Plenary program

Invited talks:

Prof. Tomaso Aste, University College London

Title: When nothing speaks: What empty space statistics reveal about packing dynamics

Prof. Simon Cox, Aberystwyth University

Title: The finite Kelvin problem

Prof. Joshua Dijksman, University of Amsterdam

Title: The remarkable time dependence of deformable particle packings

Prof. Marjolein Dijkstra, Utrecht University

Title: A colloidal viewpoint on the sausage catastrophe and the finite sphere packing problem

Prof. Laura Filion, Utrecht University

Title: Colloidal quasicrystals: How entropy can lead to forbidden symmetries

Prof. Varda Hagh, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

Title: Spatiotemporal circle packing for directed nucleation and growth of complex geometries

Prof. Matthew Jenssen, King’s College London

Title: Sphere packing and the hard sphere model in high dimensions

Prof. Yuliang Jin, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Title: Elasticity, plasticity and the underlying energy landscape of sphere packings near the jamming transition.

Prof. Boaz Klartag, Weizmann Institute of Science

Title: Lattice packing of spheres in high dimensions using a stochastically evolving ellipsoid

Prof. Peter Morse, Seton Hall University

Title: The search for the true inherent state of a hard sphere liquid

Prof. Corey O’Hern, Yale University

Title: Particle-scale origin of quadrupolar displacement fields non-affine displacement fields in granular solids

Prof. Salvatore Torquato, Princeton University     

Title: Disordered hyperuniform sphere packings across spatial dimensions

Prof. Eric Weeks, Emory University

Title: The influence of the particle size distribution on random close packing in 2D and 3D

 

Review talks:

Prof. Jos Brouwers, Eindhoven University of Technology

Title: Geometric approaches to polydisperse random particle packings

Prof. Patrick Charbonneau, Duke University

Title: Navigating toward jamming: A review of algorithms and geometry

Prof. Francesco Zamponi, Sapienza University

Title: The sphere packing problem in high dimensions: A physicist’s view