Day 1 - April, 15th 2009

• 10:15 to 10:35 - Welcome
• 10:35 to 11:00 - Coffee Break
• 11:00 to 11:45 - Jacobus van Meel
  
  Heterogeneous vapor-crystal nucleation in and out of pores
• 11:45 to 12:30 - Giovanni Ciccotti
  
  Minimum Free Energy paths: the case of the nucleation path in the two-dimensional Ising model
• 12:30 to 14:00 - Lunch Break
• 14:00 to 14:45 - Nadezda Gribova
  
  Freezing of a Lennard-Jones Fluid in a Slit Pore: 2D or not 2D?
• 14:45 to 15:05 - Michiel Hermes
  
  Seeded hard sphere crystal nucleation in experiments and simulations
• 15:05 to 15:30 - Coffee Break
• 15:30 to 15:50 - Peter Virnau
  
  Monte-Carlo simulations of nucleation and phase transitions in small systems
• 15:50 to 16:10 - Tatyana Zykova-Timan
  
  Finite size effect on solid-liquid interfaces in hard-sphere colloid and colloid-polymer systems
• 16:10 to 19:00 - Discussion

Day 2 - April, 16th 2009

• 09:30 to 10:15 - Eric Vanden Eijnden
  
  Pathways of maximum likelihood for rare events in nonequilibrium systems: Application to nucleation in the presence of shear
• 10:15 to 10:35 - Axel Arnold
  
  ESPResSo: Extensible Simulation Package for Research on Soft matter
• 10:35 to 11:00 - Coffee Break
• 11:00 to 11:45 - Kurt Binder
  
  Monte Carlo test of the classical theory of heterogeneous nucleation at planar walls
• 11:45 to 12:30 - Rainer Backofen
  
  Phase field crystal study of solid-liquid interface
• 12:30 to 14:00 - Lunch Break
• 14:00 to 14:45 - Laszlo Granasy
  
  Phase-field crystal modeling of colloidal crystal aggregation and patterning in 2d and 3d
• 14:45 to 15:05 - Frank Wendler
  
  Linking atomistic and mesoscale modelling: solidification and melting of NiZr
• 15:05 to 15:30 - Coffee Break
• 15:30 to 15:50 - Noel JAKSE
  
  First-principles based simulations of undercooled liquids: Structural and dynamical aspects
• 15:50 to 16:10 - Stefano Leoni
  
  Multiscale Computational Approach to Ferroelectric Phase Transitions
• 16:10 to 19:00 - Discussion
• 19:00 to 21:00 - Dinner

Day 3 - April, 17th 2009

• 09:30 to 10:15 - Mathis Plapp
  
  Phase-field crystal study of grain boundary premelting
• 10:15 to 10:35 - Denis Danilov
  
  Phase-field simulations of microstructure responses on nucleation in metals and colloids
• 10:35 to 11:00 - Coffee Break
• 11:00 to 11:45 - Hartmut Löwen
  
  Dynamical density functional theory for structure formation in colloids
• 11:45 to 12:30 - Peter Schall
  
  Crystal growth and solid-liquid interface in colloidal systems
• 12:30 to 14:00 - Lunch Break