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First International Conference on
Self-Organization in desiccated drops of multi-component fluids: experiments, theories, applications
(DROPS2010)
May 3–6, 2010, Astrakhan, Russia
Aim and scope
The evaporation and desiccation of liquid droplets placed on a solid substrate is of fundamental importance in a huge variety of practical situations ranging from technological applications to a variety of biological and geophysical contexts. The problem is very important in various industrial applications, such as manufacturing polymer films, high-throughput drug screening, biopreservation, inkjet printing, and other printing and coating technologies, DNA and protein microarray technologies, spray cooling, medical tests, etc.
Dynamics of the processes in the drops is rather complex and involves many challenging problems in soft matter physics, such as the coffee stain problems, motion and pinning of contact lines, pattern formation of deposits, effects of inhomogeneous surface tension (Marangoni effect), and buckling instabilities.
As a result, droplet evaporation and desiccation has been the subject of considerable theoretical and experimental research in recent years. Both experimental and numerical studies have been performed to elucidate different processes in the desiccated drops. Nevertheless, there is a wide range of still unsolved problems.
The First International Conference on Self-Organization in desiccated drops of multi-component fluids: experiments, theories, applications is organized to provide an interface for researchers from diverse scientific disciplines but with common interests in nonlinear dynamics and complex systems. This meeting will draw together researchers to share their most recent results in understanding, modeling, and controlling nonlinear dynamical systems. The meeting is addressed to Mathematicians and Physicists, Engineers and medical people.
The purpose of the DROPS 2010 is bringing together the interdisciplinary groups of scientists and experts describing complex systems, with methodologies originating in diverse sciences.
A key goal of DROPS 2010 is to promote the participation and cross-discipline interaction of young scientists together with more established experts from a wide variety of fields. The meeting is deliberately structured to encourage active participation from young scientists through both invited and contributed oral presentations and poster sessions.
Interdisciplinary researches have large potential in understanding of structure and dynamics of complex systems.
Topics
- Experimental methods
- Modeling and Simulations
- Application to nanotechnologies
- Medical applications
Section proposals are open till December 31, 2009.
Organizers
Registration
On-line preregistration form should be filled in till January 1, 2010 at http://mathmod.aspu.ru/drops2010_eng.
Abstracts and Proceedings
Abstracts and full length papers should be submitted electronically till March 1, 2010. Template and submission form will be placed soon at http://www.mathmod.aspu.ru.
To the begin of the Conference
Enlarged program with abstracts;
CD with Proceedings
will be published
All accepted papers will be including in Proceedings.
Selected works are expected to be published in the special issue of Applied Nonlinear Dynamics (terms and conditions have to be specify)
Please forward this letter to your colleagues!
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