Please note that although the programme of the meeting is charged, ample time will be reserved to discussion. Speakers are requested to give a 20 minutes presentation and allow for 10 minutes discussion. They should briefly present the scientific activities of their group/department, their needs for neutron and synchrotron radiation techniques, how would they benefit from the PSCM presence and activities, how can they contribute (development of sample environment, joint research activities, software, etc.). An important part of the discussion will be devoted to ways to attract external fundings (from national and international sources) for financing personnel (students and post-docs) as well as further pieces of equipment within the PSCM. At the end of the meeting we hope to have a tentative list of laboratories willing to become Associate Members of the Partnership and to sign an agreement with ILL and ESRF in the near future.

Wednesday 16th December

14:00 – 15:00     Registration

15:00 - 15:30     Welcome coffee

Setting the scene

15:30 - 16:00    Introduction by Andrew Harrison (ILL Science Director) and Serge Perez (ESRF Research Director)

16:00 - 16:40    Theyencheri Narayanan (ESRF coordinator) and Giovanna Fragneto (ILL coordinator)

Up-date on PSCM initiative and aim of the meeting

16:40 - 17:30    Frank Schreiber (Universität Tübingen, Germany)
Challenges in molecular and soft matter

17:30 - 17:45     Break

Self-assembly

17:45-18:15     Jean-François Legrand (Institut Charles Sadron, France)
Neutron and synchrotron studies of polymers and self-assembled systems at the Institute Charles Sadron

18:15-18:45      Reidar Lund (Fundación DIPC, Spain)
Self-assembly of block copolymers with tuneable amphiphilicity: structure and kinetics

18:45-19:00      François Boué (LLB, Saclay, F)
Neutron and X rays for Soft Matter in present projects at Laboratoire Léon Brillouin

19:00-19:15      Jörg Stellbrink (Forschungszentrum, Jülich, D)
Neutrons for Chemistry - Analysis of reaction mechanisms via neutron scattering

19:15                 DISCUSSION

20:15                  Buffet Dinner at the Guesthouse

Thursday 17th December

Self-assembly

8:30-9:00        Oscar Ces (Imperial College, London, UK)
Time Resolved Studies of Soft Condensed Matter Transformations Using Pressure Jump Technology

9:00 - 9:30       Laurence Ramos (Université de Montpellier, France)
Scattering under shear to understand the plasticity and flow of soft materials

9:30-10:00       Wuge Briscoe (Bristol University, UK)
The importance of being a stubborn semi-fluorinated surfactant

10:00-10:30     Andrei Petukhov (Utrecht University, NL)
Colloidal crystals and liquid crystals: what new horizons can PSCM open?

10:30-10:50     Tea/Coffee break

Bio-materials

10:50-11:20      Motomu Tanaka (Universität Heidelberg, Germany)
Roles of biopolymers in modulation of biological interfaces

11:20-11:50      Piero Baglioni (Università di Firenze, Italy) Research Activities at the Italian University Consortium for the Study of Colloids and Nanoscience (CSGI)

11:50-12:20      Sarah Köster (Universität Göttingen, Germany)
Biomatter in microfluidic sample environments

12:20-14:00     Buffet Lunch at canteen H2
 
Functional Materials

14:00-14:30    Jean Doucet (Université de Paris Sud, France)
Industrial applications of biopolymers

14:30-15:00    Tiberio Ezquerra (Madrid University, Spain)
Carbon nanotubes as templates for polymer crystallization

15:00-15:30    Dimitri Ivanov (CNRS Mulhouse, France)
Why polymer crystals twist during growth

15:30-16:00    Frederic Pignon (CNRS/UJF Grenoble, France)
Rheological and Dynamical Behavior of Colloidal Systems at Multi-Length Scales

16:00-16 :30    Tea/Coffee break

Nanomaterials

16 :30-17 :00    Olivier Spalla (CEA , France)
Potential contributions of the LIONS to the PSCM

17 :00-17 :30    Klaus Huber (Universität Paderborn, Germany)
Investigation and control of the initial steps of phase formation and self assembly

17:30-18:00     Patrick Davidson (Université de Paris Sud, France)
Soft-condensed matter activities at the Laboratoire de Physique des Solides d'Orsay : the need for synchrotron x-ray and neutron scattering

18:00-19:00     Round Table

19:00-20:00     Posters and Aperitif

20:15                Bus to Dinner

20:30                Social Dinner at “Restaurant Pignol” in Grenoble

Friday 18th December

Interfaces

8:30-9:00       Michael Grunze (Universität Heidelberg, Germany)
The need of neutron and synchrotron radiation studies in marine biofouling research

9:00-9:30       Moshe Deutsch (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
The nanoscale structure of liquid surfaces and interfaces

9:30-10:00     Peter Müller-Buschbaum (Universität München, Germany)
Functional materials based on polymer and hybrid nanostructures

10:00-10:30    Thomas Hellweg (Universität Bayreuth, Germany)
The DFPase from Loligo Vulgaris in sugar surfactant based bicontinuous microemulsions: Structure, dynamics, and enzyme activity

10:30-11:00    Tea/Coffee break

11:00-11:30    Olivier Diat (ICMS-CEA Marcoule, France)
Separative chemistry: ions at active interfaces

11:30-12:00    Luigi Cristofolini (Università di Parma, Italy)
Proposal to create “an interfacial shear rheometer“ to be used in conjunction with the XPCS facility available on ID10A and the XRR, GID and GISAXS facility available on ID10B.

12:00-12:30    Adrian Rennie (Uppsala University, Sweden)     
Summary and round-up

12:30-13:00    Next steps

13:00               Lunch