Workshop Organizers: Gregory Grason (UMass Amherst), Pierre Ronceray (Princeton University)

Geometrically frustrated assembly is an emerging paradigm for self-organized soft materials, where
interactions between self-assembling elements (e.g., colloidal particles, macromolecules, proteins) favor local packing
motifs that are incompatible with uniform global order in the assembly, either because of shape mismatch between the
particles or because of the specificity of the interactions. This meeting aims at bringing together, for the first time, a
panel of theorists and a few experimentalists whose current research covers an aspect of this problem, and thinking
together about the key questions regarding the concept and physical models of frustrated self-assembly.