Contributed talks
Andrej Kosmrlj (Princeton University) Statistical mechanics of ribbons
Bryan Chen (UMass-Amherst) Rigid origami as a marginal solid
Carl Goodrich (Harvard) Knitting with colloids: active assembly at the micron scale
Chandan Dasguta (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore) Activity-induced fluidization in dense glassy systems
Chih-Kuan Tung (North Carolina A&T State University) Viscoelasticity promotes collective swimming of sperm
Daphne Klotsa (University of North Carolina) Two spheres and a spring make a good swimmer
Francesc Sagues (University of Barcelona) Control of active nematics from oriented surfaces
Frank Cichos (Universitat Leipzig) Real and artificial interactions of artificial microswimmers
Martin Van Hecke (Amolf and Leiden University) Floxelated metamaterials
Michelle Driscoll (NYU) Instabilities of colloidal rollers near a horizontal floor
Oleg Lavrentovich (Kent State University) Living liquid crystals based on swimming bacteria in chromonics
Orit Peleg (Harvard University) Dynamic morphology in honeybee swarms
Sasha Hilgenfeldt (University of Illinois) Mechanical energy in tissues and its connection to cell geometry and statistics
Shiladitya Banerjee (University of Chicago) Competing pathways of contraction in active polymer networks
Sophie Ramananarivo (UCSD) Manipulating colloidal assemblies with active dopants
Taeyoon Kim (Purdue University) Micromechanical model of collective cell migration
Tahir Yusufaly (USC) Spatial dispersal of bacterial colonies induces a phase transition from local to global quorum sensing
Victor Yaskunsky (Institute Curie) Insights into active multicellular nematics
Viva Horowitz (Hamilton College) Walking the tightrope
Yair Shokef (Tel Aviv University) Shape regulation generates elastic interaction between active force dipoles
Ying Liu (North Carolina State University) Self folding of polymer sheets
Zeb Rocklin (University of Michigan) Programming smart matter via topology
Zi Chen (Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College) Mechanics without Muscles: Rapid Motion of the Venus flytrap and Bio-mimetic Structures