8:30 Breakfast

Invited talks 35 mins talk + 10 mins questions; Contributed talks 10+5 mins

Session 1 Chair: Craig Maloney

9:30 Alfredo Alexander-Katz Plastic Attraction and Other Strange Phenomena in Active Matter

10:15 Jesse Silverberg Extreme Human Collective Motion: A Granular Approach

10:30 Kyle VanderWerf Why do certain jammed packings of hard particles disobey Maxwell’s rigidity criterion?

10:45 Coffee/Posters

Session 2 Chair: Corey O'Hern

11:15 Abe Clark Critical scaling of the granular yielding transition

12:00 Christian Hubicki Optimizing robotic jumping on granular media

12:15 Benjamin Allen Armoring and morphology of a granular bed below the critical Shield's number in shear flow

12:30 Lunch

Session 3 Chair: N. Menon

1:30 Tony Dinsmore Measuring the yield stress of charged granular media

2:15 Coffee/Snack/Posters

Session 4 Chair: Mark Shattuck

2:45 Alex Solon Transient Casimir Forces from Quenches in Thermal and Active Matter

3:00 Qiong Zhang Microscopic Description of the Granular Fluidity Field in Nonlocal Flow Modeling

3:15 Bodhi Chauduri Experimentally validated numerical modeling of tribocharging in pharmaceutical powders

4:00 Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

Poster presentations

Hamed Abdi	Northeastern	Paramagnetic Colloids: Chaotic Routes to Clusters and Molecules
David Henann	Brown University	Size Dependence of the Yield Threshold in Dense Granular Materials
Shihong Li Li	Brown University	Stability of the nonlocal granular fluidity model for steady, dense granular flow
Prithviraj Nandigrami	Kent State University	Thermodynamic and Kinetic Representations of Cooperative Allosteric Binding in Calmodulin
Andreea Panaitescu	Clark University	Collective deformation of multi-filament packings under twist
David Schunter Jr.	Boston University	Elastogranular Mechanics
Lee Walsh	University of Massachusetts, Amherst	Noise and diffusion in vibrated self-propelled granular particles