Surface forces, interfacial phenomena and colloids
Surface phenomena become increasingly important as the size of engineering systems and processes decreases. Experimental and theoretical investigations of interfacial processes and interactions, ranging from the molecular to the microscopic scales, occurring during colloidal stabilization, surface patterning, membrane fusion, adhesion, friction, and thin-film lubrication will be the topic of the symposium.
Confirmed keynotes
John B. Pethica 
Trinity College, Dublin 2 , Ireland
john.pethica@materials.ox.ac.uk
Liliane Léger
CNRS & Université Paris-Sud, France
leger@lps.u-psud.fr
Jacob N. Israelachvili
University of Santa Barbara California, USA
jacob@engineering.ucsb.edu
Lee R. White
Carnegie Mellon, USA
white@andrew.cmu.edu
Antonella Badia
Université de Montréal
antonella.badia@umontreal.ca
Scope
This symposium is dedicated to researchers working on surfaces and interfaces with the goal of increasing our fundamental understanding, measurement capability, and control of near-surface phenomena in order to advance materials and complex fluid systems.
The proposed topics are :
Complex fluids: interactions, confinement, new applications
Adhesion, friction and modification of surface properties
Interfacial phenomena in biological and soft materials
Advances and new tools for measuring and tracking interfacial phenomena
Theoretical or computational modeling aspects
Publication
This symposium will be included in the WCCE8 proceedings.
Call for papers is open until November 30th 2008.
Organizers
Suzanne Giasson
Université de Montreal
Suzanne.giasson@umontreal.ca
Michelle Gee
University of Melbourne
mlgee@unimelb.edu.au
Serge Fraser
Earth Canada, Montreal
sfraser@torrcanada.com
Members of the Scientific Committee
Norma Alcantar, University of South Florida, USA
Carlos Drummond, CNRS, CRPP-Bordeaux, France
William Ducker, Virginia Tech, USA
Dave Dunstan, University of Melbourne, Australia
Roger Horn, University of Adelaide, Australia
Tonya Kuhl, University of California Davis, USA
Deborah Leckband, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Eric Perez, École Nationale Supérieure de Paris, France
Marina Ruths, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA
Mark Rutland, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Maria Santore, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Nicholas Spencer, ETHZ (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich), Switzerland
Kyle Vanderlick, Yale University, USA
Joyce Wong, Boston University, USA
Zhenghe Xu, University of Alberta, Canada