Upcoming Talks

November 2025: American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Annual Meeting, Boston, MA
October 2025: Society of Rheology Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, NM
May 2025: SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Denver, CO

Recent Talks

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: 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

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)