USNCTAM2026 Expanded Mobile Itinerary
For Yi Man · Pasadena Convention Center · June 21-25, 2026
主线：702 complex fluids / microswimmers；703 bio-fluid mechanics；active matter；少量 SciML / RL control。
怎么用：开会当天就看当前 day。每个时间段下面列出该听的报告人和题目；“Focus” 是你听的时候要抓的点。
取舍原则：Monday 全力守 702；Wednesday 听 active matter / biofluid；Tuesday 和 Thursday 只挑方法线，不要被 data-driven 分散太多。
标记： 🔥 必听/必做 ✅ 推荐 ○ 可选/可跳 🤝 社交
Sun Jun 21
No technical talks - registration + reception
Ballroom Foyer
Registration / badge / app / Wi-Fi
Focus: 确认 badge、会议 app、Wi-Fi、地图。你的正式报告在 Monday 10:20，Section A / Ballroom。
Opening Reception
Opening Reception
Focus: 轻社交。目标不是长谈，而是和 702 的 chair / organizer 先混脸熟。
- 可找：Gwynne Elfring、Eric Shaqfeh；简单说你 Monday 10:20 在 702 讲 spheroidal self-diffusiophoretic particle in complex fluids。
Mon Jun 22
Core day - stay with 702 as much as possible
Ballroom D
Plenary: Eva Kanso - Self-reorganization and Information Transfer in Animal Groups
Focus: 大尺度 animal groups / fish schools / self-generated flows。不是 low-Re Janus，但与 collective swimming、flow-mediated interaction、biological locomotion 有概念联系。
Section A / Ballroom
702: Propulsion, particle motion, and microrheology in viscoelastic fluids - Block 1
Focus: 这是全会与你最接近的 block。你的报告也在这里，前后都不要换场。
- 09:20-09:40 - Gwynn Elfring - Active particles in complex fluids. 重点听 active particle 在 complex fluids 里的速度、转动、轨迹、应力机制如何表述。
- 09:40-10:00 - Selena Chiu - A swimming rheometer: measuring the properties of a viscoelastic fluid using a tethered swimmer. 重点听 swimmer 反推 rheology 的实验思路。
- 10:00-10:20 - Laurel Kroo / Yoon-Je Choi - A Purcell-swimming robot in Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids: beyond velocity-maximization objectives. 重点听 objective design，和你的 RL swimmer 有方法交集。
- 10:20-10:40 - Yi Man - Propulsion of a spheroidal self-diffusiophoretic particle in complex fluids. 你的报告。
- 10:40-11:00 - Alexander Morozov - Swimming of wavy sheets in weakly viscoelastic fluids: the mechanism of polymer-induced slowing down. 重点和你的 viscoelastic propulsion correction 做机制对照。
Section A / Ballroom
702 continued - colloids, suspensions, microrheology
Focus: 从单个 swimmer 扩展到 spinning colloids、hydrodynamic interaction、viscoelastic suspensions、active colloids。
- 11:20-11:40 - Marco De Corato - Lateral migration of spinning colloids driven through viscoelastic fluids. 与旋转/手性/viscoelastic drift 有关；Lailai Zhu 在作者列表。
- 11:40-12:00 - Francesco Del Giudice - Viscoelastic ordering of non-Newtonian suspensions in microfluidic flows. 重点听 viscoelasticity 如何诱导 ordering。
- 12:00-12:20 - Sachit Nagella - Colloidal hydrodynamic interactions in viscoelastic fluids. 很相关，适合听 HI 在 viscoelastic medium 中如何改变。
- 12:20-12:40 - Seungwoo Ha - Iterative semi-implicit distributed Lagrange multiplier method for viscoelastic suspensions. 数值方法向；Arezoo Ardekani 相关。
- 12:40-13:00 - Boyuan Chen - Microrheology of active colloids. active colloids + microrheology，和 phoretic swimmer 概念最接近。
Lunch on your own
Lunch: try to join 702 people
Focus: 不要一个人吃太久。目标：Elfring / Shaqfeh / Lailai / Ardekani / Brady 中至少聊到 1-2 个。
- 可说：I just presented the spheroidal self-diffusiophoretic particle talk in 702. I would be very interested in your thoughts on experimental validation / model extensions.
Ballroom D
Semi-plenary: Kenneth Kamrin - Modeling Fluids Interacting with Collections of Complex Solid Bodies
Focus: 比同时间 Xuanhe Zhao 更接近你的 fluid-structure / particles / soft active swimmers 线。
Section A / Ballroom
702 continued - viscoelastic flows, PINNs, biological active systems
Focus: 这段不全是 swimmer，但都是 complex fluids / viscoelastic flows / biological active mechanics。
- 16:20-16:40 - Ivan Christov - Steady and oscillatory viscoelastic flows in compliant microchannels. 关注 boundary compliance + viscoelastic flow。
- 16:40-17:00 - Nan Hu - Theory-experiment discrepancy in pressure drop of dilute viscoelastic fluid in channel flows. Howard Stone 相关；重点听 discrepancy 如何解释。
- 17:00-17:20 - Tachin Ruangkriengsin - Transient features in asymptotic analysis of viscoelastic flows. 和 weakly viscoelastic/asymptotic correction 有方法联系。
- 17:20-17:40 - Ali Mashhadian - PINNs for highly viscoelastic flows. Arezoo Ardekani 相关；方法拓展，可听高 Wi/De 的处理思路。
- 17:40-18:00 - Stylianos Varchanis - Biomechanical origins of microtubule aster decentering. Michael Shelley 相关；active biological mechanics。
Tue Jun 23
Method day - RL/action-space and SciML only, do not overinvest
Ballroom D
Plenary: Samantha Daly - Bridging Scales in Mechanics with Symmetry-Aware Scientific ML
Focus: 材料/实验/SciML，不是主线。若精神好可以听，重点看如何把 physics constraints 放入 learning。
Section F / Ballroom
207: Operator learning in mechanics with robust error estimation, control, and generalization
Focus: 这段是方法线。最值得听的是 09:40 RL latent action space。
- 09:20-09:40 - Yue Yu - Smoother or rougher: how to generate data to learn nonlocal operators? 数据生成策略。
- 09:40-10:00 - Xuyang Li / Romit Maulik - Stability Analysis in the Latent Space of Actions for reinforcement learning. 与你的 RL swimmer action-space / policy stability 最相关。
- 10:00-10:20 - Oriol Vendrell-Gallart - Probabilistic operator learning on arbitrary domains with Gaussian Processes. 不规则几何 + uncertainty。
- 10:20-10:40 - Pratyush Kumar Singh - Bayesian neural operator surrogates for high-dimensional PDEs with model-discrepancy quantification. UQ / model discrepancy。
- 10:40-11:00 - Muhammad Ismayilov - Neural operator surrogates for viscous fingering. 至少是流体问题，可听。
Section B or Section F
Option A: 205 SciML surrogates OR Option B: 207 operator learning
Focus: 我更建议 Section B 的 11:20 Romit Maulik weak-form learning；如果你想连续听 operator learning，则留在 Section F。
- Section B 11:20-12:00 - Romit Maulik - Bypassing backpropagation through time for improved learning of chaotic dynamical systems using the weak-form. 动力系统 + weak form，方法启发较强。
- Section B 12:40-13:00 - Junoh Jung - Differentiable weak form learning for structure preserving finite element acceleration of incompressible flows. 和 incompressible flow 更接近。
- Section F 11:20-13:00 - Point cloud neural operator / reliable operator learning / residual and agent-based error correction / equivariant latent dynamics / MAG-NeF. 泛 operator learning。
Ballroom E
Semi-plenary: Venkat Raman - Making Machines Explore: End-to-end Automation for Computational Science
Focus: 不是 microswimmer，但与 AI-assisted scientific workflow 相关，可能对科研/教学自动化有启发。
Optional
Evening optional: SciML surrogate / foundation models
Focus: 低优先级。若累了，这段建议休息或写 follow-up notes。
- 可选 Section B 205：operator inference / mesh-based SciML；可选 214 Upper Level 213：foundation models for mechanics。
Wed Jun 24
Active matter + bio-fluid day
Ballroom D
Plenary: Gianluca Iaccarino - Data Science Tools for Rocket Combustor
Focus: 不是你的物理方向，但可听 high-fidelity simulation + data science 的组织方式。
Ballroom E
Semi-plenary: Yashashree Kulkarni - Statistical Mechanics of Soft Active Matter
Focus: Wednesday 最重要之一。active matter、bacterial propulsion、non-equilibrium statistical mechanics、biological membranes。
Section B / Ballroom
703: Bio-fluid mechanics - morning block
Focus: 偏 bio-inspired / inertial swimmers，不全是你的尺度。优先听 11:00 hydrodynamic herding。
- 10:40-11:00 - Sunghwan Jung - Ground effect of bat flights. 大尺度 biofluid，可 broad exposure。
- 11:00-11:20 - Mohamed Niged Mabrouk - Hydrodynamic herding: passive cohesion and minimal intervention in large schools of inertial swimmers. 这场最值得听，collective swimmers / hydrodynamic herding。
- 11:20-11:40 - Leah Mendelson - Free surface and flexibility effects during partially-submerged bioinspired propulsion. bio-inspired propulsion。
- 11:40-12:00 - Pedro Ormonde - Hydrodynamic forces and vortical structures of fish-inspired pectoral fins. 偏高 Re 鱼鳍推进。
- 12:00-12:20 - Yu Jun Loo - Leading edge vortex shedding from a zero-thickness plate. 可跳。
Section B / Ballroom
703: Bio-fluid mechanics - afternoon block
Focus: 比上午更贴近 active matter / biological soft matter；至少听 15:00-15:40。
- 14:20-14:40 - Saikat Basu - Mechanobiological model for airborne inhaled transmission of pox viruses. 偏 bio/transport。
- 14:40-15:00 - Sruthi Chengalrayan - Biofluid mechanics of von Willebrand Factor interactions with extracellular vesicles. 微尺度生物流体/输运。
- 15:00-15:20 - Scott Weady - Instability of microbial droplets growing on viscous substrates. Michael Shelley 相关，重要。
- 15:20-15:40 - Tingtao Zhou - Hydrodynamic interactions destroy motility-induced phase separations in active suspensions. John Brady 相关，active suspensions + HI，非常值得听。
102 Lower Level
504: Complex-fluid / rheology data-driven modeling
Focus: 不是 702/703，但两场和 complex fluids rheology 很相关。
- 16:20-16:40 - Alp Sunol - Learning constitutive models and rheology from partial flow measurements. 很适合了解 complex-fluid rheology 如何从 flow measurement 反演。
- 17:00-17:20 - Michael Graham / Ashinth Mangesh - Data-driven and physics-aware microstructural modeling of flowing complex fluids. Michael Graham 相关，值得听。
Ballroom D/E
Banquet
Focus: 第二个重要社交场。补聊 Monday 没聊到的人。
- 目标：Elfring, Shaqfeh, Ardekani, Brady, Shelley 相关学生/合作者, Kulkarni。
Thu Jun 25
Control / data-driven flow + leaving notes
Ballroom D
Plenary: Ricardo Vinuesa - Explainable Deep Learning, Control and Scientific Discovery
Focus: 含 explainable deep learning 和 DRL flow control。与 RL microswimmer 是方法线联系。
Ballroom E
Semi-plenary: Ali Mani - Data-driven turbulence closure models
Focus: 不是主线。若体力够可听 data-driven closure / model selection；否则用来社交或整理 follow-up。
Section A / Ballroom
204: Generative models for probabilistic inference
Focus: 方法拓展，不是核心同行场。
- 10:40-11:00 - Han Gao - Generative learning for high-dimensional parametric flow systems. 因为是 flow systems，最值得听。
- 11:00-11:20 - Jinlong Wu / Xinghao Dong - Stochastic and non-local closure modeling for nonlinear dynamical systems via latent generative models. closure / nonlinear dynamics。
- 11:20-11:40 - Nicholas Forman - Multi-physics generalization of foundation generative models. 很 broad。
Hallway / cafe
Write follow-up notes before leaving
Focus: 离场前立刻记下：要发邮件的人、问题、对方建议、承诺发的论文/PDF。
- 建议手机备忘录模板：Name / Affiliation / Topic / Follow-up / Email?
优先交谈对象
Gwynne Elfring
为什么相关：702 chair; Active particles in complex fluids
可以聊：你的 spheroidal Janus + weakly viscoelastic correction；问 experimental validation。
Eric Shaqfeh
为什么相关：702 chair; viscoelastic suspensions / complex fluids
可以聊：second-order fluid vs stronger Wi models；相关实验与数值路线。
Alexander Morozov
为什么相关：wavy sheet in weakly viscoelastic fluids
可以聊：polymer-induced slowing mechanism，与 propulsion correction 对照。
Lailai Zhu
为什么相关：702 talk author; 你的合作者
可以聊：稿件、合作、会议介绍人。
Arezoo Ardekani
为什么相关：viscoelastic suspensions; PINNs highly viscoelastic flows
可以聊：非牛顿数值、active suspensions、SciML。
John Brady
为什么相关：active colloids / microrheology
可以聊：active colloid microrheology 与 phoretic swimmer 联系。
Yashashree Kulkarni
为什么相关：soft active matter semi-plenary
可以聊：active matter / non-equilibrium stat mech 视角。
Eva Kanso
为什么相关：animal groups / biological fluid mechanics
可以聊：boundaries、complex fluids、collective swimming。
Ricardo Vinuesa / Romit Maulik / Xuyang Li
为什么相关：DRL / action-space / SciML methods
可以聊：和 RL microswimmer navigation 的方法联系。
三句 opening
I work on low-Reynolds-number microswimmer hydrodynamics, especially self-diffusiophoretic particles and swimmers in complex fluids. My talk is about how spheroidal geometry changes viscoelastic corrections to phoretic propulsion.
I am also interested in how boundaries and complex fluids modify microswimmer trajectories, including near-wall squirmers and bacterial-style swimmers.
I have a separate project on reinforcement learning for microswimmer navigation, so I am interested in how action-space design and physical constraints affect learned control policies.