Soft Contacts, Mechanics, and Adhesion
Symposium Agenda
Welcome Meet and Greet - Tuesday, October 18, 2016
5:30 – 7:30 – Light Refreshments at the Florida Museum of Natural History
Day 1 - Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Session 1
8:15 - Welcome: W. Gregory Sawyer (University of Florida) & Thomas Wyrobek (Hysitron)
8:30 – Opening Talk: Thomas E. Angelini (University of Florida)
9:00 – Gerald G. Fuller (Stanford University) - Biofilm-assisted adhesion onto bladder cells
9:30 – Al Crosby (University of Massachusetts Amherst) - Cavitation and Puncture of Soft Gels
10:00 – 10:30 Break
Session 2
10:30 – Jay Fineberg (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) - Friction is Fracture
11:00 – Ali Dhinojwala (The University of Akron) - Adhesion and Friction in Wet Environment
11:30 – Michael Varenberg (Georgia Institute of Technology) - Biomimetic wall-shaped hierarchical microstructure for gecko-like attachment
12:00 – Evan Evans (Boston University) - Adhesion of soft-living materials ... nontrivial nano-to-mesoscale dynamics
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch
Session 3
1:30 – Dan Blair (Georgetown University) - Boundary Stress Microscopy: Using Soft Surfaces to Measure Local Rheology
2:00 – Mike Murrell (Yale University) - Liposome Adhesion Generates Traction Stress
2:30 – Manoj Chaudhury (Lehigh University) - Some experiment with drops and soft hydrogels
3:00 – 3:30 Break
3:30 – 4:15 - Speed Round (~ 20 presentations)
4:15 – 5:30
Free time (Tour of the Soft Matter Engineering Center)
5:30 – Posters/Cocktails in the Champions Club at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium
7:00 - Dinner in the Champions Club at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium
Day 2 - Thursday, October 20, 2016
Session 4
8:30 – Opening Talk: Kate Jensen (Williams College)
9:00 – Bo Persson (Research Center Juelich) - Soft matter dynamics: adhesion and fluid squeeze-out
9:30 – Asif Syed (Hysitron) - Micro and Nanoscale Adhesion and Dynamic Mechanical Analyses of Compliant Materials
10:00 – Rob Carpick (University of Pennsylvania) - Hydrogel Contact Mechanics
10:30 – Nic Spencer (ETH Zurich) - Pushing and Sliding on Gels
11:00-11:30 Break
Session 5
11:30 – Pete Ifju (Universiry of Florida) - Using Digital Image Correlation for Contact Mechanics of Generic Rough Surfaces
11:50 – Tevis Jacobs (University of Pittsburgh) - The Experimental Determination of Surface Topography Across Length Scales
12:10 – Kevin Turner (University of Pennsylvania) - Structured Composite Surfaces with Tunable Adhesion
12:30 – Marc Masen (Imperial College London) - Friction behavior of human skin - measurements and models
12:50-2:00 Lunch
Session 6
2:00 – Emmanouela Filippidi (University of California, Santa Barbara) - From mussels to mussel-inspired materials
2:20 – Tanmay Lele (University of Florida) - Mechanical integration between cell and nucleus
2:40 – Ran Tivony (Weizmann Institute of Science) - Metal-dielectric contact in aqueous electrolytes
3:00 – Malisa Sarntinoranont (University of Florida) – Mechanical testing of acute brain slices
Closing Session
3:20 – Kathy Wahl (US Naval Research Laboratory) - Barnacle Adhesion: Chemistry, Biochemistry and Mechanics of a Complex Biointerface
3:50 – Closing discussion
Conference Closes at 5 PM