4-VA Soft Matter Workshop
Where
Festival Conference Center - Highlands Room
1301 Carrier Drive
Harrisonburg, VA 22807
Driving Directions to Festival
Parking
Turn into the D3 lot located at G-7 on the campus map (across the street from Festival). Upon entering the D3 lot, turn right and park in the gravel area adjacent to the soccer fields. Early in the morning, a JMU staff member will be present to direct you to the Highlands Room.
Contact
Klebert FeitosaJMU Department of Physics & Astronomy
540-568-5340
feitoskb@jmu.edu
AGENDA - Updated 1.29.14
8:15 – Registration and Breakfast
9:00 – Opening remarks
9:10 – Dr. Brian Utter – Physics and Astronomy, JMU
“Avalanching and flow of granular and granular-fluid mixtures”
9:50 – Sound bite presentations I
10:40 – Coffee break
11:00 – Dr. Kate Stebe – Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
“Directed assembly in soft matter using stresses created by particle-induced distortions”
11:40 – Sound bite presentations II
12:30 – Lunch
1:30 – Sound bite presentations III
2:00 – Dr. Jeff Urbach – Institute for Soft Mater Synthesis and Metrology, Georgetown
“Nonlinear mechanics of stiff biopolymer networks”
2:40 – Coffee break
3:00 – Sound bite presentations IV
3:30 – Dr. Shengfeng Cheng – Physics, Virginia Tech
“Self-assembly of Model Microtubules”
4:10 – Concluding remarks