DSNP Student and Postdoc Speaker Award Session

Presentations

• Spatial self-organization driven by temporal noise

  ORAL

  March 16, 2026, 3:30 PM – March 16, 2026, 3:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Satyam Anand

    • New York University (NYU)

  Authors

  • Satyam Anand

    • New York University (NYU)

  • Guanming Zhang

    • New York University (NYU)

  • Stefano Martiniani

    • New York University (NYU)

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• Quantifying the Controllability of Computations on Networks

  ORAL

  March 16, 2026, 3:42 PM – March 16, 2026, 3:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Suman S. Kulkarni

    • University of Pennsylvania

  Authors

  • Suman S. Kulkarni

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Dani S. Bassett

    • University of Pennsylvania

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• Evolutionary dynamics under phenotype uncertainty

  ORAL

  March 16, 2026, 3:54 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Vaibhav Mohanty

    • Harvard University and MIT

  Authors

  • Vaibhav Mohanty

    • Harvard University and MIT

  • Anna Sappington

    • MIT and Harvard Medical School

  • Bonnie Berger

    • MIT

  • Eugene I Shakhnovich

    • Harvard University

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• Metrological Limits to Information Scrambling

  ORAL

  March 16, 2026, 4:06 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Devjyoti Tripathy

    • University of Maryland Baltimore County

  Authors

  • Devjyoti Tripathy

    • University of Maryland Baltimore County

  • Federico Centrone

    • ICFO, UBA

  • Sebastian Deffner

    • UMBC
    • University of Maryland Baltimore County

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• Multi-timescale adaptation and emergent learning in single bacterial cells

  ORAL

  March 16, 2026, 4:18 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Josiah Kratz

    • Carnegie Mellon University

  Authors

  • Josiah Kratz

    • Carnegie Mellon University

  • Huijing Wang

    • Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University
    • Carnegie Mellon University

  • Fangwei Si

    • Department of Physics and Department of Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
    • Carnegie Mellon University

  • Shiladitya Banerjee

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

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• Still Playing with Sticks: Patterning Compressible Active Nematics with Light

  ORAL

  March 16, 2026, 4:30 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Dimitrios Krommydas

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  Authors

  • Dimitrios Krommydas

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Paarth Gulati

    • University of California, Santa Barbara
    • Emory University

  • Aparna Baskaran

    • Brandeis University

  • M. Cristina Marchetti

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

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• Collapse of the effective response time near the spin glass transition temperature

  ORAL

  March 16, 2026, 4:42 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:54 PM

  Publication: A manuscript titled "Collapse of the Effective Response Time Near the Spin Glass Transition Temperature" has been submitted to Physical Review B and is under review.

  Presenters

  • Hongze Li

    • University of Texas at Austin
    • The University of Texas at Austin
    • Materials Science and Engineering Program, Texas Materials Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA

  Authors

  • Hongze Li

    • University of Texas at Austin
    • The University of Texas at Austin
    • Materials Science and Engineering Program, Texas Materials Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA

  • Raymond L Orbach

    • University of Texas at Austin

  • Gregory G Kenning

    • Indiana University of Pennsylvania

  • Sky Semone

    • Pennsylvania State University

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• Probing the influence of topological and geometric disorder on the spectrum of the Laplacian operator on networks

  ORAL

  March 16, 2026, 4:54 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Charles Emmett Maher

    • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  Authors

  • Charles Emmett Maher

    • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • Jeremy L Marzuola

    • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • Katherine A Newhall

    • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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• Interparticle interaction-dependent critical point(s) govern yielding in soft particulate systems

  ORAL

  March 16, 2026, 5:06 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:18 PM

  Publication: 1. Shravan Pradeep, Paulo E. Arratia, Douglas J. Jerolmack, "Universal rheology framework for yielding soft particulate materials", In Preparation.
  2. Shravan Pradeep, Paulo E. Arratia, Douglas J. Jerolmack, "Origins of complexity in Soft Earth suspensions", Nature Communications (2024).
  3. Robert Kostynick*, Hadis Matinpour*, Shravan Pradeep*, Sarah Haber, Alban Sauret, Eckart Meiburg, Thomas Dunne, Paulo Arratia, Douglas Jerolmack, "Rheology of debris-flow materials is controlled by the distance from jamming", PNAS (2022). *equal contribution

  Presenters

  • Shravan Pradeep

    • University of Pennsylvania

  Authors

  • Shravan Pradeep

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Douglas J Jerolmack

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Paulo E. Arratia

    • University of Pennsylvania

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