Friday October 25, 2024

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

Watching microbial life in complex environments

Prof. Sujit Datta — California Institute of Technology


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

Organelle networks as emergent active structures — Prof. Elena Koslover — UC San Diego

Active contraction and cooperativity in elastic fiber networks — Prof. Kinjal Dasbiswas — UC Merced

Force signatures of creep in a granular medium — Prof. Cacey Bester — Swarthmore College

Loops, circuits, and dance of particles in dense suspension rheology — Prof. Abhinendra Singh — Case Western University

Confocal visualization of brittle-to-ductile rheology in composite network hydrogels — Prof. Lilian Hsiao — NC State 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

Vacuole membranes of hungry yeast are tiny, living, phase-separating thermostats

Prof. Sarah Keller — University of Washington, Seattle


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

Patterning granular 3D printing inks via advective assembly — Prof. Alexandra Bayles — University of Delaware

Relating fracture and yielding motifs to dynamic recovery in colloidal gels — Prof. Ryan Poling-Skutvik — University of Rhode Island

Photochemical recycling of nanocomposite polymer networks — Prof. Danielle Mai — Stanford University

Odd and chiral dynamics in living matter — Prof. Tzer Han Tan — UC San Diego

Phase separation and self-organization in cytoskeleton mimicking active matter systems — Prof. Parag Katira — San Diego State University


3:45-5:30 PM:  POSTER SESSION + RECEPTION

Shiley Center for Science and Technology — Atrium