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Joint ICTP-FANAS Conference on Trends in Nanotribology | (smr 2259)
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  • Monday, 12 September 2011
    • 08:30 - 09:00 Registration
      • 08:30 Registration 30'
    • 09:00 - 09:20 Opening Ceremony
      • 09:00 Opening Ceremony 20'
    • 09:20 - 10:00 Exploring the atomic underpinnings of macroscopic friction
      • 09:20 Exploring the atomic underpinnings of macroscopic friction 40'
        Speaker: Mark Robbins (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA)
        Material: slides
    • 10:00 - 10:20 Quantum friction and graphene
      • 10:00 Quantum friction and graphene 20'
        Speaker: Alexander I. Volokitin (Samara State Technical University, Russian Federation)
        Material: slides
    • 10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Break
      • 10:20 Coffee Break 30'
    • 10:50 - 11:30 Lubrication flows of jammed materials
      • 10:50 Lubrication flows of jammed materials 40'
        Speaker: Lyderic Bocquet (Universite Claude Bernard, Villeurbanne, France)
    • 11:30 - 11:50 Atomic scale energy dissipation mechanisms in NC-AFM
      • 11:30 Atomic scale energy dissipation mechanisms in NC-AFM 20'
        Speaker: Filippo Federici Canova (Dept. of Physics, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere)
        Material: slides
    • 11:50 - 12:30 Tribology of PEEK-based composites
      • 11:50 Tribology of PEEK-based composites 40'
        Speaker: Alois K. Schlarb (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 14:40 Dynamical behaviour of small organic molecules on metallic and graphitic substrates
      • 14:00 Dynamical behaviour of small organic molecules on metallic and graphitic substrates 40'
        Speaker: William Allison (Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK)
        Material: slides
    • 14:40 - 15:00 Influence of in-plane and out-of-plane ultrasonic oscillations on sliding friction
      • 14:40 Influence of in-plane and out-of-plane ultrasonic oscillations on sliding friction 20'
        Speaker: Elena Teidelt (TU Berlin, Germany)
        Material: slides
    • 15:00 - 15:20 Contact lubrication in human articular joints: the role of glycoproteins
      • 15:00 Contact lubrication in human articular joints: the role of glycoproteins 20'
        Speaker: Bruno Zappone (CNR, Universita' della Calabria, Rende, Italy)
        Material: slides
    • 15:20 - 15:40 Regelation and surface premelting of ice
      • 15:20 Regelation and surface premelting of ice 20'
        Speaker: Nino Samadashvili (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
        Material: slides
    • 15:40 - 16:00 Sliding over a phase transition
      • 15:40 Sliding over a phase transition 20'
        Speaker: Andrea Benassi (CNR-IENI, Milano, Italy)
        Material: slides
    • 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
      • 16:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 16:50 - 18:50 FANAS Scientific Committee Meeting
      • 16:50 FANAS Scientific Committee Meeting 2h0'
    • 19:00 - 21:00 Conference Buffet Dinner at Leonardo Building Cafeteria
      • 19:00 Conference Buffet Dinner at Leonardo Building Cafeteria 2h0'
  • Tuesday, 13 September 2011
    • 09:00 - 09:40 Fundamental aspects of friction and lubrication: a molecular level approach
      • 09:00 Fundamental aspects of friction and lubrication: a molecular level approach 40'
        Speaker: Miquel Salmeron (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
        Material: slides
    • 09:40 - 10:20 Generalised Langevin Equation for open classical and quantum systems
      • 09:40 Generalised Langevin Equation for open classical and quantum systems 40'
        Speaker: Lev Kantorovich (Kings College London, UK)
    • 10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Break
      • 10:20 Coffee Break 30'
    • 10:50 - 11:30 Nano- and meso-scale energy dissipation in contacts
      • 10:50 Nano- and meso-scale energy dissipation in contacts 40'
        Speaker: John Pethica (University of Oxford, UK)
    • 11:30 - 11:50 Effect of relative humidity when manipulating gold nanoparticles on flat substrates using dynamic atomic force microscopy
      • 11:30 Effect of relative humidity when manipulating gold nanoparticles on flat substrates using dynamic atomic force microscopy 20'
        Speaker: Karine Mougin (Institut fuer Mikrostrukturtechnik, Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH), Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany)
        Material: slides
    • 11:50 - 12:30 Interactions of contacting interfaces with atomic-scale roughness
      • 11:50 Interactions of contacting interfaces with atomic-scale roughness 40'
        Speaker: Bernd Gotsmann (IBM Research GmbH, Zurich, Switzerland)
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 14:40 Cell adhesion and proliferation on nano-engineered substrates
      • 14:00 Cell adhesion and proliferation on nano-engineered substrates 40'
        Speaker: Paolo Decuzzi (The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, USA)
    • 14:40 - 15:00 Studies on micro and nanotribological behaviour of Ti alloys and the polymer (UHMWPE)
      • 14:40 Studies on micro and nanotribological behaviour of Ti alloys and the polymer (UHMWPE) 20'
        Speaker: Geetha Manivasagam (Center for Nanocomposites and Center for Biomedical Implants, School of Mechanical and Building Scie)
        Material: slides
    • 15:00 - 15:20 Friction of Xenon monolayers on Copper
      • 15:00 Friction of Xenon monolayers on Copper 20'
        Speaker: Giampaolo Mistura (Dipartimento di Fisica G. Galilei, Universita di Padova, Italy)
        Material: slides
    • 15:20 - 15:40 Coarsening of Pb islands and dynamics of Pb wetting layer on Si(111)
      • 15:20 Coarsening of Pb islands and dynamics of Pb wetting layer on Si(111) 20'
        Speaker: Cai-Zhuang Wang (Ames Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Ames, Iowa, USA)
        Material: slides
    • 15:40 - 16:20 Molecular friction dissipation and mode coupling in organic monolayers and polymer films
      • 15:40 Molecular friction dissipation and mode coupling in organic monolayers and polymer films 40'
        Speaker: Rene Overney (University of Washington, Seattle, USA)
        Material: slides
    • 16:20 - 18:20 Poster Session 
      During the poster session, wine and refreshments will be served
      • 16:20 Poster Session 2h0'
  • Wednesday, 14 September 2011
    • 09:00 - 09:40 Transient and steady-state features of anisotropic (off-axis) friction forces
      • 09:00 Transient and steady-state features of anisotropic (off-axis) friction forces 40'
        Speaker: Jacob Israelachvili (Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
        Material: slides
    • 09:40 - 10:20 Scaling laws of structural lubricity
      • 09:40 Scaling laws of structural lubricity 40'
        Speaker: Andre Schirmeisen (University of Giessen, Germany)
    • 10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Break
      • 10:20 Coffee Break 30'
    • 10:50 - 11:10 Stabilizing stick-flip friction
      • 10:50 Stabilizing stick-flip friction 20'
        Speaker: Rosario Capozza (School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, Israel)
        Material: slides
    • 11:10 - 11:30 Diamonds are not forever: An atomistic view on wear of diamond
      • 11:10 Diamonds are not forever: An atomistic view on wear of diamond 20'
        Speaker: Lars Pastewka (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA)
    • 11:30 - 11:50 Relation between the adhesion and elastic forces for fractal contact surfaces with different Hurst exponent
      • 11:30 Relation between the adhesion and elastic forces for fractal contact surfaces with different Hurst exponent 20'
        Speaker: Alexander Filippov (Donetsk Institute for Physics and Engineering, Donetsk, Ukraine)
        Material: slides
    • 11:50 - 12:30 Atomic friction experiments on molecularly thin films
      • 11:50 Atomic friction experiments on molecularly thin films 40'
        Speaker: Roland Bennewitz (INM – Leibniz Institut fuer Neue Materialien, Saarbruecken, Germany)
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 14:40 Lubricated sliding dynamics: flow factors and Stribeck curve
      • 14:00 Lubricated sliding dynamics: flow factors and Stribeck curve 40'
        Speaker: Bo Persson (IFF, FZ Juelich, Juelich, Germany)
    • 14:40 - 15:00 Low friction and rotational dynamics of crystalline flakes in solid lubrication
      • 14:40 Low friction and rotational dynamics of crystalline flakes in solid lubrication 20'
        Speaker: Annalisa Fasolino (Radboud University Nijmegen, Institute for Molecules and Materials, Nijmegen, the Netherlands)
        Material: slides
    • 15:00 - 15:20 Dynamical imaging of nanotribology using a triboprobe inside a transmission electron microscope
      • 15:00 Dynamical imaging of nanotribology using a triboprobe inside a transmission electron microscope 20'
        Speaker: Beverley Inkson (The University of Sheffield, UK)
    • 15:20 - 15:40 Unjamming dynamics of a granular seismic model
      • 15:20 Unjamming dynamics of a granular seismic model 20'
        Speaker: Massimo Pica Ciamarra (Universita' di Napoli Federico II, Italy)
        Material: slides
    • 15:40 - 16:20 Viscous dissipation in confined liquid films
      • 15:40 Viscous dissipation in confined liquid films 40'
        Speaker: Frieder Mugele (University of Twente, the Netherlands)
        Material: slides
    • 16:20 - 16:50 Coffee Break
      • 16:20 Coffee Break 30'
    • 16:50 - 17:30 Tribological properties of nanocrystalline metallic contacts
      • 16:50 Tribological properties of nanocrystalline metallic contacts 40'
        Speaker: Michael Chandross (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, USA)
    • 17:30 - 17:50 The effective viscosity of confined hydrocarbons determined by Molecular Dynamics
      • 17:30 The effective viscosity of confined hydrocarbons determined by Molecular Dynamics 20'
        Speaker: Ion M. Sivebaek (IFF, FZ-Juelich, Germany)
    • 17:50 - 18:30 Dissipation from contact to non-contact
      • 17:50 Dissipation from contact to non-contact 40'
        Speaker: Ernst Meyer (University of Basel, Switzerland)
        Material: slides
    • 19:00 - 21:00 Conference Dinner
      • 19:00 Conference Dinner 2h0'
  • Thursday, 15 September 2011
    • 09:00 - 09:40 Atomic-­scale friction and wear of single asperities
      • 09:00 Atomic-­scale friction and wear of single asperities 40'
        Speaker: Robert Carpick (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
    • 09:40 - 10:20 Tribological applications of cold trapped ions
      • 09:40 Tribological applications of cold trapped ions 40'
        Speaker: Hartmut Haeffner (Department of Physics, UC Berkeley, USA)
        Material: slides
    • 10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Break
      • 10:20 Coffee Break 30'
    • 10:50 - 11:30 Sliding on a nanotube: interplay of friction, deformations and defects
      • 10:50 Sliding on a nanotube: interplay of friction, deformations and defects 40'
        Speaker: Elisa Riedo (Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA)
    • 11:30 - 11:50 Bridging atomistic and continuum scales with a view to solving tribological problems
      • 11:30 Bridging atomistic and continuum scales with a view to solving tribological problems 20'
        Speaker: Antonio DiCarlo (LaMS, Universita Roma Tre, Italy)
        Material: slides
    • 11:50 - 12:30 Physisorbed molecules: How their friction and spreading properties impact lubricity
      • 11:50 Physisorbed molecules: How their friction and spreading properties impact lubricity 40'
        Speaker: Jacqueline Krim (Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, USA)
        Material: slides
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 14:40 A multiscale approach for frictional contact
      • 14:00 A multiscale approach for frictional contact 40'
        Speaker: Jean-Francois Molinari (Ecole Polytechnique Federale of Lausanne, Switzerland)
        Material: slides
    • 14:40 - 15:00 Microtribology of ultra-thin film systems
      • 14:40 Microtribology of ultra-thin film systems 20'
        Speaker: Martin Dienwiebel (Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials, Freiburg, Germany)
    • 15:00 - 15:20 Rubber friction: Experimental investigations and comparison to theory
      • 15:00 Rubber friction: Experimental investigations and comparison to theory 20'
        Speaker: Boris Lorenz (Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany)
        Material: slides
    • 15:20 - 15:40 Fast movements of kicked nanoclusters
      • 15:20 Fast movements of kicked nanoclusters 20'
        Speaker: Guido Paolicelli (Istituto Nanoscienze-CNR, Modena, Italy)
    • 15:40 - 16:20 Transport of biopolymers through nanopores and nanochannels
      • 15:40 Transport of biopolymers through nanopores and nanochannels 40'
        Speaker: S.C. Ying (Brown University, USA)
        Material: slides
    • 16:20 - 16:50 Coffee Break
      • 16:20 Coffee Break 30'
    • 16:50 - 18:50 FANAS Review Panel Meeting
      • 16:50 FANAS Review Panel Meeting 2h0'
  • Friday, 16 September 2011
    • 09:00 - 09:40 Exploring tribological phenomena with surface gradients
      • 09:00 Exploring tribological phenomena with surface gradients 40'
        Speaker: Nicholas E. Spencer (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
        Material: slides
    • 09:40 - 10:00 Anisotropy effects in atomic-scale friction
      • 09:40 Anisotropy effects in atomic-scale friction 20'
        Speaker: Enrico Gnecco (IMDEA Nanociencia, Madrid, Spain)
        Material: slides
    • 10:00 - 10:20 Slow cracklike dynamics at the onset of frictional sliding
      • 10:00 Slow cracklike dynamics at the onset of frictional sliding 20'
        Speaker: Efim Brener (Institut fur Festkorperforschung, Juelich, Germany)
    • 10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Break
      • 10:20 Coffee Break 30'
    • 10:50 - 11:30 Shake, rattle and slip: thermal excitations in atomic-scale friction
      • 10:50 Shake, rattle and slip: thermal excitations in atomic-scale friction 40'
        Speaker: Joost Frenken (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
        Material: slides
    • 11:30 - 11:50 Tuning the superhydrorepellence of fractal surfaces
      • 11:30 Tuning the superhydrorepellence of fractal surfaces 20'
        Speaker: Giuseppe Carbone (TriboLAB, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Gestionale, Politecnico di Bari, Italy)
        Material: slides
    • 11:50 - 12:10 Friction at the nanoscale on clean and hydrogen passivated surfaces of single crystal germanium
      • 11:50 Friction at the nanoscale on clean and hydrogen passivated surfaces of single crystal germanium 20'
        Speaker: Marek Szymonski (Astronomy and Applied Computer Science, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland)
    • 12:10 - 12:30 Prize Ceremony
      • 12:10 Prize Ceremony 20'
    • 12:30 - 13:45 Lunch Break
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h15'
    • 13:45 - 14:00 Group Photograph (The photo will be taken outdoors on the staircase of the terrace near the cafeteria exit)
      • 13:45 Group Photograph (The photo will be taken outdoors on the staircase of the terrace near the cafeteria exit) 15'
    • 14:00 - 14:40 Adhesion hysteresis in molecular systems
      • 14:00 Adhesion hysteresis in molecular systems 40'
        Speaker: Ruben Perez (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)
    • 14:40 - 15:00 Dynamics of friction for confined nonwetting polymer droplets
      • 14:40 Dynamics of friction for confined nonwetting polymer droplets 20'
        Speaker: Vladimir N. Samoylov (IFF, FZ-Juelich, Juelich, Germany)
    • 15:00 - 15:20 Sliding velocity dependence of adhesion in a nanometer-sized contact
      • 15:00 Sliding velocity dependence of adhesion in a nanometer-sized contact 20'
        Speaker: Olivier Noel (Université du Maine, Le Mans, Franc)
        Material: slides
    • 15:20 - 15:40 Sliding prevention in super-strong self-collapsed nanotube cables
      • 15:20 Sliding prevention in super-strong self-collapsed nanotube cables 20'
        Speaker: Nicola Pugno (Laboratory of Bio-inspired Nanomechanics, Torino, Italy)
        Material: slides
    • 15:40 - 16:20 Collective effects in the frictional interface
      • 15:40 Collective effects in the frictional interface 40'
        Speaker: Oleg Braun (Institute of Physics NASU, Kiev, Ukraine)
        Material: slides
    • 16:20 - 16:50 Coffee Break
      • 16:20 Coffee Break 30'
    • 16:50 - 17:30 Multicontact dynamics of friction
      • 16:50 Multicontact dynamics of friction 40'
        Speaker: Michael Urbakh (School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, Israel)
    • 17:30 - 17:50 Closing
      • 17:30 Closing 20'