International Soft Matter Workshop
Beijing, Auguest 16-17
Dear Friends,
The International Soft Matter Workshop will be held at the Institute of Physics, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, in Beijing, China, on August 16-17, 2014.
The aim of this workshop is to bring soft matter researchers from different disciplines
together to share ideas and to facilitate cooperation. The workshop includes a wide range of
topics in the field of soft matter research, from colloids, polymer and membrane
to granular, microfluidics and active matter. This year, we have more than 100 participants, and
we are confident this will be a fruitful meeting. Some detail information of the workshop is listed
below:
1. Registration
Registration is required, and is free. Staff will be assisting participants to register at hotel
lobbies on August 15, and later onsite at the workshop.
2. Venues
The workshop will be held at Room 234 of Building M at the Institute of Physics. Poster
session will be held in the hallway outside of Room 234. Lunches and dinners will be served at
Wuke Restaurant located on the campus of IOP.
3. Workshop formats
The workshop includes two plenary lectures, more than 30 invited talks and a poster session.
The time for plenary lectures is 40 minutes plus 5 minutes for questions. Invited talks are 18
minutes long plus 2 for questions. Poster boards will be provided onsite, please remove your
posters at the end of the workshop.
4. Accommodations
Several hotels are conveniently located near the IOP. Please take advantage of the discount
rates offered by these hotels for guests of the Institute. Some hotels may require certain
documents from the IOP to apply these rates, and we will be glad to provide them when
requested.
Jaded Palace Hotel (翠宫饭店)
No.76 ZhiChun Road, Haidian District , Beijing 100086.
Tel: +86-10-62628888
http://www.jadepalace.com.cn/en/hotelinfo.html
Wuke Hotel (物科宾馆)
No.8, 3rd South Street, Zhongguancun, Haidian District，Beijing 100190.
Tel: +86-10-82649140, 82649482
http://www.wukebinguan.com/En/index.aspx
Scientist House (科苑公寓)
No.18 North 4th Ring Road West, Haidian District, Beijing 100190.
Tel: +86-10-82628538
Heyday Business Hotel Beijing (恒兴商务酒店)
No. 99 Zhongguancun Road East, Haidian District, Beijing 100190
Tel: +86-10-62629988
5. Transportation
From the airport
The most convenient way to get to the IOP from the airport is to take the airport shuttle bus
Line 5 bound for Zhongguancun (中关村), which takes you right to the doorstep of the IOP. The
price of a ticket is 24 RMB, and the trip takes about 45 minutes. Get off the bus at the last stop.
For more information about the airport shuttle buses, please visit
http://en.bcia.com.cn/traffic/airbus/index.shtml
You can also take a taxi from the airport. The cost is between 100-150 RMB per trip.
Please be aware that rush-hour traffic in Beijing can considerably delay both shuttle bus and
taxi services, and plan your trip accordingly.
From train stations
There are several train stations in Beijing. They are all conveniently located near or connected
to the city’s subway system. Directions from four stations are listed below.
a. Beijing Train Station (South)
Take the Subway Line 4 and get off at Zhongguancun (中关村) station, take the 466 Bus and
get off at BaofusiqiaoXi (保福寺桥西).
b. Beijing Train Station (West)
Take the Subway Line 9 and transfer to Line 4 at the National Library station (国家图书馆),
get off the subway train at Zhongguancun (中关村) station, take the 466 Bus and get off at
BaofusiqiaoXi (保福寺桥西).
c. Beijing Train Station (North)
Take the Subway Line 4 and get off at Zhongguancun (中关村) station, take the 466 Bus and
get off at BaofusiqiaoXi (保福寺桥西).
d. Beijing Train Station
Take the Subway Line 2 and transfer to Line 4 at the Xizhimen (西直门) station, get off the
subway train at Zhongguancun ( 中 关 村 ) station, take the 466 Bus and get off at
BaofusiqiaoXi (保福寺桥西).
A ticket for subway is 2 RMB with free transfers, and the bus ride costs 1 RMB.
Taxi fare may vary from 30 to 70 RMB depending on the distance to the IOP.
6. Hotels and bus stop locations near IOP
1. Airport shuttle bus stop
3. Wuke Hotel (物科宾馆)
5．Jaded Palace Hotel (翠宫饭店)
2. City bus stop (Baofusiqiaoxi,保福寺桥西)
4. Scientist House (科苑公寓)
6. Heyday Business Hotel (恒兴商务酒店)
7. Contact Info:
Rui LIU, (lr@iphy.ac.cn, 13701352413 mobile)
Bin ZHENG, (zbcn@foxmail.com, 15010837310 mobile)
Tentative Workshop Schedule
Saturday, August 16th
8:20 am – 8:30 am
Opening remarks
Plenary Lecture I
8:30 am —9:15 am
Templated self-assembly of new structures for drug delivery
David Weitz (Harvard University)
Session I Microfluidics
9:15 am—9:35 am
Wetting-induced formation of multiple emulsions in microfluidics
Liang-Yin Chu (Sichuan University)
9:35 am —9:55 am
Interfacial-energy-induced manipulation of emulsion drops for engineering
functional microparticles
Wei Wang (Sichuan University)
9:55 am – 10:15am
Manipulating microscaled fluid jets
Anderson Shum (Hong Kong University)
10:15 am – 10:35 am
Coffee break
Session II Colloids I
10:35 am – 10:55 am
Temperature dependent phase behavior of colloidal disks
Zheng-Dong Cheng (Guangdong University of Technology)
10:55 am – 11:15 am
Platelet Dispersant for Functional Colloidal Dispersions
Da-Zhi Sun(South University of Science and Technology of China)
11:15 am – 11:35 am
Nucleation in solid-solid transitions of colloidal crystals
Yi-Long Han (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
11:35 am – 11:45 am
Group photo
11:45 am – 2:00 pm
Lunch break
Plenary Lecture II
2:00 pm – 2:45 pm
Session III
Onsager principle in sot matter dynamics
Masao Doi (Beihang University)
Theory and Simulation I
2:45 pm –3:05 pm
Single chain in mean field theory applied to semi-flexible chain systems
Da-Dong Yan (Beijing Normal University)
3:05 pm –3:25 pm
Renormalized Poisson-Boltzmann theory for dense electrolytes
Xiang-Jun Xing (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
3:25pm–3:45pm
Study of jamming under applied shear stress by minimizing a
thermodynamic-like potential
Ning Xu (University of Science and Technology of China)
3:45 pm – 4:05pm
Session IV
Coffee break
Granular Physics
4:05 pm – 4:25pm
Boundary-heating granular gas and a hydrodynamic description
Mei-Ying Hou (Institute of Physics, CAS)
4:25 pm –4:45pm
Normal modes analysis uncovering possible connections between Boson
peak and van Hove singularity
Ling Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
4:45 pm – 5:05 pm
X-ray tomography study of the random packing structure of ellipsoids
Yu-Jie Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
5:05 pm – 5:25 pm
Percolation flux through a porous plate from vertically vibrated granular
assembly
Ping-Ping Wen (Beijing Institute of Technology)
5:25 pm – 7:00 pm
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Reception & Dinner
Poster Session
Sunday, August 17th
Session V Interfaces and Membranes
8:30 am – 8:50 am
The origin of drop splashing --- a wind ten times stronger
Lei Xu (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
8:50 am – 9:10 am
Stimuli-responsive microgel particles at the oil-water interface
Ngai To (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
9:10 am – 9:30 am
Enzyme-immobilized mini-capsules with pH-responsive membranes
Rui Xie (Sichuan University)
9:30 am – 9:50 am
Melt-stretching polypropylene microporous membranes
Cai-Hong Lei (Guangdong University of Technology)
9:50 am – 10:10 am
Session VI
Coffee break
Active Matter
10:10 am – 10:30 am
Mechanics and statistics of bacterial locomotion
He-Peng Zhang(Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
10:30 am – 10:50 am
Emergent structures and collective dynamics in self-driven liquid crystal
Xia-Qing Shi (Soochow University)
10:50am – 11:10 am
Critical phenomenon of disordered-ordered transitions in incompressible
flocks
Lei-Ming Chen (China University of Mining and Technology)
11:10 am –11:30 am
Model for inherent fluctuations of cell movement
Wei Chen (Fudan University)
11:30 am – 11:50 am
Title: TBA
Dan-Dan Chen (Soochow University)
11:50 am – 2:00 pm
Lunch break
Session VII
Theory and Simulation II
2:00 pm – 2:20 pm
On soft-matter-based thermal metamaterials
Ji-Ping Huang (Fudan University)
2:20 pm – 14:40 pm Computer simulation study on the packing structure of soft Janus particles
Zhao-Yan Sun (Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, CAS)
2:40 pm–3:00 pm
Phenomenological estimation on the electrocaloric effect in soft
ferroelectricpolymers
Sheng-Guo Lu (Guangdong University of Technology)
3:00 pm – 3:20 pm
Title: TBA
Kang Chen (Soochow University)
3:20 pm – 3:40 pm
Title: TBA
Limei Xu (Peking University)
3:40 pm – 4:00 pm
Session VIII
Coffee break
Colloids II
4:00 pm – 4:20 pm
Glassy Dynamics in 2D Melting
Ze-Xin Zhang (Soochow University)
4:20 pm – 4:40 pm
Liquid-solid transitions of two-dimensional colloidal systems
Tian-Hui Zhang (Soochow University)
4:40 pm – 5:00 pm
Visualizing polyhedra network fluctuation during nucleation of colloidal
crystals
Peng Tan(Fudan University)
5:00 pm – 5:20 pm
Phase separation and Brownian motion in a confined geometry
Guang-Yin Jing (Northwest University)
5:20 pm –5:40 pm
Topological-defect number in two-dimensional quenched colloidal systems
Yong Chen (Beihang University)
5:40 pm – 5:50 pm
Concluding remarks
5:50 pm – 7:30 pm
End of the workshop and dinner