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
Keynote Session: Experiment and Theory of Soft Matter Physics
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm
"Biomimetic Transport and Self-assembly of Soft Sheets into Complex 3D Structures"
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm
Discussion
8:35 pm - 9:15 pm
"Phases, Phase-Transitions, and Strange Defects in Colloidal Thin Films"
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Soft Matter in Space and on Earth
9:00 am - 9:30 am
"Structure and Force Signatures of Creep in Granular Media"
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 9:55 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:10 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
10:10 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:45 am
Coffee Break
10:45 am - 11:15 am
"Tuning Yield-Point of a Sheared Colloidal Glass by Encoding Mechanical Memories"
11:15 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:40 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
11:40 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm
"Granular Materials and Rigidity: From the Lab to the Earth and Beyond"
12:15 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
Transport at Various Scales
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm
"Active Bacterial Transport in Complex Media"
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm
"Feeling the Crowd: Bursting and Glassiness in Squishy Active Matter"
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm
"Particle Transport in Solutions of Charged Polymers"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Biological Active Materials
9:00 am - 9:30 am
"Growing, Shrinking, and Energy-Consuming Soft Matter"
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 9:55 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Group Photo / Coffee Break
10:30 am - 10:40 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
10:40 am - 10:45 am
Discussion
10:45 am - 11:15 am
"Memory as Activity: Pattern Formation in Conserved Scalar Fields"
11:15 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:40 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
11:40 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm
"Characterizing Symmetry Transitions in Systems with Dynamic Morphology"
12:15 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
Self-Assembly in Biological and Synthetic Materials
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm
"Disassembly of Viral Particles: The Genome’s Role in Stability and Uncoating"
8:00 pm - 8:15 pm
Discussion
8:15 pm - 8:25 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
8:40 pm - 8:45 pm
Discussion
8:45 pm - 9:15 pm
"Protein Phase Shifting in and out of Equilibrium"
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Learning and Memory in Materials and Biology
9:00 am - 9:30 am
"Peeling a Thin Sheet off a Liquid Interface"
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am
"Dynamics of Inflammatory Response"
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
"Memory Destruction in Matter"
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm
"Bees as Builders and Building Blocks of Self-Assembled Structures"
12:15 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 - 8:00 pm
"Nematic Order in Cell Layers: From the Role of Topological Defects to the Development of Actuators"
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm
"Cracking Neural Computations of a Simple Brain"
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm
"Adaptability Through Control in Robotic and Active Systems"
9:20 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
9:00 am - 9:30 am
"Chaotic Advection in Confined Active Flows"
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am
"Energetic Costs of Cytokinetic Ring Assembly"
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
"Emergent Dynamics and Mechanics of Bio-Synthetic Composites"
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm
"Engineering Self-Limiting Assembly from DNA Origami to Protein Design"
12:15 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
Mechanics and Deformation
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm
"Far from Equilibrium Nematic Colloids"
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm
"Slow Dynamics in Multiphase DNA Liquids"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure