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FILM & CRYSTAL GROWTH MECHANISMS June 26 - July 1, 2005 Mount Holyoke College South Hadley, MA Chair: Melissa A. Hines Vice Chair: Peter Vekilov |
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SUPPORTERS: TransForm Pharmaceuticals |
| SUNDAY | |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Dynamics of Crystal Growth |
| Discussion Leader: Jonathan Pelz (Ohio State Univ.) | |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Michael D. Ward (Univ. of
Minnesota) "Probing crystallization and adhesion at crystal surfaces with AFM" |
| 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Miquel Salmeron (Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory) "Growth, structure, and wetting properties of water films on surfaces" |
| MONDAY | |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:45 am | Group Photo |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Quantum Dots and Semiconductor Growth |
| Discussion Leader: Rachel S. Goldman (Univ. of Michigan) | |
| 9:00 am - 10:00 am | Oliver Schmidt (MPI für
Festkörperforschung) "From island nucleation to 3D quantum dot crystals" |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:30 am | Vivek Shenoy (Brown University) "Self-assembly and shape transitions of epitaxial nanowires and strained monolayer islands" |
| 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Jeff Drucker (Arizona State
Univ.) "Kinetic composition control and stability of heteroepitaxial semiconductor nanocrystals" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Biological Control of Crystallization |
| Discussion Leader: Lara A. Estroff (Cornell University) | |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Peter L. Davies (Queen's
University) "Antifreeze proteins and the control of ice crystal growth" |
| 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Naomi Chayen (Imperial College) "Interactions of proteins with inorganic materials: Novel nucleation-inducing substrates for protein crystallization" |
| TUESDAY | |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Organic Crystals and Pharmaceuticals |
| Discussion Leader: Lian Yu (Ohio State Univ.) | |
| 9:00 am - 10:00 am | Jules Remenar (TransForm
Pharmaceuticals) "Impact of crystal growth on pharmaceutical formulations" |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:30 am | Michael Doherty (Univ. of
California at Santa Barbara) "New models for predicting the relative growth rates and shape evolution of organic crystals grown from solution" |
| 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Adam J. Matzger (Univ. of
Michigan) "Controlling crystal polymorphism" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Interactions of Crystals with Light |
| Discussion Leader: Peter Reynders (Merck) | |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Bruce A. Garetz (Polytechnic
University) "Non-photochemical laser-induced nucleation: Controlling crystal structure with light" |
| 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Bart E. Kahr (Univ. of Washington) "Encounters with spherulites" |
| WEDNESDAY | |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Thin Film Growth Dynamics |
| Discussion Leader: Zhenyu Zhang (Oak Ridge National Lab) | |
| 9:00 am - 10:00 am | Marcel J. Rost (Leiden University) "Seeing thin films evolve with real-time, in-situ STM: Film growth and grain growth" |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:30 am | Kristin Fichthorn (Penn State
University) "Multi-scale simulations of thin film epitaxy" |
| 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Jonah Erlebacher (Johns Hopkins
University) "Thin films on thin films: Epitaxial growth on mesoporous metal membranes" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Colloidal Crystals |
| Discussion Leader: Seth Fraden (Brandeis University) | |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | David Weiss (Harvard University) "Defect dynamics in crystalline thin films studied using colloidal crystals" |
| 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | David J. Norris (Univ. of
Minnesota) "Opaline photonic crystals: How does self-assembly work?" |
| THURSDAY | |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Hot Topics & Contributed Talks |
| Discussion Leader: Melissa Hines (Cornell University) | |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Hot Topic Talk #1 |
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Hot Topic Talk #2 |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Hot Topic Talk #3 |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Hot Topic Talk #4 |
| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Hot Topic Talk #5 |
| 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm | Hot Topic Talk #6 |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Biomineralization |
| Discussion Leader: Peter Vekilov (Univ. of Houston) | |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | David Kisailus (Univ. of
California at Santa Barbara) "Biotechnology and biomimetics opens new routes to the fabrication of silica and metal oxide semiconductors" |
| 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | John S. Evans (New York University) "Magic with minerals: Inhibition and catalysis of inorganic crystal growth by polypeptides" |
| FRIDAY | |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Depart |