Upcoming Talks

January 2026: KITP Conference on “Hard Problems in Soft Earth Geophysics”, Santa Barbara, CA (Invited Talk)
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 (SOR) 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 Talk)

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

December 2024: Soft, Fluid, Living Matter (SoFLivMat) Coffee Hour, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Engineering nature-inspired mechanical materials (Invited Talk)

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: Society of Rheology (SOR) Annual Meeting, Austin, TX
Ductile-to-brittle transition in Soft Earth particulate systems
Multiscale rheo-tribological origins of baseball mud gripping mechanics

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

March, 2023: APS March Meeting, Las Vegas, NV
Material constraints dictate flow mechanics in dense suspension rheology (Soft Matter Postdoctoral Session Invited Speaker)

March 2022: APS March Meeting, Chicago, IL
Elucidating the effects of surface roughness-induced geometric frustration on the linear viscoelastic moduli in dense colloidal suspensions

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