Saturday
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Staff / Welcome and Introduction from the Chairs
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Keynote Session: Bio-informed Research Promotes New Perspectives and Scientific Advances
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm
Christina Harvey (University of California, Davis, United States)
"Bio-Informed Research Promotes New Perspectives and Scientific Advances"
4:15 pm - 4:30 pm
Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Design and Fabrication of Functional Materials
Discussion Leader: Daniel Verrico (Case Western Reserve University, United States)
7:30 pm - 7:35 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:35 pm - 7:50 pm
Paul Ducarme (AMOLF, ARCNL, The Netherlands)
"Exotic Functionalities Enabled by Structures Showing Counter-snapping Instabilities"
7:50 pm - 7:55 pm
Discussion
7:55 pm - 8:10 pm
Ellen Roels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel , Belgium)
"Self-healing Reconfigurable Material Structures for Soft Robotics"
8:10 pm - 8:15 pm
Discussion
8:15 pm - 8:30 pm
Wenjie Zhou (California Institute of Technology , United States)
"Polycatenated Metamaterials"
8:30 pm - 8:35 pm
Discussion
8:35 pm - 8:50 pm
Kausalya Mahadevan (Harvard University, United States)
"Multistable Self-folding Knit Architectures"
8:50 pm - 8:55 pm
Discussion
8:55 pm - 9:10 pm
General Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Advances and Characterization of Multifunctional Materials
9:00 am - 9:05 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:05 am - 9:20 am
Prashant Kunjam (University of Colorado Boulder, United States)
"Mechanics of Stiff Morphing in Natural Fish Fins and Bioinspired Structures"
9:20 am - 9:25 am
Discussion
9:25 am - 9:40 am
Joost Brancart (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
"Phase Separation as a Tool to Improve Multifunctional Self-healing Materials Performance"
9:40 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:00 am
Liuchi Li (Johns Hopkins University, United States)
"Meso-scale Size Effects of Material Heterogeneities on Crack Propagation in Brittle Solids"
10:00 am - 10:05 am
Discussion
10:05 am - 10:20 am
Amritesh Kumar (San Diego State University, United States)
"Additively Manufacturable Multifunctional Magnetoelectric Composites with Tunable Performance"
10:20 am - 10:25 am
Discussion
10:25 am - 10:40 am
General Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Mentorship Component: The Journey Toward Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Discussion Leader: Alexander Evenchik (Northwestern University, United States)
1:30 pm - 1:35 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
1:35 pm - 2:15 pm
Ellen Wang Althaus (The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States)
"The Journey Toward Diversity, Equity and Inclusion"
2:15 pm - 2:30 pm
Discussion
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Complete the GRS Evaluation Forms; Election of Future Chair(s)
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes