Sunday
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Staff / Welcome and Introduction from the Chairs
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm
"Controlling Gelation and Interactions in Plasmonic Metal Oxide Colloidal Nanocrystals"
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm
Discussion
8:35 pm - 9:15 pm
"Bottlebrush Polymers, Networks, Biomaterials, and Tissue Mimics"
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
9:00 am - 9:40 am
"Autonomous Life-Like Behaviour Emerging in Active and Flexible Microstructures"
9:40 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:10 am
"Rheological Mapping of Enzymatically Active and Photo-Responsive DNA Composites"
11:10 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:10 pm
"Directed Evolution of Material-producing Bacteria"
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
Data-Driven and High-Throughput Science
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm
"Integrating Machine Learning and Simulations to Create Soft Materials’ Design-Structure-Property Relationships"
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm
"Data Driven Techniques for Control of Active Fluids"
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Charged and Net-Neutral Polymer Systems
9:00 am - 9:40 am
"On Complex(ed) Relations: the Power and Peculiarities of Nanoscopic Polyelectrolyte-based Particles"
9:40 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:10 am
"Bio-inspired Macromolecular Designs: Examining Polymer Zwitterions at the Molecular Level and Mesoscale"
11:10 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:10 pm
"Molecular Design of Stimuli-Responsive Polymers and Polyelectrolytes for Selective Electrochemical Separations"
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
Droplets, Emulsions, and Foams
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm
"Flows, Forces, and Fluxes in Thin Foam and Emulsion Films"
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm
"Chemical Processes in Nanophase Structured Fluids"
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Dynamics of Nanoparticle Assembly
9:00 am - 9:40 am
"Electron Videography of Nanoscale Colloidal Materials"
9:40 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:10 am
"Modeling and Design of Drying-Induced Self-Assembly of Colloidal Particles"
11:10 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:10 pm
"Structuring Liquids into Functional Materials with Nanoparticle Surfactants"
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
Emergent Properties of Colloidal Systems
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm
"Accurate Measurement of Hard Sphere Sizes and Pre-Solid-Solid Transition"
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm
"Self-Learning Soft Matter that Can Count, Compute, and Recognize Patterns"
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair(s); Complete the GRC Evaluation Forms; Election of the Next Vice Chair(s)
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Coacervates, Condensates, and Complexes
9:00 am - 9:40 am
"All-Aqueous Engineering of Colloidal, Macromolecular and Polyelectrolyte Solutions"
9:40 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:10 am
"Modeling droplets inside living cells"
11:10 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:10 pm
"Coacervates in Action Linking Science to Sustainable Personal Care Product Design"
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
Functional Soft Interfaces
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm
"Biphasic Liquids with Shape-Shifting and Bistable Microdomains"
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm
"Peptide Surfactants and Peptide-inspired Surfactants for Selective REE Recovery"
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure