Biophysics, Soft Matter and Statistical Physics

Presentations

• The role of Lagrangian drift in the generation of surface waves by wind

  ORAL

  Nov. 8, 2025, 11:00 AM – Nov. 8, 2025, 11:12 AM

  Publication: Seitz, L. R., Mara A. Freilich, and Nick Pizzo. "The role of Lagrangian drift in the generation of surface waves by wind." arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.02580 (2025). (Submitted to peer review, August 2025.)

  Presenters

  • Lulabel R Seitz

    Brown University

  Authors

  • Lulabel R Seitz

    Brown University

  • Mara A Freilich

    Brown University

  • Nick Pizzo

    Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island

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• Topological order in the noisy rotating nonlinear shallow water equations

  ORAL

  Nov. 8, 2025, 11:12 AM – Nov. 8, 2025, 11:24 AM

  Presenters

  • Eric Brewster Barrett

    Brown University

  Authors

  • Eric Brewster Barrett

    Brown University

  • J. B. Marston

    Brown University Department of Physics, Brown Theoretical Physics Center

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• Universal Scaling of Nematic Order and Rotational Diffusion in Quasi 2D Ellipsoidal Colloids.

  ORAL

  Nov. 8, 2025, 11:24 AM – Nov. 8, 2025, 11:36 AM

  Presenters

  • Samuel Aronow

    Wesleyan University

  Authors

  • Samuel Aronow

    Wesleyan University

  • Md. Rakib Hassan

    Wesleyan University

  • Francis W Starr

    Wesleyan University

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• Lyapunov stability analysis of time-varying shear flows

  ORAL

  Nov. 8, 2025, 11:36 AM – Nov. 8, 2025, 11:48 AM

  Publication: This talk includes two conference papers submitted to the American Control Conference with Arxiv preprints on https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26545 and https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01410

  Presenters

  • Chang Liu

    University of Connecticut

  Authors

  • Chang Liu

    University of Connecticut

  • Kalin Kochnev

    University of Connecticut

  • Zhengyang Wei

    University of Connecticut

  • Weichen Zhao

    Binghamton University

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• Simple Siphons, a Model System for the Study of Nonequilibrium Processes

  ORAL

  Nov. 8, 2025, 11:48 AM – Nov. 8, 2025, 12:00 PM

  Presenters

  • William David Jumper

    Laboratory For Understanding Nature at Lowell Makes Inc.

  Authors

  • William David Jumper

    Laboratory For Understanding Nature at Lowell Makes Inc.

  • Boris Stanchev

    Independent Researcher

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• Aging as loss of communication fidelity in gene regulatory networks

  ORAL

  Nov. 8, 2025, 12:00 PM – Nov. 8, 2025, 12:12 PM

  Publication: We are currently finishing a paper based on this work. (May be in pre-print by conference time)

  Presenters

  • Brooke Emison

    Yale University

  Authors

  • Brooke Emison

    Yale University

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• Statistics of air flow past wind turbines from a Fokker Planck operator

  ORAL

  Nov. 8, 2025, 12:12 PM – Nov. 8, 2025, 12:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Dante Lamenza Naylor

    Brown University, University of Massachusetts Amherst

  Authors

  • Dante Lamenza Naylor

    Brown University, University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Adam Ayouche

    Brown University

  • Baylor Fox-Kemper

    Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences (DEEPS), Brown University, Providence, RI, United States

  • John Bradley Marston

    Brown University

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• Scaling Crossover in Biofilm Surface Roughening in the Absence of Poly-γ-glutamic acid

  ORAL

  Nov. 8, 2025, 12:24 PM – Nov. 8, 2025, 12:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Ayantika Saha

    Boston University

  Authors

  • Ayantika Saha

    Boston University

  • Amber Crenna-Armstrong

    Boston University

  • Joseph Larkin

    Boston University

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• Investigating conditions of perfect adaptation in equilibrium signaling networks

  ORAL

  Nov. 8, 2025, 12:36 PM – Nov. 8, 2025, 12:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Lucy Sullivan

    Yale University

  Authors

  • Lucy Sullivan

    Yale University

  • Purushottam D Dixit

    Yale University

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