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Schools Mission:

To provide students with an exposure to modern cutting edge topics in Soft Matter Physics, with a unique interaction between junior scientists, from the US and South America. The school will be divided between core lectures on more fundamental aspects of Soft Matter Physics and more specialized lectures.

Overview:

This series of schools is co-funded by ICAM and FAPERJ (the state agency of Rio de Janeiro for founding research) and is hosted by the CBPF, in Rio de Janeiro. The first school organized in 2007 was related with topics on Emergent Behavior in Quantum Matter and the 93 participants were supported by FAPERJ, I2CAM, NSF and CAPES (www.cbpf.br/I2CAM-FAPERJ). The second I2CAM/FAPERJ school focused on Biological Physics was organized from 16-21 March, 2008 with 80 participants (http://i2cam.org/conference/faperj08).

The third I2CAM/FAPERJ School with focus on Condensed Soft Matter Physics will be held in Rio de Janeiro from 17-23 May, 2009. The conference is co-funded by ICAM and FAPERJ (the state agency of Rio de Janeiro for founding research) and will be hosted by the CBPF, in Rio de Janeiro.

There will be approximately three lectures per day, in the ICAM format of 60 mins talk + 30 mins discussion that has already been pioneered in the Cargese summer schools. With support of I2CAM, FAPERJ, NSF, CAPES and CBPF we have funding to support approximately 40 students from North America and from South America. Additional students, coming on their own finance from other locations will also be welcome, in addition to local students from several universities and research centers in and around Rio de Janeiro.

Principle Organizers


Core “Primer Lectures”:

Paul Chaikin (NYU)
Organization in soft matter systems.
Particle Packing and Particle Shape, Reversibility and Irreversibility in Low Reynolds Number Particle,
Flow Order and control of topological defects in soft matter in 2D

Philip Pincus (UCSB)
Fundamental Interactions for Soft Condensed Matter:
Steric Interactions, Fluctuation Forces, Hydrogen Bonding

Dave Weitz (Harvard)
Elasticity and Flow in soft and biological materials
Colloidal crystals, glasses and gels; Mircofluidics for soft matter; Rheology of biomolecular networks

Ludwik Leibler
Polymer and supramolecular assemblies: research and development:
Blends, copolymers, and nanostructured polymer materials; Supramolecular chemistry: from associating liquids to self-healing rubbers; Glass transition, impact resistance and related problems.

Marcia Barbosa (UFRGS)
Density Functional Approach for Charged Systems

Yan Levin (UFRGS)
Introduction to Statistical Mechanics of Charged Systems

Specialty Lectures:

Constantino Tsallis (CBPF)
Nonadditive Entropy and Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics - Concept and Applications

Jurgen Fritz Stilck (UFF)
Collapse Transition for Polymers

Ronald Dickman, (UFMG)
Phase Transitions far From Equilibrium: Models and Experiments in Soft Matter

Nathan Besser Viana, (UFRJ)
Soft matter: from liquid crystals to cells