61st New England Workshop on Complex Fluids
Friday, December 5, 2014
Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
Harvard University
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Invited Speakers:

• Esther Amstad (École Polytechique Fédérale de Lausanne)
• Timothy J. Atherton (Tufts University)
• Ibrahim Cissé (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
• Andrea J. Liu (University of Pennsylvania)
• Shmuel Rubinstein (Harvard University)

Schedule:

8:00 – 9:00 a.m.	Breakfast and Registration, Maxwell-Dworkin, Ground Floor Lobby
	Morning Presentations, Maxwell-Dworkin, Room G115
9:00 a.m.–9:30 p.m.	Sound Bites Session I (*early bird) Adrian Pegoraro, Harvard University "Cell surface mechanosensing" Maximilian Zieringer, Harvard University "Microcapsules for enhanced cargo retention and diversity" Jing Fan, Harvard University "Targeted delivery of surfactant by smart capsules for two-phase flow control in porous media" Joseph McDermott, Harvard University "Charged colloids and ionic strength in nonpolar solvents" Alessandro Ofner, Harvard University "Water-oil-water double emulsions by re-injection of single emulsions" Omer Gottesman, Harvard University "Smashing into shape" Viva Horowitz, Harvard University "Building a dynamic cell from the bottom up" Vikrant Yadav, Clark University "Effect of aspect ratio on the development of order in vibrated granular rods" Xiaver Clotet, Clark University "Towards Particle Sedimentation in Clay Suspensions" Aaron Lewis, Yale University "Chiral cubic membranes in colorful butterflies" Michael Morse, Brown University "Motor switching rates in caulobacter crescentus follow first passage time distribution"
9:30–10:00 a.m.	Timothy J. Atherton, Tufts University "Arresting relaxation in Pickering emulsions"
10:00–10:30 a.m.	Esther Amstad, École Polytechique Fédérale de Lausanne "Microfluidics: A tool to produce new materials"
10:30–11:00 p.m.	Coffee I, Maxwell-Dworkin, Ground Floor Lobby
11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.	Sound Bites Session I *Mikkel Jensen, Harvard University "Rheology of composite semiflexible biopolymer networks" Matteo Pezzulla, Boston University "Morphing of Geometric Composites via Residual Swelling" *Elad Stolovicki, Harvard University "Droplet's chemostat" *Roy Ziblat, Harvard University "Determining the specificity of proteins to lipid compositions by combinatorial screening of liposomes" *Katharine Jensen, Yale University "Stiff particles on compliant substrates: Adhesion or wetting?" Fahri Erinc Hizir, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Effect of substrate wettability on ink transfer in flexographic printing" *Jason Wexler, Princeton University "Failure of liquid-infused surfaces" *Sorell Massenburg, Harvard University "Particle deposition and re-entrainment induced microchannel clogging" Alban Sauret, New York University "Growth of clogs in microchannels" Oni Basu, Broad Institute "High-throughput single-cell RNA-seq using droplet microfluidics" *Dong Chen, Harvard University "Microencapsulation of beta-carotene" Ryan McKeown, Harvard University "Liquid atomization in an ultrasonic fountain" Yossi Cohen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Where do rivers grow? Path selection and growth in a harmonic field" Usama Kadri, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Acoustic-gravity waves, theory and application" Natasha Lisitza, Brigham and Women's Hospital "Studying self-assembly and molecular interactions by NMR" Behrouz Tavakol, Virginia Tech University "Instability of soft materials as a means for advanced structural functionality" *Arijit Bose, University of Rhode Island "Directed Assembly of Highly Hydrophilic and Highly Hydrophobic Particles at Oil-Water Interfaces for Stabilizing Emulsions" *Karen Alim, Harvard University "Adaption of fluid flow in the slime mold Physarum polycephalum" *Sushant Anand, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "How droplets nucleate and grow on liquids and liquid impregnated surfaces" *Anna Wang, Harvard University "A different kind of attraction" *Emilie Dressaire, New York University "Damping of liquid sloshing by foams" Andrew DeBenedictis, Tufts University "Liquid crystal behavior on a circle-patterned surface" Christopher Burke, Tufts University "Spheres jammed on ellipsoids: Where do the defects go?" Nesrin Senbil, University of Massachusetts - Amherst "Contact line deformation around a spherical particle at an anisotropic liquid interface" Yan Jiang, Children's Hospital, Boston "Surface-free single-molecule force spectroscopy"
12:00–1:30 p.m.	Lunch, Maxwell-Dworkin, Room 119
Afternoon Presentations, Maxwell-Dworkin, Room G115
1:30–2:00 p.m.	Ibrahim Cissé, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Organization and dynamics of transcription at molecular resolution in living cells"
2:00–2:30 p.m.	Shmuel Rubinstein, Harvard University "When a drop hits a surface"
2:30–3:30 p.m.	Sound Bites Session II (*early bird) *Eliza Morris, Harvard University "Oil retention in 2D vs. 3D porous media" *William Steinhardt, Harvard University "Understanding hydraulic fracture using tough hydrogels" *Shaoting Lin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Designing extremely resilient and tough hydrogels via delayed dissipation" Burak Eral, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Governing principles of alginate hydrogel synthesis with centrifugal forces" *John Kolinski, Hebrew University "Through thin air: The birth of liquid solid contact beneath an impacting drop" Daosheng Deng, Harvard University "Direct visualization of ion concentration in a porous medium" Shima Parsa, Harvard University "Effect of polymer retention on dynamics of single phase flow in porous media" *Jonathan Singer, Yale University "Scalable directed assembly of electrosprayed nanoparticles by durotaxis" *Kenji Katayama, Chuo University "Deformation dynamics azobenzene liquid crystalline polymer films studied by speckle correlation reflection phase microscopy" *Emily Gehrels, Harvard University "Programming directed motion on the micron scale by thermal ratcheting" *Zhen Cao, University of Connecticut "Nonlinear elasticity of bottlebrush networks and gels" Liheng Cai, Harvard University "Tough elastomers by hybridizing covalent and reversible networks" Lilian Hsiao, University of Michigan "Orientational order and kinetics in the self-assembly of colloidal ellipsoids" Rebecca Perry, Harvard University "Ordering up a population of clusters of colloidal isotopes" *Nicholas Schade, Harvard University "Self-assembly of plasmonic nanoclusters for optical metafluids" Jin-Gyu Park, Harvard University "Structural coloration through inverse photonic glasses" Anupam Sengupta, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Escaping turbulence?" Yaov Lahini, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Tracking of unlabeled nano-particles and single viruses in a nano-fluidic optical fiber" *Kimberly Farah, Lasell College "Physics of running shoes: Impact force vs. types of shoes" *Dipti Sharma, Lasell College "Presence of time lag in crystalline to smectic A phase transition of 4-decyl-4-biphenylcarbonitrile liquid crystal"
3:30–4:00 p.m.	Coffee and Cookies, Maxwell-Dworkin, Ground Floor Lobby
4:00 p.m.	Condensed Matter Seminar, Pierce, Room 209 Andrea J. Liu, University of Pennsylvania "The anticrystal"