Presentations

Recent invited talks & seminars

2023

1. Controlling active matter – from drops to defects, Physical Mathematics Seminar, MIT, Cambridge, USA
2. Wet, active solids: Physics and Physiology, Active Matter and Beyond: ICTS, Bangalore, India
3. Controlling active matter – from drops to defects, Seminar: University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
4. Active hydraulics and odd mechanics of muscle, Seminar: RIKEN, Kobe, Japan
5. Active hydraulics and nonreciprocal mechanics of muscle, STATPHYS28: University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
6. Additive control of active topological defects, Frontiers in nonequilibrium physics: Active matter, topology and beyond: YITP, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
7. Controlling active matter – from drops to defects, Physics seminar, IITM, Chennai, India
8. Active hydraulics and odd mechanics of muscle, Simons seminar, NCBS, Bangalore, India
9. Optimally transporting active fluids, AIMS 2023 minisymposium: Optimal Transport and Mean Field Games with Applications and Computations, UNC Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
10. The Physics of Active Matter, Physics Today webinar (virtual)
11. Active hydraulics: Physics and Physiology, Physics seminar (virtual): University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
12. Geometry, Topology and Emergent Simplicity, Living Histories of Ideas: APS March Meeting, Las Vegas
13. Inverse problems and controlling active matter, Mathematical Biology seminar: Brandeis University, Waltham, USA
14. Active matter: Physics and Function, Theoretical Physics seminar (virtual): University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
15. Active hydraulics: Physics and Physiology, Biophysics Symposium: Yale University, New Haven, USA
16. Thin sheets as condensed matter, Physics Colloquium: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
17. Controlling active matter – from drops to defects, ChBE Colloquium: Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA
18. Active muscular hydraulics, Physics Colloquium: Syracuse University, Syracuse, USA
19. Active hydraulics: Physics and Physiology, Active Matter in Complex Environments: Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen, USA

2022

1. Living Histories talk (virtual)
2. Controlling active matter – from drops to defects, Applied Math seminar (virtual): UCL, London, UK
3. Thin sheets as condensed matter, Physics seminar (virtual): SUSTech, Shenzen, China
4. Physical determinants of muscle’s speed limit, MCB retreat: Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
5. Active matter lessons for muscle physiology?, Active Matter: The Next 25 Years (virtual): Lorentz Center, Leiden, Netherlands
6. Active muscular hydraulics, BLaST mini-seminar (virtual): Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA
7. The fast and furious of muscle movement, Computations in Science Seminars: UChicago, Chicago, USA
8. Thin sheets as condensed matter, Condensed Matter Seminar: UMass Amherst, Amherst, USA
9. Muscular need for speed,  PLS Short Talk: MIT, USA
10. Active matter – from patterns to control, Colloquium: UC Berkeley, Berkeley, USA
11. Viscoelastic manipulation of collective bacterial swimming, Cell Migration Seminar (virtual), USA
12. Swimming through the weeds, bacterially, BPPB seminar (virtual), USA
13. Active muscle hydraulics, PMS seminar: MIT, Cambridge, USA
14. Active matter – from patterns to control, WAM seminar: Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
15. Active matter – from patterns to control, CSMR seminar: NYU, New York, USA
16. Active muscle hydraulics, Aditi Simha Memorial Symposium: IISc, Bangalore, India

2021

1. Need for speed: Active hydraulic limits of muscle, MCB Friday Talk: Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
2. Optimal transport and control of active matter, Rising Stars in Soft and Biological Matter Symposium (virtual): University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
3. Optimal transport and control of active drops, DAMTP Statistical Physics and Soft Matter Seminar (virtual): University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
4. Flocking through complex environments, SLAAM Seminar (virtual): UC Merced, Merced, USA
5. Active topology, Theoretical Physics Colloquium (virtual): TIFR, Mumbai, India
6. Fluctuating plates and singing saws, SIAM-MS2021 minisymposium: At the intersection of geometry, elasticity and meta-materials (virtual), Bilbao, Spain
7. Flocking through complex environments, Kavli Seminar (virtual): Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

2020

1. Defect-driven melting of active fluids, KITP Program on Symmetry, Thermodynamics and Topology in Active Matter (virtual), April 2020
2. Geometry and Topology in Motion, GSNP Dissertation Award Talk (virtual), APS March meeting; March 2020