Day 5: Thursday morning, September 7, 2006

Session 7 Applications to complex materials: glasses, micelles, colloids, blends, interfaces
Chair: V.G. Mavrantzas

08:00  Ergodicity-breaking in glassforming liquids (and related systems), and relaxation processes below the glass temperature, Tg_»
C.A. Angell

08:50  Entropy production of oscillatory flows between parallel plates _»
M. Lopez de Haro, S. Cuevas, M.A. Olivares-Robles, F. Vazquez

09:15  A thermodynamically consistent model for the thixotropic rheological behavior of concentrated colloidal star polymer solutions_»
A.N. Beris, D. Vlassopoulos

09:40  Extrudate swell control by balancing short and long polyethylene chains using multi-scale modeling _»
C.F.J. den Doelder

10:05  Coffee break

10:20  Flow of Polymer blends between Concentric Cylinders _»
M. Dressler, B.J. Edwards, E.J. Windhab

10:45  On the rheology of a dilute suspension of vesicles _»
C. Misbah, G. Danker

11:10  Atomistic molecular dynamics simulation of the temperature and pressure dependences of local and terminal relaxations in cis-1,4-polybutadiene_»
G. Tsolou, V.G. Mavrantzas

11:35  Discussion
V.G. Mavrantzas

12:00  Lunch

14:00  Discussion - Closing remarks
V.G. Mavrantzas