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KITP Program: The Physics of Elastic Films: from Biological Membranes to Extreme Mechanics
(May 17 - Jun 18, 2021)
Coordinators: Markus Deserno, Rumiana Dimova, Andrej Kosmrlj, and Carlos Marques

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Time Speaker Title

Week 1 (May 17-21): (Non-) Equilibrium fluctuations of fluid membranes and solid shells
5/17, 8:00am All participants Meet & Greet
5/18, Asynchronous Petia Vlahovska
(Northwestern)
Membrane viscosity effects on the dynamics of fluid bilayers[Slides][Vid][Video]
5/18, Asynchronous David Nelson
(Harvard)
Statistical mechanics of sheets, shells and cylinders[Slides][Video]
5/18, 8:00am Chair: Alex Levine
(UCLA)
Discussion 1: (Non-) Equilibrium fluctuations of fluid membranes and solid shells[Video][CC][Transcript][Chat]
5/19, 9:00am All participants Informal get-together on Gather.town
5/20, Asynchronous Patricia Bassereau
(Inst. Curie)
Active membranes: where we are and where should we go[Slides][Video]
5/20, Asynchronous Richard Pastor
(NIH)
Ion-Dependent Clustering of PIP2[Slides][Video]
5/20, 8:00am Chair: Cecile Sykes
(ENS Paris)
Discussion 2: (Non-) Equilibrium fluctuations of fluid membranes and solid shells[Video][CC][Transcript][Chat]
5/21, 12:00am All participants Informal get-together on Gather.town

Week 2 (May 24-28): Extreme Mechanics
5/24, 8:00am All participants Meet & Greet
5/25, Asynchronous Sabetta Matsumoto
(Georgia Tech)
Prescribing the elasticity of knits: stitch-by-stitch[Slides][Vid][Video]
5/25, Asynchronous Marcelo Dias
(University of Edinburgh)
On the mechanics of kirigami structures[Slides][Video]
5/25, 8:00am Chair: Chris Santangelo
(Syracuse)
Discussion 1: Extreme Mechanics[Video][CC][Transcript][Chat]
5/26, 9:00am All participants Informal get-together on Gather.town
5/27, Asynchronous Dominic Vella
(Oxford)
Should we care about wrinkling?[Slides][Video]
5/27, Asynchronous Benny Davidovitch
(UMass Amherst)
Confining sheets, shells, and membranes: Some open problems[Slides][Video]
5/27, 8:00am Chair: Eleni Katifori
(Univ. of Penn)
Discussion 2: Extreme Mechanics[Video][CC]
5/28, 12:00am All participants Informal get-together on Gather.town

Week 3 (May 31-June 4): Frustrated solid sheets and fluid membranes
6/01, Asynchronous Shu Yang
(Univ. of Penn)
Preprogramming and reprogramming shape morphing of liquid crystal elastomers and composites[Slides][Video]
6/01, Asynchronous Arezki Boudaoud
(Ecole polytechnique)
Frustration and fluctuations in tissue growth[Slides][Video]
6/01, 8:00am Chair: Robin Selinger
(Kent State)
Discussion 1: Frustrated solid sheets and fluid membranes[Video][CC]
6/02, 9:00am All participants Informal get-together on Gather.town
6/03, Asynchronous Ed Lyman
(Delaware)
Surface viscosity and subdiffusion in membrane simulations[Slides][Video]
6/03, Asynchronous Paola Nardinocchi
(Univ. of Rome)
Diffusion-induced instabilities in soft solid sheets[Slides][Video]
6/03, 8:00am Chair: Erwin Frey
(Univ. Munich)
Discussion 2: Frustrated solid sheets and fluid membranes[Video]
6/04, 12:00am All participants Informal get-together on Gather.town

Week 4 (June 7-11): Mechanical stress propagation in fluid and solid membranes
6/07, 8:00am All participants Meet & Greet
6/08, Asynchronous Hiroshi Noguchi
(ISSP-Tokyo)
Calculation method of coefficients of bending energy and non-uniqueness of local stress field[Slides][Video]
6/08, Asynchronous Margarita Staykova
(Durham Univ.)
Stress and adhesion in the morphing of lipid membranes[Slides][Video]
6/08, 8:00am Chair: Marino Arroyo
(Barcelona Tech)
Discussion 1: Mechanical stress propagation in fluid and solid membranes[Video]
6/09, 9:00am All participants Informal get-together on Gather.town
6/10, Asynchronous Padmini Rangamani
(UCSD)
Coupling in-plane transport phenomena and membrane curvature[Slides][Video]
6/10, Asynchronous Martin Mueller
(Univ. Lorraine)
Local boundary constraints on free edges of unstretchable sheets[Slides][Video][Transcript]
6/10, 8:00am Chair: Michael Kozlov
(Tel Aviv Univ.)
Discussion 2: Mechanical stress propagation in fluid and solid membranes[Video]
6/11, 12:00am All participants Informal get-together on Gather.town

Week 5 (June 14-18): Wetting of deformable sheets
6/14, 8:00am All participants Meet & Greet
6/14 12:15pm Jean-Francois Joanny
(College de France)
Membranes and Interfaces: from cells to tissues[Video]
KITP Blackboard Lunch
6/15, Asynchronous Reinhard Lipowsky
(MPI-KG)
Remodeling of biomembranes reveals the liaison of curvature and tension[Slides][Video]
6/15, Asynchronous Joseph Paulsen
(Syracuse)
Sheets shaping liquids and liquids shaping sheets[Slides][Video]
6/15, 8:00am Chair: Doug Holmes
(BU)
Discussion 1: Wetting of deformable sheets[Video]
6/16, 9:00am All participants Informal get-together on Gather.town
6/17, Asynchronous Luca Monticelli
(CNRS)
Lipid droplet biogenesis: insight from molecular simulations[Slides][Video]
6/17, Asynchronous Abdou Rachid Thiam
(CNRS/ENS)
Lipid droplet nucleation[Slides][Video]
6/17, 8:00am Chair: Sarah Keller
(UW)
Discussion 2: Wetting of deformable sheets[Video]
6/18, 12:00am All participants Informal get-together on Gather.town