Tuesday, Jan 6, 2026 |
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| 8:50am |
Mark Bowick (KITP) |
Welcome[Video] |
| 9:00am |
David Weitz (Harvard) |
Lab-scale models for hydro-fracture[Video][CC] |
| 9:45am |
Jill Marshall (Portland State) |
Are some break-ups harder than others? Pondering the state of 'crackiness', wind,-forest structure, and soft-earth mechanics over time[Slides][Video][CC] |
| 10:30am |
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| 11:00am |
John Kolinski (EPFL) |
Polymer gels to probe failure processes in geomaterials[Video][CC] |
| 11:45am |
Yue (Olivia) Meng (Purdue) |
From Fracture to Flow: How Calving Ice Sheets Drive Melange Behavior and Fjord Ocean Dynamics[Video][CC] |
| 12:30pm |
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| 2:00pm |
Ahmed Elbanna (U Illinois) |
Earthquakes: A Tale of Scales, Rheology, Feedback, Memory, Hysteresis, Criticality...[Video][CC] |
| 2:45pm |
Mahesh Bandi (OIST) |
When Friction Remembers: Preisach Hysteresis in Granular Matter[Embargoed] |
| 3:30pm |
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| 4:00pm |
Itai Einav (U. Sydney) |
From soil mechanics to geophysical friction - a hydrodynamic approach[Video][CC] |
| 4:45pm |
Behrooz Ferdowsi (U. Houston) |
Yielding, Flow, and Healing in Slightly Wet Granular Matter: Humidity-Induced Capillary Cohesion and Its Role in Debris Flows, Landslides, and Post-Fire Hazards[Video] |
| 5:30pm |
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Wednesday, Jan 7, 2026 |
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| 9:00am |
Ching Yao Lai (Stanford) |
Dense granular rheology from fluctuations[Video][CC] |
| 9:45am |
Justin Burton (Emory) |
A microstructural rheological model for transient creep in polycrystalline ice[Video][CC] |
| 10:30am |
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| 11:00am |
Amir Pahlavan (Yale) |
Chemical Gradients as Hidden Drivers in Soft Earth Materials[Video][CC] |
| 11:45am |
Rachel Glade (Rochester) |
The Probabilistic Physics of Sediment Transport: From Rarefied Bedload to Dense Force Chain Networks[Video][CC] |
| 12:30pm |
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| 2:00pm |
Irmgard Bischofberger (MIT) |
Fractured Flows: Bubbles in Dense Suspensions[Embargoed] |
| 2:45pm |
Ousmane Kodio (UCSB) |
Dynamic of folding and wrinkling in geophysics[Embargoed] |
| 3:30pm |
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| 4:00pm |
Willian Assis (Minnesota) |
How microbes shape landscapes: from biosignatures to bedform transitions and acoustic signals[Video][CC] |
| 4:45pm |
David Meer (Emory) |
The Holes in Porous Media[Slides][Video][CC] |
| 5:30pm |
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| 6:00pm |
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| 7:30pm |
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Thursday, Jan 8, 2026 |
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| 9:00am |
Ezequiel Ferrero (CAB-CNEA) |
Soils as yield-stress materials? Athermal creep facilitated by cyclic perturbations[Slides][Video][CC] |
| 9:45am |
Cacey Bester (Swarthmore) |
Sand's Approach to Yield: How Granular Materials Creep and Fail[Video][CC] |
| 10:30am |
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| 11:00am |
Karen Daniels (NC State) |
Granular flow and rigidity: from the lab to the solar system[Slides][Video] |
| 11:45am |
Paulo Arratia (U Penn) |
Structure, memory, & rheology in 2D amorphous solids[Video] |
| 12:30pm |
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| 2:00pm |
Shravan Pradeep (U Penn) |
Challenges in developing constitutive relations for Earth-mediated materials[Video] |
| 2:45pm |
Emanuela Del Gado (Georgetown) |
Memory of Gelation and Memory of Flow[Video] |
| 3:30pm |
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| 4:00pm |
Katherine Barnhart (USGS) |
Forecasting the motion of landslides as a unifying challenge[Embargoed] |
| 5:30pm |
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| 6:00pm |
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| 7:30pm |
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Friday, Jan 9, 2026 |
| 9:00am |
Alban Sauret (Maryland) |
How to make a mudslide?: Open questions[Embargoed] |
| 9:45am |
Tejas S Murthy (IISc) |
Sticky sand - looking at cohesive granular materials at multiple length scales[Video][CC] |
| 10:30am |
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| 11:00am |
Jun Zhang (NYU) |
Mobile Boundaries in Thermal Convection[Video][CC] |
| 11:45am |
All Participants |
Closing remarks[Video] |
| 12:30pm |
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| 2:00pm |
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