Conveners
R3-2 Polymers and Biopolymers (DCMMP-DMBP) / Polymères et biopolymères (DPMCM-DPMB)
- Melanie Martin (University of Winnipeg)
Joerg Rottler
(UBC)
6/18/15, 3:45 PM
Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)
Invited Speaker / Conférencier invité
Yielding and the slow plastic flow of amorphous solids exhibit striking heterogeneities:
swift localised particle rearrangements take place in the midst of a more or less homogeneously
deforming medium. At low temperatures, failure events become increasingly correlated and develop
self-similar properties that resemble critical phenomena. Moreover, plastically deforming regions
organize...
Sabrina Leslie
(McGill University)
6/18/15, 4:15 PM
Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)
Invited Speaker / Conférencier invité
A wide range of life-preserving processes, such as DNA transcription and repair, rely on weak intermolecular interactions and slow dynamics which occur at high concentrations, over long time periods, and often under confinement. Visualizing dynamic processes can present a challenge to fluorescence microscopy, the work horse for resolving biological processes at the molecular scale. To address...
Alexander E. Kobryn
(National Institute for Nanotechnology)
6/18/15, 4:45 PM
Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)
Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)
The steady increase in the complexity of new industrial materials and the need to accurately predict their properties have resulted in rapid development of sophisticated methods of modelling on multiple length and time scales. A simple hierarchical approach combines different methods for different scales (quantum mechanical, microscopic, mesoscopic) interpreted independently. Information...
Kristin Poduska
(Memorial University of Newfoundland)
6/18/15, 5:00 PM
Condensed Matter and Materials Physics / Physique de la matière condensée et matériaux (DCMMP-DPMCM)
Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)
Structural control in colloidal films has potential benefits for photonics, material templating, and in fundamental studies of phase transitions. Although there are numerous self-assembly techniques to prepare colloidal crystals, there is great variability in the methods used to characterize order and disorder in these materials. In this work, we take on the task of assessing different kinds...
