Thin Films of Soft Matter
Invited Lecturers
- Hsueh-Chia Chang (University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA)
- 6 lectures on: Falling-film waves: spatiotemporal dynamics beyond linear Orr-Sommerfeld theories.
- Jens Eggers (University of Bristol, Bristol, Great Britain)
- 6 lectures on: Hydrodynamic singularities, similarity solutions, drop break-up, stability of singularities, nanojets.
- Serafim Kalliadasis (Imperial College London, London, Great Britain)
- 6 lectures on: Thin films over topography, integral-boundary-layer approximations for thin film flows with Marangoni effects, thin films in the presence of chemical reactions, dynamics of three-dimensional waves in thin films.
- David Quere' (Lab. Phys. de la Matiere Cond, Paris Cedex 05, France)
- Ralf Seemann (Max Planck Inst. f. , Goettingen, Germany)
- Uwe Thiele (Loughborough University, Loughborough, Great Britain)
- 6 lectures on: Dewetting on homogeneous and chemically heterogeneous/patterned substrates, sliding drops on inclined heated and non-heated plates, transverse instabilities of sliding liquid ridges and fronts, rivulet instabilities of a thin film flow over a localized heater, chemically driven running drops, dewetting in two-layer systems.