This website will serve as the main conference program. The name of each presenter links to their own webpage. The webpage links to a Google Doc of the presentation abstract, which the presenter has permission to change and modify to provide updated and/or additional information. If the presenter would like, additional files can be uploaded too. A printable overview of the Conference program may be downloaded here as a Google Doc and as a PDF. Printed copies of this document will be provided to participants.
WiFi access will be available to participants on campus for the conference. Look for SSID MU-EVENT and the password will be CPBTHERMO. You can also register and use MU-GUEST if you encounter any problems.
6:00 - 9:00 pm Welcome social and poster session
Solen Abasaba (Miami U)
Georgia B. Fuerst (Miami U)
Yushan Zhang (Notre Dame)
Sebastian Diaz-Rodriguez (Miami U)
Miranda Caudle (Miami U)
Mark Taylor (Hiram College)
Md Abdus Sabuj (Mississippi State)
The poster session and social will take place in the foyer outside BEN 102. Pizza, salad, dessert and soft drinks will be provided.
Note: If you will be presenting a poster, the preferred size is 40" by 30". If you conform to this size, I have 40" by 30" foam board we can attach your poster to which will sit nicely on an easel. If your poster is larger, that is okay. I would just like to know so that I can plan. I will need to put in a request to have mobile cork boards delivered, and I want to prevent ordering too many so that the space does not get too crammed.
Breakfast, snacks, and all of the oral talks will be in BEN 102. Lunch and the conference banquet will take place in the Armstrong Student Center.
7:30 - 8:45 am Breakfast
8:45 - 9:00 am Conference Welcome (Andrew Paluch)
9:00 am - 12:00 pm Session 1: Macromolecules and Colloids
9:00 - 9:40 am, Jonathan Whitmer (Notre Dame)
9:40 - 10:00 am, Hythem Sidky (Notre Dame)
10:00 - 10:20 am, Nikita Birbasov (Kentucky)
10:20 - 10:40 am, Coffee break
10:40 - 11:00 am, Christopher Barrow (Kentucky)
11:00 - 11:20 am, Nick Liesen (Ohio State)
11:20 - 11:40 am, Robert Hembree (Minnesota)
11:40 - 12:00 pm, Kenneth Newcomb (Notre Dame)
12:00 - 1:30 pm Lunch at Armstrong Student Center
1:30 - 5:30 pm Session 2: Phase Equilibria
1:30 - 2:10 pm, Neeraj Rai (Mississippi State)
2:10 - 2:30 pm, J. Richard Elliott (Akron)
2:30 - 2:50 pm, Mohammad Soroush Barhaghi (Wayne St)
2:50 - 3:10 pm, Bai Xue (Minnesota)
3:10 - 3:30 pm, M. D. Howlander (Mississippi State)
3:30 - 3:50 pm, Coffee break
3:50 - 4:10 pm, Mona Minkara (Minnesota)
4:10 - 4:30 pm, Phwey Gil (Case Western)
3:50 - 4:10 pm, Shanmuga Venkatesan (Mississippi State)
4:10 - 4:30 pm, Evgenii Fetisov (Minnesota)
4:30 - 4:50 pm, Aseel Bala-Ahmed (Michigan State)
4:50 - 5:10 pm, Rolf Lustig (Cleveland)
5:10 - 5:30 pm, J. Richard Elliott (Akron)
6:00 - 9:00 pm Banquet at Armstrong Student Center
The keynote address will be delivered by Alan Ferrenberg (Miami U), best known for his work on histogram re-weighting and random number generators.
Breakfast, snacks, and all of the oral talks will be in BEN 102. Lunch will again be in the Armstrong Student Center.
7:30 - 9:00 am Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:00 pm Session 3: Adsorption and Interfaces
9:00 - 9:40 am, Christopher Wilmer (Pittsburgh)
9:40 - 10:00 am, Alec Kaija (Pittsburgh)
10:00 - 10:20 am, Catherine Almquist (Miami U)
10:20 - 10:40 am, Coffee break
10:40 - 11:00 am, Xiaozhou Shen (Case Western)
11:00 - 11:20 am, Mark Taylor (Hiram College)
11:20 - 11:40 am, Christopher Paolucci (Notre Dame)
11:40 - 12:00 pm, Bihong Li (Miami U)
12:00 - 1:30 pm Lunch at Armstrong Student Center
1:30 - 3:30 pm Session 4: Biomolecular Systems
1:30 - 2:10 pm, Sumit Sharma (Ohio U)
2:10 - 2:30 pm, Steven Abel (Tennessee)
2:30 - 2:50 pm, Umit Ozer (Wayne St)
2:50 - 3:10 pm, Mojtaba Jokar (Wayne St)
3:10 - 3:30 pm, Kyaw Hpone Myint (Berea College)
3:30 - 3:50 pm, Ryan Mullen (Notre Dame)
3:50 - 4:10pm Closing Remarks (Andrew Paluch)
After closing remarks, boxed lunches and soft drinks will be provided. If you need to leave immediately to get home, grab a boxed lunch to go.