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 | |