11:30-12:00
12:00-14:00
14:00-14:30
14:30-15:00
15:00-15:30
15:30-16:00
16:00-16:30
16:30-17:30
Welcome
Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
Hard, Soft and Supersoft Nanostructured Materials
Robert Hołyst
Biologistics: Scale Dependent Viscosity and Mobility in Cells
Coffee Break
Jan Genzer
Protein Adsorption on Surfaces: Nightmare or Blessing?
Jacek Ulański
Molecular Dynamics and Structure of Water in Polymer Hydrogels
Student Presentation
Lunch
Session 2 - Surfaces and Interfaces I
Keith E. Gubbins
Pressure Enhancement in Nanopores and Effects on Adsorbent Structure
Stefan Sokołowski
Dissipative Particle Dynamics Study of Nanostructures in Binary Mixtures
Confined in Slit-like Pores with Walls Decorated with Tethered Polymer
Brushes
Coffee Break
Peter Monson
Modeling the Self-Assembly of Ordered Nanoporous Silica Materials
Student Presentation – Aaron Oppenheimer
Poster Session
Friday, 22th June 2012
9:00-9:30
9:30-10:00
10:00-10:30
10:30-11:00
11:00-11:30
11:30-12:00
12:00-14:00
14:00-14:30
14:30-15:00
15:00-15:30
15:30-16:00
16:00-16:30
16:30-17:30
18:00-20:00
Session 3 - Self-Assembly
Bartosz Grzybowski
Title
Krzysztof Wojciechowski
Surprising mechanical properties of simple systems
Coffee Break
Maciej Radosz
Near-Critical Micellization of Multiblock Copolymers
Piotr Garstecki
Droplet Microfluidics - Automation and Music Boxes
Antoni Mituś
Local Structure, Heterogeneous Dynamics and Complexity in
Two-Dimensional Liquids
Lunch
Session 4 - Polymers
Fernando Escobedo
Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Transitions from Metastable States at
Nanoscale Interfaces: Droplets and Bubbles
Teresa Basińska
Polymer Microspheres with Hydrophilic Shell: Synthesis, Properties and
Applications
Coffee Break
Igal Szleifer
Molecular Transport and Structure of Surface Modified Nanopores:
from Small Ions in Nanochannels to Proteins in Nuclear Pore Complexes
Juan de Pablo
Directed Assembly in Liquid Crystals; Nanodroplets and Nanoparticles
Student Presentation – Winner of the Poster Session
Poznań Old Town Sightseeing
Saturday, 23th June 2012
9:00-9:30
9:30-10:00
10:00-10:30
10:30-11:00
11:00-11:30
11:30-12:00
12:00-14:00
14:00-14:30
14:30-15:00
15:00-15:30
15:30-16:00
16:00-16:30
16:30-17:30
18:00-23:00
Session 5 – Nanoscale Structures
Józef Barnaś
Spin Hall Effect in Graphene and Other Two-Dimensional Systems
Paul Van Tassel
Polyelectrolyte Nanofilm Biomaterials: Optimizing Mechanical Rigidity
and Bioactivity
Coffee Break
Aleksandra Wójcik
Graphene Oxide and its Nanohybrides
Ryszard Czajka
Investigations of Organic-Inorganic Molecular Systems by Means of
Scanning Probe Microscopy and Spectroscopy
Student Presentation – Pavel Baláž
Spin transfer torque and current-induced dynamics in metallic spin valves
Lunch
Session 6 – Surfaces and Interfaces II
Sanat Kumar
Modeling Polymer Nanocomposite Structure and Dynamics
Zbigniew Adamczyk
Protein Adsorption Mechanisms Revealed by Electrokinetic and
Microscopic Studies
Coffee Break
Orlin Velev
Scalable Fabrication of Functional Nanomaterials byLiquid Confinement
and Shear
Roman Świetlik
Infrared and Raman Studies of the Charge Localization
in One-dimensional Organic Metals with Strictly Regular Organic Stacks
Round Table
Conference Dinner – Palace in Ciążeń
Sunday, 24th June 2012
9:00-9:30
9:30-10:00
10:00-10:30
10:30-11:00
11:00-11:30
11:30-12:00
12:00-14:00
Session 7 – Thermodynamics
Andrew Spakowitz
Theoretical Modeling of Clathrin Self-Assembly into Nanoscale Cages and
Lattices
Małgorzata Borówko
A Density Functional Study of End-Grafted Chain Layers Immersed into
Different Solvents
Coffee Break
Mark Uline
Controlling Surface Anchoring Transitions of Nematogens with Mixtures of
Lipids at the Aqueous/Liquid-Crystal Interface
Andrzej Sikorski
Percolation in Polymer-Solvent Systems. A Computer Simulation Study
Baron Peters
Nucleation: Polymorph Selection, Lasers, and Concentration Fluctuations
Lunch