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2003 MRS Fall Meeting
December 1-5, 2003
Hynes Convention Center and Sheraton Boston Hotel
Boston, MA

MRS Symposium P: Dynamics in Small Confining Systems VII

Interfacial science has rapidly expanded beyond the original realm of chemistry to include physics, mechanical and chemical engineering, biology, materials science, and other specialized subfields. This seventh international symposium in a series sponsored by the MRS will emphasize a wide range of topics covering static and dynamic properties of small confining systems. Participants from various disciplines will share different points of view on the questions of how ultrasmall geometries can force a system to behave in ways significantly different than its behavior in the bulk, how this difference affects molecular properties, and how it is probed. We encourage researchers from all scientific disciplines to present theoretical, experimental, and computational evidence of the effects of confinement on gaseous, liquid, and solid systems.

Both oral and poster presentations will be accepted relating to the following topical areas:

· Confined and anomalous dynamics in porous, supramolecular, and biological systems
· New methods to probe dynamics in confinement (scattering, NMR, optical probes, and direct imaging techniques)
· Diffusion and reactions in confinement
· Adsorption and phase transitions of simple and complex fluids at interfaces
· Liquids at interfaces
· Microfluidics and hydrodynamics near solid surfaces
· Friction and structural properties of fluids under shear
· Dynamic force spectroscopy
· Numerical modeling and computational techniques of confined systems
· Synthesis and design of new confined geometries and supramolecular systems

Invited speakers (tentative) include: A. Ajdari (ESPCI-Paris, France), Y. Braiman (Oak Ridge National Lab), F. Bright (SUNY-Buffalo), E. Evans (Univ. of British Columbia and Boston Univ.), F. Family (Emory Univ.), K Gubbins (N. Carolina State Univ.-Raleigh), J. Israelachvili (Univ. of California-Santa Barbara), R. Kimmich (Univ. Ulm, Germany), J. Klafter (Tel Aviv Univ., Israel), J. Klein (Oxford Univ., United Kingdom, and Weizmann Inst., Israel), J.P. Korb (CNRS-Palaiseau, France), L. Leger (College de France), N.E. Levinger (Colorado Univ.), J. Livage (College de France), A. Meller (Rowland Inst., Harvard Univ..), R. Metzler (Nordita, Denmark), E. Meyer (Univ. Basel, Switzerland ), U. Mohanty (Boston College), M.H. Muser (Univ. Western Ontario, Canada), A.V. Neimark (TRI-Princeton), G. Oshanin (Univ. Paris, France), R. Overney (Washington Univ.), J. Prost (ESPCI-Paris, France), R. Richert (Arizona State Univ.), M.O. Robbins (Johns Hopkins Univ.), C. Alba Simionesco (Univ. Paris-Sud, France), G. Scherer (Princeton Univ.), Ch. Schmuttenmaer (Yale Univ.), K. Tominaga (Kobe Univ.), S. Xie (Harvard Univ.), and J.M. Zanotti (Argonne National Lab).

Symposium Organizers

John T. Fourkas
Boston College, Eugene F. Merkert Chemistry Center, Boston, 2609 Beacon St., Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Tel 617-552-3611, Fax 617-552-2705, fourkas@bc.edu

Pierre Levitz
PMC-CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau, France
Tel 33-1-6933-4702, Fax 33-1-6933-3004, levitz@pmc.polytechnique.fr

Michael Urbakh
Tel Aviv University, School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
Tel 972-3-640-8254, Fax 972-3-640-9293, urbakh@post.tau.ac.il

Kathryn J. Wahl
Naval Research Laboratory, Code 6176, Bldg. 207, Washington, DC 20375-5342
Tel 202-767-5419, Fax 202-767-3321, wahl@stm2.nrl.navy.mil

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