Sunday
4:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRC Chair
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Soft Meets Hard as an Emergent Theme from Applications
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm
"Colloids and Droplets Facing a Solidification Front: Fundamentals and Applications"
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm
Discussion
8:35 pm - 9:15 pm
"Bijels: A Platform for Advanced Materials Synthesis"
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Group Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Friction and Adhesion in Dispersed Systems
9:00 am - 9:40 am
"Shear Jamming and Shear Thickening: A View from Force Space"
9:40 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:10 am
"Friction in Shear Thickening and Shear Thinning Non-Brownian Suspensions"
11:10 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:10 pm
"Structure, Rheology, and 'Friction' in Therapeutic Protein Solutions"
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm
"Puncture and Cavitation of Soft Solids"
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm
"Contact Formation and Debonding Mechanisms of Soft Model Adhesives"
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Toughening Polymers and Softening Colloids
9:00 am - 9:40 am
9:40 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:10 am
"Softness: A Machine-Learned Structural Quantity for Understanding Glassy Dynamics"
11:10 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:10 pm
"Squashing Soft Matter: Structures Under Geometrical Confinement and Implications for Surface Properties"
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Bacteria on Hard and Soft Surfaces
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm
"Bacteria Know When to Begin Biofilm Development by Sensing the Mechanics Conferred by Adhesive Polymers"
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm
"Adhesion of Bacteria: Mechanisms, Forces and Contact Area"
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
9:00 am - 9:40 am
"Cement Hydrates: From Soft Gels to Concrete"
9:40 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:10 am
"Equilibrium Cluster Formation, Gelation and Glassy Dynamics in Colloidal Systems"
11:10 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:10 pm
"A Deep Link Between Crystallization and the Glass Transition"
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Macromolecular Solutions on Living Materials
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm
"Silicone Hydrophobic Polyelectrolytes on Hair"
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm
"Hard Puzzles of the Soft Airway Surface Layer"
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Processing Colloidal, Macromolecular, and Polyelectrolyte Solutions
9:00 am - 9:40 am
"Single Polymer Dynamics of Complex Molecular Topologies and Pi-Conjugated Materials"
9:40 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:10 am
"Transport of Different Components in 'Saloplastic' Polyelectrolyte Complexes"
11:10 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:10 pm
"Colloidal Processing of Porous Silicon Composites for High Capacity Lithium Ion Batteries"
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Evaporation and Condensation of Complex Fluids
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm
"Blood Spatters: Complexities and Relevance for Crime Scene Reconstruction"
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm
"Condensation in an Elastic Matrix"
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure