Presentations
Recent invited talks & seminars
2023
- Controlling active matter – from drops to defects, Physical Mathematics Seminar, MIT, Cambridge, USA
- Wet, active solids: Physics and Physiology, Active Matter and Beyond: ICTS, Bangalore, India
- Controlling active matter – from drops to defects, Seminar: University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Active hydraulics and odd mechanics of muscle, Seminar: RIKEN, Kobe, Japan
- Active hydraulics and nonreciprocal mechanics of muscle, STATPHYS28: University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Additive control of active topological defects, Frontiers in nonequilibrium physics: Active matter, topology and beyond: YITP, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
- Controlling active matter – from drops to defects, Physics seminar, IITM, Chennai, India
- Active hydraulics and odd mechanics of muscle, Simons seminar, NCBS, Bangalore, India
- Optimally transporting active fluids, AIMS 2023 minisymposium: Optimal Transport and Mean Field Games with Applications and Computations, UNC Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
- The Physics of Active Matter, Physics Today webinar (virtual)
- Active hydraulics: Physics and Physiology, Physics seminar (virtual): University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Geometry, Topology and Emergent Simplicity, Living Histories of Ideas: APS March Meeting, Las Vegas
- Inverse problems and controlling active matter, Mathematical Biology seminar: Brandeis University, Waltham, USA
- Active matter: Physics and Function, Theoretical Physics seminar (virtual): University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Active hydraulics: Physics and Physiology, Biophysics Symposium: Yale University, New Haven, USA
- Thin sheets as condensed matter, Physics Colloquium: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
- Controlling active matter – from drops to defects, ChBE Colloquium: Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA
- Active muscular hydraulics, Physics Colloquium: Syracuse University, Syracuse, USA
- Active hydraulics: Physics and Physiology, Active Matter in Complex Environments: Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen, USA
2022
- Living Histories talk (virtual)
- Controlling active matter – from drops to defects, Applied Math seminar (virtual): UCL, London, UK
- Thin sheets as condensed matter, Physics seminar (virtual): SUSTech, Shenzen, China
- Physical determinants of muscle’s speed limit, MCB retreat: Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
- Active matter lessons for muscle physiology?, Active Matter: The Next 25 Years (virtual): Lorentz Center, Leiden, Netherlands
- Active muscular hydraulics, BLaST mini-seminar (virtual): Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA
- The fast and furious of muscle movement, Computations in Science Seminars: UChicago, Chicago, USA
- Thin sheets as condensed matter, Condensed Matter Seminar: UMass Amherst, Amherst, USA
- Muscular need for speed, PLS Short Talk: MIT, USA
- Active matter – from patterns to control, Colloquium: UC Berkeley, Berkeley, USA
- Viscoelastic manipulation of collective bacterial swimming, Cell Migration Seminar (virtual), USA
- Swimming through the weeds, bacterially, BPPB seminar (virtual), USA
- Active muscle hydraulics, PMS seminar: MIT, Cambridge, USA
- Active matter – from patterns to control, WAM seminar: Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
- Active matter – from patterns to control, CSMR seminar: NYU, New York, USA
- Active muscle hydraulics, Aditi Simha Memorial Symposium: IISc, Bangalore, India
2021
- Need for speed: Active hydraulic limits of muscle, MCB Friday Talk: Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
- Optimal transport and control of active matter, Rising Stars in Soft and Biological Matter Symposium (virtual): University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
- Optimal transport and control of active drops, DAMTP Statistical Physics and Soft Matter Seminar (virtual): University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Flocking through complex environments, SLAAM Seminar (virtual): UC Merced, Merced, USA
- Active topology, Theoretical Physics Colloquium (virtual): TIFR, Mumbai, India
- Fluctuating plates and singing saws, SIAM-MS2021 minisymposium: At the intersection of geometry, elasticity and meta-materials (virtual), Bilbao, Spain
- Flocking through complex environments, Kavli Seminar (virtual): Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
2020
- Defect-driven melting of active fluids, KITP Program on Symmetry, Thermodynamics and Topology in Active Matter (virtual), April 2020
- Geometry and Topology in Motion, GSNP Dissertation Award Talk (virtual), APS March meeting; March 2020
Pre-2020 talks
2019
- Topology in motion, Workshop on Fluid phases of matter: From electron liquids to active matter, CUNY, USA
- Hydrodynamics of active defects: from chaos to defect ordering and patterning, MRSEC Seminar: Brandeis University, USA
- Topology in motion, Squishy Physics Seminar: Harvard University, USA
- Flocking through disorder, PLS Short Talk: MIT, USA
- Hydrodynamics of active defects: from chaos to defect ordering and patterning, Seminar: ICTS-TIFR, India
- Flocking with topology, CCMT Seminar: IISc, India
- 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
- Topological aspects of active & living matter, Condensed Matter Physics Seminar: Harvard University, USA
- Flocks on a sphere sound topological, Center for Physics of Biological Function, Princeton University, USA
- Statistics and Mechanics of Kirigami, Geometry of Soft Matter workshop, IIP, Natal, Brazil
- Flocks on a sphere sound topological!, Topological protection in messy matter workshop, Georgia Tech, USA
2017
- Topological Sound & Flocking on Curved Surfaces, Berkeley Fluids Seminar: UC Berkeley, USA
- Probing Defect Dynamics in a 2d Active Nematic, Soft/Bio Seminar: MRL, UCSB, USA
2016
- Controlling Defect Dynamics in a 2d Active Nematic, TIFR – TCIS Hyderabad, India