Presentations

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Invited talks by topic (see CV for chronological list)

Surface tension and mechanical rigidity in active biological systems

CONES 2018 (Conference on Non-Equilibrium Systems), King’s College London; June 2018
Geometry of Soft Matter workshop, Natal, Brazil; May 2018
Colloquium, North Carolina A&T; March 2018
Soft and Bio Matter Seminar, Leiden University; October 2017
Seminar, TU Delft; October 2017
Seminar, TU Eindhoven; October 2017
8th Physics of Cancer Symposium, Leipzig, Germany; October 2017
Seminar, Leipzig University; July 2017

Machine learning in disordered solids

CS Colloquium: University of Oregon; March 2018
Seminar: Kavli Institute for Bionano Science and Technology, Harvard University; May 2017
Seminar: Emory University; April 2017
Seminar: Northwestern University; December 2016
MRSEC Group Meeting: University of Pennsylvania; December 2016
Colloquium: Emory University; November 2016
Simons Collaboration Workshop: “Cracking the glass problem”; University of Chicago; June 2016

Topological boundary modes in disordered solids

Seminar: Syracuse University; April 2017
Colloquium: University of Vermont; February 2016
Colloquium: Haverford College; February 2016

Algorithmic lattice kirigami

ICERM workshop: Unusual Configuration Spaces, Brown University; September 2016
SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science; Philadelphia, PA; May 2016
NSF EFRI-ODISSEI Workshop on Origami Design, Florida International University; February 2016

Entangled polymer physics

8th International Discussion Meeting on Relaxations in Complex Systems; Wisla, Poland; July 2017
Soft Matter Seminar: University of Massachusetts Amherst; July 2014
7th International Discussion Meeting on Relaxations in Complex Systems; Barcelona, Spain; July 2013
Soft Matter Seminar: University of Pennsylvania; November 2011
Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Sandia National Labs; August 2011


Contributed talks

Unexpected Tissue Surface Tension in Simple Models of Dense Biological Tissues
APS March Meeting; March 2018

Disconnecting structure and dynamics in glassy thin films
APS March Meeting; March 2017

Structure and dynamics in bulk and thin-film glasses
Simons Collaboration Workshop:  Cracking the glass problem; June 2016

Topological boundary modes in jammed matter
APS March Meeting; March 2016

Algorithmic lattice kirigami
Soft Matter Gordon Research Seminar; August 2015

Disordered surface vibrations in jammed sphere packings
APS March Meeting; March 2015

Vibrational Modes at the Surface of Jammed Packings
ACS Colloids; June 2014

Soft Spots in Amorphous Thin Films: A structural signature of free surfaces
APS March Meeting; March 2014

Entanglement Elasticity in Polymer Chain Melts: Microscopic calculation of the rubbery plateau modulus via intermolecular shear stress correlations
APS March Meeting; March 2013

Microscopic theory of the tube confinement potential and relaxation of entangled needle liquids under stress
APS March Meeting; March 2012

Microscopic theory of the dynamic tube confinement potential for entangled liquids of rigid macromolecules
Society of Rheology, 83rd Annual Meeting; October 2011

Microscopic Theory of Topological Entanglement Constraints in Fluids of Rigid Macromolecules
APS March Meeting; 2011

Microscopic Statistical Dynamical Theory of Correlated Motion in Glassy Fluids and Suspensions
APS March Meeting; 2010

Contributed Posters
Soft but sharp interfaces in vertex models of confluent tissue
Soft Matter Gordon Research Conference; August 2017

Algorithmic lattice kirigami
Soft Matter Gordon Research Conference; August 2015

Structural length scales in glassy thin films from machine learning
Liquids Gordon Research Conference; August 2015

Disordered surface vibrations in jammed sphere packings
Unifying Concepts in Glass Physics VI (Aspen Center for Physics); February 2015

Effect of Orientational Order on the Entanglement Density of Polymer Melts
Polymer Physics Gordon Conference; July 2014

Low-frequency modes of jammed disorderd configurations with free surfaces
7th International Discussion Meeting on Relaxations in Complex Systems; July, 2013

Theories of slow dynamics: From colloidal suspensions to entangled macromolecules
Chemistry and Physics of Liquids Gordon Research Conference; July, 2011