| 12:30 to 13:25 | Registration and Lunch | |||
| 13:25 to 13:30 | Welcome and Introduction | Mike Cates (University of Cambridge) | ||
| Session 1: New Functional Materials (Chair: Tom McLeish, Durham University) | 13:30 to 14:10 | Vitrimers - a New Paradigm for Processible Polymers (+) | Ludwik Leibler (ESPCI ParisTech ) | |
| 14:10 to 14:50 | Self-Assembly and Health: The Bad News is the Good News | Daan Frenkel (University of Cambridge) |
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| 14:50 to 15:10 | Tea and Coffee | |||
| Session 2: Soft Matter Industry Challenge Presentations (part 1) (Chair: Isabella Van Damme, Mars Food) | 15:10 to 15:35 | Adding Chemistry to Mesoscale Simulations: Hydrolysis of SDS | Ian Stott (Unilever R&D) |
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| 15:35 to 16:00 | Connecting Microscopic Parameters to Macroscopic Flow in Film Blowing | Keith Powell (Innovia Films) |
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| 16:00 to 16:25 | Plastics Work in Practice, But Do They Work in Theory? | Ian Robinson (Lucite International) | ||
| 16:25 to 16:50 | Tea and Coffee | |||
| 16:50 to 16:55 | Elevator Pitch: Clustering of Magnetic Swimmers in a Channel | Fanlong Meng (University of Oxford) | ||
| 16:55 to 17:00 | Elevator Pitch: Boundary Effects in Heterogeneous Active Systems | Vladimir Khodygo (Aberystwyth University) |
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| 17:00 to 17:05 | Elevator Pitch: Analytic Theory and Simulation of Polymer Knots | Liang Dai (Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology) |
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| 17:05 to 17:10 | Elevator Pitch: Morse-Witten Theory and it's Applications | Denis Weaire (Trinity College Dublin) | ||
| 17:10 to 17:15 | Elevator Pitch: Local Structure in Deeply Supercooled Liquids Exhibits Growing Lengthscales and Dynamical Correlations | James Hallett (University of Bristol) |
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| 17:15 to 17:20 | Elevator Pitch: Ultrafast Deformation of Colloid Monolayers at Fluid Interfaces | Marco De Corato (Imperial College London) |
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| 17:20 to 17:25 | Elevator Pitch: Emergent Many-Body Interactions in Amorphous Solids | Yoav Pollack (Weizmann Institute of Science) |
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| 17:25 to 17:30 | Elevator Pitch: Segregating Photoelastic Particles in Free-Surface Granular Flows | Amalia Thomas (University of Cambridge) |
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| 17:35 to 17:40 | Elevator Pitch: Dense Packing of Spheres in Cylinders | Adil Mughal (Aberystwyth University) |
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| 17:40 to 18:40 | Poster, Networking, Drinks and Industry Challenge Discussions |
| Session 3: Ionic Effects in Soft and Colloidal Materials (Chair: Kristian Muller-Nedebock, Stellenbosch University) | 09:00 to 09:40 | Timescale and Lengthscale Puzzles in Ionic Liquids and Concentrated Electrolytes | Susan Perkin (University of Oxford) |
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| 09:40 to 10:20 | Ions in Concentrated Electrolytes: From the Screening Length to Energy Storage | Alpha Lee (Harvard University) |
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| 10:20 to 10:50 | Tea and Coffee | |||
| 10:50 to 11:30 | Non-Equilibrium Separation: From Biomimetic Kindey-on-a-chip to Active Sieving | Lyderic Bocquet (Université PSL) |
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| Session 4: Soft Matter Industry Challenge Presentations (part 2) (Chair: Anthony Pearson, Schlumberger) | 11:30 to 11:55 | Concurrent Product-Process Design - Challenges Presented by Process Dependent Microstructures |
Scott Singleton (Unilever R&D) Robert Prosser (University of Manchester) |
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| 11:55 to 12:20 | Big Molecules and Small Particles | Lennart Lindfors (AstraZeneca) | ||
| 12:20 to 12:45 | CPI National Formulation Centre - Innovating how we Innovate in the UK | Graeme Cruickshank (Centre for Process Innovation Ltd) |
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| 12:45 to 14:00 | Lunch and Industry Challenge Discussions | |||
| Session 5: Soft Biomatter (Chair: Bulbul Chakraborty, Brandeis University) | 14:00 to 14:40 | A Unifying Theory of Branching Morphogenesis | Ben Simons (University of Cambridge) | |
| 14:40 to 15:20 | Bacterial "Hydrophobins": A New Class of 'Smart' Switchable Surface-Active Proteins | Cait MacPhee (University of Edinburgh) | ||
| 15:20 to 16:00 | Toward a Physical Description of Biological Tissues | Jean-Francois Joanny (Collège de France), (Institut Curie) |
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| 16:00 to 16:20 | Tea and Coffee | |||
| 16:20 to 16:30 | Elevator Pitch: Hydrogen-Bonding Aggregation of Acrylamide: Theory and Experiment | Elena Patyukova (Aston University) |
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| 16:30 to 16:35 | Elevator Pitch: Self-Consistent Field Lattice Model for Polymer Networks | Nicholas Tito (Technische Universität Eindhoven) |
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| 16:35 to 16:40 | Elevator Pitch: Complex Fluids with Charge-Regulated Mobile Macro-Molecules | Tomer Markovich (University of Cambridge) |
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| 16:40 to 16:45 | Elevator Pitch: 2D Foams Above the Jamming Transition: Deformation Matters | Jens Winkelmann (Trinity College Dublin), (Vodafone) |
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| 16:45 to 16:50 | Elevator Pitch: Vorticity Banding in Dense Suspensions | Rahul Chacko (Durham University) |
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| 16:50 to 16:55 | Elevator Pitch: How Strong is a Soda Can: The Stability Landscape of Cylindrical Shells | Shmuel Rubinstein (Harvard University) |
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| 16:55 to 17:00 | Elevator Pitch: Modelling Phase Separation on Artificial Closed Lipid Membranes | Piermarco Fonda (Lorentz Institute, Leiden University) |
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| 17:00 to 17:05 | Elevator Pitch: Modelling the Collective Response of Heterogeneous Cells Populations to Stationary Gradients and Chemical Signal Relay | Miguel Pineda (University College London) |
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| 17:05 to 18:00 | Poster session and networking | |||
| 19:00 to 22:00 | Workshop Dinner: Gonville and Caius College |
| Session 6: Soft Matter Under Flow (Chair: Richard Buscall) | 09:30 to 10:10 | Wormlike Micelle Rheology | Ron Larson (University of Michigan) |
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| 10:10 to 10:50 | Edge Fracture in Complex Fluids | Suzanne Fielding (Durham University) | ||
| 10:50 to 11:10 | Tea and Coffee | |||
| 11:10 to 11:50 | How Can Grains Jam Under Shear? | Bob Behringer (Duke University) |
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| 11:50 to 12:30 | Rheology of Dense Suspensions | Olivier Pouliquen (Aix Marseille Université) |
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| 12:30 to 13:00 | Open Discussion and Wrap-Up | Alex Lips (University of Edinburgh) | ||
| 13:00 to 14:00 | Lunch and Finish |
