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Day 1 - July, 15th 2009

1st Session (Common)

• 09:00 to 09:10 - Welcome
• 09:10 to 09:50 - Gerhard Kahl
  
  Identifying self-assembly scenarios in soft matter systems with genetic algorithms
• 09:50 to 10:30 - Erik Luijten
  
  Self-assembly and hydrodynamics of Janus particles
• 10:30 to 11:00 - Coffee Break
• 11:00 to 11:40 - Christos N. Likos
  
  Simulation and theory of cluster-forming polymers
• 11:40 to 12:20 - Athanassios Panagiotopoulos
  
  Self-assembly of model surfactants and colloids
• 12:20 to 14:00 - Lunch Break

2nd Session (Common)

• 14:00 to 14:40 - Francesco Sciortino
  
  Phase diagram of Janus Particles
• 14:40 to 15:20 - Mark Miller
  
  Gels of dipolar colloids
• 15:20 to 16:00 - Emanuela Zaccarelli
  
  Self-assembly kinetics of gel-forming patchy particles: connecting irreversible to reversible aggregation
• 16:00 to 16:30 - Coffee Break
• 16:30 to 17:10 - Erika Eiser
  
  Flying Colloidal Carpets
• 17:10 to 17:50 - Dwaipayan Chakrabarti
  
  Engineering anisotropic interactions for assembly of nanoclusters

Day 2 - July, 16th 2009

3rd Session

• 09:00 to 09:40 - Peter Schurtenberger
  
  Analyzing self-assembled protein clusters, gels and glasses – the need for multiscale characterization
• 09:40 to 10:20 - Hartmut Löwen
  
  Nonequilibrium phenomena in colloidal suspensions induced by external fields
• 10:20 to 11:00 - Giuseppe Foffi
  
  Colloidal Characterization and Thermodynamic Stability of Binary Protein Mixtures >
• 11:00 to 11:30 - Coffee Break
• 11:30 to 12:10 - Marjolein Dijkstra
  
  Prediction and design of new colloidal structures
• 12:10 to 12:50 - Dennis C. Rapaport
  
  Simulating self-assembly with molecular dynamics
• 12:50 to 14:30 - Lunch Break

4th Session

• 14:30 to 15:10 - Luca Cipelletti
  
  Probing the equilibrium dynamics of colloidal hard spheres above the mode-coupling glass transition
• 15:10 to 15:50 - Nicolas Dorsaz
  
  Diffusion-limited reactions in crowded environments
• 15:50 to 16:30 - Walter Kob
  
  Relaxation of an Aging Gel
• 16:30 to 17:00 - Coffee Break
• 17:00 to 17:40 - Cristiano De Michele
  
  EVENT-DRIVEN SIMULATION OF CHEMICAL GELATION IN A PATCHY PARTICLE MODEL
• 17:40 to 19:00 - Poster Session
• 20:00 to 22:00 - Dinner

Day 3 - July, 17th 2009

5th Session

• 09:00 to 09:40 - Dirk Aarts
  
  Simulating atoms with colloids
• 09:40 to 10:20 - Roland Roth
  
  New Aspects of Solvent Mediated Forces: from Colloidal Clusters to Proteins in Solution
• 10:20 to 11:00 - Emanuela Del Gado
  
  Network Induced Heterogeneities In Colloidal Gels
• 11:00 to 11:30 - Coffee Break
• 11:30 to 12:10 - Jean Christophe Gimel
  
  Brownian cluster dynamics: a new Monte Carlo approach to colloidal science
• 12:10 to 12:50 - Julia Fornleitner
  
  Using genetic algorithms to predict stable structures in two-dimensional, soft systems
• 12:50 to 14:30 - Lunch Break

6th Session

• 14:30 to 15:10 - Paddy Royall
  
  The one-component description of model colloidal dispersions: successes and challenges
• 15:10 to 15:50 - Giuseppe Pellicane
  
  Effective protein interactions underlying crystal contacts in aqueous solutions
• 15:50 to 16:30 - Peter Virnau
  
  A Monte Carlo test of classical theory of nucleation
• 16:30 to 17:00 - Coffee Break
• 17:00 to 17:40 - Antonio Puertas
  
  Aging of hard colloidal glasses: influence of the microscopic dynamics
• 17:40 to 18:20 - Ana Hocevar
  
  Statistical mechanics of nonthermal systems: cellular structures

Day 4 - July, 18th 2009

7th Session

• 09:00 to 09:40 - Veronique Trappe
  
  Multiple dynamic regimes in concentrated microgel systems
• 09:40 to 10:20 - Nigel Wilding
  
  Stability of polydisperse crystals
• 10:20 to 11:00 - Chantal Valeriani
  
  Challenges in studies of liquid-solid nucleation and ion association in oppositely charged colloids
• 11:00 to 11:30 - Coffee Break

Closing remarks by Erika Eiser and Christos Likos. Final discussion and closing

• 11:30 to 12:45 - Closing word