This volume is an introduction to interfacial phenomena. It collects the lecture notes from a one month Summer school in Les Houches. The courses and the notes are intended to be especially useful for master and PhD students as well as young researchers.

• 1: Howard A. STONE: Fundamentals of uid dynamics with an introduction to the importance of interfaces


• 2: Eric LAUGA: An introduction to the hydrodynamics of locomotion on small scales


• 3: Jens EGGERS: Singularities at interfaces


• 4: E. CHARLAIX and L. BOCQUET: Hydrodynamic Slippage of water at surfaces


• 5: Hanneke GELDERBLOM, Claas Willem VISSER, Chao SUN, and Detlef LOHSE: Drop impact on solid substrates: bubble entrapment and spread- ing dynamics


• 6: Frieder MUGELE: Electrowetting - the switch on the wettability


• 7: Serge MORA and Yves POMEAU: Capillarity with Solids


• 8: Pascal DAMMAN: Instability of Thin Films


• 9: Stephan HERMINGHAUS: Where grains and uids meet: the complex physics of wet granular matter


• 10: Michael CATES: Complex Fluids: The Physics of Emulsions


• 11: Jean-Louis BARRAT and Juan J. de PABLO: Introduction to molecular simulations in soft matter


• 12: Roland NETZ: Interactions between Biological Membranes: Theoretical Con- cepts


• 13: Dirk G. A. L. AARTS: Soft Interfaces: the Case of Colloid-Polymer Mixtures


• 14: Hugues BODIGUEL, Lingguo DU, Christophe COTTIN and Annie COLIN: Microuidic devices: a nice tool to study enhanced oil recov- ery


• 15: Hajime TANAKA: Phase Separation in Soft Matter: Concept of Dynamic Asymmetry


• 16: David NELSON and Ariel AMIR: Defects on Cylinders: Superuid Helium Films and Bacterial Cell Walls

Lydéric Bocquet is a researcher at CNRS and a professor at Ecole Normale Supérieure 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 Quéré is a French physicist. He graduated at Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles de Paris and obtained a PhD from Université 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.