Conference Description
We will bring together a cross-disciplinary community of researchers from academia and industry, with the common aim of exploiting the complexity of non-equilibrium processes and architectured material systems to forge a new generation of compliant machines that can adapt to their environment. Together physicists, chemists, computer scientists, and engineers at the forefront of materials science, complexity science, and process control will discuss novel routes for capitalizing on the vast design space afforded by the synergy between soft materials, non-equilibrium processes, and structural design across nano- to macro-scopic length scales. By re-examining what is conventionally considered a machine, we will exchange perspectives on employing advanced materials, theory, modeling, and manufacturing to the creation of compliant material systems that process information, self-regulate, act on their environment, adapt shape, and harvest energy so as to revolutionize next generation of soft robotics, environmental sensors, smart structures, adaptive surfaces, etc. The aim of our GRC is to convene this diverse group of people to generate ideas to bridge interdisciplinary boundaries and to establish an innovative community at the forefront complex active and adaptive material system research.
The topics, speakers, and discussion leaders for the conference sessions are displayed below. The conference chair is currently developing their detailed program, which will include the complete meeting schedule, as well as the talk titles for all speakers. The detailed program will be available by February 13, 2021. Please check back for updates.
Living Material Systems
Discussion Leaders
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June Medford (Colorado State University, USA)
Speakers
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Neel Joshi (Northeastern University, USA)
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Wil Srubar (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)
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Taylor Ware (The University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Lessons from Natural Systems
Discussion Leaders
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Nathan Lazarus (U.S. Army Research Laboratory, USA)
Speakers
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Margaret Gardel (The University of Chicago, USA)
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Roger Hanlon (Marine Biological Laboratory, USA)
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Chris Vaiana (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
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Giorgio Volpe (University College London, United Kingdom)
Dynamic Covalent Chemistry
Discussion Leaders
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Abigail Knight (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
Speakers
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Christopher Evans (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
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Stuart Rowan (University of Chicago, USA)
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Rein Ulijn (Hunter College, CUNY, USA)
Information Processing in Materials
Discussion Leaders
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Jiangying Zhou (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), USA)
Speakers
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Todd Murphey (Northwestern University, USA)
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Kohei Nakajima (University of Tokyo, USA)
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Jordan Raney (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
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Brenda Rubenstein (Brown University, USA)
Active Materials and Soft Robots
Discussion Leaders
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Philip Buskohl (U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, USA)
Speakers
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Barbara Mazzolai (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy)
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Robert Shepherd (Cornell University, USA)
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Katia Bertoldi (Harvard University, USA)
Responsive and Adaptive Matter
Discussion Leaders
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Michael Dickey (North Carolina State University, USA)
Speakers
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Christian Santangelo (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
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Timothy White (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)
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Lining Yao (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
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Lauren Zarzar (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Early-Career Investigator Presentations
Discussion Leaders
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Arnold Mathijssen (Stanford University, USA)
Speakers
Dissipation in Open Material Systems
Discussion Leaders
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Jerome Fox (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)
Speakers
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Jasna Brujic (New York University, USA)
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Cristina Marchetti (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
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Howard Stone (Princeton University, USA)
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Rene van Roij (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
Autonomous and Reconfigurable Material Systems
Discussion Leaders
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Jonathan Hopkins (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Speakers
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Shawn Douglas (University of California, San Francisco, USA)
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Tal Dvir (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
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Wilson Poon (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
