1 April 2012, Sunday |
19:00 |
Get together – dinner in a restaurant |
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2 April 2012, Monday |
09:00 |
Opening |
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Chair: Adrian Parsegian |
09:15 |
Peter Kralchevsky, Hydration force due to the reduced screening of the electrostatic repulsion in few-nanometer-thick films |
09:45 |
Kamil Wojciechowski, Hydration energy or hydration force? Origin of ion-specificity in ion selective electrodes |
10:15 |
Daniel Harries, Ion-specific hydration effects: Extending the Poisson-Boltzmann theory |
10:45 |
Coffee Break |
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Chair: Peter Kralchevsky |
11:15 |
Stjepan Marčelja, Hydration forces near charged interfaces in terms of effective ion potentials |
11:45 |
Jordi Faraudo, The missing link between the hydration force and interfacial water: Evidence from computer simulations |
12:15 |
Lunch |
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Chair: Håkan Wennerström |
14:00 |
Roland R. Netz, Hydration repulsion between bio-membranes from an interplay of dehydration and depolarization * |
14:30 |
Emanuel Schneck, From simple surface models to lipid membranes: Universal aspects of the hydration interaction from solvent-explicit simulations |
15:00 |
Catherine Royer, Protein hydration and volumetric properties |
15:30 |
Coffee Break |
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Chair: Piotr Warszynski |
16:00 |
Emma Sparr, Interlamellar forces and the thermodynamic characterization of lamellar phospholipid systems |
16:30 |
Håkan Wennerström, Conceptual description of surface forces ** |
17:10 |
Guided tour in Sofia downtown |
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3 April 2012, Tuesday |
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Chair: Stjepan Marčelja |
09:15 |
Bruno Demé, Hydration forces between bilayers in the presence of dissolved or surface-linked sugars |
09:45 |
Neng-Hui Zhang, Interactions of single-stranded DNA on microcantilevers |
10:15 |
Akira Onuki, Selective solvation effects in phase separation in aqueous mixtures |
10:45 |
Coffee Break |
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Chair: Daniel Harries |
11:15 |
Vincent S.J. Craig, Do hydration forces play a role in thin film drainage and rupture observed in electrolyte solutions? |
11:45 |
Regine von Klitzing, Control of foam film and wetting film stability by additon of electrolytes: Electrostatics vs. ionspecifity * |
12:15 |
Lunch |
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Chair: Regine von Klitzing |
14:00 |
Nikolai Denkov, Slavka Tcholakova, Role of surface forces in stabilization of foams and emulsions * |
14:30 |
Krassimir Danov, Oscillatory forces – the inverse problem: Determining the charge and aggregation number of ionic surfactant micelles from the stepwise thinning of foam films * |
15:00 |
Piotr Warszyński, Electrostatic interaction between spherical particles with dipolar charge distribution and a charged surface * |
15:30 |
Coffee Break |
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Chair: Akira Onuki |
16:00 |
Ivan Vakarelski, Hydrated cations on silica surface: "lubricants" or "abrasive molecules" *
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16:30 |
Drew F. Parsons, Approaches to hydration, old and new: Insights through Hofmeister effects |
17:00 |
Free Time |
19:00 |
Dinner |
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4 April 2012, Wednesday |
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Chair: Vincent S.J. Craig |
09:00 |
Luca Bertinetti, Thomas Zemb & Peter Fratzl, Hydration force in a multi-scale polymer dispersion: modelling of wood fibres swelling/deswelling by atmospheric humidity * |
09:30 |
Epameinondas Leontidis, Interdependence of perpendicular and lateral equations of state of phospholipid bilayers mediated by salts * |
10:00 |
Thomas Zemb, Werner Kunz, Hydration force and depletion by living polymers: the origin of critical point in solubilisation by ethanol? * |
10:30 |
Coffee Break |
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Chair: Thomas Zemb |
11:00 |
Ivan Ivanov, Hofmeister effect on micellization, thin films and emulsion stability |
11:30 |
V. Adrian Parsegian, Wrestling with "Hydration" ** |
12:00 |
Discussion |
12:20 |
Close |
12:30 |
Lunch |
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Sightseeing |
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Departure |