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