Program Schedule

Official FACM 2019 & NCS11 Program Booklet (PDF)

Thursday, May 23

Time Event
7:30 - 8:15 a.m. Registration + Coffee and Pastries
8:15 - 8:30 a.m. Opening and Introduction
8:30 - 9:20 a.m. Plenary Lecture I
Igor Aronson
Engineering Spatial-Temporal Organization of Bacterial Suspensions
Session I - Granular Matter I
Chaired by Lou Kondic
9:20 - 9:40 a.m. Corey O'Hern
Origin of the Jamming Scaling Exponents
9:40 - 10:00 a.m. Luis Pugnaloni
A First Principle Derivation for the Flow Rate of Discharging Silos
10:00 - 10:20 a.m. Mark Shattuck
Deformable Particles
10:20 - 10:30 a.m. Jeremy Cho
Scaling Law for Cracking in Shrinkable, Granular Packings
10:30 - 10:40 a.m. Sijie Tong
Mechanical Response of Wrinkled Structures
10:40 - 11:10 a.m. Morning Coffee Break
Session II - Granular Matter II
Chaired by Luis Pugnaloni
11:10 - 11:30 a.m. Ken Kamrin
Fun with New Methods for Particle Flow Problems
11:30 - 11:50 a.m. Jeffrey Morris
Network Structure and Stress Fluctuations in Shear-Thickening Suspensions
11:50 - 12:10 p.m. Ryan Hurley
Measuring Contact- And Particle-Scale Behavior in 3D Granular Materials
12:10 - 12:30 p.m. Jasna Brujic
Colloidomer Folding
12:30 - 12:40 p.m. Ryan Kozlowski
Dynamics of a Single-Intruder Driven Through a Granular Medium: Effects of Packing Fraction, Basal Friction, and Interparticle Friction
12:40 - 12:50 p.m. Chao Cheng
The Precursors to Stick-Slip Events in Sheared Granular Systems
12:50 - 2:10 p.m. Poster Session I and Lunch
Session III: Active and Soft Matter I
Chaired by Anand Oza
2:10 - 2:30 p.m. Jörn Dunkel
Inverse Design of Discrete Mechanical Meta-Materials
2:30 - 2:50 p.m. Miranda Holmes-Cerfon
The Relative Dynamics of DNA-Coated Colloids
2:50 - 3:10 p.m. Alexandra Zidovska
Surface Fluctuations and Coalescence of Nucleolar Droplets in the Human Cell Nucleus
3:10 - 3:30 p.m. Leif Ristroph
Blowing Bubbles
3:30 - 3:50 p.m. Wen Yan
Computing Collision Stress in Assemblies of Active Spherocylinders
3:50 - 4:00 p.m. Lucia Carichino
Hydrodynamic and Biochemical Interactions in Sperm Motility
4:00 - 4:10 p.m. Lailai Zhu
Locomotion Driven by Self-Oscillation via an Electrohydrodynamic Instability
4:10 - 4:40 p.m. Afternoon Coffee Break
4:40 - 5:30 p.m. Plenary Lecture II
Michael Shearer
Continuum Equations of Granular Flow
5:30 - 7:30 Reception

Friday, May 24

Time Event
7:30 - 8:30 a.m. Registration + Coffee and Pastries
8:30 - 9:20 a.m. Plenary Lecture III
John Brady
The Dynamics of Active Colloids
Session IV: Colloidal Suspensions and Surfactants
Chaired by Pushpendra Singh
9:20 - 9:40 a.m. Dan Harris
Diffusion-Induced Aggregation
9:40 - 10:00 a.m. Aditya Khair
Nonlinear Viscoelasticity of a Dilute Suspension of Brownian Spheroids in Oscillatory Shear Flow
10:00 - 10:20 a.m. Shreyas Mandre
Surfactants Driven out of Equilibrium by a Flow
10:20 - 10:30 a.m. Islam Benouaguef
PIV Measurement of Flow Induced on a Salt Waterbody by a Freshwater Source
10:30 - 10:40 a.m. Nicholas Chisholm
Hydrodynamics of Microswimmers Trapped at Fluid-Fluid Interfaces
10:40 - 11:10 a.m. Morning Coffee Break
11:10 - 12:40 p.m. Poster Session II
12:40 - 1:40 p.m. Poster Session II (Cont.) and Lunch
Session V: Active and Soft Matter II
Chaired by Shawn Chester
1:40 - 2:00 p.m. Howon Lee
4D Printing With Stimuli-Responsive Materials
2:00 - 2:20 p.m. Sujit Datta
Bacterial Hopping and Trapping in Porous Media
2:20 - 2:40 p.m. Saverio Spagnolie
Active Matter Invasion of a Viscous Fluid and a No-Flow Theorem
2:40 - 2:50 p.m. Quentin Brosseau
Microswimmer Design and Rheotaxis in Wall-Bounded Shear Flows
2:50 - 3:00 p.m. Tapomoy Bhattacharjee
Surfing the Wave: How Bacteria Collectively Migrate through Porous Media
3:00 - 3:50 p.m. Plenary Lecture IV
Kathleen Stebe
Embedded Energy Landscapes in Soft Matter to Direct Colloid Motion
3:50 - 4:20 p.m. Afternoon Coffee Break
4:20 - 5:20 p.m. Focus on Career Advice for Junior Researchers
Chaired by Linda J. Cummings

Updated: February 17, 2023


Supported by the
National Science Foundation