| Invited Speaker |
Institution |
Topic of Invited Talk |
| Narasimha-Rao Bangaru |
ExxonMobil Research & Engineering |
"High Performance Steels through Nanostructures" |
| Paul Chaikin and Tom Lubensky |
Princeton University/NYU and University of Pennsylvania |
"Frontiers of Soft Condensed Matter: Perspectives and Group Discussion" |
| Noel Clark |
University of Colorado |
"Novel Effects in Monodisperse 2D Colloids and Discs: Fluid/Ordered Phase Coexistence, Freezing by Heating, Glassy Relaxation, and Jamming" |
| Juan de Pablo |
University of Wisconsin-Madison |
"Dimension Dependent Properties in Nanoscopic Polymeric Structures" |
| Dennis Discher |
University of Pennsylvania |
"Polymersomes and Block Copolymer Worm Micelles: Properties, Transitions, & Applications" |
| Deniz Ertas |
ExxonMobil Research & Engineering |
"Gravitational Transport of Grains" |
| Seth Fraden |
Brandeis University |
"Chaikin to Lubensky: Packings of Anisotropic Granular Materials and Their Analogies to Liquid Crystals" |
| Deborah Fygenson |
University of California, Santa Barbara |
"A Potpourri of Progress Towards Everyday DNA Devices" |
| Emmanuel Giannelis |
Cornell University |
"Solvent-Free Nanofluids" |
| Randall D. Kamien |
University of Pennsylvania |
"What's Kelvin's Problem?" |
| Hubert King |
ExxonMobil Research & Engineering |
"From Rocks to Reservoirs: Evolution of Porosity through Mineral Reactivity" |
| Julia Kornfield |
California Institute of Technology |
"Artificial-Protein Hydrogels through Leucine Zipper Aggregation" |
| Stanislas Liebler |
The Rockefeller University |
"How to Survive with All this Noise? A Lesson from Bacteria" |
| Andrea Liu |
University of Pennsylvania |
"Jamming" |
| Timothy Lodge |
University of Minnesota |
"Multicompartment Micelles from ABC Copolymers" |
| David Lubensky |
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
"How to Make a Neurocrystal: Modeling the Developmental Patterning of the Fly's Eye" |
| L. Mahadevan |
Harvard University |
"Mechanics in Extreme Geometries" |
| George Maret |
Universität Konstanz |
"Dislocation-Mediated Melting in 2D" |
| Scott Milner |
ExxonMobil Research & Engineering |
"Branched Polymer Rheology" |
| Sidney Nagel |
University of Chicago |
"Banquet Speech" |
| Miriam Rafailovich |
State University of New York |
"Materials and Biology: At the Interface" |
| Sriram Ramaswamy |
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore |
"The Mechanics and Statistics of Active Matter" |
| Richard Register |
Princeton University |
"Block Copolymer Thin Films: Patterns and Patterning" |
| William Russel |
Princeton University |
"Crystals, Glasses, and Fluids - The Many Phases of Colloidal Spheres and Disks" |
| Thomas Russell |
University of Massachusetts Amherst |
"Synthetic and Bio-Nanoparticle Assemblies at Fluid Interfaces" |
| Paul Steinhardt |
Princeton University |
"Quasicrystals: Progress and Puzzles" |
| Sherri Stuewer |
Exxon Mobil Corporation |
"ExxonMobil Perspective on Managing Long Term Climate Risk" |
| John Torkelson |
Northwestern University |
"Effects of Confinement on Glass Formers: Distributions of Glass Transition Temperatures and Structural Relaxation across Thin Polymer Films and within Nanocomposites" |
| Salvatore Torquato |
Princeton University |
"Optimal Particle Packings: Problems for the Ages" |
| Marek Urban |
University of Southern Mississippi |
"Non-Spherical Colloidal Polymer Particles and their Film Formation" |
| Arjun Yodh |
University of Pennsylvania |
"Melting in Temperature-Sensitive Colloidal Suspensions" |