CFM Seminar List

for period 1 May to 23 Aug

Thursday 09 May
14:00-15:00	Thiele, U; Todorova, D (Loughborough University)
	Evolution equations for films of mixtures and suspensions - the case of dewetting mixtures	Sem 1
15:00-16:00	Pushkin, M (University of Oxford)
	Stirring in active media	Sem 1

Tuesday 14 May
11:00-12:00	Holm, C (Universität Stuttgart)
	Transport of charged macromolecules under applied electric fields	Sem 1
12:00-13:00	Fontelos, M (ICMAT)
	Contact line instabilities in electrowetting	Sem 1

Thursday 16 May
14:00-15:00	Yoshinaga, N (Tohoku University)
	Spontaneous motion and deformation of a droplet	Sem 1
15:00-16:00	Ratiu, T (École Polytechnique)
	What does geometric mechanics have to say about the dynamics of complex fluids?	Sem 1

Tuesday 21 May
11:00-12:00	Wilson, S (University of Strathclyde)
	A rigid or elastic plate floating on the free surface of a viscous film: a coupled free boundary and fluid-structure interaction problem	Sem 2
12:00-13:00	Holm, D (Imperial College London)
	What does the dynamics of complex fluids have to say about geometric mechanics?	Sem 2

Thursday 23 May
14:00-15:00	Kruse, K (Universität des Saarlandes)
	Hydrodynamic description of the actin cortex	Sem 1
15:00-16:00	Pismen, L (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)
	Motor action in semiflexible networks	Sem 1

Tuesday 28 May
11:00-11:30	Borcia, R (Brandenburgische Technische Universität)
	Phase field models for two-fluid systems	Sem 1
11:30-12:00	Borcia, I D (Brandenburgische Technische Universität)
	Lubrication approaches for binary mixtures	Sem 1
12:00-13:00	Alexeev, A (Georgia Institute of Technology)
	Modeling swelling kinetics and transport in hydrogels using mesoscale simulations	Sem 1

Thursday 30 May
14:00-15:00	Wagner, B (Technische Universität Berlin)
	On effective slip for an upper convected Maxwell fluid	Sem 1
15:00-16:00	Muench, A (University of Oxford)
	Structure formation in thin films of polymer mixtures	Sem 1

Monday 10 June
17:00-18:00	Constantin, P (Princeton)
	Nonlocal evolution equations (Rothschild Distinguished Visiting Fellow lecture)	Sem 1

Monday 24 June
09:45-10:30	Goldstein, R (University of Cambridge)
	Spontaneous Circulation of Confined Active Suspensions	Meeting Room 2, CMS
11:00-11:45	Stark, H (Technische Universität Berlin)
	Active motion: under external fields and collective dynamics	Meeting Room 2, CMS
11:45-12:30	Keaveny, E (Imperial College London)
	Optimisation of chiral structures for micro-scale propulsion	Meeting Room 2, CMS
14:00-14:30	Koepf, M (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)
	A continuum model of epithelial spreading	Meeting Room 2, CMS
14:30-15:00	Menzel, A (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)
	Traveling and resting crystals in crowds of self-propelled particles	Meeting Room 2, CMS
15:00-15:30	Banerjee, S (Syracuse University)
	Collective mechanics of epithelial cell colonies on elastic substrates	Meeting Room 2, CMS
16:00-17:00	Lubensky, T (University of Pennsylvania)
	Rothschild Lecture: Rigidity, Zero Modes, States of Self Stress, and Surface Phonons in Periodic and Diluted Periodic Networks near their Instability Limit	Sem 1

Tuesday 25 June
09:00-09:45	Crowdy, D (Imperial College London)
	Models of low-Reynolds-number swimmers and colloidal particles in confined domains	Meeting Room 2, CMS
09:45-10:30	Spagnolie, S (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
	Locomotion of helical bodies in viscoelastic fluids	Meeting Room 2, CMS
11:00-11:45	Subramanian, G (Engineering Mechanics Unit, JNCASR, Bangalore)
	Concentration fluctuations in a bacterial suspension	Meeting Room 2, CMS
11:45-12:30	Graham, M (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
	Hydrodynamic coordination of bacterial motions: from bundles to biomixing	Meeting Room 2, CMS
14:00-14:45	Yeomans, J (University of Oxford)
	Continuum Models of Active Nematics	Sem 1
14:45-15:30	Dogic, Z (Brandeis University)
	Hierarchical active matter: from beating bundles to active gels, streaming liquid crystals and motile emulsions	Sem 1
16:00-16:45	Toner, J (University of Oregon)
	Universality for Moving Stripes: A Hydrodynamic Theory of Polar Active Smectics	Sem 1

Wednesday 26 June
09:00-09:45	Brady, J (CALTECH (California Institute of Technology))
	The Five S's: Chemical Swimming, Sailing, Surfing, Squirming and Swarming	Meeting Room 2, CMS
09:45-10:30	Lipowsky, R (Max-Planck-Institut für Kolloid- und Grenzflächenforschung)
	Remodelling of membrane compartments	Meeting Room 2, CMS
11:00-11:45	Chaté, H (CEA/Saclay)
	tba	Meeting Room 2, CMS
11:45-12:30	Yoshinaga, N (Tohoku University)
	Spontaneous motion and deformation of a droplet driven by chemical reaction	Meeting Room 2, CMS

Thursday 27 June
09:00-09:45	MacKintosh, F (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
	Active stresses and mechanics of intra/extracellular networks	Meeting Room 2, CMS
09:45-10:30	Bausch, A (Technische Universität München)
	Cytoskeletal pattern formation: Self organization of driven filaments	Meeting Room 2, CMS
11:00-11:45	Truskinovsky, L (École Polytechnique)
	Passive cooperative behavior in striated acto-myosin systems	Meeting Room 2, CMS
11:45-12:30	Alexeev, A (Georgia Institute of Technology)
	Hydrodynamics of an elastic swimmer at low Reynolds number	Meeting Room 2, CMS
14:00-14:45	Joanny, J-F (Institut Curie)
	Growth and instabilities of healthy and cancerous tissues	Meeting Room 2, CMS
14:45-15:30	Balazs, A (University of Pittsburgh)
	Reconfigurable assemblies of active, auto-chemotactic gels	Meeting Room 2, CMS
16:00-16:45	Farge, E (Institut Curie)
	Mechanogenetic reciprocal coupling in early embryonic differentiation and morphogenesis, and evolutionary involvement in primitive organisms emergence	Meeting Room 2, CMS
16:45-17:15	Head, D (University of Leeds)
	Non-equilibrium structure formation and anomalous diffusion with and without orientational degrees of freedom (*may move to Tues if walk does not take place)	Meeting Room 2, CMS
17:15-17:45	Ihle, T (North Dakota State University)
	Phase transitions and solitons in self-propelled particles: kinetic theory and diagrammatic approach	Meeting Room 2, CMS

Friday 28 June
09:00-09:45	Needleman, D (Harvard University)
	The Metaphase Spindle as an Active Liquid Crystal	Meeting Room 2, CMS
09:45-10:30	Feng, J (University of British Columbia)
	Modeling dorsal closure during embryonic development of the fruit fly	Meeting Room 2, CMS
11:00-11:45	Aronson, I (Argonne National Laboratory)
	Modeling of Cell Movement on Adhesive Substrates	Meeting Room 2, CMS
11:45-12:30	Baer, M (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB))
	A poroelastic model for mechanochemical waves and pattern formation in Physarum polycephalum	Meeting Room 2, CMS
14:00-14:45	Golestanian, R (University of Oxford)
	Collective behaviour of phoretically active colloids	Meeting Room 2, CMS
14:45-15:30	Rieger, H (Universität des Saarlandes)
	Vascularization patterns and fluid flow in growing tumours	Meeting Room 2, CMS
16:00-16:25	Hawkins, R (University of Sheffield)
	Cell motility due to active gel flows	Meeting Room 2, CMS
16:25-17:50	Vladimirov, V (University of York)
	Advances in the theory of self-propulsion of micro-robots	Meeting Room 2, CMS
16:50-17:15	Cicuta, P (University of Cambridge)
	Conditions of hydrodynamic synchronization in models of beating cilia	Meeting Room 2, CMS
17:15-17:40	Dunkel, J (University of Cambridge)
	Fluid dynamics of bacterial turbulence	Meeting Room 2, CMS

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