Granular Materials Workshop (Schedule)

Schedule

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10th Annual Northeastern Granular Materials Workshop

Friday June 8, 2012

Sackler Science Center, Room 120, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts

Time	Event	Speaker	Affiliation
8:30-9:25AM	Registration and Poster Setup
9:25-9:30AM	Welcome
9:30-10:10AM	Connecting granular dynamics to landscape	Douglas Jerolmack	Penn
	patterns
10:10-10:30AM	Fingering and fracturing in granular media	Ruben Juanes	MIT
10:30-11:00AM	Coffee and Poster Session
11:00-11:40AM	Rigidity of Marginal Solids	Dapeng Bi	Brandeis
11:40-12:00PM	Isostaticity at Frictional Jamming	Stefanos	Yale
		Papanikolaou
12:00-1:30PM	Lunch and Poster Session
1:30-2:10PM	Fragility and hysteretic creep in frictional	Mahesh Bandi	Okinawa
	granular jamming
2:10-2:30PM	Ordered and disordered granular sphere packings	Andreea Panaitescu	Clark
	obtained by epitaxial growth
2:30-2:50PM	Modeling of granular flows in split-bottom Couette	David Henann	MIT
	cells
2:50-3:20PM	Coffee and Poster Session
3:20-3:40PM	Granular flow about intruders	Stephan Koehler	WPI
3:20-4:20PM	Locomotion in Granular Media	Anette Hosoi	MIT
4:20-5:00PM	Lab Tour and Discussions

Posters:

1.Jamming of granular media for soft robotic applications, Nadia Cheng, MIT

2.Building Granular Towers One Drop at a Time, Julien Chopin, Clark University

3.Still water: ejecta from granular jet impact is generic, Jake Ellowitz, University of Chicago

4.Packing of cubes on a plane, Guilherme Manços and Chris Conroy, Clark University

5.Clogging in Asymmetric Microfluidic Pores, Sorell Massenburg, Harvard University

6.Semi-infinite plates dragged through granular beds, Mingjiang Tao, WPI

7.Experiments on ordering transitions in mechanically stable granular rods, Vikrant Yadav, Clark University

8.Capillary Pinning of CO2 Gravity Currents, Benzhong Zhao, MIT