Polymer Physics Insights from Computational, Theoretical, and Data-Driven Methods II

Presentations

• Kinetic Modeling of Crosslinked Thiol-yne Polymerizations

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 3:30 PM – March 18, 2026, 3:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Jamison Barcelona

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

  Authors

  • Jamison Barcelona

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Yunfeng Hu

  • Christopher Bowman

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• Geometric Theory of Elastic Curves Bounded on Non-Euclidean Surfaces

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 3:42 PM – March 18, 2026, 3:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Fahim Bin Selim

    • Virginia Tech

  Authors

  • Fahim Bin Selim

    • Virginia Tech

  • Nadir Kaplan

    • Virginia Tech

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• Rapid neural network prediction of linear copolymer melt free energies

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 3:54 PM – March 18, 2026, 4:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Ian Chen

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Ian Chen

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Alfredo Alexander-Katz

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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• A Multi-Scale Theory of Electro-Viscoelasticity in Polymer Melts

  Oral-In-person

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

  Publication: Wolfgram, Zachary, Jeffrey G. Ethier, and Matthew Grasinger. "Electro-viscoelasticity of polymer melts in continuum theory." arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.13146 (2025)

  Presenters

  • Jeffrey Ethier

    • Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)

  Authors

  • Zachary Wolfgram

    • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  • Jeffrey Ethier

    • Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)

  • Matthew Grasinger

    • Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)

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• Molecular Insights into the Interfacial and Mechanical Behaviors of Functional Polymers

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Wenjie Xia

    • Iowa State University

  Authors

  • Wenjie Xia

    • Iowa State University

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• Designing Bottlebrush Networks: Where Theory, Simulations, and AI Meet Forensics

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 18, 2026, 4:30 PM – March 18, 2026, 5:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Andrey Dobrynin

    • University of North Carolina

  Authors

  • Andrey Dobrynin

    • University of North Carolina

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• Theory and Simulation Studies of the Self-Assembly of Pentablock Copolymer Melts

  Oral-In-person

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

  Publication: - Park, S.; Myers, T.; Jayaraman, A. Stability of Orthorhombic Single Network Fddd Phase in Pentablock Copolymer Melts. Macromolecules, 2025 (under review)
  - Myers, T.; Park, S.; Jayaraman, A. Phase diagram of conformationally asymmetric pentablock copolymer melts: theory and simulation study. In preparation.

  Presenters

  • Tristan Myers

    • University of Delaware

  Authors

  • Tristan Myers

    • University of Delaware

  • Sojung Park

    • University of Delaware

  • Arthi Jayaraman

    • University of Delaware

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• Determining orbital localization from chain conformation in amorphous Polyethylene, using supervised learning methods

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 5:18 PM – March 18, 2026, 5:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Max Pierre

    • KTH Royal Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Max Pierre

    • KTH Royal Institute of Technology

  • Fritjof Nilsson

  • Mikael Hedenqvist

  • Mikael Unge

    • ABB-AB Corp Resrch - Sweden

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• Effects of Solvent Entropy on Homopolymer Cononsolvency in Binary Solvent Mixtures Predicted by Flory-Huggins Theory

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 5:30 PM – March 18, 2026, 5:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Qiang Wang

    • Colorado State University

  Authors

  • Damin Bian

  • Pengfei Zhang

  • Baohui Li

  • Qiang Wang

    • Colorado State University

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• AMDAT: Amorphous Molecular Dynamics Analysis Toolkit

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 5:42 PM – March 18, 2026, 5:54 PM

  Presenters

  • David Simmons

    • University of South Florida

  Authors

  • David Simmons

    • University of South Florida

  • Pierre Kawak

    • University of South Florida

  • William Drayer

    • University of Pennsylvania

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• Microcanonical Analysis of Adsorption Transitions for Branching Polymer-Substrate Systems

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 5:54 PM – March 18, 2026, 6:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Binghao Tian

    • University of Georgia

  Authors

  • Binghao Tian

    • University of Georgia

  • Michael Bachmann

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• Developing a Minimal Model for the Coil-Helix Transition

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 6:06 PM – March 18, 2026, 6:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Karthik Sinha

    • North Caroline State University

  Authors

  • Karthik Sinha

    • North Caroline State University

  • Alexey Gavrilov

  • Artem Rumyantsev

    • North Carolina State University

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• DPD Visualization of Reaction-Induced Phase Separation in a Novel PPE/Thermosetting Resin System

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 6:18 PM – March 18, 2026, 6:30 PM

  Publication: [1] T. Kakutani et al., Proc. IEEE Electron. Components Technol. Conf. 2021, 538–543 (2021).
  [2] Y. Kawagoe et al., J. Phys. Chem. B 128, 2018–2027 (2024).

  Presenters

  • Shoko Mishima

    • Tohoku University, Japan

  Authors

  • Shoko Mishima

    • Tohoku University, Japan

  • Kaho Shibasaki

  • Nobuhiro Ishikawa

  • Yoshiaki Kawagoe

    • Tohoku University, Japan

  • Tomonaga Okabe

    • Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University

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