The Frontiers in Microrheology Workshop February 6 - February 9, 2008 at the CNSI, UCLA REGISTER NOW! Free Registration for ALL students/Post Docs/Sr. Researchers!

The Frontiers in Microrheology Workshop will bring together many of the users and developers of microrheological techniques- both theorists and experimentalists to review the principal successes of microrheology, share exciting recent advances, and make plans for carrying this field forward into its second decade. The workshop will provide participants the opportunity to help the microrheology community define and achieve its new goals.

Sponsored by the Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (ICAM) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) in conjunction with the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA, the three-day workshop will include: Lectures and Panel Discussions Conference Dinner Cultural Outing Poster Session for participating Graduate Students and Postdocs

Agenda

Poster Presentations

Suggested Lodging

Map & Directions

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John Crocker, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Institute for Medicine and Engineering Pennsylvania Muscle Institute
Gerry Fuller, Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University
Tom Lubensky, Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania
Fred MacKintosh, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
Daniel Ou-Yang, Department of Physics, Lehigh University
Frank Scheffold, Department of Physics, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Christoph Schmidt, Third Physical Institute: Biophysics Georg-August-Universität, Göettingen, Germany
Patrick T. Spicer, Procter & Gamble Co.
Todd Squires, Chemical Engineering Department, University of California, Santa Barbara
Penger Tong, Department of Physics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Dave Weitz, Department of Physics, Harvard University

Organizers: Alex J. Levine and Thomas G. Mason