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: Materials Design by Assembly
Discussion Leader: Hamid Karani (Northwestern University, USA)
3:45 pm - 4:20 pm
Sharon Glotzer (University of Michigan, USA)
"Inverse Design of Colloidal Assembly"
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
Mechanics and Dynamics in Biological Systems
Discussion Leaders: Bezia Lemma (Harvard University, USA) and Suraj Shankar (Harvard University, USA)
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Stefan Muenster (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany)
"External Forces Generated by the Attachment Between Blastoderm and Vitelline Envelope Impact Gastrulation in Insects"
7:45 pm - 7:50 pm
Discussion
7:50 pm - 8:05 pm
Raymond Adkins (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
"Characterizing Disclination Loops in a Three Dimensional Active Nematic"
8:05 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm
Clara del Junco (University of Chicago, USA)
"High Chemical Affinity Increases the Robustness of Biochemical Oscillations"
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Jinghui Liu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
" Topological Turbulence in the Membrane of a Living Cell"
8:45 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:05 pm
Tyler Ross (California Institute of Technology, USA)
"Controlling Organization and Forces in Active Matter Through Optically-Defined Boundaries"
9:05 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:25 pm
Daniel Haertter (Duke University, USA)
"A Muscle Cell Seen as Active Matter: Heterogeneities and Dynamic Instabilities in Mesoscopic Sarcomere Motion of Cardiomyocytes"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Materials, Structures and Design
Discussion Leaders: Miguel Ruiz Garcia (University of Pennsylvania, USA) and Meng Shen (The University of Chicago, USA)
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Tatyana Gavrilchenko (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
"Resilience in Hierarchical Fluid Flow Networks"
9:15 am - 9:20 am
Discussion
9:20 am - 9:35 am
Utku Culha (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany)
"Reprogrammable Granular Self-Assembly"
9:35 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 9:55 am
Varda Faghir Hagh (University of Chicago, USA)
"Creating Ultra-Stable Jammed Packings by Training on Pressure"
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:15 am
Etien Martinez Roman (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
"Collective Motion of Quincke Rotating Beads"
10:15 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:35 am
Huang Fang (Brandeis University, USA)
"Exploring Nucleation Pathways and Solid-Solid Transitions in Two-Dimensional Binary Colloidal Crystallization"
10:35 am - 10:40 am
Discussion
10:40 am - 10:55 am
Ethan Stanifer (Syracuse University, USA)
"Structual Evolution of Amorphous Systems During Large Scale Deformation"
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: Building Your Scientific Career
Discussion Leader: Yi Peng (University of Minnesota, USA)
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel Discussion
Career Paths in the Private Sector, Physics Journalism, National Labs, Liberal Arts Colleges and R1 Universities
Edward Barry (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)
JiaJia Dong (Bucknell University, USA)
Julian Freed-Brown (Oscar Health, USA)
Elisabetta Matsumoto (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Christine Middleton (Physics Today, AIP, USA)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes
