Friday October 20, 2023
8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
8:30-9:00 AM: BREAKFAST & REGISTRATION
Mother Rosalie Hill Hall — Bishop Buddy Sala
9:00-10:15 AM: WELCOME + KEYNOTE I
Mother Rosalie Hill Hall — Warren Auditorium, Room 116
How do you know if it will flow? Jamming and clogging of granular material
Prof. Kerstin Nordstrom — Mount Holyoke College
10:15-10:40 AM: REFRESHMENTS + DISCUSSIONS
Mother Rosalie Hill Hall — Bishop Buddy Sala
10:40 AM-12:00 PM: INVITED FACULTY HIGHLIGHT TALKS
Mother Rosalie Hill Hall — Warren Auditorium, Room 116
Materials physics with kinetoplast DNA — Prof Alex Klotz — Cal State Long Beach
Cytoskeletal networks in the cell: a story of cooperation — Prof Alison Patteson — Syracuse University
X-ray and neutron scattering to study self-assembly in hybrid soft/hard matter — Prof. Alex Frano — UC San Diego
Bacteria navigate anisotropic media using a flagellar Tug-of-Oars — Prof Nuris Figueroa Morales — University of Colorado, Boulder
Pursuing the Chemical and Topological Design of Polymers in Tandem for Bioinspired soft materials — Ben McDonald — Brown University
12:00-1:00 PM: LUNCH + DISCUSSIONS
Mother Rosalie Hill Hall — Patio
1:00-2:15 PM: KEYNOTE II + OPPORTUNITIES
Mother Rosalie Hill Hall — Warren Auditorium, Room 116
Soft and Active Materials Explored with Rheo-Optical Methods
Prof. Ryan McGorty — University of San Diego
2:15-2:30 PM: REFRESHMENTS + DISCUSSIONS
Mother Rosalie Hill Hall — Bishop Buddy Sala
2:30-3:45 PM: INVITED FACULTY HIGHLIGHT TALKS
Mother Rosalie Hill Hall — Warren Auditorium, Room 116
Building better biomaterials: Covalent and supramolecular dsDNA hydrogels — Prof Nate Oldenhuis — New Hampshire University
Complex Fluid Flows in Confinement: Squishing, Clogging, and Intermittent Dynamics — Prof Sara Hashmi — Northeastern University
The mechanical efficiency of biological Springs — Prof Mark Ilton — Harvey Mudd College
Competing interactions in dynamic polymer networks — Prof Megan Hill — Colorado State University
Modeling Large Molecular Fluctuations in Recyclable Polymer Networks — Prof Thomas O’Connor — Carnegie Mellon University