Invitation to a lecture

Professor David J. Pine of New York University, world’s leading researcher in the fields of complex fluids and colloidal self-assembly, will give a lecture at KAIST.

= Information =

1. Date: 17:00 - 18:00, Wednesday, October 11, 2006

2. Venue: Video lecture room, KAIST Applied Engineering B/D (W1-3)

3. Topic: Structured Colloids: A New Paradigm

4. Speaker: Professor David J. Pine

Department of Physics and Department of Mathematics,

New York University

http://www.physics.nyu.edu/pine/

5. Contents: The lecture will deal with the recent research performance on soft mesoscopic materials known as complex fluid. Particularly, in the lecture, self-assembled structure showing excellent mechanical or optical features will be fabricated by using a system composed of colloids, emulsions, polymers, surfactant solution, and so on, and the understanding of its physical phenomena will be focused.

6. Organizer: BK21 Chemical Engineering Group, KAIST Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Creative Research Group of Photon and Fluid Integrated Circuit, Nano Research Institute

7. Participation fee: Free

8. Point of Contact: Professor Seungman Yang, Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering (81-42-869-3922)

Sanggun Lee, Nanotechnology Lab (81-42-869-8801)

Seungbin Park

Professor in charge of KAIST Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Dokyung Kim

Head of Nano Research Institute