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