APS March Meeting 2012 
Volume 57, Number 1
Monday–Friday, February 27–March 2 2012;
Boston, Massachusetts
Session Index
Session L49: Focus Session: Fluctuation-Induced Forces in Soft Matter and Polymeric Systems - Charge, Shape and Nucleation
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Sponsoring Units: DPOLY 
Chair: Zvonimir Dogic, Brandeis University 
Room:  162A 
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012 
2:30PM - 3:06PM 
 
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L49.00001: DILLON MEDAL BREAK 
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012 
3:06PM - 3:18PM 
 
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L49.00002: Ion-induced interactions between charged macroions and dielectric inhomogeneities 
Jos Zwanikken, Monica Olvera de la Cruz
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012 
3:18PM - 3:30PM 
 
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L49.00003: Dielectric many-body effects in arrays of charged cylindrical macromolecules 
Daniel W Sinkovits, Kipton Barros, Jure Dobnikar, Matej Kandu\v{c}, Ali Naji, Rudolf Podgornik, Erik Luijten
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012 
3:30PM - 3:42PM 
 
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L49.00004: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN 
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012 
3:42PM - 4:18PM 
 
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L49.00005: Influence of probe shape on polymer configurations and entropic forces 
Invited Speaker: 
Yacov Kantor
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012 
4:18PM - 4:30PM 
 
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L49.00006: Topological obstacles and the forces on them in systems of strongly interacting directed polymers 
David Zeb Rocklin, Paul M. Goldbart, Shina Tan
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012 
4:30PM - 4:42PM 
 
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L49.00007: Critical exponents in the presence of a tip 
Mohammad F. Maghrebi, Yacov Kantor, Mehran Kardar
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012 
4:42PM - 4:54PM 
 
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L49.00008: Trapping fluctuations in confined carbon dioxide near the supercritical ridge 
Manfred Heuberger, Erich Schurtenberger
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012 
4:54PM - 5:06PM 
 
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L49.00009: Homogeneous crystal nucleation from the melts of flexible $n$-alkanes by molecular simulation 
Peng Yi, Gregory C. Rutledge
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012 
5:06PM - 5:18PM 
 
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L49.00010: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN 
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