Presentations

Invited talks & seminars

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
2019
  1. Topology in motion, Workshop on Fluid phases of matter: From electron liquids to active matter, CUNY, USA
  2. Hydrodynamics of active defects: from chaos to defect ordering and patterning, MRSEC Seminar: Brandeis University, USA
  3. Topology in motion, Squishy Physics Seminar: Harvard University, USA
  4. Flocking through disorder, PLS Short Talk: MIT, USA
  5. Hydrodynamics of active defects: from chaos to defect ordering and patterning, Seminar: ICTS-TIFR, India
  6. Flocking with topology, CCMT Seminar: IISc, India
  7. Defect unbinding in and out of equilibrium, Aspen Summer Workshop: Active and Driven Matter – Connecting Quantum and Classical Systems, Aspen Center for Physics, USA
2018
  1. Topological aspects of active & living matter, Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: Harvard University, USA
  2. Flocks on a sphere sound topological, Center for Physics of Biological Function, Princeton University, USA
  3. Statistics and Mechanics of Kirigami, Geometry of Soft Matter workshop, IIP, Natal, Brazil
  4. Flocks on a sphere sound topological!, Topological protection in messy matter workshop, Georgia Tech, USA
2017
  1. Topological Sound & Flocking on Curved Surfaces, Berkeley Fluids Seminar: UC Berkeley, USA
  2. Probing Defect Dynamics in a 2d Active Nematic, Soft/Bio Seminar: MRL, UCSB, USA
2016
  1. Controlling Defect Dynamics in a 2d Active Nematic, TIFR – TCIS Hyderabad, India

Contributed talks

  1. How the singing saw gets its voice, APS March Meeting, Chicago, USA; March 2022
  2. How the singing saw gets its voice,  Greater Boston Area Statistical Mechanics Meeting, Northeastern University, Boston, USA; Oct 2021
  3. Optimal transport of an active drop, APS March Meeting (virtual), March 2021
  4. Optimal transport of a drop – internally actuated case, APS DFD meeting (virtual), Nov 2020
  5. Defect unbinding and a motile Kosterlitz-Thouless transition in active nematics, APS March meeting, Boston, USA; March 2019
  6. Flocking on Curved Surfaces and Topological Sound, APS March Meeting, Los Angeles, USA; March 2018
  7. Geometry and Mechanics of Kirigami, APS March Meeting, New Orleans, USA; March 2017
  8. Controlling Defects and Flow in Active Nematic Suspensions, APS March Meeting, Baltimore, USA; March 2016
  9.  Numerical Methods in Fluid Flow Computations, 11th Indo-German Winter Academy, CSIR-CMERI, Durgapur, India; Dec 2012

Poster presentations

  1. Need for speed: Active hydraulic limits of muscle, Stochastic Physics in Biology GRS & GRC, Ventura, USA, Oct 2021
  2. Thermalized buckling of clamped plates, APS March meeting (virtual), March 2021
  3. When topology gets active!, 7th Annual Harvard Physics Department Postdoc Retreat 2019, Harvard University, USA; Sept 2019 (Best Poster)
  4. When topology gets active!, Soft Condensed Matter Physics GRS & GRC, Colby-Sawyer College, USA; Aug 2019
  5. When topology gets active!, Materials Research Outreach Program Symposium 2019, UC Santa Barbara, USA; Jan 2019
  6. Irreversibility in an active gas, Aspen Winter Conference: Fundamental Problems in Active Matter, Aspen Center for Physics, USA; Jan 2018 (Best Poster)
  7. Topological Sound and Flocking on Curved Surfaces, Soft Condensed Matter Physics GRS & GRC, Colby-Sawyer College, USA; Aug 2017
  8.  Topological Sound and Flocking on Curved Surfaces, 7th Northeast Complex Fluids & Soft Matter workshop, Princeton University, USA; May 2017 (Best Poster)
  9. Confined Nematic Defects as Active Particles, Boulder School for Condensed Matter and Materials Physics: Soft Matter In and Out of Equilibrium, UC Boulder, USA; July 2015
  10. Confined Nematic Defects as Active Particles, ICERM workshop : Small Clusters, Polymer Vesicles and Unusual Minima, Providence, USA; March 2015