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 

Poster sizes should be no larger than 60 inches in width, and 48 inches in height. 

 Full list of posters

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

Google Maps: https://g.co/kgs/RLoYxW5

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.