Registered Participants (57) For the 2025 Granular Material Workshop.

Participant	Affiliation	Presentation	Title
Vasileios Angelidakis	Queen's University Belfast
Karol Bacik	MIT
Sam Banks	Yale University	Table Talk	Modeling Lobe Formation in the Developing Plant Epidermis
Fereshteh Barenji	PhD student at Clark University
Simon Bissitt		Table Talk	Analyzing Flow Entanglement & Aggregation of Lumbriculus variegatus
Don Candela	UMass Amherst	Table Talk	Shear memory in frictional granular packs
Lily Carey
Bulbul Chakraborty	Brandeis University	Talk	Organized buckling patterns and Elastic Screening (authors: Kanaya Malakar, Albert Countryman, Bulbul Chakraborty)
Kevin Connington	Stevens Institute of Technology	Talk	Validations of Lattice Boltzmann Method Simulations of Liquid Bridges Between Spherical Particles
Halona Dantes
Amit Dawadi	Clark University	Talk	Architected granular materials for impact mitigation
Carlos del Valle Urberuaga	Yale University	Talk	SPIRAL: Third-order integration algorithm for Rigid Body Dynamics
Anthony Dinsmore	UMass Amherst
Borna Fardsadegh	PhD student at the University of New Hampshire	Table Talk	Design of lobed colloidal particles with core-shell morphologies
Rachel Glade	University of Rochester	Invited	From Icy Soil Drips to Rivers of Brazil Nuts: Connections between Earths landscapes and everyday materials
Daniel Harris	Brown University	Talk	Mermaid Cereal: Interactions and Pattern Formation in a Macroscopic Magnetocapillary SALR System
Will Hobson-Rhoades	University of Michigan	Table Talk	Stress concentration in granular matter under complex and narrow confinement
Ryan Hurley	Johns Hopkins University	Invited	High Pressure Granular Mechanics at Low and High Strain Rates
Mario Ibrahim	Columbia University	Table Talk	Controlling granular mixing using fluidization
Leroy Jia	National Institute of Standards and Technology	Talk	Mechanopathology of Esophageal Motility Disorders
Weiwei Jin	Yale University
Joe Joseph	UMass Amherst
Sohum Kapadia	Clark University	Table Talk	Undulatory filament robot propulsion in granular beds
Hunter King	Rutgers University	Invited	Self-organized mechanics of a bird nest
Ryan Kozlowski	College of the Holy Cross	Table Talk	Flow rate from a vertical silo with a tilted orifice
Arshad Kudrolli	Clark University
Liuchi Li	Princeton University	Invited	How the same small-scale contact process connects to different large-scale mechanical properties ranging from rheology to elasticity
Zhuoyi Liu	Yale University
Xinyi Liu	Northwestern University	Talk	A Plateau Problem for Membranes
Xinyu Luo	University of Massachusetts Amherst
Arthur MacKeith	Yale University
Jiyeon Maeng	Georgia Institute of Technology
Pouria Mahdaviani	Stevens Institute of Technology
Stefano Martiniani	New York University (NYU)	Talk	Learning As Neural Manifold Packing
Marshall McCraw	Yale
Narayanan Menon	University of Massachusetts Amherst
Alexander Morand	Yale
Amir Nazemi	University of Michigan	Table Talk	Effects of Particle Jamming and Swimmer Inertia on Granular Locomotion
Javad Omidi	Columbia University	Table Talk	Structured Patterns in Granular Materials: From Bubble-Free to Bubbling Fluidization
Amir Pahlavan	Yale University	Talk	Chemical gradients shape the transport of colloids and bacteria in complex flows
Changhun Park	University of Massachusetts Amherst
Bauyrzhan Primkulov	Yale University
Oscar Punch	Columbia University	Talk	Leveraging Dual-Mode Vibration to Induce Horizontal Motion of Bubbles in Gas-Fluidized Granular Materials
Mateusz Ratman	Johns Hopkins University
Christopher Spitler	Columbia University	Table Talk	Rising Intruder Dynamics in Vibrated Gas-Fluidized Granular Materials
Nikita Sugak	Northeastern University
Kashyap Sundara Rajan	UMass Amherst	Talk	Creating nanocomposite coatings using the cold spray additive manufacturing technique
Shubha Tewari	University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Zhicheng Wang	Pennsylvania State University	Table Talk	Time dependent rearrangements in an amorphous solid
Dong Wang	Yale University
William Wang	Yale
Qianwen Wu
Annie Xia	Yale University
Chetan Yadav	UMass Amherst	Table Talk	Activity-induced heterogeneity in a granular system approaching the glassy regime
Grace Yang
Lale Yilmaz	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Table Talk	Extending Granular Resistive Force Theory to Model Plant Uprooting
Yating Zhang	Umass, Amherst	Table Talk	Hindered Stokesian Settling of Discs and Rods