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Wednesday, 3rd March, 2010

8h30 Opening session by Andrew HARRISON

8h45 Anatoli Serghei

Dynamics and phase transitions of confined polymers

9h25 Erik Weeks

The colloidal glass transition in confinement

10h05 Coffee break

10h35 Edgar Leon Gutierrez

Size effects in the glass transition of ultrathin vapor deposited glassy films of toluene analyzed by nanocalorimetry

11h05 Alla Oleinikowa

Anomalous dynamics of water and ions in the hydration shells of proteins and DNA upon varying hydration

11h35 Vincent Krakoviack

Self-dynamics in confinement from a mode-coupling theory perspective: coupling to/decoupling from the collective dynamics and diffusion-localization scenarios

12h05 Jacques Jestin

Polymer grafted silica nanocomposites: influence of the nanocomparticles dispersion and of the chain conformations and dynamics on the nanoscopic properties of the materials

12h35 Lunch break

13h00 Coffee and posters

14h00 Ophelia Tsui

Dynamics of Polymer Films as Probed by the Surface Capillary Spectrum

14h40 Friedrich Kremer

Dielectric relaxations at nanometric length scales

15h10 Rintaro Inoue

Glass transition of polymer thin film as studied by inelastic neutron scattering

15h40 Simona Capponi

Dynamics in ultrathin liquid films studied by simultaneous dielectric spectroscopy (DRS) and organic molecular beam deposition (OMBD)

16h10 Toshi Kanaya

Distribution of Glass Transition Temperature Tg in Polymer Thin Films by Neutron Reflectivity

16h40 Jacob Klein

Dynamics of confined hydration layers: exploring a new paradigm

17h20 Coffee break and Poster session

19h00 Snacks and drinks at posters

Thursday, 4th March, 2010

8h30 Juan Colmenero

Chain Dynamics in Asymmetric Polymer Blends

9h10 Cécile Dalle-Ferrier

The consequence of excess configurational entropy on fragility: the case of a polymer/oligomer blend

9h40 Thomas Blochowicz

Intrinsic Confinement Effects in the Blend Dynamics of Binary Glass-Forming Systems

10h10 Coffee break

10h40 Gerhard Hummer

Computer simulations of the structure, dynamics, and thermodynamics of fluids at interfaces and in nanoscopic confinement

11h20 Andreas Stadler

Water and Macromolecular Dynamics in Red Blood Cells Measured with Neutron Scattering

11h50 Michael Vogel

Temperature-Dependent Water and Glycerol Dynamics in Biological and Soft Confinements: NMR Spectroscopy and MD Simulation Studies

12h20 Lunch break

13h00 Coffee and posters

13h50 Margarita Krutyeva

Effect of nanoscopic confinement on dynamics of poly(ethylene oxide)

14h30 Karine Lagrené

Polymer dynamics under quasi-uniaxial confinement. The case of PEO in porous alumina

15h00 Arantxa Arbe

Dynamics in Homopolymers showing Nanophase-separation

15h30 Cédric Lorthioir

Segmental dynamics of polymer chains in a poly(ethylene oxide)/clay intercalated phase: A 1H and 13C solid-state NMR investigation

16h00 Coffee break

16h30 Marc-Olivier Coppens

Random Walks in Porous Media: Diffusion under Confinement, and What It Means for Catalyst and Membrane Analysis and Design

17h10 Hervé Jobic

Comparison of the dynamics of MIL-53 and MIL-47 frameworks by 2H NMR and neutron scattering

17h40 Jean-Louis Barrat

Simulation of heat transfer around nanoparticles

18h10 Daniele Prevosto

Effect of interfaces on polymer dielectric relaxation investigated on nanometric scale

18h40 Gerald Schneider

Conformation and Dynamics in Polymer Silica Nano Composites

19h40 Conference dinner

Friday, 5th March, 2010

8h30 Thomas Franosch

Anomalous Transport and Localization in Model Porous Media

9h10 Fabrice Audonnet

Relationship between microscopic dynamics and structure of confined water

9h40 Maxim Erko

Raman scattering on confined water

10h10 Coffee break

10h40 Sandrine Lyonnard

Perfluorinated surfactants as model charged systems for understanding the effect of confinement on proton transport and water mobility in fuel cells membranes. A study by QENS.

11h10 Tinka Spehr

Reverse micelles - a model system to study soft confined water?

11h40 Natalie Malikova

Water dynamics in clays - temperature activation and effects of confinement

12h10 Heloisa Bordallo

Hardened cement pastes- new views with modern methods of neutron scattering

12h40 Lunch break

13h20 Coffee and posters

14h50 Discussion sessions and Poster session II

15h20 Ralf Metzler

Polymer translocation through nanopores: scaling laws and their breakdown

16h00 Andreas Schönhals

Vibrational and Molecular Dynamics of Nanoconfined Liquid Crystals

16h30 Benoit Coasne

Ionic Liquids Confined in Nanoporous Silica

17h00 Coffee break

17h30 Reiner Zorn

Effect of spatial confinement on the low-frequency vibrations in amorphous systems

18h00 Alain Mermet

Vibration density of states in confined systems: from TiO2 nanoparticles to glasses

18h30 Workshop closing Concluding remarks by Gregory McKenna

Saturday, 6th March, 2010

9h00 Social Event Optional snow shoe excursion