Saturday, October 21, 2006: 8:00 AM-11:45 AM
Salon G ( Houston Westchase Marriott Hotel)
Hydrophobicity (Invited)
This symposium will explore hydrophobicity.
Organizers:Hank Ashbaugh
Lawrence Pratt
8:00 AMNon van der Waals treatment of hydrophobic solubilities
Dilip Asthagiri, Lawrence Pratt, Hank Ashbaugh
8:35 AMScaled particle theory and the length scales of hydrophobicity
Hank Ashbaugh, Lawrence Pratt
9:10 AMBridging the Gap - Observation of ultra long-range hydrophobic Interactions
Frank Van Swol, Seema Singh, Jack E. Houston, C. Jeffrey Brinker
9:45 AMBreak
10:00 AMModeling pressure effects on hydrophobic interactions and polymer collapse
Thomas M. Truskett
10:35 AMThermodynamic and spectroscopic signatures of solute-induced water restructuring
Dor Ben-Amotz
11:10 AMCoupling hydrophobicity, dispersion, and electrostatics in implicit solvent models
Joachim Dzubiella, Jessica M. J. Swanson, J. Andrew McCammon

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