Program
Minisymposium: Yielding and Flow of Soft Matter Systems
Day 1: 28th February 2023 (location: OIST Center Building Room C209)
9:10-9:25 Opening remarks by Prof. Amy Q. Shen
9:25-9:40 Overview of program and introduction of speakers by Simon Haward
Session 1 (chair: Simon Haward, OIST)
9:40-10:40 Gareth McKinley, MIT, USA
Title: “Models, Protocols and Nomenclature for Distinguishing the Responses of Thixotropic Elastoviscoelastoplastic (TEVP) Fluids”
10:40-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:00 Tsutomu Takahashi, Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan
Title: “Microscopic Rheological Characterization of Concentrated Dispersion Fluids using Nano-Indentation Tests with a Spherical Indenter”
12:00-14:00 Lunch (closed), group photo, and campus tour
Session 2 (chair: Amy Shen, OIST)
14:00-14:30 Simon Haward, OIST, Japan
Title: “Geometric Effects on the Dynamics of Viscoelastic Porous Media Flows”
14:30-15:00 San To Chan, OIST, Japan
Title: “Edge Fracture and the Tanner Number”
15:00-15:20 Coffee break
15:20-16:20 Thibaut Divoux, ENS Lyon, France
Title: “Continuum Modeling of Shear Startup in Soft Glassy Materials”
16:20-17:20 (ZOOM, Kanpur time 12:50-13:50) Yogesh Joshi, IIT Kanpur, India
Title: “Are Thixotropic Yield Stress Fluids Necessarily Plastic?”
18:30-20:30 Dinner (closed) at Local Restaurant “Umusannoniwa” in Onna Village
Day 2: 1st March 2023 (location: Seaside House)
Session 1 (chair: John Tsamopoulos)
9:00-10:00 Emanuela del Gado, Georgetown University, USA
Title: “Yielding, Flow, and Memory of Shear in Soft Jammed Materials”
10:00-10:30 Stylianos Varchanis, OIST, Japan
Title: “Modeling and Simulations of Thixotropic Elastoviscoplastic Fluids”
10:30-10:50 Coffee break
10:50-11:20 Mohamed Abdelgawad, OIST, Japan
Title: “Tuning the Extensional Behavior of Elastoviscoplastic Fluids”
11:20-12:20 Yilong Han, HKUST, Hong Kong
Title: “Colloidal Polycrystalline Grain Growths and Solid-Solid Transition Under Shear”
12:20-13:30 Lunch (closed)
13:30-18:30 Free time/excursion by bus to Churaumi Aquarium (https://churaumi.okinawa/en/) and Ocean Expo Park (https://oki-park.jp/kaiyohaku/en/).
Note: aquarium entrance fee is 2180 JPYen (approx. $16.50US)
19:00-21:00 Dinner (closed) at Chura Hall, Seaside House
Day 3: 2nd March 2023 (location: Seaside House)
Session 1 (chair: Emanuela del Gado)
9:00-10:00 (Pre-recorded + ZOOM, NY time 19:00-20:00) Sarah Hormozi, Cornell, USA
Title: “The Fluid Mechanics of Bacterial Swimming in Elastoviscoplastic Fluids”
10:00-10:20 Coffee break
10:20-11:20 Simon Rogers, UIUC, USA
Title: “What We Learn About Yielding from Recovery Rheology”
11:20-12:20 Yoko Yamanishi, Kyushu University, Japan
Title: “Emergent Functions of Electrically-induced Bubble”
12:20-13:40 Lunch (closed)
Session 2 (chair: Stylianos Varchanis)
13:40-14:40 John Tsamopoulos, University of Patras, Greece
Title: “Buoyancy Driven Rise of Bubbles in Elasto-Visco-Plastic Fluids”
14:40-15:00 Coffee break
15:00-16:00 Marco Rosti, OIST, Japan
Title: “Turbulence in Elastoviscoplastic Fluids”
16:00-17:00 (ZOOM, UK time 07:00-08:00) Suzanne Fielding, Durham University, UK
Title: “Shear Localisation during Yielding of Amorphous Materials”
17:00-18:30 Free time
19:00-21:00 Dinner (closed) at Local Restaurant “Chinuman” in Onna Village
