Meeting Schedule
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18
8 am – 8:25 am Continental breakfast
8:25 am – 8:30 am Opening remarks
8:30 am – 10:00 am Session 1a – RARE EVENTS
Session chair: William Miller
Speakers:
Thomas Miller, “Path-integral methods for chemical reaction dynamics.”
Christoph Dellago, “Making holes in water: cavitation under tension.”
Pieter Rein ten Wolde, “Fundamental limits to cellular sensing.”
10:00 am - 10:15 am Coffee Break
10:15 am – 11:15 am Session 1b – RARE EVENTS
Session chair: Daan Frenkel
Speakers:
Eric Vanden-Eijnden, “Reactive events, transition pathways, and tail statistics in the nonequilibrium setting”
Gavin Crooks, “Optimal thermodynamic control; from Riemannian geometry to path sampling and fluctuation theorems”
11:15 am – 11:30 am Coffee Break
11:30 am – 12:30 pm Session 2 - GLASSES
Session chair: Bruce Berne
Speakers:
Thomas Speck, “Role of structure in dynamical arrest: Insights from trajectory sampling.”
Juan P. Garrahan, “What we know about glasses”.
Session chair: Paul Madden
Speakers:
Benjamin Rotenberg, “Charge fluctuations in nanoscale capacitors.”
David Limmer, “Fluctuations and statistics of complex systems”
Xueyu Song, “A molecular Debye-Huckel approach to solvation and solvation dynamics in ionic fluids.”
3:00 pm – 3:15 pm Coffee break
3:15 pm – 4:15 pm Session 3b – SELF ASSEMBLY
Session chair: Hans Andersen
Speakers:
Peter Bolhuis, “The self-assembly routes of (poly)peptide fibrils”
Tuomas Knowles, “Growth of protein filaments”
4:20 pm – 5:20 pm Session 4 – SELF ASSEMBLY
Session chair: Michael Klein
Speakers:
Lutz Maibaum, “Spatial Organization of Cell Membranes”
Steve Whitelam, “A common physical framework describes the self-assembly of a diverse collection of building blocks”
5:25 pm – 6:25 pm Session 5 – SAMPLING NON-EQUILIBRIUM AND BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
Session chair: Shekhar Garde
Speakers:
Aaron Dinner, “Anomalous dynamics in intracellular transport”.
Michael Hagan, “The secret life of active spheres”
7:00 pm Reception and dinner at Catalyst Restaurant
Master of Ceremonies: Phillip Geissler
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19
9:00 am – 10:30 am Session 6 – WATER INTERFACES
Session chair: John Weeks
Speakers:
David Huang, “Surface effects in nanofluidic energy conversion.”
Amish Patel, “Characterizing biomolecular hydration and interactions”
Adam Willard, “Characterizing the structure of the intrinsic water interface”
10:30 am – 10:45 am Coffee break
10:45 am – 12:15 am Session 7a – DRUG BINDING AND PROTEIN-LIGAND INTERACTIONS
Session chair: Michele Parinello
Speakers:
Patrick Varilly, “TBA ”
Albert Pan, “Drug binding and subtype selectivity in G-protein-coupled receptors.”
Iris Antes, “Multiscale modeling of protein-ligand interactions.”
12:15 am – 1:15 pm Session 7b – COMPLEX BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
Session chair: Adam Willard
Speakers:
Sean Sun, “The role of water in cell dynamics”
Arup Chakraborty, “Analogies between HIV evolution, linguistics, and neural networks”
1:15 pm Closing remarks