Registered Participants (46) For the 2025 Granular Material Workshop.

Participant	Affiliation	Presentation	Title
Yating Zhang	Umass, Amherst	Table Talk	Hindered Stokesian Settling of Discs and Rods
Haicen Yue	University of Vermont	Talk	Tuning Shear Rheology of Soft Materials through Active Dopants
Lale Yilmaz	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Table Talk	Extending Granular Resistive Force Theory to Model Plant Uprooting
Chetan Yadav	UMass Amherst	Table Talk	Activity-induced heterogeneity in a granular system approaching the glassy regime
Annie Xia	Yale University
Qianwen Wu
Dong Wang	Yale University
Zhicheng Wang	Pennsylvania State University	Table Talk	Time dependent rearrangements in an amorphous solid
William Wang	Yale
Shubha Tewari	University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Kashyap Sundara Rajan	UMass Amherst	Talk	Creating nanocomposite coatings using the cold spray additive manufacturing technique
Nikita Sugak	Northeastern University
Christopher Spitler	Columbia University	Table Talk	Rising Intruder Dynamics in Vibrated Gas-Fluidized Granular Materials
Oscar Punch	Columbia University	Talk	Leveraging Dual-Mode Vibration to Induce Horizontal Motion of Bubbles in Gas-Fluidized Granular Materials
Bauyrzhan Primkulov	Yale University
Amir Pahlavan	Yale University	Talk	Chemical gradients shape the transport of colloids and bacteria in complex flows
Javad Omidi	Columbia University	Table Talk	Structured Patterns in Granular Materials: From Bubble-Free to Bubbling Fluidization
Narayanan Menon	University of Massachusetts Amherst
Marshall McCraw	Yale
Stefano Martiniani	New York University (NYU)	Talk	Learning As Neural Manifold Packing
Pouria Mahdaviani	Stevens Institute of Technology
Jiyeon Maeng	Georgia Institute of Technology
Xinyu Luo	University of Massachusetts Amherst
Zhuoyi Liu	Yale University
Xinyi Liu	Northwestern University	Talk	A Plateau Problem for Membranes
Liuchi Li	Princeton University	Invited	How the same small-scale contact process connects to different large-scale mechanical properties ranging from rheology to elasticity
Arshad Kudrolli	Clark University
Ryan Kozlowski	College of the Holy Cross	Table Talk	Flow rate from a vertical silo with a tilted orifice
Joe Joseph	UMass Amherst
Weiwei Jin	Yale University
Leroy Jia	National Institute of Standards and Technology	Talk	Mechanopathology of Esophageal Motility Disorders
Mario Ibrahim	Columbia University	Table Talk	Controlling granular instabilities using fluidization
Ryan Hurley	Johns Hopkins University	Invited	High Pressure Granular Mechanics at Low and High Strain Rates
Will Hobson-Rhoades	University of Michigan	Table Talk	Stress concentration in granular matter under complex and narrow confinement
Daniel Harris	Brown University	Talk	Mermaid Cereal: Interactions and Pattern Formation in a Macroscopic Magnetocapillary SALR System
Borna Fardsadegh	PhD student at the University of New Hampshire	Table Talk	Design of lobed colloidal particles with core-shell morphologies
Anthony Dinsmore	UMass Amherst
Carlos del Valle Urberuaga	Yale University	Talk	SPIRAL: Third-order integration algorithm for Rigid Body Dynamics
Halona Dantes
Kevin Connington	Stevens Institute of Technology	Talk	Validations of Lattice Boltzmann Method Simulations of Liquid Bridges Between Spherical Particles
Lily Carey
Don Candela	UMass Amherst	Table Talk	Shear memory in frictional granular packs
Fereshteh Barenji	PhD student at Clark University
Sam Banks	Yale University	Table Talk	Modeling Lobe Formation in the Developing Plant Epidermis
Karol Bacik	MIT
Vasileios Angelidakis	Queen's University Belfast