Schedule

Friday, June 13, 2025

9:00 – 9:15

Introduction and Welcome

Session I

9:15 – 10:00

Invited Talk:

Self-organized mechanics of a bird nest

Hunter King

10:00 – 10:20

Chemical gradients shape the transport of colloids and bacteria in complex flows

Amir Pahlavan

10:20 – 10:40

Coffee Break

Session II

10:40 – 11:25

Invited Talk:

How the same small-scale contact process connects to different large-scale mechanical properties ranging from rheology to elasticity

Liuchi Li

11:25 – 11:45

Mermaid Cereal: Interactions and Pattern Formation in a Macroscopic Magnetocapillary SALR System

Daniel Harris

11:45 – 12:45

Sound Bite Session

12:45 – 2:00

Lunch

Session III

2:00 – 2:45

Invited Talk:

From Icy Soil Drips to Rivers of Brazil Nuts: Connections between Earths landscapes and everyday materials

Rachel Glade

2:45 – 3:05

Learning As Neural Manifold Packing

Stefano Martiniani

3:05 – 3:35

Break

Session IV

3:35 – 4:20

Invited Talk:

High Pressure Granular Mechanics at Low and High Strain Rates.

Ryan Hurley

4:20 – 4:40

Leveraging Dual-Mode Vibration to Induce Horizontal Motion of Bubbles in Gas-Fluidized Granular Materials

Ocsar Punch

4:40 – 5:00

Comments, Next meeting, Adjourn