Program

All events will be held in Room 001 of the Life Sciences Building unless otherwise noted.
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SUNDAY, June 19

5:30 pm – 7:30 pm:    Registration and Welcoming Reception in the Milton Atrium of the Life Sciences Complex (LSC)

7:30 pm – 8:30 pm:   Career Advancement Panel: Angela Au (Bristol-Myers-Squibb), Lisa Manning (SU), Michael Murrell (Yale), Katherine Wright (PRL)  LSB 105, small auditorium

Moderator: A. Alan Middleton (SU)

MONDAY, June 20

8:30 am – 9:00 am:   Registration & Continental Breakfast, Milton Atrium

9:00 am – 9:10 am:    Welcoming Remarks from Vice Chancellor and Provost, Michele Wheatly and greetings from Dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science, Teresa Dahlberg

9:10 am – 12:30 pm:   Collective effects in groups of organisms – Discussion Leader:    Cristina Marchetti (Syracuse University)

  • 9:10 am – 9:45 am:   “Ants that can flow like a fluid, or spring back like a solid”  David Hu (Georgia Tech)
  • 9:45 am – 10:20 am:   “From flies, to mosh pits and Mecca: predicting the collective behavior of organisms”  Itai Cohen (Cornell University)
  • 10:20 am – 10:35am:     “Two spheres and a spring make a good swimmer” Daphne Klotsa (University of North Carolina)
  • 10:35 am – 11:05 am:   Coffee Break
  • 11:05 am – 11:20 am:  “Viscoelasticity promotes collective swimming of sperm” Chih-Kuan Tung  (North Carolina A&T State University)
  • 11:20 am – 11:35 am:    “Dynamic morphology in honeybee swarms” Orit Peleg (Harvard University)
  • 11:35 am – 11:50 am:  “Collective motion at the macro-scale” Sophie Ramananarivo (UCSD)
  • 11:50 am – 12:25 pm:  “Self-driven phase transitions in populations of Myxococcus xanthus”  Josh Shaevitz (Princeton University)

12:30 pm – 2:00 pm:   Lunch on your own on Marshall Street or at SU

2:00 pm – 5:45 pm:   Topology and geometry – Discussion Leader:   Xiaoming Mao (University of Michigan)

  • 2:00 pm – 2:35 pm:   “Topological sound waves in confined active fluids” Vincenzo Vitelli (University of Leiden, The Netherlands)
  • 2:35 pm – 3:10 pm:   “Active matter and curvature”   Rastko Sknepnek (University of Dundee, UK)
  • 3:10 pm – 3:25 pm:   “Statistical mechanics of ribbons” Andrej Kosmrlj (Princeton University)
  • 3:25 pm – 3:55 pm     Coffee break
  • 3:55 pm – 4:10 pm:   “Self folding of polymer sheets” Ying Liu (North Carolina State University)
  • 4:10 pm – 4:25 pm:    “Programming smart matter via topology” Zeb Rocklin (University of Michigan)
  • 4:25 pm – 4:40 pm:   “Floxelated metamaterials” Martin Van Hecke (Amolf and Leiden University)
  • 4:40 pm – 4:55 pm:   “Rigid origami as a marginal solid” Bryan Chen (UMass-Amherst)
  • 4:55 pm – 5:30 pm:   “Geometric control of active collective motion”  David Santillian (UCSD)

5:30 pm – 7:00 pm: Dinner on your own

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm:    Poster Session I, Milton Atrium

TUESDAY, June 21

8:30 am – 9:00 am:   Registration & Continental Breakfast, Milton Atrium

9:00 am – 12:45 pm:   Sensing, swimming, and crawling – Discussion Leader:  Jay Henderson (Syracuse University)

  • 9:00 am – 9:35 am:   “Symmetry and adaptation in C. elegans touch response”  Massimo Vergassola (UCSD)
  • 9:35 am – 10:10 am:   “Swimming bacteria in 3D structured environments”  Roberto di Leonardo (University of Rome, Italy)
  • 10:10 am – 10:25 am:   “Spatial dispersal of bacterial colonies induces a phase transition from local to global quorum sensing” Tahir Yusufaly (USC)
  • 10:25 am – 10:40 am:  “Living liquid crystals based on swimming bacteria in chromonics” Oleg Lavrentovich (Kent State University)
  • 10:40 am – 11:10 am:  Coffee Break
  • 11:10 am – 11:25 am:  “Shape regulation generates elastic interaction between active force dipoles” Yair Shokef (Tel Aviv University)
  • 11:25 am – 11:40 am:   “Micromechanical model of collective cell migration” Taeyoon Kim (Purdue University)
  • 11:40 am – 12:15 pm:  “Physical Guidance of Cell Migration”  Wolfgang Losert (University of Maryland, College Park)
  • 12:15 pm – 12:30 pm  “ Mechanics without Muscles: Rapid Motion of the Venus flytrap and Bio-mimetic Structures ” Zi Chen ( Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College)

12:30 pm – 2:00 pm:   Lunch on your own on Marshall Street or at SU

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm:  Breakout discussion and summary:

  • Statistical mechanics of active matter: Cynthia Reichhardt/Annette Zippelius (LSB214)
  • Experiments of active matter and quantitative testing of models Jeremie Palacci/Roberto de Leonardo (LSB126)
  • Metamaterials Martin van Hecke/Xiaoming Mao (LSB200)
  • From tissue mechanics to cellular mechanics and the bridging of scales Josef Kas/Frank Julicher (LSB105)

3:30 pm – 3:50 pm:  Discussion with Physical Review Editors: Dario Corradini (Physical Review X) and Katherine Thomas (Physical Review Letters)

3:50 – 5:30 pm: Poster Session II, Milton Atrium
*Poster awards will be announced after dinner*

5:30 pm – 7:30 pm:   Workshop Reception/ Dinner, Milton Atrium

7:30 pm – 8:30 pm:  Public Lecture:  “The rise of colloidal machines” (LSB 001)  Sharon Glotzer (University of Michigan) This event is free and open to the public

 WEDNESDAY, June 22

8:30 am – 9:00 am:   Registration & Continental Breakfast, Milton Atrium

9:00 am – 12:45 pm:   Tissues – Discussion Leader:   Lisa Manning  (Syracuse University)

  • 9:00 am – 9:35 am:   “Why do rigid tumors contain soft cancer cells?”  Josef Kas (University of Leipzig, Germany)
  • 9:35 am – 10:10 am:   “Cell sheets as soft active matter”  Silke Henkes (University of Aberdeen, UK)
  • 10:10 am – 10:25 am:   “Mechanical energy in tissues and its connection to cell geometry and statistics” Sasha Hilgenfeldt (University of Illinois)
  • 10:25 am – 11:00 am:   Coffee Break
  • 11:00 am – 11:15 am:    “Insights into active multicellular nematics” Victor Yaskunsky (Institute Curie)
  • 11:15 am – 11:30 am:    “Activity-induced fluidization in dense glassy systems” Chandan Dasguta (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)
  • 11:30 am – 12:05 pm:   “Shaping the wing of a fly”  Frank Julicher (Max Planck Institute, Dresden, Germany)
  • 12:05 pm – 12:40 pm:   “Jamming and glassy behavior in dense biological tissues” Max Bi (Rockefeller University)

12:45 pm – 2:00 pm:   Lunch on your own on Marshall Street or at SU

2:00 pm – 5:50 pm:   Colloids, nanoparticles, and nematics – Discussion Leader:  Annette Zippelius (University of Gottingen)

  • 2:00 pm – 2:35 pm:   “Understanding dense active nematics from microscopic models”  Hugues Chate (SACLAY)
  • 2:35 pm – 3:10 pm:   “Topology free folding pathways for polyhedral nets”  Sharon Glotzer (University of Michigan)
  • 3:10 pm – 3:25 pm: “Knitting with colloids: active assembly at the micron scale” Carl Goodrich (Harvard)
  • 3:25 pm – 3:40pm: “Control of active nematics from oriented surfaces” Francesc Sagues (University of Barcelona)
  • 3:40 pm – 4:10 pm:  Coffee Break
  • 4:10 pm – 4:25 pm: “Real and artificial interactions of artificial microswimmers” Frank Cichos (Universitat Leipzig)
  • 4:25 pm – 4:40 pm: “Instabilities of colloidal rollers near a horizontal floor” Michelle Driscoll (NYU)
  • 4:40 pm – 5:15 pm:   “On demand fluids: to yield or not to yield?”   Roseanna Zia (Cornell University)
  • 5:15 pm – 5:50 pm:   “Activity-enhanced assembly of nanoparticles”  Angelo Cacciuto (Columbia University)

5:50 pm – 8:00 pm: Dinner on your own

8:00 pm —  Concert by JACK Quartet  featuring the World Premiere of Hexacorda Mollia, a new piece by Andrew Waggoner, Composer and Professor of Composition at the Syracuse University Setnor School of Music inspired by the theme Order from  Disorder and composed for the Syracuse University Soft Matter program (Milton Atrium of the Life Science Center)  This event is free and open to the public

THURSDAY, June 23

8:30 am – 9:00 am:   Registration & Continental Breakfast, Milton Atrium

9:00 am – 12:15 pm:   Cellular mechanics – Discussion Leader: Jen Schwarz (Syracuse University)

  • 9:00 am – 9:35 am:   “Isotropic actomyosin promotes telescopic contractility”  Michael Murrell (Yale University)
  • 9:35 am – 9:50 am:    “Competing pathways of contraction in active polymer networks” Shiladitya Banerjee (University of Chicago)
  • 9:50 am – 10:05 am:   “Walking the tightrope” Viva Horowitz (Hamilton College)
  • 10:05am – 10:35 am:   Coffee Break
  • 10:35 am – 11:10 am:   “Active matters: Self-organization and stress pattern formation in actomyosin cortices”   Nikta Fahkri (MIT)
  • 11:10 am – 11:25 am:    “Active linkers in non-equilibrium filament networks:contractile rings and simple active gels” Kristian Mueller-Nedebock (Stellenbosch University)
  • 11:25 am – 11:40 am:   “Biomimetic systems to study cell shape changes powered by acto-myosin dynamics” Clement Campillo (Université d’Evry Val d’Essonne)
  • 11:40 am – 12:15 pm:   “Mechanism and function of chromatin positional dynamics in interphase”  Alexandra Zidovska (New York University)

12:15 pm – 12:30 pm Closing Remarks