The objective of the workshop is to bring together researchers from mathematics and physics working on geometric problems involving interfaces, capillarity, surfaces with constant mean curvature and wetting phenomena.
Local Organizing Committee: Rafael López, Francisco Martín

Intived speakers

• Martin Brinkmann (MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization): Continuous morphological transitions of droplets wetting stripes and rings
• Rustum Choksi (McGill University): On Minimizing Interfaces for a Variational Problem with Long-Range Interactions
• Robert Finn (Stanford University): Mutual attractions between floating bodies: an idealized case
• Reinhard Lipowsky (MPI of Colloids and Interfaces): Morphology of interfaces and membranes
• John McCuan (Georgia Institute of Technology): The stability of cylindrical pendant drops and soap films
• Bennett Palmer (Idaho State University, USA): Free Boundary Problems with Anisotropic Surface Energies
• Ralf Seemann (Universität des Saarlandes): Liquid morphologies and their manipulation in solid and elastic grooved substrates
• Henry C. Wente (University of Toledo): Bifurcation and Symmetry-breaking for Problems in Capillary Theory