Soft Matter Day Thursday, May 15

Registration closes Friday, May 9. Questions? Please email Drisha Sehgal.

Soft Matter Day 2025 Registration

Arrival and Registration
8:30 am - Atwood atrium

Animate Animals
9:00 am - David Hu (GATech) - Invertebrate organs that turn inside out
9:20 am - Ranjiangshang Ran (Emory) - Fatal Attraction: The Role of Electrostatics in Host-Parasite Interactions of Jumping Entomopathogenic Nematodes
9:40 am - Christopher Pierce (GATech) - Undulatory Locomotion in Disordered Landscapes
10:00 am - Calvin Riiska (Emory) - Scaling New Heights: From Skin Structures to Climbing Strategies in Snakes

Coffee Break
10:20 am - Atwood atrium

Health and Environment
10:40 am - Jean-Francois Louf (Auburn) - Growth Morphodynamics of Molds and Plants Under Mechanical Stimuli
11:00 am - Symone Alexander (Auburn) - Deconstruction of food and agricultural waste to produce new cellulosic materials
11:20 am - David Myers  (Emory) - High throughput single cell force measurements reveal new mechanistic insights into immune thrombocytopenia and other bleeding disorders
11:40 am - Kimberly Weirich (Clemson) - Capillary-induced bundling and remodeling in biopolymer filament networks

Lunch
12:00 pm - Atwood atrium and courtyard

Soft Material Properties and Function
1:30 pm - Itamar Kolvin (GATech) - Heterogeneity in fast fracture: the tough, the weak, and the messy
1:50 pm - Connie Roth (Emory) - Coupling of Local Material Properties Across Polymer-Polymer Interfaces
2:10 pm - Shucong Li (GATech) - Stable Air-Permeable Hydrogels with High Water Content
2:30 pm - Daehyun Choi (GATech) - Squid-Inspired Soft Nozzles for Enhanced Thrust in Rotary Propulsors

Coffee Break
2:50 pm - Atwood atrium

Flow Dynamics and Rheology
3:10 pm - Vida Jamali (GATech) - On the Viscoelastic Origin of Nanoparticle Surface Diffusion in Liquid-phase TEM
3:30 pm - Helen Ansell (Emory) - Tunable rheology in models of dense cellular tissue
3:50 pm - Jiyong Cheon (GATech) - Dynamics of colloids interacting with liquid-liquid interface in aqueous two-phase system
4:10 pm - Eric Weeks (Emory) - In sheared highly polydisperse emulsions, large droplets cause trouble for smaller droplets

Poster Session and Social Hour
4:30 pm - Atwood atrium 

Soft Matter Day will be held on May 15th in the Atwood Chemistry Building, room 260.

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Attendees are encourage to arrive between 8:30 am and 9 am. Talks will start promptly at 9 am. There are two visitor's parking lots that attendees can park at. These are the Peavine and Oxford lots. Please see the visitor parking website for more complete details: 

https://transportation.emory.edu/visitor-parking

Parking vouchers will be available at the registration desk.