Schedule

Friday, June 16, 2023

8:45 – 9:30

Refreshments

9:30

Meeting Starts

Session I Chair: Bulbul Chakraborty, Brandeis University

9:35 – 10:15

What can very small faults in the lab tell us about deformation in the Earth's crust?

Michele Cooke

10:15 – 10:30

Average outpouring velocity and flow rate of grains discharged from a tilted quasi-2D silo

Ryan Kozlowski

10:30 – 10:45

Understanding granular electrostatics through peeling adhesive tape

Mary Reiter

10:45 – 11:10

Coffee Break

Session II Chair: Mark Shattuck, The City College of New York

11:00 – 11:40

Micro- and meso-mechanics of shear-thickening in dense suspensions

Safa Jamali

11:40 – 11:55

Dynamics of magnetoelastic robots in water-saturated granular beds

Animesh Biswas

11:55 – 12:10

The pendant drop experiment for aggregates of adhesive granular particles

Yasaman Heshmatzadeh

12:10 – 1:30

Lunch

Session III  Chair: Ken Kamrin, MIT

1:30 – 1:45

Coupled continuum modeling of flow and size segregation in dense granular materials

Harkirat Singh

1:45 – 2:25

Structured Flow Instabilities in Excited Granular Materials

Chris Boyce

2:30 – 3:20

Table Talks (w/Coffee):  Ashbell Abraham, Sohum Kapadia, Ken Kamrin, Don Candela, Lori McCabe, Mike D'Eon, Amit Dawadi

Session IV Chair:  Arshad Kudrolli, Clark University

3:30-3:45

Bidirectional wave-propelled capillary spinners

Jack-William Barotta

3:45 – 4:00

Steering colloids using solute gradients and flow across complex landscapes

Amir Pahlavan

4:00 – 4:40

Statistics of spherical and anisotropic particles in strongly sheared flows

Varghese Mathai

4:45

Conclude

Ashbell Abraham Penn State University   A pinned contact line encodes a detailed memory of its motion.

Don Candela UMass Amherst   Shear-history memory in compressed granular packs

Mike D'Eon Brandeis University   Fractonic Coulomb Gas Model of Shear Induced Jamming

Amit Dawadi Clark University   Packing and Crease Evolution under Iterative Twist-Crumpling

Ken Kamrin MIT   

Sohum Kapadia Clark University   Dynamics of Lumbriculus variegatus in a square confinement

Lori McCabe Mount Holyoke College   Flow of Photoelastic Particles in a 2D Silo