Saturday
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:00 pm - 3:15 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
3:15 pm - 4:00 pm
Keynote Session: Nonlinear Polymer Dynamics
Discussion Leaders: Domenico Bullara (Brandeis University, USA) and Jan Frederik Totz (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
3:15 pm - 3:45 pm
John Pojman (Louisiana State University, USA)
"Time-Lapse and Cure-on-Demand Polymerizations for Adhesives, Wood Repair and Art"
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm
Discussion
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Poster Session
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Biological Oscillators and Synchronization
Discussion Leaders: Florian Wodlei (Living Systems Research, Austria) and Satoshi Nakata (Hiroshima University, Japan)
5:30 pm - 5:50 pm
Dumitru Calugaru (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
"Synchronization Transitions in Large Ensembles of Oscillators"
5:50 pm - 6:00 pm
Discussion
6:00 pm - 6:20 pm
Britta Helwig (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
"Bottom-up Construction of an Adaptive Enzymatic Reaction Network Exhibiting Altered Network Dynamics"
6:20 pm - 6:30 pm
Discussion
6:30 pm - 6:50 pm
Naziru Awal (Brandeis University, USA)
"The Smallest Chimera: Periodicity and Chaos in a Pair of Coupled Chemical Oscillators"
6:50 pm - 7:00 pm
Discussion
7:00 pm - 7:20 pm
Gregor Mönke (European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany)
"Unmasking the Rules of Coupling in the Presomitic Mesoderm: Ex Vivo and In Silico Approaches"
7:20 pm - 7:30 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Active Matter and Pattern Formation
Discussion Leaders: Raphael Nagao (University of Campinas, Brazil) and Istvan Kiss (Saint Louis University, USA)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Pamela Knoll (Florida State University, USA)
"Reaction-Diffusion Model Describes Biomimetic Polycrystalline Growth"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
Pearson Miller (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
"Geometry of Wave Propagation on Active Deformable Surfaces"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:20 am
Federico Paratore (IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland)
"Microscale Flow Patterning by Dynamic Control of Surface Charge"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 10:50 am
Tanushree Roy (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)
"Noise Assisted Pattern Fabrication"
10:50 am - 11:00 am
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
Functional Materials and Fluids
Discussion Leaders: Gabor Schuszter (University of Szeged, Hungary) and Delora Gaskins (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
1:30 pm - 1:50 pm
Benjamin Tansi (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
"Fluid Pumping and Reversible Assembly by Light-Active Particles"
1:50 pm - 2:00 pm
Discussion
2:00 pm - 2:20 pm
Virat Upadhyay (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
"How to Make a Simple A+B→C Reaction Oscillate: A Chemohydrodynamic Mechanism"
2:20 pm - 2:30 pm
Discussion
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes
