Soft and Liquid Matter Physics: 

Past, Present and Future


March 10-13, 2025,  Insititute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Program (March 9 updated)

10th Monday 

09:00 Registration

09:10 Opening remark

09:30 Daniel Bonn (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Drunk Worms: How are active polymers different from real polymers? (IgNobel prize 2024)

10:00 Mark Ediger (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)

Expanding our vision of glasses: Physical vapor deposition prepares ultrastable and anisotropic materials

10:30 Hisao Hayakawa (Kyoto University, Japan)

Theory of classical and quantum Mpemba effect: an anomalous heat relaxation

10:45 Hua Tong (University of Science and Technology of China, China)

Perfect glasses: A new class of ordered matter without apparent symmetry breaking

11:00 Break (20min)

11:20 David Weitz (Harvard University, USA)

Soft matter physics for the rheology of a cell

11:50 Kaori Sugihara (IIS, The University of Tokyo, Japan)

Mechanochromic polymer, polydiacetylene, for force-, bio-sensing applications

12:20 Lunch (90min)

13:50 Yuka Tabe (Waseda University, Japan)

Unidirectional Rotation of Cholesteric and Chiral Chromonic LC Droplets under Temperature Gradient

14:20 Slobodan Zumer (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)

Confined active topological soft matter

14:50 Jun-ichi Fukuda (Kyushu University, Japan)

Simulation of the martensitic transformation of liquid crystalline blue phases with machine-learning-aided structure analysis

15:05 Tohru Okuzono (Nagoya City University, Japan)

Anomalous diffusion of charged colloidal particles with surface chemical reactions

15:20 Matteo Baggioli (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China)

Redesigning the boundaries of the supercritical fluid state

15:35 Giorgio Volpe (University College London, United Kingdom)

Actuating Droplets for Self-assembly and Materials Deposition

15:50 Break (20min)

16:10 Kohzo Ito (The Unversity of Tokyo, Japan)

Slide-Ring Materials for Circular Economy 

16:40 Takashi Konishi (Kyoto University, Japan)

Polymer Crystallization Process at High Supercooling: Crystallization with Small Crystallite Aggregation 

16:55 Elsen Tjhung (The Open University, United Kingdom)

Sedimentation and flotation of nanoparticles close to a liquid-gas interface

17:10 Shunto Arai (National Institute for Materials Science, Japan)

Phase separation control of silver nanocolloids for printed electronics applications

17:25 Laurent Joly (Université Lyon 1, France)

Molecular origins of osmotic flows

17:40 Hidenori Tanaka (Harvard University/NTT Research, Inc., USA)

A Percolation Model of Concept Learning


11th (Tuesday)

09:30 Itamar Procaccia (The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)

Anomalous Elasticity and Emergent Dipole Screening in Amorphous Solids

10:00 Srikanth Sastry (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India)

Yielding and fluidization in sheared and active amorphous solids

10:30 Tomonari Dotera (Kindai University, Japan)

Aperiodic approximants bridging quasicrystals and modulated structures in soft matter

10:45 Koichi Mayumi (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

Tough Polymer Gels Reinforced by Strain-Induced Crystallization

11:00 Break (20min)

11:20 Hartmut Löwen (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany)

This is odd

11:50 Sara Jabbari-Farouji (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Active string fluids and gels formed by  3D dipolar active Brownian particles

12:20 Lunch (90min)

13:50 Ryoichi Yamamoto (Kyoto University, Japan)

Dynamics of Chiral Micro-Swimmer in Complex Fluids

14:20 Noushine Shahidzadeh  (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Formation of a glassy state in mixed salts

14:50 Miho Yanagisawa (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

Cell-size confinement alters molecular diffusion and phase separation in biopolymer solutions

15:05 Hiroshi Noguchi (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

Spatiotemporal patterns in active Potts models

15:20 Andreas Menzel (Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany)

Mesoscale active turbulence and non-Newtonian rheology

15:35 Arash Nikoubashman (Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden, Germany)

Intrinsically Disordered Proteins: Insights into Biomolecular Condensates via Molecular Simulations

15:50 Break (20min)

16:10 Chantal Valeriani (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)

A machine learning tool to determine inter-particle forces

16:40 Beatrice Ruta (Universite Lyon 1, France)  

Structure and Atomic motion in metallic glasses at high pressure

17:10 Antonio Suma (University of Bari, Italy)

A coarse-grained model of diffusing lipids that model membrane demixing elucidates clustering and cooperativity of ion channels

17:25 Pik-Yin Lai (National Central University, Taiwan)

Stick-slip Dynamics and avalanche statistics of a moving contact line

17:40 Ko Okumura (Ochanimizu University, Japan)

A hydrodynamic analog of critical phenomena


12th (Wednesday)

09:30 Pablo Debenedetti (Princeton University, USA)

A Model for Chirality-Driven Phase Transitions

10:00 Francesco Sciortino (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)

Some recent results on supercooled water

10:30 Rui Shi (Zhejiang University, China)

Origins of Water's Anomalies and Specific Ion Effects in Aqueous Solutions

10:45 Maria Grazia Izzo (Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy)

Linking liquid–liquid and ferroelectric phase transitions in supercooled water

11:00 Break (20min)

11:20 Anders Nilsson (Stockholm University, Sweden)

Accessing Waters “No-Mans Land” using X-ray Lasers

11:50 Limei Xu (Peking University, China)

Ordering behind disorder during non-equilibrium phase transition

12:20 Lunch (90min)

13:50 Anaël Lemaître (Laboratoire Navier-UMR 8205, France)

The contact aging scenario in adhesive colloidal suspensions

14:20 Erika Eiser (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)

Confined Coffee Stains are Different

14:50 Atsushi Ikeda (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

A link between anomalous viscous loss and boson peak  in soft jammed solids

15:20 Takeshi Kawasaki (Osaka University, Japan)

Unified Understanding of Nonlinear Rheology in Jammed Amorphous Solids

15:35 Domagoj Fijan (University of Michigan, USA)

Novel tools for studying crystallization

15:50 Break (20 min)

16:10 Poster session (120 min)

18:45 Banquet (Dining Lab 食堂コマニ) 


13th (Thursday)

09:30 Peter Harrowell (The University of Sydney, Australia)

Amorphous Solidification Treated as a Structural Transformation

10:00 Masao Doi (The University of Tokyo, Nagoya University, Japan)

Case II Diffusion in Glassy Polymers

10:30 Mathieu Leocmach (CNRS-Université Lyon 1, France)

Emergence of elasticity in DNA nanostar gels

10:45 Peng Tan (Fudan University, China)

Fast crystallization of colloidal glass

11:00 Break (20min)

11:20 Yuanchao Hu (Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, China)

Unveiling the Mystery of the Fragility of Supercooled Liquids

11:35 Daan Frenkel (University of Cambridge, UK)

Possible mechanism for biological multi-factor authentication

12:05 Closing


Poster (format: A0 portrait) 

P1 Hajar Ajiyel (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

Glassy behaviour of DNA nanostars hydrogels

P2 Yuki Akamine (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

Chain Length-Dependent Phase Separation: Insights from DNA Partitioning in PEG-Dextran Solutions

P3 Rei Amano (Kyoto University, Japan)

Randomness-Induced Change in the Phase Transition Behaviors of Liquid-Crystal Models

P4 Shota Arai (Tohoku University, Japan)

Machine-learning approach for extracting microscopic information from experimental data on liquid substances and porous structures

P5 Takeaki Araki (Kyoto University, Japan)

Thermally activated jumps and induced cooperative motion in Johari-Goldstein relaxation

P6 Hidemasa Bessho (Nagoya University, Japan)

Nonlinear Rheology under Finite Shear Rate near the Jamming Transition Point

P7 Arunkumar Bupathy (Hiroshima University, Japan)

Machine Learning Coarse-Grained Potentials to Model Interacting

P8 Emmanouil Chatzigiannakis (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)

Interfacial Stresses in Foams: From Microscale Film Dynamics to Macroscale Stability

P9 Audrey Cochard (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

DNA hydrogels for selective capture of cancer cells

P10 Duc Dam (Nagoya University, Japan)

Melting of Two-Dimensional Disordered Persistent Active Particles

P11 Charu Datt (Keio University, Japan)

Fluid dynamics in active emulsions

P12 Matheus de Mello (Kyoto University, Japan)

Impact of Charge Distribution on the Stability of Ferroelectric Nematic Liquid Crystals

P13 Subhodeep Dey (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad, India)

Enhanced Mermin-Wagner-Hohenberg Fluctuation in Active Crystal and Glass

P14 Anouar El Moumane (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)

Biaxial liquid crystals: From first principles to applications

P15 Shuji Endo (Nihon University, Japan)

Machine Learning for pIC50 Prediction Using FMODB and ChEMBL

P16 Stephen Flores (The University of Manchester, United Kingdom)

Insights into the Rheological Behaviour and  Self-Assembly in Ionic Micellar Systems

P17 Youhei Fujitani (Keio University, Japan)

Force Induced by the Preferential Adsorption in a Near-critical Binary Fluid Mixture under a Temperature Gradient

P18 Akira Furukawa (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

Shear-thinning in Supercooled Liquids

P19 Debsuvra Ghosh (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)

Modelling Proliferating Nematic Cell Colonies in Confining Geometries

P20 Hao Gong (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

Near-Identical Macromolecules Unexpectedly Partition into Concentric Circles at a Solid–Liquid Interface

P21 Takashi Goto (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

Magnetic field response of collective orientation of magnetotactic  bacteria in quasi-2D spaceMagnetic field response of collective orientation of magnetotactic  bacteria in quasi-2D space

P22 Ioannis Hadjifrangiskou (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)

Active Nematics with Deformable Particles

P23 Haruki Hayano (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

Revealing the Mechanism of Anomalous Rheology in Microswimmer Suspensions

P24 Koichi Hirata (Kyoto university, Japan)

Mechanical properties and yielding of aerogels under isotropic expansion

P25 Haruka Hitomi (Ochanomizu University, Japan)

Continuous generation of confined bubbles : viscous effect on the gravito-capillary pinch off

P26 Harukuni Ikeda (Gakushuin University, Japan)

Dynamical renormalization group analysis of O(n) model  in steady shear flow

P27 Ryusuke Inoue (Osaka University, Japan)

Stability Analysis of Cylindrical Columns

P28 Shin-ichi Ito (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

Influences of surface tension fluctuations on shrinkage-induced crack pattern formations

P29 Wataru Iwashita (Osaka University, Japan)

Behavior of Friction and Deformation for Viscoelastic Objects at Sliding Velocity around Elastic Wave Velocity

P30 Kangeun Jeong (Nagoya University, Japan)

Crystallization of Chiral Active Brownain Particles at Low Densities

P31 Cunyuan Jiang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)

The Boson peak, flat mode, and localized nature from inhomogeneous elasticity

P32 Narina Jung (KIAS, Korea)

Emergence of metachronal waves in a chain of symmetrically beating filaments

P33 Yukio Kajihara (Hiroshima univeristy, Japan)

Interpretation of the specific heat of liquids by focusing on critical fluctuations associated with phase transitions

P34 Atsunari Katsuki (Nihon University, Japan)

Numerical simulation of the large-scale structure of dune corridors using a lattice model

P35 Kang Kim (Osaka University, Japan)

Machine learning evaluation of structural descriptors that distinguish between supercooled water structures at different temperatures

P36 Yasuyuki Kimura (Kyushu University, Japan)

Rheological property of dilute suspension of active colloids

P37 Yusuke Koide (Nagoya University, Japan)

Nonmonotonic concentration dependence of the self-diffusion coefficient of surfactants in micellar solutions

P38 Vishnu V. Krishnan (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

Yielding and Aging of Colloidal Gels under Cyclic Deformations

P39 Shubham Kumar (Institute for Molecular Science, Japan)

Dynamic Slowdown and Spatial Correlations in Viscous Silica Melt: Perspectives from Dynamic Disorder

P40 Chandan Kumar (Nagoya University, Japan)

Understanding DNA functionalized gold nanoparticle aggregation and crystallization

P41 Minoru Kurisu (Tohoku University, Japan)

Osmotically-driven cascade vesicle division: AOT + cholesterol system

P42 Yuta Kuroda (Nagoya University, Japan)

Long-range translational order and hyperuniformity in two-dimensional chiral active crystal

P43 Uyen Lieu (Future University Hakodate, Japan)

Reinforcement Learning Approaches for the Control of Quasicrystalline Self-Assembly

P44 Dileep Mampallil Augustine (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Tirupati, India)

Tuning the Phase Deposition: Microdroplet Dynamics Near the Contact Line of Evaporating Multicomponent Drops

P45 Hirokazu Maruoka (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)

The early dynamics of the dynamical impact on the dense suspension of milimeter-sized particles

P46 Kazutoshi Masuda (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

Analytical method for micropipette aspiration of droplets and shells

P47 Ian Fitch Mochida (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

Calculation of Attenuated Total Reflection-Infrared (ATR-IR) spectra of Liquid Water through Rigorous Derivation of the Refractive Index

P48 Mohammad Moid (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

Interplay between Wetting and Crystallization of a Water Nanodroplet

P49 Takahiro Murashima (Tohoku University, Japan)

Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Ring/Linear Blend

P50 Fumiaki Nakai (Osaka University, Japan)

Granular Media Exhibit Dislocation Glide

P51 Hiroyoshi Nakano (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

Long-Range Correlations under Temperature Gradients: A Molecular Dynamics Study of Simple Fluids

P52 Yoshihiko Nishikawa (Kitasato University, Japan)

Irreversible swap algorithms for soft sphere glasses

P53 Kengo Nishio (AIST, Japan)

Unveiling a medium-range structural commonality of amorphous alloys

P54 Sucharita Niyogi (Nagoya University, Japan)

Carrier transport rheology in model solid-state conductors: temperature effects and the impact of anharmonicity

P55 Junpei Noji (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

Influence of Hydrodynamic Interactions on Relaxation Dynamics of Dense Colloidal Suspensions

P56 Hisashi Okumura (Institute for Molecular Science, Japan)

Molecular dynamics study of protein aggregates

P57 Anusuya Pal (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

Crack Suppression and Beyond: Drying Patterns in Diabetic Droplets

P58 Bappaditya Roy (AIST, Japan)

Estimation of spatial and time scales of collective behaviors of active matters through learning hydrodynamic equations from particle dynamics

P59 Pritam Kumar Roy (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

Hot liquid marbles

P60 John Russo (Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy)

Inverse design of self-folding 3D shells

P61 Keita Saito (RIKEN, Japan)

Janus particles self-propelled by induced-charge electrophoresis  in viscoelastic fluids

P62 Shunichi Saito (University of Tokyo, Japan)

Microscopic Observation of Aging Behaviors in Laponite Suspensions

P63 Hiroki Sakuta (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

Dynamic Behaviors of Aqueous Droplets: Mimicking Cellular Motility and Intracellular Dynamics

P64 Alberto Scacchi (University of Turku, Finland)

Engineering Triblock Proteins: Weak Interactions, Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation, and Aging for Tunable Condensate Properties

P65 Baoshuang Shang (Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, China)

Investigating the Formation Condition of Amorphous Solid

P66 Daisuke  S. Shimamoto (University of Tokyo, Japan)

Determination of whether a textile can be knitted or not

P67 Ryudo Suzuki (Kyoto University, Japan)

Transition Between Fracture and Non-Fracture in the Stacking of Rigid Disks and DEM Simulation

P68 Kyohei Takae (Tottori University, Japan)

Understanding Molecular Adsorption: From Lattice Model to Elastic Heterogeneity

P69 Yuki Takaha (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

Avalanche criticality emerges by thermal fluctuation in a quiescent glass

P70 Michio Tateno (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)

Void Connectivity and Criticality in the Compression-Induced Gel-to-Glass Transition of Short-Range Attractive Colloids

P71 Soichi Tatsumi (Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan)

Thermal characterization of vapor-deposited ultrastable phenolphthalein glass

P72 Matthew Terkel (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)

Controlling Colloidal Flow through a Microfluidic Y-Junction  via Tunable Magnetic Interactions

P73 Yinqiao Wang (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

Distinct elastic properties and their origins in glasses and gels

P74 Tetsuo Yamaguchi (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

Delamination-induced pattern of tree bark

P75 Tetsuya Yamamoto (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

Analysis of Buckling Phenomena in Red Blood Cells Using a Particle Model

P76 Naoya Yanagisawa (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

Static and dynamic properties of linear polymer solutions with ultra-polydisperse molecular weight distributions

P77 Ji Woong Yu (Korea Institute For Advanced Study, Korea)

An investigation of anomalous water dynamics using a machine learning force field

P78 Jiaxing Yuan (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)

Understanding water’s surface tension through competing hydrogenbonding patterns

P79 Ye Yuan (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

How Friction Shapes Granular Compaction

P80 Zhen Zhang (Chengdu University of Technology, China)

Revealing hidden structural order in liquids and glasses using four-point correlation functions

P81 Yong Zhao (Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, China)

Ultrastable metallic glass by room temperature aging

P82 Akie Kowaguchi (Keio University, Japan)

Prediction of a Liquid Crystal Phase Diagram Using the Replica- Exchange Monte-Carlo Method

P83 Jimin Bai (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)

Stress-stress correlations in two-dimensional amorphous and crystalline solids

P84 Mika Kobayashi (Kyushu University, Japan)

Metastable phase-separated droplet generation and long-time DNA enrichment by laser-induced Soret effect