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Session Z18: New Experimental, Theoretical, and Computational Methods in Polymer and Soft Matter Physics

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Sponsoring Units: DPOLY
Chair: Vivek Sharma
Room: B117


Friday, March 19, 2010
11:15AM - 11:27AM

Z18.00001: Computational modeling of red blood cells: A symplectic integration algorithm
Ulf D. Schiller , Anthony J. C. Ladd

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Friday, March 19, 2010
11:27AM - 11:39AM

Z18.00002: Testing Theory Against Experiment and Simulation for Chain Fluids: Can Lattice Compete with Continuum?
Ronald White , Jane Lipson

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Friday, March 19, 2010
11:39AM - 11:51AM

Z18.00003: Efficient calculation of electrostatic interactions within dynamic dielectric environments
Kipton Barros , Erik Luijten

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Friday, March 19, 2010
11:51AM - 12:03PM

Z18.00004: Theory of spinodal decomposition assisted polymer crystallization in a binary polyolefin mixture
Mithun Mitra , Murugappan Muthukumar

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Friday, March 19, 2010
12:03PM - 12:15PM

Z18.00005: Field theoretic simulations in the Gibbs ensemble
Robert Riggleman , Glenn Fredrickson

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Friday, March 19, 2010
12:15PM - 12:27PM

Z18.00006: Highly constrained polymer dynamics with an enhanced bond-fluctuation model
Frank Bentrem , Colin McFaul

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Friday, March 19, 2010
12:27PM - 12:39PM

Z18.00007: Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Polymer Surfaces
Thomas Clancy , Sarah Frankland

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Friday, March 19, 2010
12:39PM - 12:51PM

Z18.00008: HOOMD-blue, general-purpose many-body dynamics on the GPU
Joshua Anderson , Aaron Keys , Carolyn Phillips , Trung Dac Nguyen , Sharon Glotzer

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Friday, March 19, 2010
12:51PM - 1:03PM

Z18.00009: Quantifying and Minimizing Lattice Anisotropy
Qiang Wang

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Friday, March 19, 2010
1:03PM - 1:15PM

Z18.00010: Quantitative test of polymer field theories by fast lattice Monte Carlo simulations
Xinghua Zhang , Pengfei Zhang , Baohui Li , Qiang Wang

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Friday, March 19, 2010
1:15PM - 1:27PM

Z18.00011: Cracks in Ductile Polymers Using Cohesive Zone Modeling
Derek Reding

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Friday, March 19, 2010
1:27PM - 1:39PM

Z18.00012: What exactly is measured by passive microbead rheology?
Jay Schieber , Ekaterina Pilyugina

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Friday, March 19, 2010
1:39PM - 1:51PM

Z18.00013: Measuring colloid interactions and dynamics with digital holographic microscopy and multi-particle scattering theory
Jerome Fung , David Kaz , Ryan McGorty , Guangnan Meng , K. Eric Martin , Vinothan N. Manoharan

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Friday, March 19, 2010
1:51PM - 2:03PM

Z18.00014: Probing the Physics of Organic-Organic Heterojunctions using Laterally defined Organic Field Effect Diodes
Bal Mukund Dhar , Geetha Kini , Nina Markovic , Howard Katz

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Friday, March 19, 2010
2:03PM - 2:15PM

Z18.00015: Positron Annihilation Spectroscopy as a Novel Interfacial Probe for Thin Polymeric Films and Nano-Composites
Somia Awad , Hongmin Chen , Grace Maina , L. James Lee , Xiaohong Gu , Y.C. Jean

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