Soft Interfaces Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School: Volume 98, July 2012

Lyderic Bocquet, Professor, Ecole Normale Superieure de Paris,David Quere, Professor, Ecole Polytechnique,Thomas A. Witten, Professor, University of Chicago,Leticia F. Cugliandolo, Professor, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Sorbonne Universites

Lyderic Bocquet is a researcher at CNRS and a professor at Ecole Normale Superieure Paris. In the past he held similar positions in Lyon. His research focuses on soft condensed matter, hydrodynamics and nanosciences, with experimental, theoretical and numerical techniques. He has been invited for visiting positions at MIT, Technical University Munich, University of Barcelona, University of Pennsylvania, and Imperial College. He has received many international prizes and has published about 150 papers in international journals.

David Quere is a French physicist. He graduated at Ecole Superieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles de Paris and obtained a PhD from Universite Pierre et Marie Curie. Currently he is professor at Ecole Polytechnique and researcher at CNRS. He has been a scientific advisor at Saint-Gobain since 1995 and at Procter & Gamble since 2002. His main subject of research is the impact of droplets on different surfaces. He was awarded the Silver Medal from CNRS, which honors researchers who are recognized nationally and internationally for the originality, quality, and importance of their work.

Thomas Witten obtained a PhD at University of San Diego. He was full professor at University of Chicago where he is now emeritus. His research concerns collective mechanisms for creating spontaneous structure in forms of conventional condensed matter such as polymer liquids, evaporating liquid drops, layer-forming surfactant micelles and thin elastic sheets. He has received many awards. Among these, he is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2000 and has been a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences since 2001.

Leticia Cugliandolo is full professor at Sorbonne Universites, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 6. She is director of the Les Houches School of Physics since 2007. She authored more than 140 scientific publications and co-edited the Les Houches book collection since 2007. She received the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Marie Curie Excellence Award, the Langevin Prize from the French Physical Society and the Irene Joliot-Curie Prize.

1. Fundamentals of uid dynamics with an introduction to the importance of interfaces, Howard A. STONE
2. An introduction to the hydrodynamics of locomotion on small scales, Eric LAUGA
3. Singularities at interfaces, Jens EGGERS
4. Hydrodynamic Slippage of water at surfaces, E. CHARLAIX and L. BOCQUET
5. Drop impact on solid substrates: bubble entrapment and spread- ing dynamics, Hanneke GELDERBLOM, Claas Willem VISSER, Chao SUN, and Detlef LOHSE
6. Electrowetting - the switch on the wettability, Frieder MUGELE
7. Capillarity with Solids, Serge MORA and Yves POMEAU
8. Instability of Thin Films, Pascal DAMMAN
9. Where grains and uids meet: the complex physics of wet granular matter, Stephan HERMINGHAUS
10. Complex Fluids: The Physics of Emulsions, Michael CATES
11. Introduction to molecular simulations in soft matter, Jean-Louis BARRAT and Juan J. de PABLO
12. Interactions between Biological Membranes: Theoretical Con- cepts, Roland NETZ
13. Soft Interfaces: the Case of Colloid-Polymer Mixtures, Dirk G. A. L. AARTS
14. Microuidic devices: a nice tool to study enhanced oil recov- ery, Hugues BODIGUEL, Lingguo DU, Christophe COTTIN and Annie COLIN
15. Phase Separation in Soft Matter: Concept of Dynamic Asymmetry, Hajime TANAKA
16. Defects on Cylinders: Superuid Helium Films and Bacterial Cell Walls, David NELSON and Ariel AMIR