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Invited presentations and conference contributions
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- (Dec.2022, CTL@DKU/China) Invited talk at DKU Teaching and Learning Showcase: Learning Community Across Boundaries on “From resilience via innovation to integration: Towards post-pandemic teaching & learning”
- (Sep.2022, Leiden/Netherland) Invited to talk about Radar particle tracking in Lorentz Workshop “Image is everything: Expanding the capabilities of particle imaging technology” (cannot go due to travel restrictions).
- (Jul.2022, Yokohama/Japan) Keynote lecture in one minisymposia of the 15th World Congress on Computational Mechanics & the Asian Pacific Congress on Computationtal Mechanics on “Radar Particle Tracking as a calibration tool for modelling particulate materials”. (online)
- (Jun.2022, Zu Cong Zhi Center@DKU/China) Invited talk at Collective Dynamics and Networks Workshop on “Patterns in (wet) sand: From single particle motion to collective behavior“. (online)
- (May.2022, NYU Shanghai, Shanghai/China) Invited talk at Pudong Forum of Fluid Physics on “Challenges in imaging particles“. (online)
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July.2020, Paris/France, held online in Jan.2021) “Wet granular dynamics: From single particle bouncing to collective motion” (invited), 14th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM-ECCOMAS2020) (Permanent link to the presentation)
- (Dec.2020, Kunshan/China) “Briding micro-meso-macrocopic scales in particulate and biological systems”, 1st DKU Soft Matter Symposium, Duke Kunshan University (organizer)
- (July.2020, Wuhan/China) “Wet granular dynamics: Impact, Radar tracking and collective motion”, School of Physics, Wuhan University (invited)
- (April.2020, Cologne/Germany) “Room acoustics: From lecture halls to opera houses“, invited colloquium at German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Cologne, by Prof. Matthias Sperl (talk delivered via zoom).
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Mar.2020, Dresden/Germany) “The role of initial speed in projectile impacts into light granular media”, Annual meeting of German Physical Society (DPG-Tagung, cancelled). - (Jan.2020, Beijing/China) “Drag force induced by granular materials under reduced gravity” in GRANULOGY: ESA-CMSA/CSU Space Science and Utilization Program Meeting, organized by Prof. Meiying Hou from the Institute of Physics at Chinese Academy of Sciences.
- (Nov.2019, Shanghai/China) “Deciphering granular dynamics with particle tracking“, at USST (invited by Prof. Hui Yang).
- (Oct.2019, Beijing/China) “Wet granular dynamics: Impact, wave propagation and pattern formation” at the State Key Laboratory of Multi-phase Complex Systems, IPE@CAS (invited by Prof. Wei Ge).
- (Oct.2019, Beijing/China) “Bridging `micro-‘ and `macroscopic’ scales in wet granular matter“, at the Institute of Physics at Chinese Academy of Sciences (invited by Prof. Meiying Hou).
- (Oct.2019, Kochi/India) “Pattern formation in granular and chemical systems“, in the symposium on Complex Fluids and Self-organization in Systems Out-of-Equilibrium (invited by Prof. Shashi Thutupalli from National Center for Biological Science in India).
- (Sep.2019, Liyang/China) “Drag force acting on an intruder moving in a light granular medium“, in the 4th International Granular Flow Workshop (invited by Prof. Meiying Hou from IoP@CAS)
- (June.2019, Erlangen/Germany) “Drag force acting on an intruder penetrating through a light granular material“, invited seminar in the institute for multiscale simulations at FAU, by Prof. Thorsten Poeschel.
- (April.2019, Kloster Banz/Germany) Co-organized a sino-german symposium entitled “Granular phase transitions: From fundamentals to applications“, funded by the sino-german center for scientific promotion.