Session TH-I

Water: Global Considerations
Chairs: Vladimir Voeikov and Meir Lahav

14:00

G. Pollack/
T. Lowell

Welcome

14:15

Martin Chaplin,
London So. Bank University

How is water structured?

14:50

Emilio Del Giudice
INFN, Milano

QED coherence in liquid water and the dynamics of the organization of water in living matter

15:25

Jacob Klein
Oxford /Weizmann Institute

Confined water: from liquid to solid and back again

16:00

REFRESHMENTS

16:30

Shigeru Deguchi
JAMSTEC

Muddy waters clear up in the deep sub-surface

17:05

Gilbert Ling
Damadian Found.

History of the Theories of Water's Role in Life

18:00

Reception

(hearty hors d'oeuvres and beverages served)

TH-II

Water: Interfacial Structures
Chairs: Michael Mross and Kim Collins

19:30

Ron Shen
UC-Berkeley

Improved understanding of water interfacial structures from phase-sensitive surface vibrational spectroscopy

20:05

Larry Romsted
Rutgers University

Ion-specific hydration effects on micellar morphologies

Session F-I

Short-range Interactions: water in confined spaces
Chairs: Marian Sedlak and Jack Tuszynski

09:00

Wm Ducker
Univ. of Melbourne

Interfacial nanofluids

09:35

Takehiko Tsukahara
Univ of Tokyo

Molecular dynamics study of liquids confined in extended-nano spaces on a chip by NMR spectroscopy

10:10

Wonho Jhe
Seoul Nat'l Univ

AFM study of water on the nanoscale: the water wire

10:45

REFRESHMENTS

11:15

Elisa Riedo
Georgia Tech

Nonlinear viscosity of nano-confined water

11:50

Xiaoyang Zhu
Univ of Minnesota

Viscosity of interfacial water

12:25

Lunch TOGETHER

Session F-II

Long-range and Subtle Interactions - 1
Chairs: Igor Vodyanoy and Gilbert Ling

14:00

Eugene Khijniak
ITEB, Puschino

Self-structurization processes in superficial layers of water using infrared thermography

14:35

Meir Lahav
Weizmann Institute

Ice nucleation induced by long chain alcohols and by local electric fields on surfaces

15:10

Gerald Pollack
Univ of Washington

Water structuring at interfaces may be more extensive than generally thought

15:45

REFRESHMENTS

16:15

Vince Craig
Austral. Nat'l Univ

Specific ion effects in aqueous solutions: bubble coalescence

16:50

Valentin Lobyshev
Moscow State Univ.

Electrochemically activated water

17:25

Rustum Roy
Penn State Univ.

Materials science approach to the structure of liquid water and some extraordinary interactions with EM radiation and charged particles in metallic sols.

DINNER (on your own)

19:30-
21:30

POSTER SESSION

Beverages and Wine Served

Session Sat-I

Long-range and Subtle Interactions - 2
Chairs: David Anick and Martin Chaplin

09:00

Tanya Raschke
Stanford

Solvation of simple solutes in water: structural details of the hydrophobic interaction

09:35

Regine von Klitzing
TU Berlin

Charges at the air-water interface

10:10

Yingxi
Elaine Zhu
Univ
Notre Dame

Frustrated water at a hydrophobic interface

10:45

REFRESHMENTS

11:15

Suzi Jarvis
University College Dublin

Interactions at the membrane-fluid Interface

11:50

Norio Ise
Kyoto Univ

When, why, and how does like like like?

12:25

Lunch together

13:30

Free Time until 16:00

Session Sat-II

Biology of Water - 1
Chairs: Emilio Del Giudice and Nigel Dyer

16:00

Gary Bryant
Royal Melbourne Inst. Tech.

Dehydration damage in biological membranes: mechanisms, structure and kinetics

16:35

Elmar Fuchs, Graz Technology Univ.

The Floating Water Bridge

17:10

Gary Fullerton
U. Texas Health Ctr. at San Antonio

Molecular identity of cellular water compartments

17:45

Ben-Zion Ginzburg
Hebrew University

Is very slow diffusional water movement specific to Haloarcula marismortui?

19:00

Dinner and Entertainment