Higgs Centre Workshop: The physics of self-organising active matter
Event description
The physics of self-organising active matter is a key frontier in contemporary science, bringing together theorists working in non-equlibrium physics and applied mathematics with experimentalists in fields as varied as cell biology, robotics and soft matter physics. The field has the opportunity to address deep questions in non-equilibrium physics, developmental biology, chromosomal dynamics etc. It also offers possible downstream industrial applications in active materials, robotics etc. This meeting will bring together leading international researchers working on both theory and experiment to exchange ideas and explore new directions in this highly contemporary and exciting field.
This meeting also serves as the second international conference under a JSPS-funded "core to core" program grant on the physics of self-organising active matter https://sites.google.com/kyoto-u.ac.jp/c2c/home. A key objective of the core-to-core program is to create connections with younger scientists. There are opportunities for student exchanges and internships. The program has several nodes in the UK as well as in Germany/Austria, China and Japan (leading). This workshop therefore also aims to bring together two important communities working on self-organising active matter, those based in Asia and in Europe. It is a rare opportunity for exchange and collaboration between these two communities that have many interests in common but that could be better connected. The hope is that this workshop will act as a "bridge" in this respect. This program grant will run for five years with further follow-up workshops, including one that is already being planned in Dresden for 2025. Thus it gives participants the unusual opportunity to be included at the start of this ambitious program and the relationships and collaborations that will emerge from it. Involvement in the workshop is not restricted to those working in program grant node institutions.
Speakers
Mike Cates (University of Cambridge) | Thermodynamically Consistent Flocking | |
Robert Insall (University of Glasgow) | Chemotaxis, self-steering, and collective migration – how cells generate gradients together to obtain information about their surroundings | |
Davide Michieletto (University of Edinburgh) | Topologically Active polymers | |
Juliane Simmchen (University of Strathclyde) | From active - passive interactions to self - assembled clusters from photocatalytic active matter | |
Rastko Sknepnek (University of Dundee) | Extending the vertex model for tissue dynamics to include effects of activity | |
Dan Pearce (University of Warwick/Geneva) | Turbulence and hyperuniformity in active nematics | |
Giulia Laura Celora (University College London) | Migration of living droplets: a novel paradigm for chemotaxis of multicellular communities | |
Jeanine Shea (TU Berlin) | Collective behavior of cohesive, aligning particles | |
Suropriya Saha (MPI Göttingen) | Multifaceted dynamics due to nonreciprocity in active scalar mixtures | |
Christina Kurzthaler (MPI Dresden) | Active transport in complex environments | |
Klaus Kroy (Leipzig) | Self-Organising Hot Microswimmers | |
Oliver Bäumchen (Bayreuth) | Self-Organization of Photoactive Microbial Matter | |
Uwe Thiele (Münster) | Nonreciprocal demixing - oscillatory states and Maxwell construction | |
Markus Baer (PTB Berlin) | Patterns, turbulence and control in polar active fluids | |
Daisuke Mizuno (Kyushu University) | Self-organized jamming criticality and effective temperature of active cytoplasm | |
Kaoru Sugimura (University of Tokyo) | Mechanical control of epithelial morphogenesis | |
Sakurako Tanida (University of Tokyo) | Crowd Dynamics as Active Matter: Unveiling the Pattern Formation in Elevator Traffic and Pedestrian Movements | |
Marie Tani (Kyoto University) | Coiling patterns of soft filaments | |
Daiki Nishiguchi (University Tokyo) | Reversals, oscillations, and chiral dynamics of bacterial turbulence | |
John J. Molina (Kyoto University) | Bayesian Machine Learning for Inverse Flow Problems in Soft Matter | |
Fumiaki Yokoyama (University of Tokyo) | Phenotypic Heterogeneity of Extracellular Matrix Production within Bacterial Proliferating Active Matter | |
Hiroki Matsukiyo (Kyushu University) | Oscillating edge current in polar active fluid | |
Prof. Xiaqing Shi (Soochow University) | Extreme Spontaneous Deformations of Active Crystals | |
Prof. Xinpeng Xu (Guangdong-Technion-Israel Institute of Technology) | Persistent random walk of adherent cells under different stimuli | |
Zhihong You (Xiamen University) | Liquid-liquid phase separation driven by active flow | |
Prof. Shigeyuki Komura (Wenzhou Institute, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences) | Emergence of odd elasticity in micromachines | |
Dr. Ziluo Zhang (Wenzhou Institute, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences) | Field theory of active Brownian particles in potentials | |
Prof. Yongxiang Gao (Shenzhen University) | Odd turbulent flow in a chiral active fluid | |
Prof. Guangyin Jing (Northwest University) | Bacterial swimming in complex fluids | |
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Higgs Centre Workshop: The physics of self-organising active matter
Venues
School of Physics and Astronomy
James Clerk Maxwell Building, 4305
Peter Guthrie Tait Road
Edinburgh
EH9 3FD
UK
Organisers
- Rosalba Garcia-Millan(
- King's College London
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Shigeyuki Komura
(
- Wenzhou Institute, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Davide Marenduzzo(
- University of Edinburgh
- Davide Michieletto(
- University of Edinburgh
- Holger Stark(
- Technical University of Berlin
- Matthew Turner(
- University of Warwick
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Ryoichi Yamamoto
(
- Kyoto University
Registration closes on Monday 27 May 2024.
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