Upcoming Talks

January 2026: KITP Conference on “Hard Problems in Soft Earth Geophysics”, Santa Barbara, CA (Invited)
November 2025: American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS-DFD) Annual Meeting, Houston, TX
November 2025: American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Annual Meeting, Boston, MA
October 2025: Society of Rheology Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, NM

Recent Talks (Selected)

March 2025: APS Global Physics Summit, Anaheim, CA
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: Soft, Fluid, Living Matter (SoFLivMat) Coffee Hour, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Engineering Nature-Inspired Mechanical Materials (Invited)

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

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

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