Externally Driven and Active Granular Matter I

Presentations

• A couple examples of non-equilibrium melting and crystallization in 2D

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 18, 2026, 3:30 PM – March 18, 2026, 4:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Paul Chaikin

    • New York University (NYU)

  Authors

  • Paul Chaikin

    • New York University (NYU)

  • Sharon Glotzer

    • University of Michigan

  • Sharon Glotzer

    • University of Michigan

  • Philipp Schonhofer

    • University of Michigan

  • Terrence Hopkins

    • New York University (NYU)

  • Andrew Hollingsworth

    • New York Univ NYU

  • stefano sacanna

    • New York University (NYU)

  • Dov Levine

    • Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

  • Sam Wilken

    • Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz

  • Ashley Guo

    • Rutgers University

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• Giant density fluctuations in locally hyperuniform states

  Oral-In-person

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

  Publication: Physical Review E 112 (4), L042101

  Presenters

  • Sara Dal Cengio

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Sara Dal Cengio

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Romain Mari

  • Eric Bertin

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• Reducing Clogging Probability in Granular Flow with a Movable Obstacle

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Hassan Nejmeldeen

    • University of Massachusetts Amherst

  Authors

  • Hassan Nejmeldeen

    • University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Shubha Tewari

    • University of Massachusetts Amherst

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• The combined effects of mechanical vibration and particle's geometry on entanglement, and strength in staple-like entangled granular materials: Experiments and DEM Simulations 

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 4:30 PM – March 18, 2026, 4:42 PM

  Publication: [1] Pezeshki, S. and Barthelat, F. (2025). Combined effects of particle geometry and applied vibrations on the mechanics and strength of entangled materials. arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.09933 (Under Review- Journal of Applied Physics)
  [2] Pezeshki, S., Sohn, Y., Fouquet, V., & Barthelat, F. (2025). Tunable entanglement and strength with engineered staple-like particles: Experiments and discrete element models. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 200, 106127.
  [3] Sohn, Y., Pezeshki, S. & Barthelat, F. (2025). Tuning geometry in staple-like entangled particles: "pick-up" experiments and Monte Carlo simulations. Granular Matter 27, 55.

  Presenters

  • Saeed Pezeshki

    • University of colorado Boulder

  Authors

  • Saeed Pezeshki

    • University of colorado Boulder

  • Youhan Sohn

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Francois Barthelat

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

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• A simple model for cage breaking in active matter: three self-propelled disks in confinement

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 4:42 PM – March 18, 2026, 4:54 PM

  Publication: J. Popowski, N. Schramma, E. Lerner, M. Jalaal, 'Metastable entropic landscape for cage breaking of three active disks', in preparation

  Presenters

  • Jared Popowski

    • University of Amsterdam

  Authors

  • Jared Popowski

    • University of Amsterdam

  • Nico Schramma

    • University of Amsterdam

  • Edan Lerner

    • University of Amsterdam

  • Maziyar Jalaal

    • University of Amsterdam

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• Memory and Training in Long-Range Interacting Granular Systems

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 4:54 PM – March 18, 2026, 5:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Ananya Verma

    • Syracuse University

  Authors

  • Ananya Verma

    • Syracuse University

  • Jennifer Schwarz

  • Nidhi Pashine

    • Syracuse University

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• Dynamics of a vibrated granular raft with many-body capillary attraction

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Tabitha Watson

    • University of Michigan

  Authors

  • Tabitha Watson

    • University of Michigan

  • Xiuhe Yan

  • Hongyi Xiao

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• Nonreciprocal interactions between acoustically levitated granular particles lead to liquidlike droplets

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Nina Brown

    • University of Chicago

  Authors

  • Nina Brown

    • University of Chicago

  • Heinrich Jaeger

    • University of Chicago

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• Reinforcement learning in robotic granular materials

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Carlos del Valle

    • Yale University

  Authors

  • Carlos del Valle

    • Yale University

  • Mark D Shattuck

    • The City College of New York

  • Corey O'Hern

    • Yale University

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• Collective activity of air-fluidized granular pentagons

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Wan-Jung Lin

  Authors

  • Wan-Jung Lin

  • Bohan Wu-Zhang

  • Rodrigo Fernadez Quevedo Garcia

  • Carlos Miguel Barriuso

  • Miguel Ruiz-Garcia

    • Universidad Complutense de Madrid

  • Chantal Valeriani

    • Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)

  • Hongyi Xiao

    • University of Michigan

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• Characterizing a Nonreciprocal Active Fluid using 3D Laser Sheet Tomography

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Wei-Chih Li

    • Emory University

  Authors

  • Wei-Chih Li

    • Emory University

  • Justin Burton

    • Emory University

  • Zhicheng Shu

    • Emory University

  • Kirby Wilkerson

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Wentao Yu

    • Emory University

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• How Activity Heterogeneity Influences Glass Transition

  Oral-In-person

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

  Presenters

  • Haicen Yue

    • University of Vermont

  Authors

  • Haicen Yue

    • University of Vermont

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