Symposium: Participant Travel Support for the 89th ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium, June 15-17, 2015, Pittsburgh, PA

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA

Investigators

Abstract

CBET-1523306 PI: Schneider, James This project will support the participation of US scientists and engineers in the 89th American Chemical Society Colloid and Surface Science Symposium, which will be held on the campus of Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA from June 15-17, 2015. The symposium will address a broad range of topics in colloidal and surface science that are broadly relevant to many processes of technological and biological interest. The symposium will provide a way for leading research groups to interact with researchers across academic and scientific disciplines, and it will help junior researchers, including young faculty members and graduate students, to interact with leaders in the field. This symposium, which will consist of a variety of keynote lectures, technical and poster sessions, will cover a variety of timely and innovative themes that are central to recent advances in colloidal and surface science. The topics of planned sessions include self- and directed-assembly of nanomaterials, dynamics of suspensions, nanoscale imaging and spectroscopy of interfaces, the behavior of polymers under confinement, electrokinetics and microfluidics, and the role of colloidal principles in environmental systems and in nanomedicine.