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6th International Meeting on Electrowetting


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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
11:30 - 1:00 pm Lunch - CNSI Lobby
1:00 - 1:15 pm Opening Remarks
1:15 - 2:00 pm Jason Heikenfeld (Univ. of Cincinnati, Department of Electrical Engineering)
"Electrowetting optics at University of Cincinnati"
2:00 - 2:30 pm Ali Nadim (Keck Graduate Institute)
"Simulation of Electrowetting Actuation of Sessile Drops"
2:30 - 3:00 pmRomaric Massard (Liquavista)
"Optimizing the Dielectric Performance of Electrowetting Displays"
3:00 - 3:30 pm Coffee Break & Open Discussion
3:30 - 4:15 pm Stein Kuiper (Philips Research)
"Fluids for Electrowetting"
4:15 - 4:45 pm Tom Krupenkin (Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, Department of Mechanical Engineering)
"Tunable Liquid Micromirror Based on Self-Assembly of Janus 'Particles'
4:45 - 5:15 pm Mathieu Maillard (Varioptic)
"Advanced Electrowetting for New Developments on Liquid Lens."
6:00 - 9:00 pm Buffet Dinner & Poster Session

Thursday, August 21st, 2008
8:00 - 8:45 am Breakfast and Registration
8:45 - 9:30 am Aaron Wheeler (Univ. of Toronto, Department of Chemistry)
"Digital Microfluidics: Fabrication and Applications"
9:30 - 10:00 am Athanasios Papathanasiou (National Technical Univ. of Athens, School of Chemical Engineering)
"Realistic Computations in Electrowetting: Interfacial Instabilities and Simulation Beyond the Saturation"
10:00 - 10:30 am Richard Fair (Duke University, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering)
"Applications for Picoliter Electrowetting Chips"
10:30 - 11:00 amCoffee Break & Open Discussion
11:00 - 11:45 amYves Fouillet (CEA Leti)
"Bio-Protocol Integration in Digital Microfluidic Chips"
11:45 - 12:30 pmMichael Pollack (Advanced Liquid Logic)
"Lab-on-a-chip Platform Based on Digital Microfluidics"
12:30 - 1:30 pm Lunch- CNSI Lobby
1:30 - 2:00 pmThomas Jones (Univ. Rochester, >Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering)
"Variable Frequency Electromechanics of Liquids"
2:00 - 2:45 pm Kwan Hyoung Kang (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering)
"Hydrodynamic Flows in AC Electrowetting"
2:45 - 3:15 pm Kamran Mohseni (Univ. of Colorado, Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences)
"Digitized Heat Transfer using EWOD"
3:15 - 3:45 pm Coffee Break
3:45 - 4:15 pm Shaun Berry (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
"Electrowetting Actuation for Microfluidic Devices"
4:15 - 5:00 pm Benjamin Shapiro (Univ. Maryland, Department of Aerospace Engineering)
"Electrowetting Dynamics: Modeling and Control"
5:00 - 5:30 pm Glen McHale (Nottingham Trent Univ., School of Science and Technology)
"Resonant Oscillations of Liquid Marbles"
6:30 - 8:30 pm Conference Dinner (Outdoors)

Friday, August 22nd, 2008
8:00 - 8:30 am Breakfast and Registration
8:30 - 9:15 am C.J. Kim (UCLA, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering)
Title TBA
9:15 - 9:45 am Sung Kwon Cho (Univ. of Pittsburgh, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science)
"Manipulation of Objects Using EWOD-Actuated Oscillating Bubbles"
9:45 - 10:15 am Best-Posters: Brief Presentations
10:15 - 10:30 am Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00 am Fabian Klingbeil (Univ of Erlangen-Nuremberg)
"A Phase-Field Model for Electrowetting"
11:00 - 11:45 am Frieder Mugele (Univ. Twente, Physics of Complex Fluids)
"Electrowetting of Complex Fluids and Complex Surfaces"
11:45 - 12:00 pm Closing Remarks
12:00 - 2:00 pm Lunch CNSI Lobby