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