Dynamics of active suspensions, gels, cells and tissues

Workshop theme

Deformation

The workshop will cover recent experimental and theoretical developments in the field of active soft matter, including both biological and biomimetic applications, and ranging from self-propelled particles to active elastomers. The talks and discussions will elucidate unique features of complex dynamic phenomena in these media. This workshop will bring together experts in all the above fields, to compare and contrast the various them, to discuss topical and future problems and methods of their solution, and to explore possible applications.

Some sessions will be held jointly with the concurrent workshop on Liquid crystal defects and their geometry, active and solid liquid crystals, and related systems.

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Timetable

Monday 24th June 2013
09:00 to 09:45	Registration at INI	No Room Required
09:45 to 10:30	Spontaneous Circulation of Confined Active Suspensions	Room 1
10:30 to 11:00	Morning Coffee at INI	No Room Required
11:00 to 11:45	Holger Stark Technische Universität Berlin Active motion: under external fields and collective dynamics	Room 1
11:45 to 12:30	Eric Keaveny Imperial College London Optimisation of chiral structures for micro-scale propulsion	Room 1
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch at Wolfson Court	No Room Required
14:00 to 14:30	Michael Koepf Technion - Israel Institute of Technology A continuum model of epithelial spreading	Room 1
14:30 to 15:00	Andreas Menzel Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Traveling and resting crystals in crowds of self-propelled particles	Room 1
15:00 to 15:30	Shiladitya Banerjee Syracuse University Collective mechanics of epithelial cell colonies on elastic substrates	Room 1
15:30 to 16:00	Afternoon Tea at INI	No Room Required
16:00 to 17:00	Rigidity, Zero Modes, States of Self Stress, and Surface Phonons in Periodic and Diluted Periodic Networks near their Instability Limit	Room 1
17:00 to 18:00	Welcome Wine Reception at INI	No Room Required

Tuesday 25th June 2013
09:00 to 09:45	Models of low-Reynolds-number swimmers and colloidal particles in confined domains	Room 1
09:45 to 10:30	Saverio Spagnolie University of Wisconsin-Madison Locomotion of helical bodies in viscoelastic fluids	Room 1
10:30 to 11:00	Morning Coffee at INI	No Room Required
11:00 to 11:45	Ganesh Subramanian Jawaharalal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research Concentration fluctuations in a bacterial suspension	Room 1
11:45 to 12:30	Mike Graham University of Wisconsin-Madison Hydrodynamic coordination of bacterial motions: from bundles to biomixing	Room 1
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch at Wolfson Court	No Room Required
14:00 to 14:45	Julia Yeomans University of Oxford Active Nematics	Centre for Mathematical Sciences
14:45 to 15:30	Hierarchical active matter: from extensible bundles to active gels, streaming liquid crystals and motile emulsions	Centre for Mathematical Sciences
15:30 to 16:00	Afternoon Tea at INI	No Room Required
16:00 to 16:45	John Toner University of Oregon Rice, Locusts and Chemical Waves: A Hydrodynamic Theory of Polar Active Smectics	Centre for Mathematical Sciences
17:00 to 21:00	Walk to Grantchester, pub dinner* (either on Tues or Thu)	No Room Required

Wednesday 26th June 2013
09:00 to 09:45	John Brady CALTECH (California Institute of Technology) The Five S's: Chemical Swimming, Sailing, Surfing, Squirming and Swarming	Room 1
09:45 to 10:30	Reinhard Lipowsky Max-Planck-Institut für Kolloid- und Grenzflächenforschung Remodelling of membrane compartments	Room 1
10:30 to 11:00	Morning Coffee at INI	No Room Required
11:00 to 11:45	Hans-Günther Döbereiner Universität Bremen Physarum Polycephalum Percolation as a Paradigm for Topological Phase Transitions in Transportation Networks	Room 1
11:45 to 12:30	Natsuhiko Yoshinaga Tohoku University Spontaneous motion and deformation of a droplet driven by chemical reaction	Room 1
12:30 to 13:00	Lunch at Wolfson Court	No Room Required
14:00 to 14:30	Ioannis Kevrekidis Princeton University Data mining in swarming models	Room 1
14:30 to 16:00	Poster Session at INI	No Room Required
15:30 to 16:00	Afternoon Tea at INI	No Room Required
16:00 to 17:00	Free	No Room Required
19:30 to 22:00	Conference Dinner at Lucy Cavendish College	No Room Required

Thursday 27th June 2013
09:00 to 09:45	Fred MacKintosh Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Active stresses and mechanics of intra/extracellular networks	Room 1
09:45 to 10:30	Andreas Bausch Technische Universität München Cytoskeletal pattern formation: Self organization of driven filaments	Room 1
10:30 to 11:00	Morning Coffee at INI	No Room Required
11:00 to 11:45	Passive cooperative behavior in striated acto-myosin systems	Room 1
11:45 to 12:30	Alexander Alexeev Georgia Institute of Technology Hydrodynamics of an elastic swimmer at low Reynolds number	Room 1
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch at Wolfson Court	No Room Required
14:00 to 14:45	Jean-François Joanny Institut Curie Growth and instabilities of healthy and cancerous tissues	Centre for Mathematical Sciences
14:45 to 15:30	Anna Balazs University of Pittsburgh Reconfigurable assemblies of active, auto-chemotactic gels	Centre for Mathematical Sciences
15:30 to 16:00	Afternoon Tea at INI	No Room Required
16:00 to 16:45	Emmanuel Farge Institut Curie Mechanogenetic reciprocal coupling in early embryonic differentiation and morphogenesis, and evolutionary involvement in primitive organisms emergence	Centre for Mathematical Sciences
16:45 to 17:15	David Head University of Leeds Microscopic simulation of active gels: The controlling role of end detachment	Centre for Mathematical Sciences
17:15 to 17:45	Thomas Ihle North Dakota State University Phase transitions and solitons in self-propelled particles: kinetic theory and diagrammatic approach	Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Friday 28th June 2013
09:00 to 09:45	Daniel Joseph Needleman Harvard University The Metaphase Spindle as an Active Liquid Crystal	Room 1
09:45 to 10:30	Jimmy Feng University of British Columbia Modeling dorsal closure during embryonic development of the fruit fly	Room 1
10:30 to 11:00	Morning Coffee at INI	No Room Required
11:00 to 11:45	Igor Aronson Argonne National Laboratory Modeling of Cell Movement on Adhesive Substrates	Room 1
11:45 to 12:30	A poroelastic model for mechanochemical waves and pattern formation in Physarum polycephalum	Room 1
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch at Wolfson Court	No Room Required
14:00 to 14:45	Ramin Golestanian University of Oxford Collective behaviour of phoretically active colloids	Room 1
14:45 to 15:30	Heiko Rieger Universität des Saarlandes Vascularization patterns and fluid flow in growing tumours	Room 1
15:30 to 16:00	Afternoon Tea at INI	No Room Required
16:00 to 16:25	Rhoda Hawkins University of Sheffield Cell motility due to active gel flows	Room 1
16:25 to 16:50	Vladimir Vladimirov University of York A New Theory of Micro-Robots: multiple scales & distinguished limits	Room 1
16:50 to 17:15	Pietro Cicuta University of Cambridge Conditions of hydrodynamic synchronization in models of beating cilia	Room 1
17:15 to 17:40	Jorn Dunkel University of Cambridge Fluid dynamics of bacterial turbulence	Room 1

Dynamics of active suspensions, gels, cells and tissues

Speakers

Alexander Alexeev Georgia Institute of Technology
Igor Aronson Argonne National Laboratory
Anna Balazs University of Pittsburgh
Shiladitya Banerjee Syracuse University
Andreas Bausch Technische Universität München
John Brady CALTECH (California Institute of Technology)
Pietro Cicuta University of Cambridge
Jorn Dunkel University of Cambridge
Hans-Günther Döbereiner Universität Bremen
Emmanuel Farge Institut Curie
Jimmy Feng University of British Columbia
Ramin Golestanian University of Oxford
Mike Graham University of Wisconsin-Madison
Rhoda Hawkins University of Sheffield
David Head University of Leeds
Thomas Ihle North Dakota State University
Jean-François Joanny Institut Curie
Eric Keaveny Imperial College London
Ioannis Kevrekidis Princeton University
Michael Koepf Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Reinhard Lipowsky Max-Planck-Institut für Kolloid- und Grenzflächenforschung
Fred MacKintosh Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Andreas Menzel Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Daniel Joseph Needleman Harvard University
Heiko Rieger Universität des Saarlandes
Saverio Spagnolie University of Wisconsin-Madison
Holger Stark Technische Universität Berlin
Ganesh Subramanian Jawaharalal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
John Toner University of Oregon
Vladimir Vladimirov University of York
Julia Yeomans University of Oxford
Natsuhiko Yoshinaga Tohoku University

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