The workshop will consist of 4 sessions featuring 5 talks of 25 +5 mins in length, with 30 minutes of discussion mediated by the session chair.

Location Life Sciences Laboratory, Room LSL N610. Take elevator to 6th floor.

Tentative program

Thursday 8th September

1:00 – 2:00 Reception and light lunch

2:00 – 2:15  Welcome

Session I  2:00 – 5:45 chair: Todd Emrick

Part I  — Elasticity and surfactants

2:15-2:40     N. Menon (UMass Amherst)    Sheets as surface-active materials

2:45 – 3:10   D. Vella (Oxford)    Slow motion snap-through

3:15 – 3:40   C. Duprat  (Ecole Polytechnique)    Capillary adhesion of elastic fibers

3:45-4:15  Coffee break

Part II — Multiphase strategies

4:15-4:40     T. Mason  (UCLA)   Lock-and-Key Dimerization Reactions of Annular Sector Particles in Dense Brownian Monolayers

4:45 – 5:10   G. Grason (UMass Amherst)  Scars and Wrinkles: Competing instabilities of geometrically-frustrated particle sheets

5:15 – 5:45   Discussion

7PM  Dinner at Johnny’s Tavern in downtown Amherst

Friday  9th September

8:00-9:00 Breakfast at hotel

Session II :  9:00 – 12:30  chair: Benny Davidovitch

Part I  — Thin sheets

9:00-9:25    S. Bunch (Boston U)   Blister-Testing Atomic Membranes

9:30 -9:55    P. McEuen (Cornell)   2D Materials as Active Interfaces

10:00-10:25  J.  Paulsen (Syracuse)   No instructions necessary: Thin sheets are optimal wrappers of liquid drops

10:30-11:00   Coffee break

Part II  — Thin sheets, contd.

11:00-11:25   X. Zhao (MIT)   Phase diagram of surface instability patterns

11:30-11:55   B. Roman (ESPCI)  Buckling of activated dielectric elastomer sheet

12:00 – 12:30   Discussion

12:30-2:00  Lunch

Session III :  2:00 – 5:30  chair: Chris Santangelo

Part I  — Geometry and Design

2:00-2:25    L. Mahadevan  (Harvard)  Programming shape

2:30 -2:55    V. Demery  (ESPCI)  Folding and buckling of a floating annular sheet driven by geometry

3:00-3:25  A. Yodh  (UPenn)  Soft films with topographic features

3:30-4:00   Coffee break

Part II  — Harnessing Instabilities 

4:00-4:25   P. Clegg  (Edinburgh)   Droplets that sprout millimeter-scale tubes

4:30-4:55   K. Daniels (North Carolina State)  Fingering Instabilities in surface-passivating Liquid Metals

5:00 – 5:30   Discussion

Saturday 10th September 

8:00-9:00 Breakfast at hotel

Session IV :  9:00 – 12:30  Chair: Jonathan Rothstein

Part I  — Assembly at Interfaces

9:00-9:25    O. Velev  (North Carolina State)   Novel responsive and reconfigurable soft materials made of nano- and microparticles bound by multiphasic liquid

9:30 -9:55    P. Vlahovska (Brown)  Electrohydrodynamic particle assembly on a drop interface

10:00-10:25 O. Gang  (Brookhaven/Columbia)   Towards Self-Assembly by Design

10:30-11:00   Coffee break

Part II  — Assembly at Interfaces  contd.

11:00-11:25   J. Schiffman  (UMass Amherst)   Bioinspired materials meet microbiology

11:30-11:55   D. Weitz  (Harvard)  TBA

12:00 – 12:30   Discussion

12:30-1:00  Lunch & Adjourn