August 21-24, 2011, Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
All lectures are in the Center
for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS), Rensselaer.
All posters remain on display in
the CBIS Atrium, Monday-Wednesday for continuous viewing.
Each day there will be shuttle buses
between the Hilton Garden Inn, Troy NY, and CBIS in the morning, from 7-9am.
There will also be shuttle buses after the last scientific event of the day,
except for Monday, when the Shuttle will run to the dinner location in Troy and
return to the Hilton later in the evening
21 August 22 August 23 August 24 August
Sunday, 21 August
2:30-3:15pm Shuttle bus from Hilton Garden Inn, Troy NY, to CBIS, Rensselaer
3:15 Welcoming message by Marc-Olivier Coppens – CBIS Auditorium
Rensselaer Vollmer
Fries Distinguished Lecture
(Chair: Jörg Kärger, University of Leipzig)
3:30pm James Wei, Princeton University, “Diffusion in tight mazes”
Session 1: Diffusion
in the Brain (Chair: Charles Nicholson, New York University)
4:30pm Joseph Ackerman, Washington University in St. Louis, “Diffusion sensitive MR in biological systems: Insights, puzzles, pitfalls”
5:05 Sabina Hrabetova, SUNY
Downstate Medical Center, “Extracellular diffusion in brain: Distinct
diffusion regimes at different spatial scales”
5:40 Session 1 close
6:00 Welcoming reception and dinner – Hilton Garden Inn
Monday, 22 August
Session 2: Diffusion in Physiology and Medicine
(Chair: William Price, University of Western Sydney)
8:45 am James Baish, Bucknell University, “Diffusion in tumors and normal tissues”
9:20 Peter Pfeifer, University of Missouri, Columbia, “Diffusion-reaction in space-filling networks: oxygen transport in the lung”
10:05 Session 2 close
10:05-10:30 Coffee break
Poster
presenters: Please hang posters (CBIS Atrium)
Session 3: Transport Phenomena in Nano-Biotechnology
(Chair: Alex Neimark, Rutgers University)
10:30 am Murugappan Muthukumar
, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, “Macromolecular transport through nanopores”11:05 John Kasianowicz, National Institute for Science and Technology, Gaithersburg, “Single molecule transport in nanometer-scale pores: A tool for polymer science and practical applications”
11:40 Session 3 close
11:40-2:10pm Lunch buffet (Bruggeman
Room, CBIS)
POSTER SESSION 1 (CBIS Atrium)
Session 4: Membrane Diffusion Fundamentals - Experiments and Theory
(Chair: Douglas Ruthven, University of Maine)
2:10 pm Georges Belfort, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, “Diffusion in synthetic and natural membranes: Critical for success”
2:45 Andrew Zydney, Pennsylvania State University, “Diffusional contributions and electrostatic exclusion effects on transport through ultrafiltration membranes”
3:20 Session 4 close
Session 5: Diffusion
in Nanomaterials: Synthesis, Characterization and
Applications, I
(Chair: Mladen Eic, University of New Brunswick)
3:20pm Theo Tsotsis, University of Southern California, “Preparation, characterization, and modeling of nanoporous silicon carbide membranes”
3:55 Rustem Valiullin, University
of Leipzig, “Diffusion of fluids in
mesoporous host materials”
4:30 Session 5 close
4:30-5:00 Tea
break
Session 6:
Theoretical Fundamentals of Confinement Effects on Diffusion, I
(Chair: Matthias Thommes, Quantachrome Instruments)
5:00pm Tom Truskett, University
of Texas at Austin, “Entropy
scaling, structure, and dynamics of confined fluids”
5:35 Peter Monson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, “Dynamic mean field theory for fluids in mesoporous materials”
6:10 Yunfeng Shi, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, “Molecular simulations on gas diffusion in nanoporous carbon”
6:45 Session 6 close
7:00 Tour of Curtis R. Priem
Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC)
8:00 Dinner Event
Tuesday, 23 August
Session 7: Theoretical
Fundamentals of Confinement Effects on Diffusion, II
(Chair: Keith Gubbins, North
Carolina State University)
8:15am Joel L. Plawsky, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, “Drift, diffusion and dielectric breakdown”
8:50 Pierre Levitz, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, “Molecular intermittent dynamics in interfacial confinement”
9:25 Thomas Franosch, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, “Complex transport in strongly disordered materials”
10:00 Session 7 close
10:00-10:15 Coffee
break
Session 8: Transport
in the Geosciences
(Chair: Edward Corcoran, ExxonMobil Research)
10:15am E. Bruce Watson, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, “Diffusion in solid-Earth systems”
10:50 Jens Feder, University
of Oslo, Norway, “Diffusion, dissolution and dispersion”
11:25 Session
8 close
11:30-1:30pm Lunch (Russell Sage Dining Hall) –
POSTER SESSION 2 (CBIS Atrium)
Shuttle bus available between CBIS, Rensselaer and Hilton Garden Inn, Troy
1:30pm (sharp!) Departure by Yankee Trails bus, from CBIS, for excursion
1:30-10:00pm Excursion to the
Berkshires, along the Mohawk Trail.
Visit to MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA,
followed by dinner, and a short walk in Williamstown, MA. Musical
theatre production of Ten Cents a Dance at Williamstown Theatre Festival in
Williamstown, MA.
Wednesday, 24 August
Session 9: Diffusion in Nanomaterials:
Synthesis, Characterization and Applications, II
(Chair: Nick Kanellopoulos, NCSR Demokritos, Athens)
8:45am Bernhard Blümich, RWTH Aachen, “Diffusion and relaxation probed by mobile NMR”
9:20 Don MacElroy, University College Dublin, “Molecular simulation of the fabrication and permselective characterisation of thin nanoporous silica films”
9:55 Sergey Vasenkov, University of Florida, “Structure-transport relationship in organized soft matter systems by diffusion NMR”
10:30 Session
9 close
10:30-11:50 Coffee break –
POSTER SESSION 3 (CBIS Atrium)
Rensselaer Vollmer
Fries Distinguished Lecture
(Chair: Michael Saxton, University of California, Davis)
11:50am Frank Cichos, University of Leipzig, “From hot Brownian motion to self-propelled particles”, and introduction to Diffusion Fundamentals V
12:25pm Closing remarks: Marc-Olivier Coppens, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
12:30 Conference
closes
12:30-1:30 Lunch
buffet (Bruggeman Room, CBIS)
Poster
presenters: Please remove posters