Day 4: Wednesday morning, September 6, 2006

Session 5 Non-equilibrium thermodynamics: Approaches and formalisms
Chair: A.N. Beris

08:00  Towards a thermodynamics of complex systems_»
G. Nicolis

08:50  Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics of Boundary Conditions _»
H.C. Öttinger

09:15  Extended thermodynamics of polymers and superfluids_»
D. Jou, J. Casas-Vazquez, M. Criado-Sancho, M.S. Mongiovi

09:40  Kinematics of turbulence in simple and polymeric fluids _»
M. Grmela

10:05  Coffee break

10:20  Nonequilibrium thermodynamics of elasto-viscoplastic deformation _»
M. Hütter, T.A. Tervoort, H.C. Öttinger

10:45  On a possible difference between the barycentric velocity and the velocity that gives translational momentum in fluids _»
D. Bedeaux, S. Kjelstrup, H.C. Öttinger

11:10  Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamic Fluctuations within the Framework of Path Integrals _»
A. McKane, F. Vazquez, M.A. Olivares-Robles

11:35  Discussion
A.N. Beris

12:05  Lunch

   Day 4: Wednesday afternoon, September 6, 2006

Session 6 Coarse-graining and mesoscopic dynamics - some mathematical aspects
Chair: B.J. Edwards

14:00  Dissipation and Stress _»
P. Constantin

14:25  Self-similarity in Smoluchowski's coagulation equation _»
G. Menon, R.L. Pego

14:50  Stress relaxation theories in the approximation of polyconvex elastodynamics by viscoelasticity _»
T. Tzavaras

15:15  Numerical analysis of coarse-graining for stochastic systems _»
P. Plechac

15:40  Coffee break

15:55  Mathematical and computational methods for coarse-graining _»
M.A. Katsoulakis

16:20  Some mathematical issues arising in the multiscale modelling of complex fluids_»
C. Le Bris

16:45  Discussion
B.J. Edwards

17:00  Free time

20:30  Gala dinner