Programme

Faraday Discussion 141: Water - From Interfaces to the Bulk
Provisional programme including timings available to download at the bottom of this page

Introductory Lecture & Winner of Spiers Memorial Lecture 2008

Ions at aqueous interfaces 
Pavel Jungwirth*
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic 

Session 1: Surface Charge of the Liquid Water Surface

The surface of neat water is basic
James K Beattie*, Alex M Djerdjev and Gregory G Warr
University of Sydney, Australia

Negative charges at the air/water interface and their consequences for aqueous wetting films containing surfactants
Katarzyna Hänni-Ciunel, Natascha Schelero and Regine von Klitzing*
Technical University Berlin, Germany

Session Chair: Colin Bain, University of Durham, UK

Bursting bubbles and blowing-up droplets: charge separation at the surface of water
Joshua T Maze, Lloyd W Zilch, John W Smith, George E Ewing and Martin F Jarrold*
Indiana University, USA

Water-mediated ordering of nanoparticles in an electric field
Dusan Bratko, Christopher D Daub and Alenka Luzar*
Virginia Commonwealth University, USA

Ultrafast phase transitions in metastable water near liquid interfaces
O Link, E Lugovoj, E Vohringer-Martinez, Y Liu, K Siefermann, M Faubel,
H Grubmuller, R B Gerber, Y Miller and B Abel*
Universität Göttingen, Germany

Session 2: Biological Interfaces and Non-linear Optical Tools

Session Chair: Michael E Paulaitis, John Hopkins University, USA

Hydration dynamics of purple membranes
Douglas J Tobias*, Neelanjana Sengupta and Mounir Tarek
University of California, Irvine, USA

From shell to cell: neutron scattering studies of biological water dynamics and coupling to activity
A Frölich, F Gabel, M Jasnin, U Lehnert, D Oesterhelt, A Sadler, M Tehei,
M Weik, K Wood and G Zaccai*
Institut Laue Langevin, France

Time scales of water dynamics at biological interfaces: peptides, proteins and cells
Johan Qvist, Erik Persson, Carlos Mattea and Bertil Halle* 
Lund University, Sweden

Session Chair: Kohei Uosaki, Hokkaido University, Japan

Structure and dynamics of interfacial water in model lung surfactants
Avishek Ghosh, Maria Sovago, R. Kramer Campen, Maria Sovago and Mischa Bonn*
FOM - Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, The Netherlands

The THz dance of water with the proteins: The effect of protein flexibility on the dynamical hydration shell of ubiquitin
Benjamin Born,  Seung Joong Kim, Martin Gruebele and Martina Havenith*
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany

Session 3: Ice Interfaces

Session Chair: Georg Held, University of Reading, UK

Coarse grained modelling of the interface between water and heterogeneous surfaces
Adam P Willard and David Chandler*
University of California, Berkeley, USA

Water growth on metals and oxides: binding, dissociation and role of hydroxyl groups
Miquel Salmeron*, H Bluhm, M Tatarkhanov, G Ketteler, T K Shimizu,
A Mugarza, X Deng and T Herranz
University of California, Berkeley, USA

Order and disorder in the wetting layer on Ru(0001)
Mark Gallagher, Ahmed Omer, George R Darling and Andrew Hodgson*
University of Liverpool, UK

Session Chair: Regine von Klitzing,Technical University Berlin, Germany

What ice can teach us about water interactions: a critical comparison
of the performance of different water models
Carlos Vega*, J L F Abascal, M M Conde and J L Aragonés
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

On thin ice: surface order and disorder during pre-melting
C L Bishop, D Pan, L M Liu, G A Tribello, A Michaelides, E G Wang and
B Slater*
University College London, UK

Reactivity of water-electron complexes on crystalline ice surfaces
Mathieu Bertin*, Michael Meyer,  Julia Stähler, Cornelius Gahl, Martin Wolf 
and Uwe Bovensiepen
Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany

Session 4: Nanoscale, Confined Interfaces and Electrochemical Systems

Session Chair: John Finney, University College London, UK

"Similarities" between confined and supercooled water
Maria Antonietta Ricci*, Fabio Bruni and Alessia Giuliani
Università delgi Studi "Roma Tre", Italy

Structural and mechanical properties of confined glassy water in nanoscale confinement
Thomas G Lombardo, Nicolás Giovambattista and Pablo G Debenedetti*
Princeton University, USA

Water nanodroplets confined in zeolite pores
Francois-Xavier Coudert, Fabien Cailliez, Rodolphe Vuilleumier, Alain H Fuchs** and Anne Boutin*
Université de Paris-Sud II, France
(work being presented by **)

Session Chair: Andrea Russell, University of Southampton, UK

Dynamic properties of confined hydration layers
Susan Perkin*, Ronit Goldberg, Liraz Chai, Nir Kampf and Jacob Klein
Weizmann Institute, Israel

Study of nanoscale water cluster by atomic force microscopy
Manhee Lee, Baekman Sung, N Hashemi and Wonho Jhe*
Seoul National University, Korea

Water at an electrochemical interface - a simulation study
Adam P Willard, Stewart K Reed, Paul A Madden* and David Chandler
University of Edinburgh, UK

Concluding Remarks

Peter J Feibelman*
Sandia National Laboratories, USA



*Denotes presenting author to whom affiliation applies