Program

Sun Feb. 2

17:00-19:00 registration (wine and cheese)  

Mon Feb. 3

8:00-8:20 opening

Morning Session:   Elasticity of Graphene and related structures (I)

8:20-8:55  Andrej Kosmrlj

8:55-9:30 Kiril Bolotin

9:30-9:50 coffee break

9:50-10:25 Leo Radzihovsky

10:25-11:00 Michael Moshe  

Evening Session:   Elasticity and Transport in Graphene and related structures (II)

16:00-  16:35  Mark Bowick

16:35 – 17:10 Laura Fumagalli

17:10 – 17:30 Coffee

17:30 – 18:05 Pablo Ares

18:05 – 18:40 Luis Bonilla

18:40-19:15 Rui Huang  

Tue Feb. 4

Morning Session:   Gauge fields and strain engineering in Graphene and semiconducting two-dimensional materials (I)

8:20-8:55  Hector Ochoa 

8:55-9:30 Eva Andrei

9:30-9:50 coffee break

9:50-10:25 Christoff Stampfer

10:25-11:00 Andres Castellanos-Gomez  

Evening Session:   Gauge fields and strain engineering in Graphene and semiconducting two-dimensional materials (II)

16:00-  16:35  Christian Schoenenberger

16:35 – 17:10 Nai-Chang Yeh

17:10 – 18:10 Poster Session

18:10 – 18:45 Moshe Ben-Shalom

18:45 – 19:20 Konstantin Novoselov   

Wed  Feb. 5

Morning Session:  Elasticity and pattern formation in 2D solids

8:20-8:55  Narayanan Menon

8:55-9:30 Shankar Vnkataramani

9:30-9:50 coffee break

9:50-10:25 Ian Tobasco

10:25-11:00 Dominic Vella  

Evening Session (at the Wheeler Opera house, open to the public)

4:30 — 5:30 Physics Cafe (with Daria Atkinson and Narayanan Menon, UMass Amherst)

5:30 –6:30 Public Lecture “Materials in the Flatland” by Konstantin Novoselov       

Thurs Feb. 6

Morning Session:   Topological Mechanics and meta-materials

8:20-8:55  Christian Santangelo

8:55-9:30 Vincenzo Vitelli

9:30-9:50 coffee break

9:50-10:25 Kai Sun

10:25-11:00 Yair Shokef  

Evening Session:   Self-Assembly and Liquid crystalline order in low dimensions

16:00-  16:35  Shu Yang

16:35 – 17:10 Eugenia Kumcheva

17:10 – 17:30 Coffee

17:30 – 18:05 Gregory Grason

18:05 – 18:40 Jonathan Selinger

18:40-19:15 Hilel Aharoni  

Fri  Feb. 7

Morning Session:   Topology and Strain in low dimensions 

8:20-8:55  Eran Sela

8:55-9:30 Moshe Harats

9:30-9:50 coffee break

9:50-10:25 Mark Bockrath

10:25-11:00 Xiaoming Mao

11:00-11:35 Ruijuan Xu 

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 11:35-12:15 Concluding discussion