Active and Printed Matter

Presentations

• Numerical Study of Rotating Flocks in Active Chiral Quincke Roller Colloids

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 8:00 AM – March 19, 2026, 8:12 AM

  Presenters

  • Andreas Glatz

    • Argonne National Laboratory

  Authors

  • Andreas Glatz

    • Argonne National Laboratory

  • Anna Rossi

    • Argonne National Laboratory

  • Bo Zhang

    • Nanjing Univ

  • Alexey Snezhko

    • Argonne National Laboratory

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• Emergence of Rotating Flocks in Active Chiral Liquids

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 8:12 AM – March 19, 2026, 8:24 AM

  Presenters

  • Anna Rossi

    • Argonne National Laboratory

  Authors

  • Anna Rossi

    • Argonne National Laboratory

  • Bo Zhang

    • Nanjing Univ

  • Andreas Glatz

    • Argonne National Laboratory

  • Alexey Snezhko

    • Argonne National Laboratory

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• Modelling of an Internally Actuated Weakly Elastic Sphere

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 8:24 AM – March 19, 2026, 8:36 AM

  Presenters

  • Shashikant Verma

    • Indian Institute of Technology Ropar

  Authors

  • Shashikant Verma

    • Indian Institute of Technology Ropar

  • Navaneeth Kizhakke Marath

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• Capillary Logic Circuits in Deformable Networks for Fluidic Computing

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

  March 19, 2026, 8:36 AM – March 19, 2026, 8:48 AM

  Publication: Manuscript in preparation.

  Presenters

  • Roi Almog

    • Tel Aviv University

  Authors

  • Roi Almog

    • Tel Aviv University

  • Bat-El Pinchasik

    • Tel Aviv University

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• Control of active particle motion by microstenciling precise surface patches

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 8:48 AM – March 19, 2026, 9:00 AM

  Publication: Kreienbrink, K.M., Cruse, Z.A., Kumari, A. et al. Precise surface patches on active particles of arbitrary shape through microstenciling. Nat Commun 16, 6062 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-61218-x

  Presenters

  • Kendra Kreienbrink

    • University of Colorado - Boulder

  Authors

  • Kendra Kreienbrink

    • University of Colorado - Boulder

  • Alisha Kumari

  • Lana Ulianova

  • Zoe Cruse

  • Wyatt Shields

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

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• Chemotactic Phase Separation in Size-Asymmetric Microcompartments

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 9:00 AM – March 19, 2026, 9:12 AM

  Presenters

  • Matt Farnese

    • Northwestern University

  Authors

  • Matt Farnese

    • Northwestern University

  • Monica Olvera De La Cruz

    • Northwestern University

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• Quantifying Transport in Crowded, Complex Systems Modeled by Holographic Optical Tweezers through Differential Dynamic Microscopy

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 9:12 AM – March 19, 2026, 9:24 AM

  Presenters

  • Elijah Avery

    • University of San Diego

  Authors

  • Elijah Avery

    • University of San Diego

  • Fermin Martinez

  • Esme Illing

  • Ryan McGorty

    • University of San Diego

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• Designing topological edge states in bacterial active matter

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 9:24 AM – March 19, 2026, 9:36 AM

  Presenters

  • Yoshihito Uchida

    • The University of Tokyo

  Authors

  • Yoshihito Uchida

    • The University of Tokyo

  • Daiki Nishiguchi

  • Kazumasa A. Takeuchi

    • Univ of Tokyo

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• Contrasting Effects of Memory on Enhanced Diffusion in Active Matter

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 9:36 AM – March 19, 2026, 9:48 AM

  Publication: K. Daftari and K. Newhall (2022) Self-avoidant memory effects on enhanced diffusion in a stochastic model of environmentally responsive swimming droplets, Phys. Rev. E, Vol 105, 024609
  F. Ljubetic, A. Blitstein, K. Newhall and P. Saenz (preprint) Memory-enhanced diffusivity in stochastically forced walking droplets

  Presenters

  • Katherine Newhall

    • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  Authors

  • Katherine Newhall

    • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • Frane Ljubetic

    • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • Austin Blitstein

    • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • Pedro Saenz

    • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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• Engineering Clustering, Isotropy, and Flocking in Microswimmer Systems

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 9:48 AM – March 19, 2026, 10:00 AM

  Presenters

  • Anson Thambi

    • University of Hawaii, Manoa

  Authors

  • Anson Thambi

    • University of Hawaii, Manoa

  • William Uspal

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• Magnetic Bubble Micromotors: Robust, Fast, and Dynamically Self-Assembling at Liquid–Gas Interfaces

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 10:00 AM – March 19, 2026, 10:12 AM

  Publication: Planned submission to Small

  Presenters

  • Max Halpern

    • University of Minnesota Duluth

  Authors

  • Max Halpern

    • University of Minnesota Duluth

  • Christopher Christensen-Stanley

  • Earl Muecke

  • Alexander Solovev

  • Laura Adams

    • University of Minnesota Duluth

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• Dynamics of activity-doped phase-separating binary mixtures

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 10:12 AM – March 19, 2026, 10:24 AM

  Presenters

  • Joshua Arrington

    • Princeton University

  Authors

  • Joshua Arrington

    • Princeton University

  • Mikko Haataja

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• Tunable assembly and disassembly of active droplet clusters

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 10:24 AM – March 19, 2026, 10:36 AM

  Presenters

  • Abel Abraham

    • MIT

  Authors

  • Abel Abraham

    • MIT

  • Manoj Kumar

  • Rajesh Singh

    • Indian Institute of Technology Madras

  • Shashi Thutupalli

    • Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR)

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• Breaking free: Nontrivial dynamics and complex depinning of ferrofluid droplets

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 10:36 AM – March 19, 2026, 10:48 AM

  Presenters

  • Shankhadeep Man

    • Northwestern University

  Authors

  • Shankhadeep Man

    • Northwestern University

  • Shih-Yuan Chen

    • Northwestern University

  • Mohammed Imran Khan

    • Michigan Statet University

  • Bei Fan

    • Michigan State University

  • Michelle Driscoll

    • Northwestern University

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