Saturday
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Keynote Session: Active Fluids
Discussion Leader: Sambeeta Das (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
3:45 pm - 4:20 pm
Igor Aronson (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
"Defect Dynamics in Living Liquid Crystals"
4:20 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
Active and Driven Materials
Discussion Leader: Lauren Zarzar (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Michal Bogdan (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
"Continuum Model of Multicellular Fingering in Cancer Metastasis"
7:45 pm - 7:50 pm
Discussion
7:50 pm - 8:05 pm
Linnea Metcalf (Brandeis University, USA)
"Dynamics of 2D Active Nematics"
8:05 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm
Isaac Bruss (University of Michigan, USA)
"Curvature-Induced Microswarming"
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Naomi Oppenheimer (The Simons Foundation, USA)
"Motion of a Hot Particle in Viscous Fluids"
8:45 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:05 pm
Pranay Mandal (Indian Institute of Science, India)
"Experimental Realization of All-Magnetic Active Matter System"
9:05 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:25 pm
Vishal Soni (James Franck Institute, University of Chicago, USA)
"Large-Scale Dynamics of Colloidal Gyrofluids"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Designing Materials and Exploring Material Failure
Discussion Leader: Nathan Keim (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, USA)
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Martin Falk (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
"Collagen-Inspired Self-Assembly of Twisted Filaments"
9:15 am - 9:20 am
Discussion
9:20 am - 9:35 am
Samaneh Rezvani Boroujeni (University of Göttingen, Germany)
"Force Fluctuations of Suspended Cells - Effects of Osmotic Pressure and Motor Inhibition"
9:35 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 9:55 am
Michael Juniper (The Francis Crick Institute, United Kingdom)
"Reconstituting Biological Self-Organisation in Confinement"
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:15 am
Itamar Kolvin (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
"Topological Defects Govern Crack Front Motion and Facet Formation on Broken Surfaces"
10:15 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:35 am
Matthias Merkel (Syracuse University, USA)
"A Rigidity Transition and Glassy Dynamics in a Model for Confluent 3D Tissues"
10:35 am - 10:40 am
Discussion
10:40 am - 10:55 am
Nidhi Pashine (University of Chicago, USA)
"Auxetic Materials from Disordered Systems"
10:55 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
Mentorship Component: Communicating Science
Discussion Leader: Michelle Driscoll (New York University, USA)
1:30 pm - 1:50 pm
Dario Corradini (Physical Review X, APS Physics, USA)
"The Golden Rule of Scientific Writing: Talk to Your Audience"
1:50 pm - 2:00 pm
Discussion
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel Discussion
How to Give a Good Science Talk
Michael Brenner (Harvard University, USA)
Zvonimir Dogic (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes
