Gallery of Soft Matter

Presentations

• Light-driven collective phenomena in motile microalgae

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  March 16, 2026, 3:30 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:06 PM

  Publication: Light-Induced Phase Separation with Finite Wavelength Selection in Photophobic Microalgae, Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 148401 (2025)
  Pure Hydrodynamic Instabilities in Active Jets of Puller Microalgae, Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 198301 (2025)
  Hydrodynamic instabilities of active jets, Phys. Rev. Fluids 10, 113101 (2025)

  Presenters

  • Isabelle Eisenmann

    • University of Amsterdam

  Authors

  • Isabelle Eisenmann

    • University of Amsterdam

  • Marco Vona

    • Univ of Cambridge

  • Alfredo Lhomme

  • Aliénor Lahlou

  • Thomas Le Saux

  • Sandrine Bujaldon

  • Benjamin Bailleul

  • Takuji Ishikawa

    • Tohoku University, Japan

  • Nicolas Desprat

  • Eric Lauga

    • Univ of Cambridge

  • Raphael Jeanneret

    • École normal supérieure Paris-Saclay

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• On the Mechanics of Extremely Soft Solids: from Rheological Characteristics to Morphological Instabilities

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 16, 2026, 4:06 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:42 PM

  Publication: [1] M. Slutzky*, J. Hwang*, H. A. Stone, & J. K. Nunes, "Rayleigh–Taylor instability in soft viscoelastic solids", Langmuir (2023)
  [2] J. Hwang, M. Altomare, & H. A. Stone, "Surface furrowing instability in everting soft solids", Physical Review Letters (2025)

  Presenters

  • Jonghyun Hwang

    • Princeton University

  Authors

  • Jonghyun Hwang

    • Princeton University

  • Howard Stone

    • Princeton University

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• Pattern formation in active soft matter systems observed with rheo-optical microscopy

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  March 16, 2026, 4:42 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Makayla Baker

    • University of San Diego

  Authors

  • Makayla Baker

    • University of San Diego

  • Miguel Serrato

    • University of San Diego

  • Evan Zub

  • Rodrigo Martinez

  • Ryan McGorty

    • University of San Diego

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• Spontaneous Wrinkling in Growing Sheets: Coupling Growth and Rigidity Gradients

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  March 16, 2026, 5:18 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:54 PM

  Publication: arXiv:2511.11950 [cond-mat.soft]

  Presenters

  • Ido Levin

    • University of British Columbia

  Authors

  • Ido Levin

    • University of British Columbia

  • Sarah Keller

    • University of Washington

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• Protean droplet breakup in porous media

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  March 16, 2026, 5:54 PM – March 16, 2026, 6:30 PM

  Presenters

  • David Meer

    • Emory University

  Authors

  • David Meer

    • Emory University

  • Shivnag Sista

    • Yale University

  • Antoine Wang

    • New York University (NYU)

  • Mark D Shattuck

    • The City College of New York

  • Corey O'Hern

    • Yale University

  • Eric Weeks

    • Emory University

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