Program overview

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, 24 MARCH 2004

17:30 t8.001 Affine vs. nonaffine deformation in cytoskeletal networks

Alex Levine (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

18:06 t8.002 Elasticity of Composite Actin Networks

Margaret Gardel (Harvard University)

18:42 t8.003 Biomechanics and Intracellular Dynamics of Vascular Endothelial Cells

H. Daniel Ou-Yang (Physics Department, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015)

19:18 t8.004 Skin Layer at the Actin-Gel Surface: Quenched Protein Membranes with Flat, Crumpled and Tubular Morphologies

L.S. Hirst (Materials and Physics Departments, Biomolecular Science and Engineering Program, University of California, Santa Barbara, 93106.)

19:54 t8.005 Micromechanics of the Cytoskeleton Controlled by Cross-link Self-Assembly

John C. Crocker (U.Penn)

17:30 t9.001 Self-organized Motion During Dictyostelium amoebae aggregation

Herbert Levine (Univ. of California, San Diego)

18:06 t9.002 Collective motion in animal groups

Iain Couzin (University of Oxford and Princeton University)

18:42 t9.003 Birds, Fish, and Sludge: New Theories of Old Problems in Collective Motion

John Toner (Department of Physics and Institute for Theoretical Science, University of Oregon)

19:18 t9.004 Swarming Patterns in a Two-Dimensional Kinematic Model for Biological Groups

Chad Topaz (Department of Mathematics, UCLA)

19:54 t9.005 The theory of swarming of Active Brownian Particles

Udo Erdmann (Institute of Physics, Humboldt-University Berlin, Newtonstr. 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany)