Date : Wednesday, January 18, 2017 – Friday, January 20, 2017
Venue: TOKYO ELECTRON House of Creativity 3F, Lecture Theater, Katahira Campus, Tohoku University
Website : JSPS A3 Workshop on soft matter
・Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
・Tohoku University
・Tohoku Forum for Creativity, Tohoku University
・Tohoku University Advanced Institute for Materials Research (AIMR)
・Mathematics for Advanced Materials-Open Innovation Laboratry (MathAM-OIL)
Event Organizers
Masao Doi (Beihang University)
Yasumasa Nishiura (Tohoku University)
Jinhae Park (Chungnam National University)
Yana Di (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Xianmin Xu (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Natsuhiko Yoshinaga (AIMR Tohoku University, MathAM-OIL AIST)
Time Schedule
- Wednesday, January 18, 2017
- 11:45 – 13:15
- Lunch
- 13:25
- Opening
- Session: Liquid crystal
- 13:30 – 14:30
- Jun-ichi Fukuda (AIST)
- Exotic structures of a chiral liquid crystal and their optical properties
- Coffee Break
- 14:45 – 15:45
- Jinhae Park (Chungnam National University)
- Mathematical Theories related to Liquid Crystals
- Coffee Break
- Session organiser: Jinhae Park
- 16:00 – 17:00
- Round Table Discussion
- Thursday, January 19, 2017
- Session: Wetting and interfacial dynamics
- 9:30 – 10:30
- Ko Okumura (Ochanomizu University)
- Simple models and scaling arguments for understanding miscellaneous problems in soft matter physics
- Coffee Break
- 10:45 – 11:45
- Xianmin Xu (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
- Analysis and computation for wetting problems on rough surface
- 11:45 – 13:15
- Lunch
- 13:15 – 14:15
- Yana Di (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
- Numerical simulation of Vlasov equation using moment expansion method
- Coffee Break
- 14:30 – 15:30
- Karel Svadlenka (Kyoto University)
- Numerical approximation of multiphase interface evolution
- Coffee Break
- Session organiser: Masao Doi
- 15:30 – 16:30
- Round Table Discussion
- 18:30 –
- Banquet
- Friday, Januaryr 20, 2017
- Session: Nonequilibrium collective phenomena
- 9:30 – 10:30
- Ryohei Seto (OIST)
- Shear thickening and extension thickening of dense suspensions
- Coffee Break
- 10:45 – 11:45
- Kuniyasu Saito (AIMR Tohoku University)
- A microscopic theory for discontinuous shear thickening of frictional granular particles
- 11:45 – 13:15
- Lunch
- 13:15 – 14:15
- Natsuhiko Yoshinaga (AIMR Tohoku University, MathAM-OIL AIST)
- The Hydrodynamics and Collective Behaviours of Self-Propelled Active Systems
- Coffee Break
- Session organiser: Natsuhiko Yoshinaga
- 14:30 – 15:30
- Round Table Discussion