Upcoming Talks

October 2025: Society of Rheology Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, NM

Recent Talks

March 2025: APS Global Physics Summit
Materials Geomimicry: A New Paradigm in Earth-Inspired Materials Mechanics (Invited)

February 2025: Mid-Atlantic Geobiology Symposium, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Microplastics, microbes, and the emergence of bioconvection (Invited)

December 2024: American Geophysical Union (AGU) Annual Meeting, Washington, DC
Flow and failure transitions in Soft Earth suspensions

December 2024: Soft, Fluid, Living Matter (SoFLivMat) Coffee Hour, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Engineering Nature-Inspired Mechanical Materials (Invited)

November 2024: 77th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS-DFD), Salt Lake City, UT
Velocity fluctuations in sedimentation of particles stirred by bacterial suspensions

November, 2024: Mid-Atlantic Soft Matter Workshop (MASM), University of Delaware, Newark, DE
What’s magic about baseball’s rubbing mud?

October 2024: American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA
Colloidal Surface-Anisotropy Toolbox for Engineering Suspension Flow
Tuning Mechanical Failure in Multiphase Soft Particulate Systems

October 2024: 95th Annual Meeting of the Society of Rheology (SOR), Austin, TX
Multiscale rheo-tribological origins of baseball mud gripping mechanics
Ductile-to-brittle transition in soft earth particulate systems

June 2024: ACS Colloids and Surface Science Symposium, Seattle, WA
Rheo-Tribological Origins of Baseball “Magic Mud” Mechanics

March, 2024: APS March Meeting, Minneapolis, MN
Rheological fingerprints of soft earth suspensions

February, 2024: Mid-Atlantic Soft Matter Workshop (MASM), Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Soft Soil Mechanics: Discovering rheological constitutive equations via. soft earth geophysics

November, 2023: 76th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS-DFD), Washington, DC
Rheological fingerprints of non-inertial soft earth suspension flows
Multiscale probing of colloidal sedimentation dynamics in active suspensions

November, 2023: AIChE Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL
Less Is More: “Simple” Complex Fluids Reveal Rheological Fingerprints in Environmental Flows

June, 2023: ACS Colloids and Surface Science Symposium, Raleigh, NC
Frictional interactions anneal yielding mechanics in soft earth suspensions (Invited: Victor K. LaMer Speaker)

March, 2023: APS March Meeting, Las Vegas, NV
Material constraints dictate flow mechanics in dense suspensions (Invited: “Frontiers in Soft Matter” Early Career Speaker)
Rheological state diagrams for model earth suspensions under shear flow

December, 2022: New England Complex Fluids Workshop, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Dense suspension rheology approach towards debris flow

October, 2022: 93rd Society of Rheology Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL
Rheological flow curves for debris flow suspensions

March, 2022: American Physical Society March Meeting, Chicago, IL
Constraint-based approach towards debris flow rheology
Elucidating the effect of surface roughness-induced geometric frustration on linear viscoelasticity in colloids suspensions

October, 2021: 92nd Society of Rheology Annual Meeting, Bangor, ME
Effect of geometric frustration on the linear viscoelasticity in dense colloidal suspensions

July, 2021: 95th ACS Colloids & Surface Science Symposium (Virtual)
Probing contact microstructure in shear thickening colloidal suspensions (Invited: Langmuir Graduate Student Speaker)

March, 2021: American Physical Society March Meeting (Virtual)
Elasticity in dense suspensions of geometrically frustrated colloids

December, 2020: 18th International Congress on Rheology (Virtual)
Distance to jamming dictates onset stress and strength of shear thickening (Invited)