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Soft Condensed Matter Physics (GRS)

Gordon Research Seminar

Complexity in Soft Matter

August 17 - 18, 2013
Chairs Katharine E. Jensen and Alexandre Franceschini
Colby-Sawyer College
541 Main Street
New London, New Hampshire, United States
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Conference Description

The Gordon Research Seminar on Soft Condensed Matter Physics is a unique forum for graduate students, post-docs, and other scientists with comparable levels of experience and education to present and exchange new data and cutting edge ideas.

The focus of this meeting is to foster scientific exchange among young scientists in the highly interdisciplinary community of soft condensed matter physics, with particular emphasis on understanding and creating complexity in soft matter systems. The meeting will conclude with a panel discussion on pursuing careers in science by investigators at various stages in their careers.

Related Meeting

This GRS will be held in conjunction with the "Soft Condensed Matter Physics" Gordon Research Conference (GRC). Those interested in attending both meetings must submit an application for the GRC in addition to an application for the GRS. Refer to the associated GRC program page for more information.

Conference Program

SATURDAY
1:00 pm - 5:00 pmArrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pmIntroductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair
3:45 pm - 4:30 pmComplexity in Soft Matter
Discussion Leader: M. Lisa Manning (Syracuse University)
3:45 pm - 4:15 pmDavid R. Nelson (Harvard University)
"Dislocation Mediated Elongation of Bacteria"
4:15 pm - 4:30 pmDiscussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session I
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmSquishy Materials and Biology
Discussion Leaders: Paul Salipante (Brown University) and Xingbo Yang (Syracuse University)
7:30 pm - 7:50 pmAlexandra Zidovska (Harvard University)
"Positional Fluctuations of Interphase Chromatin"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pmDiscussion
8:00 pm - 8:20 pmDong Woog Lee (UC Santa Barbara)
"Synergistic and adaptive articular cartilage lubrication"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pmDiscussion
8:30 pm - 8:50 pmRobert Style (Yale University)
"Contact on sticky, squishy surfaces"
8:50 pm - 9:00 pmDiscussion
9:00 pm - 9:20 pmGuillaume Duclos (Curie Institute)
"Emergence of a long-range nematic order in a confluent tissue of motile rod-like cells"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pmDiscussion
SUNDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 amSelf-Assembly and Colloid Structures
Discussion Leaders: Miranda Holmes-Cerfon (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences) and Jing Yan (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
9:00 am - 9:20 amKazem Edmond (New York University)
"Rheology of Colloidal Worm-Like Micelles"
9:20 am - 9:30 amDiscussion
9:30 am - 9:50 amSofia Magkiriadou (Harvard University)
"On Red Structural Color in Colloidal Glasses"
9:50 am - 10:00 amDiscussion
10:00 am - 10:20 amShengfeng Cheng (Sandia National Laboratories)
"Self-Assembly of Model Microtubules"
10:20 am - 10:30 amDiscussion
10:30 am - 10:50 amEdith Cristina Euan Diaz (University of Guanajuato)
"Structural and dynamical properties of colloids under confinement"
10:50 am - 11:00 amDiscussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pmPoster Session II
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pmPanel Discussion: Building Your Best Scientific Career
Discussion Leader: Katharine Jensen (Harvard University / University of Amsterdam)
1:30 pm - 2:30 pmPanelists:
  • Eric Dufresne (Yale University)
  • Julia Yeomans (Oxford University)
  • Ian Morrison (Harvard University)
  • M. Lisa Manning (Syracuse University)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pmEvaluation Period
Fill out GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pmGordon Research Seminar ends. For those attending the associated Gordon Research Conference, please check in at the GRC Office beginning at 4:00 pm.

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Soft Condensed Matter Physics
August 10 - 15, 2025


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