PASI on Frontiers in Particulate Media: From Fundamentals to Applications

The program for this conference is available via the following link.

Lecturers and Discussion Leaders

Robert P. Behringer, Dept. of Physics, Duke University
John Brady, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Caltech
Karen Daniels, Dept. of Physics, North Carolina State University
Paul Johnson, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Irene Ippolito, Grupo de Medios Porosos, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Lou Kondic, Dept. of Mathematics, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Jorge Kurchan, École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (ESPCI), Paris
Cristina Marchetti, Dept. of Physics, Syracuse University
Corey O'Hern, Depts. of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science and Physics, Yale University
David Pine, Dept. of Physics, New York University
Thorsten Poeschel, Inst. Multiscale Simulation, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Luis Pugnaloni, Facultad Regional La Plata, Universidad Tecnológica Nacional
Mark Shattuck, Dept. of Physics, City College of City University of New York
Rodrigo Soto, Dpto. de Física, Universidad de Chile

Lecturers on Industrial Applications

Monday 9:00 - 10:30 Behringer: A Perspective on the Physics of Granular Materials (Part I)
Monday 11:00 - 12:30 Daniels: Measurements at the Particle Scale: Tracking Positions and Forces
Monday 2:30 - 4:00 Behringer: A Perspective on the Physics of Granular Materials (Part II)
Monday 4:30 - 6:00 Poeschel: Event driven simulations of granular matter (Part I)

Tuesday 9:00 - 10:30 Poeschel: Event driven simulations of granular matter (Part II)
Tuesday 11:00 - 12:30 Kurchan: Introduction to statistical physics methods applied to particulate matter
Tuesday 2:30 - 4:00 Hryb: Granular Matter and Geomechanics
Tuesday 4:30 - 6:00 Poster Session I

Wednesday 9:00 - 10:30 Kurchan: Glass versus jamming transitions
Wednesday 11:00-12:30 Johnson: Elastic and plastic behavior of dense granular systems
Wednesday 2:30 - 4:00 Johnson: Granular matter under shear in relation to geophysical problems
Wednesday 4:30 - 6:00 15 min. contributed talks by: Teomy, Gago, Madrid, Zhang, Boschan, de Jong

Friday 9:00 - 10:30 Pine: Light activated swimmers
Friday 11:00 - 12:30 Marchetti: Hydrodynamics of Active Liquid Crystals (videoconf.)
Friday 12:30 - 12:45 Rozenfeld: Physical Review E
Friday 12:45 - 13:00 Pugnaloni: Papers in Physics
Friday 13:00 - 13:15 Galliano: YPF Tecnología
Friday afternoon free

Saturday

8:55 - 9:00 Corey O'Hern: Introduction
9:00 - 9:40 David Pine: Guided self-assembly of DNA-functionalized colloids
9:40 - 10:20 Paul Mort: Network structure of colloidal suspensions: Characterization and simulation
10:20 - 10:50 Break
10:50 - 11:30 John Brady: Chemical Swimming and ActiveMatter
11:30 - 12:10 Jorge Kurchan: Amorphous order
12:10 - 1:40 Lunch break
1:40 - 2:20 Robert Behringer: Jamming by Shear
2:20 - 3:00 Karen Daniels: The Effects of Particle Shape
3:00 - 3:40 Paul Johnson: Acoustical emission precursorspreceding failure in sheared granular material
3:40 - 4:10 Break
4:10 - 4:25 Nicolás Mujica: Dynamics of confinednon-cohesivegranular systems
4:25 - 4:40 Ana María Vidales: Rise of anintruder disk under tapping
4:40 - 4:55 Martín Sánchez: Effect ofparticleshape and fragmentation on the response of particle dampers
4:55 - 5:10 Luciana Bruno: Intracellular transport of organelles driven by multiple motors: Cooperation or competition?
5:10 - 5:25 Tomás Grigera: Modelling transport of information in turning flocks
5:25 - 5:40 María Alejandra Aguirre: Granularflow through an aperture: Influence of the compactivity of the system
5:40 - 5:55 Adolfo Banchio: Short-, intermediate-, and long-time diffusion in chargedcolloidal suspensions

Sunday

9:00 - 9:40 Luis Pugnaloni: Clogging transition ofmany-particlesystems flowing through bottlenecks
9:40 - 10:20 Mark Shattuck: The statistics of frictionalfamilies
10:20 - 10:50 Break
10:50 - 11:30 Lou Kondic: Evolution of force networks in dense particulate matter
11:30 - 12:10 Thorsten Poeschel: Granular dampers
12:10 - 2:20 Lunch break
2:20 - 2:35 Daniel Parisi: Experimental confirmation of the "faster is slower"' effect in various particulate systems
2:35 - 2:50 Verónica Marconi: Active matterphysically manipulated: Bacteria vs. human sperm cells
2:50 - 3:05 Demian Slobinsky: Statistical description of staticgranular systems in the arch ensemble
3:05 - 3:20 Allbens Atman: Measurement of elastic parameters of granular layers from stress response functions
3:20 - 3:50 Break
3:50 - 4:30 Rodrigo Soto: Segregation in vibrated granular mixtures
4:30 - 5:10 Corey O'Hern: Hypo-coordinated solids above and below jamming onset

Tuesday 9:00 - 10:30 Pugnaloni: Structural description of packed particulates
Tuesday 11.00 - 12:30 Soto: Kinetic theory and granular hydrodynamics (Part I)
Tuesday 2:30 - 4:00 Soto: Kinetic theory and granular hydrodynamics (Part II)
Tuesday: 4:30 - 6:00 Shattuck: Granular thermodynamics (Part I)

Wednesday 9:00 - 10:30 Shattuck: Granular thermodynamics (Part II)
Wednesday 11:00 - 12:30 O'Hern: Computational studies of systems undergoing jamming and glass transitions (Part I)
Wednesday 2:30 - 4:00 O'Hern: Computational studies of systems undergoing jamming and glass transitions (Part II)
Wednesday 4:30 - 6:00 Mort: Overview of the industrial applications involving granular matter

Thursday 9:00 -10:30 Mort: Characterization of particulate flow in quasi-static and intermediate regimes
Thursday 11:00 - 12:30 Kondic: Force networks in dense particulate matter
Thursday 2:30 - 4:00 Brady: Micromechanics of colloidal dispersions
Thursday 4:30 - 6:00 Brady, Kondic, O’Hern, Mort, Pugnaloni, Shattuck, Soto: Perspectives for development of better international connections between the researchers in the field of particulate matter

Friday 9:00 - 10:30 Brady: Suspensions and granular matter: Wet versus dry
Friday 11:00 - 12:30 15 min. contributed talks by: Kovalcinova, Magalhaes, Grob, Baeza, Schreck, Kramar
Friday 12:30 Closing

PASI on Frontiers in Particulate Media: From Fundamentals to Applications - 11 - 22 August, 2014, La Plata, Argentina