Brijuni Conference 2014 Program
Monday, August 25, 2014
8.45-9.00 S. D. Bosanac: Introductory remarks
Chairman: Hrvoje Buljan
09:00-09:40 Jean-Marie Lehn: Towards Complex Matter: Chemistry? Chemistry!
09:40-10:00 Discussion
10:00-10:40 Stephen Berry: Bridging the Macro and the Micro
10:40-11:00 Discussion
11:00-11:20 Coffee break
11:20-12:00 Jon Otto Fossum: Self-organization and emergent phenomena in one example soft matter system: Clay
12.00-12.20 Discussion
12:30 LUNCH AND BEACH DISCUSSIONS
Chairman: Hrvoje Fulgosi
17:30-18:10 Peter Walde: The self-organization of amphiphilic molecules into polymolecular aggregates: general concepts and emergent properties
18:10-18:30 Discussion
18:30-18:50 Franjo Sokolić: The Structural Organization of Liquids: Do we understand the Behavior of Water and Aqueous Solutions?
18:50-19:10 Discussion
20:00 DINNER
Chairman: Harry Kroto
21:00 Michael Ramek: Homo Ludens: Learning by Playing
22:00+ Sky gazing through telescope
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Chairman: Jose Luis Ortiz
09:00-09:40 Alexander Vilenkin: Eternal inflation and the beginning of the universe
09:40-10:00 Discussion
10:00-10:40 Vernesa Smolčić: The cosmic evolution of galaxies
10:40-11:00 Discussion
11:00-11:20 Coffee break
11:20-12:00 Joe Silk: From dark matter to black holes
12:00-12:20 Discussion
12:30 LUNCH
Chairman: Martin Quack
14:00-14:40 Hrvoje Buljan: Lorentz-Doppler force and artificial magnetism in classical atomic gases
14:40-15:00 Discussion
15:00-15:40 Mordechai Segev: Photonic Topological Insulators
15:40-16:00 Discussion
16:00-20:00 BEACH DISCUSSIONS
20:00 DINNER
Chairman: Milan Randić
21.00 Harry Kroto: From Exameter Scale to Nanometer Scale and Back Again
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Chair: Vernesa Smolčić
09:00-09:40 Jose Luis Ortiz: Rings in non-planetary bodies
09:40-10:00 Discussion
10:00-10:40 Sydney Leach: Origins of Life: An outsiders view
10:40-11:00 Discussion
11:00-11:20 Coffee break
11:20-12:00 Rudi Grimm: Ultracold Fermi gases
12:00-12:20 Discussion
12:30 LUNCH AND AFTERNOON FREE
20:00 DINNER
Chairman: Danko Bosanac
21.00 John Murrell: Motivation and Rewards for Academic Scientists
Thursday, August 28, 2014
Special session for students:
Chairman: John Murrell
09:00-09:40 Harry Kroto: How to Survive
09:40-10:00 Discussion10:00-12:00 Poster session:
- Marijana Marković: Quantum chemical study of bis(l-threoninato)copper(II) and bis(l-allo-threoninato)copper(II) as isolated complexes
- Martina Požar: Self-organisation in liquid mixtures
- Dijana Vrbanec: Cross-correlation between 21 cm signal from epoch of reionization and Lyman Alpha Emitters
- Petra Vizjak: Screening for leukemia specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes in transplanted patients with AML and CLL
- Milija Jovičić: Scaling laws in cities
- Mate Jagnjić: The emergence of probability in quantum mechanics
- Stefan Cikota: A search for active Main Belt asteroids
- Aleksandar Cikota: Meteor trails observed by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Chairman: John Murrell
12:00-12:40 Veljko Zlatić: Mass and heat transport in large systems
12:40-13:00 Discussion
12:30 LUNCH AND BEACH DISCUSSIONS
Chairman: Tomaž Pisanski
17:30-18:00 Ticijana Ban: Frequency comb induced radiative force on cold rubidium atoms
18:00-18:30 Roman Jerala: Topology guiding the self-assembly of designed proteins
18:30-19:10 Vesna Svetličić: Marine polysaccharide networks: self-assembly vs. self-organization revealed by atomic force microscopy
20:00 DINNER
22:00+ Sky gazing through telescope
Friday, August 29, 2104
Chairman: Rudi Grimm
09:00-09:40 Hrvoje Fulgosi: Photosynthesis
09:40-10:00 Discussion
10:00-10:40 Martin Quack: Molecular Parity Violation and the Emergence of Homochirality in the Evolution of Life
10:40-11:00 Discussion
11:00-11:20 Coffee break
11:20-12:00 Arne Skjeltorp: Self organization and pattern formation of micro- and nanoparticle in fluids induced by external fields
12.00-12.20 Discussion
12:30 LUNCH AND BEACH DISCUSSIONS
Chairman: Sydney Leach
17:30-18:10 Ana Proykova: Order-disorder transitions in finite-size clusters of objects
18:10-18:30 Discussion
18:30-19:10 Tomaž Pisanski: An interplay between topological graph theory and synthetic biology
19:10-19:30 Discussion
20:00 DINNER
Saturday, August 30, 2014
Chairman: Steve Berry
09:00-09.40 Ada Yonath: What was first, the genetic code or its products?
09:40-10:00 Discussion
10:00-10:40 Danko Bosanac: The limits in science
10:40-11:00 Discussion
11:10 Closing remarks and departure