John Brady Symposium

Saturday October 26, at the California Institute of Technology

In celebration of John Brady’s outstanding contributions to science, on the year of his 70th birthday, Jeff Morris (CCNY) and Gwynn Elfring (UBC) hosted a day-long symposium on the Caltech campus featuring a number of invited speakers.

Events

• Welcome reception hosted by John at Athenaeum’s Rath Al Fresco (Friday)
• Day-long research symposium in the Linus Pauling Lecture Room (Caltech Gates Annex B122, Saturday)
• Evening reception and dinner at the University Club of Pasadena (175 N.Oakland Ave, Saturday)

Symposium Schedule

Morning Session 1 (9am) – Colloids

• Howard Stone, Princeton University – Particle motion at low Reynolds numbers
• Ron Larson, University of Michigan – The rich consequences of hydrodynamic interactions in particle migration, bacterial swimming, particle self assembly, and flow-induced chirality
• Gerald Fuller, Stanford University – Breaking Good: Stability of the tear film
• Norm Wagner, University of Delaware – Hydroclusters to Oobleck; an excellent adventure with John in colloidal hydrodynamics
• Lilian Hsiao, NC State University – Celebrating Brady’s predictions through advances in experimental colloidal mechanics

Coffee Break

Morning Session 2 (11am) – Active Matter

• Eric Shaqfeh, Stanford University – Measuring viscoelastic fluid properties with a tethered swimming rheometer
• Kathleen Stebe, University of Pennsylvania – Swimming in nematic liquid crystals
• David Saintillan, UCSD – Active nematic fluids on curved surfaces
• Kranthi Mandadapu, UC Berkeley – Odd viscodiffusive fluids
• Gwynn Elfring, UBC – Active matter in inhomogeneous environments

Lunch (Garden of the Associates)

Afternoon Session 1 (2pm) – Brady Alumni

• Ahmad Omar, UC Berkeley – Interfacial phenomena in driven systems
• (Edmond) Tingtao Zhou, Caltech – Effects of hydrodynamic interactions in nonequilibrium phase separation
• Stewart Mallory, Penn State University – Phase behavior and directed transport of active Brownian particles under extreme confinement
• Karol Makuch, Polish Academy of Sciences – A dream about steady-state thermodynamics and how it is becoming a reality
• Sho Takatori, UCSB – Nonequilibrium colloidal behavior and diffusion

Coffee Break

Afternoon Session 2 (4pm) – Brady Alumni

• Roseanna Zia, University of Missouri – Colloidal physics instantiate life in biological cells
• Aditya Khair, Carnegie Mellon University – Nonlinear electrophoresis of charged colloids
• Todd Squires, UCSB – Reconciling mechanical and thermodynamic models of membrane transport
• Roger Bonnecaze, UT Austin – Machine learning + plasma etch for microelectronics manufacturing = successful start-up?
• Closing Remarks

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