| Thursday October 16 |
Session TH-I
Water: Global Considerations
Chairs: Friedemann Freund, Julie McGeoch
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| 14:00 |
Vladimir Voeikov/
Thomas Lowell |
Welcome |
| 14:15 |
Gerald Pollack
Univ. of Washington |
Long-range water structuring at hydrophilic interfaces |
15:25
|
Emilio DelGiudice
INFN, Milan
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Quantum ElectroDynamical (QED) Coherence and interfacial water |
16:00
|
REFRESHMENTS |
16:30
|
Sergey Pershin
Prokhorov Inst. of
General Physics
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Four-photon laser spectroscopy of rotational lines in water: observation of protein/DNA selective interaction with H2O para-isomer in aqueous solutions |
17:05
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Miklos S.Z. Kellermayer Jr.
University of Pecs
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Nanomechanics of exclusion-zone water |
18:00
|
Reception
(hearty hors d'oeuvres and beverages served) |
TH-II
Water: Interfacial Structures
Chairs: David Anick, Ivan Cameron
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19:30
|
Grigory Andrievsky
Natl. Academy of
Sciences, Ukraine
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Water Specifically Structured with Hydrated Pristine Fullerenes as a Universal Regulator of Biological Processes |
20:05
|
Eugene Khijniak
ITEM, Puschino
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Unusual diffusion processes associated with interfacial layers of water
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Friday October 17
|
Session F-I
Short-range Interactions: water in confined spaces-1
Chairs: Chaim Frenkel, Glenn Edwards |
09:00
|
Joel Friedman
Albert Einstein
Coll. of Medicine |
The Mechanisms of Hydration-Dependent Modulation of Protein Reactivity through Confinement and Addition of Osmolytes |
09:35
|
Gerhard M. Artmann
Univ. of Applied Sciences Aachen
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The Crucial Role of Water in a Phase Transition of Hemoglobin at Body Temperature
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10:10
|
Elisa Riedo
Georgia Tech.
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Strain-dependent relaxation time in confined wetting liquids |
10:45
|
REFRESHMENTS |
11:15
|
Jose Teixeira
CEA/CNRS
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Hydrogen bonds as a possible explanation of the unusual behavior of water and aqueous solutions |
11:50
|
Andrei Tokmakoff
MIT
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The dynamics of aqueous hydroxide ion transport from 2D IR spectroscopy |
12:25
|
Lunch TOGETHER |
Session F-II
Short-range Interactions: water in confined spaces - 2
Chairs: Nadezda Palmina, Giuseppe Vitiello
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14:00
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Alexander Kolesnikov
Oak Ridge Natl Lab
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Structure and Dynamics of Water in Carbon Nanotube Confinement. |
14:35
|
Simone Techert
Max-Planck Inst.
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Structural and Dynamical Behaviour of Water in (and on) Nano-confined Systems |
15:10
|
Paul Cremer
Texas A&M
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Investigating the Role of Ion Specificity on Water Structure and Hydrophobic Collapse |
15:45
|
REFRESHMENTS |
16:15
|
Ivan Brovchenko
Dortmund Univ.
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Which "anomalies" of aqueous systems cannot be explained by the general laws of the statistical physics of fluids? |
16:50
|
Elmar Fuchs, Wetsus
|
Experiments with the Floating Water Bridge |
17:25
|
Lorenzo Cordone
Univ. of Palermo
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Water mediated HB networks couple the embedded protein with surroundings in trehalose-water but not in sucrose-water matrixes
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| DINNER (on your own) |
19:30-21:30
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POSTER SESSION
Beverages and Wine Served |
| Saturday October 18 |
Session Sat-I
Long-range and Subtle Interactions
Chairs: Konstantin Korotkov, Yolene Thomas |
09:00
|
Giuseppe Vitiello
Univ. of Salerno
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Quantum fluctuations, gauge freedom and mesoscopic/macroscopic stability
|
09:35
|
Louis Rey
Conseiller Scientifique
|
Thermoluminescence as an experimental tool to investigate the ' structure ' of high dilutions |
10:10
|
Vittorio Elia
Univ. of Naples
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Dissipative structures in extremely diluted aqueous solutions of homeopathic medicine
|
10:45
|
REFRESHMENTS |
11:15
|
Nadezhda Palmina
Inst. of Biochemical Physics, RAS
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Water and effect of chemical agents in ultra low concentrations |
11:50
|
Eshel Ben-Jacob
Tel Aviv Univ.
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Induced long range order in water - A myth or
over- looked reality? |
12:25
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Lunch together |
13:30
|
Free Time until 16:00 |
Session Sat-II
Water and Energy
Chair: John Swain
|
16:00
|
Akihiko Kudo
Tokyo U. of Science
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Photocatalytic water splitting to generate clean and recyclable hydrogen |
16:35
|
Friedemann Freund
NASA Ames Research Center, SETI Inst.
|
How Water Helped Oxidize the Earth - the Peroxy Way |
17:10
|
Konstantin Korotkov
ITMO, St. Petersburg
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Dynamic Electrophotonic Analysis of Water and Liquids |
17:45
|
Vladimir Voeikov
Lomonosov Moscow State Univ.
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Water -- the Base of the Living State and Vital Functions |
19:00
|
Dinner and Entertainment |
Sunday October 19 |
Session Sun-I
Biology of Water
Chairs: Eshel Ben-Jacob, Gerald Pollack |
09:00
|
Roumiana Tsenkova
Kobe University
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Aquaphotomics: VIS-Near Infrared Spectrum of Water as Biological Marker |
09:35
|
Galina Zubareva
Tver Medical Acad.
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IR spectrometry of water base of biologically active solution |
10:10
|
Ivan Cameron
U. of Texas Health Ctr. at San Antonio
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Solute exclusion from cells, gels and proteins: relevance to drug delivery |
10:45
|
REFRESHMENTS |
11:15
|
Ryszard Grygorczyk
Univ. of Montreal
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The cytoplasm's gel-like behavior contributes to human cell osmosensitivity |
11:50
|
Alex Kaivarainen,
H-Systems
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Hierarchic theory of liquids and solids and its application to biosystems
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