Monday, November 4th
Physics of Cells and TissuesChair: Elliot Botvinick
| 7:30am - 8:15am | Registration opens | 8:15am - 8:30am | Opening remarks: Robijn Bruinsma | 8:30am - 9:15am | Fred MacKintosh: Mechanical Criticality in Fiber Networks | 9:15am - 10:00am | Megan Valentine: The Unexpected Emergence of Strength | 10:00am - 10:15am | Coffee Break | 10:15am - 11:00am | Jeff Eldredge: Elasticity of the Peptidoglycan | 11:00am - 11:45am | Momita Das: Rigidity and Resistence Percolation in Elastic Networks | 11:45am - 1:00pm | Lunch | 1:00pm - 1:45pm | Christoph Schmidt: Bacterial Cell Wall Mechanics and the Activation of Mechanosensory Channels | 1:45pm - 2:30pm | Wolfgang Wall: Breathe - Unlocking vital mysteries in respiratory biomechanics | 2:30pm - 2:45pm | Coffee Break | 2:45pm - 3:30pm | Bill Gelbart: Eliciting Immune Response in a Test Tube |
Tuesday, November 5th
Active Systems and Soft MatterChair: Robijn Bruinsma
| 8:00am - 8:30am | Registration opens | 8:30am - 9:15am | Alexander Grosberg: Active Hydrodynamics in the Cell Nucleus | 9:15am - 10:00am | Sririam Ramaswamy: Superdiffusion and Condensation in a Anisotropic Swimmer Suspension | 10:00am - 10:15am | Coffee Break | 10:15am - 11:00am | Rob Phillips: The Energy Budget of Cellular Life | 11:00am - 11:45am | Gary Grest: Dynamics of Rings and and Ring/Polymer Blends | 11:45am - 1:00pm | Lunch | 1:00pm - 1:45pm | Jeremy Schmit: Biochemical Structure/Function at the Supramolecular Level | 1:45pm - 2:30pm | Fyl Pincus: Anomalous Underscreening in Salt Water: Update | 2:30pm - 2:45pm | Coffee Break | 2:45pm - 3:30pm | Tatiana Kuriabova: Swimming of Microorganisms in Quasi Two-Dimensional Membranes | 3:30pm - 4:15pm | Dolores Bozovic: Chaos in Hair Cell Dynamics | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Symposium Dinner at The Faculty Center |
Wednesday, November 6th
Keynote Speaker and Physics of Neuroscience and LearningChair: Joe Rudnick
| 8:30am - 9:15am | Keynote Speaker: David Nelson: Reproducing Microorganisms and Fluid Flows | 10:00am - 10:15am | Coffee Break | 10:15am - 11:00am | Jack Feldman: Breathing Rhythm from a Physicist’s Point of View | 11:00am - 11:45am | David Schwab: Decomposing the Local Arrow of Time in Interacting Systems | 11:45am - 1:00pm | Lunch | 1:00pm - 1:45pm | Andrea Liu: Emergence of complex function in biological and physical adaptive matter | 1:45pm - 2:30pm | Phil Nelson: “The Tangled Web of Whys”: A Story of Morphogenesis, and how Alex is still inspiring all of us. | 2:30pm - 2:45pm | Coffee Break | 2:45pm - 3:30pm | Valentin Slepukhin: Geometry controls multiple microbial species coexistence in constrained space | 3:30pm - 4:15pm | Mike Dennin: Teaching Physics in the Modern Era | 4:15pm - 4:30pm | Closing Remarks |
Confirmed Invited Speakers:
Moumita Das
Michael Dennin
Jeff Eldredge
Jack Feldman
William Gelbart
Gary Grest
Alexander Grosberg
Randy Kamien
Tatiana Kuriabova
Andrea Liu
Fred Mackintosh
David Nelson
Phillip Nelson
Rob Phillips
Phillip Pincus
Sriram Ramaswamy
Christoph Schmidt
Jeremy Schmitt
Valentin Slepukhin
Megan Valentine
Wolfgang Wall