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13th September 2023
12:00 to 13:00 Registration and Lunch
13:00 to 13:10 Welcome & Introduction Mike Cates (University of Cambridge)
Session 1: Granular Materials and Plasticity
13:10 to 13:50 Rheology of Confined Granular Systems: Shearing, Creeping and Friction Weakening Patrick Richard (Université Gustave Eiffel)
13:50 to 14:30 Local Barriers, Not Cooperative Effects, Make Glasses Solid Matthieu Wyart (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
14:30 to 14:50 Tea, Coffee and Posters
14:50 to 15:30 TBC Silke Henkes (Universiteit Leiden)
15:30 to 16:10 Yielding of Amorphous Materials Suzanne Fielding (Durham University)
Session 2: Subcellular Biophysics
16:10 to 16:50 TBC Davide Marenduzzo (University of Edinburgh)
16:50 to 17:30 Physics of Structure Formation in Living Systems Stephan Grill (Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics)
17:30 to 18:30 Poster, Networking and Drinks Reception
14th September 2023
09:15 to 09:55 Biophysics of the Human Genome Alexandra Zidovska (New York University)
09:55 to 10:35 TBC Fred MacKintosh (Rice University)
Session 3: Programmable Soft Matter
10:35 to 11:15 TBC Lucio Isa (ETH Zurich)
11:15 to 11:35 Tea, Coffee and Posters
11:35 to 12:15 TBC Jasna Brujic (New York University)
12:15 to 12:55 TBC Ramin Golestanian (Max-Planck-Institut für Dynamics and Self-Organisation), (University of Oxford)
12:55 to 13:55 Lunch and Posters
Session 4: Industry Talks
13:55 to 14:25 Talk 1
14:25 to 14:55 Talk 2
14:55 to 15:25 Talk 3
15:25 to 15:45 Talk 4
15:45 to 16:05 Tea, Coffee and Posters
Session 5: Elevator Pitches from Early-Stage Researcher Poster Exhibitors
16:05 to 17:00 Around 12 Students with 4 minutes presentations
19:30 Workshop Dinner - Gonville and Caius College
15th September 2023
Session 6: Statistical Physics of Rare Events
09:15 to 09:55 TBC Jean-Philippe Bouchard (Capital Fund Management)
09:55 to 10:35 TBC Robert Jack (University of Cambridge)
10:35 to 11:15 Extreme Events in the Climate System Vera Melinda Galfi (Uppsala Universitet)
11:15 to 11:35 Tea, Coffee and Posters
11:35 to 12:15 TBC Tobias Grafke (University of Warwick)
12:15 to 13:15 Round Table Discussion
13:15 to 13:30 Wrap-up
13:30 Lunch, Posters and Finish