Sunday
4:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRC Chair
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Soft Meets Hard as an Emergent Theme from Applications
Discussion Leader: Job Thijssen (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm
Sylvain Deville (CNRS, France)
"Colloids and Droplets Facing a Solidification Front: Fundamentals and Applications"
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm
Discussion
8:35 pm - 9:15 pm
Ali Mohraz (University of California, Irvine, USA)
"Bijels: A Platform for Advanced Materials Synthesis"
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Group Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Friction and Adhesion in Dispersed Systems
Discussion Leader: Daniel Blair (Georgetown University, USA)
9:00 am - 9:40 am
Bulbul Chakraborty (Brandeis University, USA)
"Shear Jamming and Shear Thickening: A View from Force Space"
9:40 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:10 am
Annie Colin (EPSCI, France)
"Friction in Shear Thickening and Shear Thinning Non-Brownian Suspensions"
11:10 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:10 pm
James Swan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
"Structure, Rheology, and 'Friction' in Therapeutic Protein Solutions"
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Power Hour
The GRC Power Hour is an optional informal gathering open to all meeting participants. It is designed to help address the challenges women face in science and support the professional growth of women in our communities by providing an open forum for discussion and mentoring.
Organizer: Lynn Walker (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Bonding and Fracturing
Discussion Leader: Kelly Schultz (Lehigh University, USA)
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm
Alfred Crosby (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
"Puncture and Cavitation of Soft Solids"
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm
Anke Lindner (PMMH, ESPCI Paris, France)
"Contact Formation and Debonding Mechanisms of Soft Model Adhesives"
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Toughening Polymers and Softening Colloids
Discussion Leader: Lynn Walker (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
9:00 am - 9:40 am
Julie Kornfield (California Institute of Technology, USA)
"Megasupramolecules"
9:40 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:10 am
Samuel Schoenholz (Google Brain, USA)
"Softness: A Machine-Learned Structural Quantity for Understanding Glassy Dynamics"
11:10 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:10 pm
Stuart Prescott (UNSW Sydney, Australia)
"Squashing Soft Matter: Structures Under Geometrical Confinement and Implications for Surface Properties"
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Bacteria on Hard and Soft Surfaces
Discussion Leader: Xiang Cheng (University of Minnesota, USA)
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm
Vernita Gordon (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
"Bacteria Know When to Begin Biofilm Development by Sensing the Mechanics Conferred by Adhesive Polymers"
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm
Christian Spengler (Saarland University, Germany)
"Adhesion of Bacteria: Mechanisms, Forces and Contact Area"
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Soft and Hard Solids
Discussion Leader: Stefan Egelhaaf (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany)
9:00 am - 9:40 am
Emanuela Del Gado (Georgetown University, USA)
"Cement Hydrates: From Soft Gels to Concrete"
9:40 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:10 am
Ramón Castañeda-Priego (University of Guanajuato, Mexico)
"Equilibrium Cluster Formation, Gelation and Glassy Dynamics in Colloidal Systems"
11:10 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:10 pm
Hajime Tanaka (University of Tokyo, Japan)
"A Deep Link Between Crystallization and the Glass Transition"
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Macromolecular Solutions on Living Materials
Discussion Leader: Alex Lips (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm
Anne Dussaud (Momentive Performance Materials, USA)
"Silicone Hydrophobic Polyelectrolytes on Hair"
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm
Michael Rubinstein (Duke University, USA)
"Hard Puzzles of the Soft Airway Surface Layer"
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Processing Colloidal, Macromolecular, and Polyelectrolyte Solutions
Discussion Leader: Daeyeon Lee (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
9:00 am - 9:40 am
Charles Schroeder (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
"Single Polymer Dynamics of Complex Molecular Topologies and Pi-Conjugated Materials"
9:40 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:10 am
Joe Schlenoff (Florida State University, USA)
"Transport of Different Components in 'Saloplastic' Polyelectrolyte Complexes"
11:10 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:10 pm
Sibani Lisa Biswal (Rice University, USA)
"Colloidal Processing of Porous Silicon Composites for High Capacity Lithium Ion Batteries"
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Evaporation and Condensation of Complex Fluids
Discussion Leader: Ronald Larson (University of Michigan, USA)
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm
Daniel Attinger (Iowa State University, USA)
"Blood Spatters: Complexities and Relevance for Crime Scene Reconstruction"
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm
Eric Dufresne (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
"Condensation in an Elastic Matrix"
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure
