2nd Edwards Symposium. Challenges and Opportunities in Soft Matter

Registration and Lunch

Mike Cates University of Cambridge
Welcome and Introduction

Ludwik Leibler
Chair: Tom McLeish, Durham University
Vitrimers - a New Paradigm for Processible Polymers (+)

Daan Frenkel University of Cambridge
Chair: Tom McLeish, Durham University
Self-Assembly and Health: The Bad News is the Good News

Chair: Tom McLeish, Durham University
Tea and Coffee

Ian Stott Unilever R&D
Chair: Isabella Van Damme, Mars Food
Adding Chemistry to Mesoscale Simulations: Hydrolysis of SDS

Keith Powell Innovia Films
Chair: Isabella Van Damme, Mars Food
Connecting Microscopic Parameters to Macroscopic Flow in Film Blowing

Ian Robinson Lucite International
Chair: Isabella Van Damme, Mars Food
Plastics Work in Practice, But Do They Work in Theory?

Chair: Isabella Van Damme, Mars Food
Tea and Coffee

Fanlong Meng University of Oxford
Chair: Isabella Van Damme, Mars Food
Elevator Pitch: Clustering of Magnetic Swimmers in a Channel

Vladimir Khodygo Aberystwyth University
Chair: Isabella Van Damme, Mars Food
Elevator Pitch: Boundary Effects in Heterogeneous Active Systems

Liang Dai Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology
Chair: Isabella Van Damme, Mars Food
Elevator Pitch: Analytic Theory and Simulation of Polymer Knots

Denis Weaire Trinity College Dublin
Chair: Isabella Van Damme, Mars Food
Elevator Pitch: Morse-Witten Theory and it's Applications

James Hallett University of Bristol
Chair: Isabella Van Damme, Mars Food
Elevator Pitch: Local Structure in Deeply Supercooled Liquids Exhibits Growing Lengthscales and Dynamical Correlations

Marco De Corato Imperial College London
Chair: Isabella Van Damme, Mars Food
Elevator Pitch: Ultrafast Deformation of Colloid Monolayers at Fluid Interfaces

Yoav Pollack Weizmann Institute of Science
Chair: Isabella Van Damme, Mars Food
Elevator Pitch: Emergent Many-Body Interactions in Amorphous Solids

Amalia Thomas University of Cambridge
Chair: Isabella Van Damme, Mars Food
Elevator Pitch: Segregating Photoelastic Particles in Free-Surface Granular Flows

Adil Mughal Aberystwyth University
Chair: Isabella Van Damme, Mars Food
Elevator Pitch: Dense Packing of Spheres in Cylinders

Chair: Isabella Van Damme, Mars Food
Poster, Networking, Drinks and Industry Challenge Discussions

Susan Perkin University of Oxford
Chair: Kristian Muller-Nedebock, Stellenbosch University
Timescale and Lengthscale Puzzles in Ionic Liquids and Concentrated Electrolytes

Alpha Lee Harvard University
Chair: Kristian Muller-Nedebock, Stellenbosch University
Ions in Concentrated Electrolytes: From the Screening Length to Energy Storage

Chair: Kristian Muller-Nedebock, Stellenbosch University
Tea and Coffee

Lyderic Bocquet Université PSL
Chair: Kristian Muller-Nedebock, Stellenbosch University
Non-Equilibrium Separation: From Biomimetic Kindey-on-a-chip to Active Sieving

Robert Prosser University of Manchester ; Scott Singleton Unilever R&D
Chair: Anthony Pearson, Schlumberger
Concurrent Product-Process Design - Challenges Presented by Process Dependent Microstructures

Lennart Lindfors AstraZeneca
Chair: Anthony Pearson, Schlumberger
Big Molecules and Small Particles

Graeme Cruickshank Centre for Process Innovation Ltd
Chair: Anthony Pearson, Schlumberger
CPI National Formulation Centre - Innovating how we Innovate in the UK

Chair: Anthony Pearson, Schlumberger
Lunch and Industry Challenge Discussions

Ben Simons University of Cambridge
Chair: Bulbul Chakraborty, Brandeis University
A Unifying Theory of Branching Morphogenesis

Cait MacPhee University of Edinburgh
Chair: Bulbul Chakraborty, Brandeis University
Bacterial "Hydrophobins": A New Class of 'Smart' Switchable Surface-Active Proteins

Jean-François Joanny Institut Curie
Chair: Bulbul Chakraborty, Brandeis University
Toward a Physical Description of Biological Tissues

Chair: Bulbul Chakraborty, Brandeis University
Tea and Coffee

Elena Patyukova Aston University
Chair: Bulbul Chakraborty, Brandeis University
Elevator Pitch: Hydrogen-Bonding Aggregation of Acrylamide: Theory and Experiment

Nicholas Tito Technische Universität Eindhoven
Chair: Bulbul Chakraborty, Brandeis University
Elevator Pitch: Self-Consistent Field Lattice Model for Polymer Networks

Tomer Markovich University of Cambridge
Chair: Bulbul Chakraborty, Brandeis University
Elevator Pitch: Complex Fluids with Charge-Regulated Mobile Macro-Molecules

Jens Winkelmann Trinity College Dublin; Vodafone
Chair: Bulbul Chakraborty, Brandeis University
Elevator Pitch: 2D Foams Above the Jamming Transition: Deformation Matters

Rahul Chacko Durham University
Chair: Bulbul Chakraborty, Brandeis University
Elevator Pitch: Vorticity Banding in Dense Suspensions

Shmuel Rubinstein Harvard University
Chair: Bulbul Chakraborty, Brandeis University
Elevator Pitch: How Strong is a Soda Can: The Stability Landscape of Cylindrical Shells

Piermarco Fonda Lorentz Institute, Leiden University
Chair: Bulbul Chakraborty, Brandeis University
Elevator Pitch: Modelling Phase Separation on Artificial Closed Lipid Membranes

Miguel Pineda University College London
Chair: Bulbul Chakraborty, Brandeis University
Elevator Pitch: Modelling the Collective Response of Heterogeneous Cells Populations to Stationary Gradients and Chemical Signal Relay

Chair: Bulbul Chakraborty, Brandeis University
Poster session and networking

Chair: Bulbul Chakraborty, Brandeis University
Workshop Dinner: Gonville and Caius College

Ron Larson University of Michigan
Chair: Richard Buscall
Wormlike Micelle Rheology

Suzanne Fielding Durham University
Chair: Richard Buscall
Edge Fracture in Complex Fluids

Chair: Richard Buscall
Tea and Coffee

Bob Behringer Duke University
Chair: Richard Buscall
How Can Grains Jam Under Shear?

Olivier Pouliquen
Chair: Richard Buscall
Rheology of Dense Suspensions

Alex Lips University of Edinburgh
Chair: Richard Buscall
Open Discussion and Wrap-Up

Chair: Richard Buscall
Lunch and Finish