Program

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Day 1-Thursday, 17 December 2020

Venue: IB2050 (Zoom Meeting ID: 715 337 7467)

Chair: Shixin Xu

UTC+8

  EST

 

15:00

2:00*

Reception and Registration(Lobby, CC Building)

17:30

4:30

Welcome dinner

20:00

7:00

Masao Doi              The Onsager Principle in Polymer Dynamics

*: It refers to Dec.17 (EST Time)

Day 2-Friday, 18 December 2020

Venue: IB2050 (Zoom Meeting ID: 715 337 7467)

Chair: Kai Huang (Morning Session) + Kai Zhang (Afternoon Session) + Myung-Joong Hwang (Evening Session)

UTC+8

  EST

   

8:15

 

Opening speech

1.Welcome speech by Kai Huang, Division chair, Duke Kunshan University

 

 

 

2. Welcome speech by Xin Li, Associate Dean for Research, Director of Data Science Research Center, Director of Master of Engineering Program in ECE Duke Kunshan University

8:30

19:30*

Patrick Charbonneau

Toward a Microscopic Understanding of the Dynamics of Simple Glass-Forming Liquids

9:30

20:30

Ding Ma

Quantifying the Eddy-Jet Feedback Strength of the Atmospheric Annular Modes Using a Linear Response Function Approach

10:00

21:00

Mark  Shattuck

Deformable Particles

10:30

21:30

Coffee Break

 

10:45

21:45

Habib Rahbari

Active Microrheology of a Baulk Metallic Glass

11:15

22:15

Ning Xu

Connecting Glass Forming Ability of Binary Mixtures to Melting Temperatures

12:00

23:00

Lunch Break

13:30

0:30**

Ho-Kei Chan

Confinement-Induced Columnar Crystals: A Route to New Architecture in the Scientific World

14:00

1:00

Duanduan Wan

Entropy Induced Photonic Band Gaps in Self-Assembled Colloidal Crystals

14:30

1:30

Coffee Break

 

14:45

1:45

Litang Yan

Transport of Nanoscale Objects on Cell Membrane: From Passive to Active Particles

15:15

2:15

Joshua Dijksman

Twisting and Turning Particles

15:45

2:45

Meiying Hou

Experimental Evidence of Pressure-Sensitive Intrusion Rheology in Grains

17:30

4:30

Group Dinner-Executive Dining Room

20:00

7:00

Stefan Luding

From Particle Simulations Towards a Universal Continuum Theory and Applications

21:00

8:00

Matthias Schröter

Different Ways of Getting into Contact in the Granular World

21:30

8:30

Matthias Sperl

Dynamics in Granular Matter

*: It refers to Dec.17 (EST Time)
**: It refers to Dec.18 (EST Time)

Day 3-Saturday, 19 December 2020

Venue: IB2050 (Zoom Meeting ID: 715 337 7467)

Chair: Sze Chai Kwok (Morning Session) + Chang Chung (Afternoon Session) + Kai Huang (Evening Session)

UTC+8

  EST

   

8:30

19:30*

Brian Salzberg

Extrinsic and Intrinsic Optical Changes in Mammalian Nerve Terminals and a Mechanical Spike

9:30

20:30

John Weisel

Multiscale Studies of Blood Clotting

10:00

21:00

Zhiliang Xu

Mathematical and Computational Modeling Blood Clot Formation

10:30

21:30

Coffee Break

10:45

21:45

Fredric Cohen

Cells Maintain Their Cholesterol Content by Quickly Adjusting the Cholesterol Chemical Potential of Their Plasma Membranes

11:15

22:15

Lei Zhang

Construction of Solution Landscape on the Energy Landscape

12:00

23:00

Lunch Break

13:30

0:30**

Yuliang Jin

Machine Learning a Gardner Transition

14:00

1:00

Xinpeng Xu

Onsager’s Variational Principle in Active Soft Matter

14:30

1:30

Coffee Break

 

14:45

1:45

Sze Chai Kwok

Window into Cognition: Bridging Electrophysiology, Neuroimaging and Neuromodulation

15:15

2:15

Zheng Wang

The Pursuit of MRI-Based Diagnostic and Predictive Biomarkers in Neuropsychiatric Disorders 

15:45

2:45

Yao Li

Multimodal Brain Imaging from Structure, Function to Metabolism

16:30

4:10

Group Picture

 

17:00

4:00

Group Dinner

20:00

7:00

Rafi Blumenfeld

Structural Evolution of Dense Granular Systems: Theory and Non-Equilibrium Detailed Balance

21:00

8:00

Raúl Cruz Hidalgo

On the Rheological Response of Nonspherical Granular Flows

21:30

8:30

Iñaki Echeverría

Estimating Density Limits for Walking Pedestrians Keeping a Safe Interpersonal Distancing

*: It refers to Dec.18 (EST Time)
**: It refers to Dec.19 (EST Time)

Day 4-Sunday, 20 December 2020

Venue:IB2050 (Zoom Meeting ID: 715 337 7467)

Chair: Kai Zhang (Morning Session)

UTC+8

  EST

   

8:30

19:30*

Corey O’Hern

Dense Packing in Protein Cores

9:30

20:30

 

Weiqing Ren

Interface Profile near the Contact Line in Electro-Wetting on Dielectric

10:00

21:00

Yuan Gao

Contact Line Dynamics for Droplets: Merging, Splitting and Variational Inequality

10:30

21:30

Coffee Break

10:45

21:45

Joshua Socolar

Shear Jammed States and Clogging Dynamics in Dry Granular Matter

11:15

22:15

Xiaobo Gong

Numerical Modeling of Mass Transfer over Deformable Membrane in Low Renolds Number Flow

12:00

23:00

Lunch Break

Departure

*: It refers to Dec.19 (EST Time)