Venue : Ramanujan lecture hall
28-Aug-18 | ||
Welcome by : Prof. Gopakumar Speaker introduction by : Prof. Srikanth Sastry |
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4:00pm - 5:00pm | Daan Frenkel | Order, disorder and entropy Infosys-ICTS Chandrasekhar Lecture 1 |
29-Aug-18 | ||
Chair: Yashodhan Hatwalne, RRI | ||
9:00 am - 9:45 am | Marjolein Dijkrsta | Predicting and designing the self-assembly of colloidal particles: a computer game |
9:45 am - 10:30 am | Jose Maria Tavares | Phase diagrams of self assembly patchy particles |
10:30 am – 10:55 am | Coffee Break | |
10:55 am – 11:40 am | G. V. Pavan Kumar | Plasmon-Activated Colloidal Assembly : Chains and Networks |
11:40 am – 12:25 pm | Prerna Sharma | Self assembly of cyclic polygon shaped fluid membranes through pinning |
12:25 am – 12:45 pm | Sujata Tarafdar | Hierarchicalself-assembly of desiccation crack patterns in clay induced by a uniform electric field |
12:45 pm - 2:15 pm | Lunch | |
Chair: S. Balasubramaninan, JNCASR | ||
2:15 pm – 3:00 pm | W. Benjamin Rogers | Using entropy to program self-assembly of DNA-coated colloids |
3:00 pm – 3:20 pm | Debasish Chaudhuri | Confinement and crowding sets morphology and position of bacterial chromosome |
3:20 pm – 3:40 pm | Sayantan Majumdar | Memory Retention in disordered bio-polymer networks |
3:40 pm – 4:00 pm | Coffee Break | |
4:00pm - 5:00pm | Daan Frenkel | From self-assembly to cellrecognition Infosys-ICTS Chandrasekhar Lecture 2 |
Chair: Chandan Dasgupta, IISc/ICTS | ||
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm | Poster Session | |
7:00 pm – 10:00 pm | Workshop Dinner | |
30-Aug-18 | ||
Chair: Mukund Thattai, NCBS | ||
9:00 am - 9:45 am | Alexei Tkachenko | Onset of natural selection and "reversal of the Second Law" in population of autocatalytic heteropolymers |
9:45 am - 10:30 am | James Swan | Out-of-Equilibrium Self-Assembly of Mutually Polarizable Nanoparticle Suspensionsin Toggled External Fields |
10:30 am – 10:55 am | Coffee Break | |
10:55 am – 11:40 am | Suri Vaikuntanathan | Dissipation induced transitionsin soft matter systems |
11:40 am – 12:25 pm | M. Scott Shell | Systematic multiscale models and physics using the relative entropy |
12:25 pm – 12:45 pm | Sarika Bhattacharya | Glass forming ability of a binary mixture: The role of entropy |
12:45 pm - 2:15 pm | Lunch | |
Chair: Rahul Pandit, IISc | ||
2:15 pm – 3:00 pm | Prabal Maiti | Two-phase thermodynamic (2PT) model for efficient entropy calculation in liquid state |
3:00 pm – 3:20 pm | Apratim Chatterjee | Role of special cross-links in the organization of DNA-polymer at micron length scales |
3:20 pm – 3:40 pm | Anand Srivastava | Lipids degeneracy in the (sub-100nm) membrane organization: Thermodynamics costs behind maintaining complex lipid diversity |
3:40 pm – 4:00 pm | Coffee Break | |
4:00pm - 5:00pm | Daan Frenkel | Entropy production and phoretic transport Infosys-ICTS Chandrasekhar Lecture 3 |
Chair: Rahul Pandit, IISc | ||
31-Aug-18 | ||
Chair: Abhishek Dhar, ICTS | ||
9:00 am - 9:45 am | Guruswamy Kumaraswamy | Why are ice templated particle polymer hybrids flexible? |
9:45 am - 10:30 am | Michael Gruenwald | Ligand effects in the self-assembly of nano crystals into super lattices |
10:30 am – 10:55 am | Coffee Break | |
10:55 am – 11:40 am | R. Rajesh | Entropy driven phase transitions in hard core lattice gas models |
11:40 am – 12:25 pm | Ning Xu | Phase behaviors of soft-core particles at high densities |
12:25 pm – 12:45 pm | Tapati Dutta | Growth kinetics of NaCl crystals in a drying drop of gelatin: transition from faceted to dendritic growth |
12:45 pm - 2:15 pm | Lunch | |
Chair: Rajesh Ganapathy, JNCASR | ||
2:15 pm – 3:00 pm | Shashi Thutupalli | Towards controlled assembly in active matter |
3:00 pm – 3:45 pm | Ran Ni | “Entropic Effects” in Active Hard Spheres |
3:45 pm – 4:05 pm | Habib Rahbari | Characterizing rare fluctuations in soft particulate flows |
4:05 pm - 4:30 pm | Closing | |
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Coffee Break |