GFS follow on: Mathematics of form in active and inactive media

Workshop theme

This workshop builds upon Growth, Form and Self-Organisation (GFS) programme held at INI in the autumn of 2017, on the 100th anniversary of “On Growth and Form” by D’Arcy Thompson. The focus will be on mathematical and physical aspects of growth, shape, and deformation in animate and inanimate systems. The principal aim is to review progress since the GFS programme, as well as new developments at the frontier of research. Challenges identified in the parent programme, such as the interplay between morphogens and hydrodynamics, and between the micro and macro scales, will be stressed.

New mathematical and physical modelling approaches will be highlighted, along with advanced numerical methods and experimental techniques to elucidate a host of interdisciplinary questions and encompassing such themes as morphogenesis at various scales, shape differentiation, self-organisation in various contexts, pattern formation, cellular mechanics, growth and adaptation of plants, and evolution of complex living and inanimate systems. The workshop will also explore treating active media via the methods from inactive media, for instance techniques for flexing membranes and for agglomeration processes.

The workshop is in part supported by the NSF

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Timetable

Monday 25th March 2019
08:30 to 09:00	Morning tea	No Room Required
09:00 to 09:30	Registration	No Room Required
09:30 to 09:40	Welcome from David Abrahams (INI Director)	No Room Required
09:40 to 10:20	Keith Moffatt University of Cambridge Chirality in Physical and Biological Systems	No Room Required
10:20 to 11:00	Thomas Powers Brown University Mechanics of colloidal membranes	No Room Required
11:00 to 11:30	Morning tea	No Room Required
11:30 to 12:10	Shilpa Khatri University of California, Merced Local analysis for close evaluation of layer potentials	No Room Required
12:10 to 12:35	Joel Marthelot Aix-Marseille University Bioinspired soft inflatable structures	No Room Required
12:35 to 13:25	Lunch buffet	No Room Required
13:35 to 14:00	John LaGrone Tulane University Helical Buckling of Elastic Fibers in Straining Flows	No Room Required
14:00 to 14:40	Pierre Degond Imperial College London A new model for incompressible swelling materials	No Room Required
14:40 to 15:20	Pierre-Thomas Brun Princeton University Building with fluids, lazy design of functional materials	No Room Required
15:20 to 15:50	Afternoon Tea	No Room Required
15:50 to 16:15	Alan Cheng Hou Tsang Stanford University Adaptation of microswimmers in natural and artificial systems	No Room Required
17:00 to 18:30	Welcome drinks reception at the Isaac Newton Institute	No Room Required

Tuesday 26th March 2019
08:30 to 09:00	Morning tea	No Room Required
09:00 to 09:40	John Bush Massachusetts Institute of Technology Pilot-wave hydrodynamics	No Room Required
09:40 to 10:20	Raymond Goldstein University of Cambridge Embryonic inversion in green algae	No Room Required
10:20 to 11:00	Linda Cummings New Jersey Institute of Technology Large-scale simulations of dewetting nematic liquid crystal films: effects of substrate anchoring	No Room Required
11:00 to 11:30	Morning tea	No Room Required
11:30 to 12:10	Yuli D Chashechkin Institute for Problems in Mechanics of Russian Academy of Sciences Mathematical foundations for description of natural systems dynamics and structure	No Room Required
12:10 to 12:35	Pedro Sáenz Massachusetts Institute of Technology Spin lattices of walking droplets	No Room Required
12:35 to 13:35	Lunch buffet	No Room Required
13:35 to 14:00	Annalisa Iuorio Technische Universität Wien Geometric Singular Perturbation Analysis of a Model for Micro-Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)	No Room Required
14:00 to 14:40	Neil Ribe CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique); Université Paris Saclay Acrobatics of Liquid Ropes	No Room Required
14:40 to 15:20	Piotr Szymczak Uniwersytet Warszawski In search of the ideal form: pattern formation in dissolving rocks	No Room Required
15:20 to 15:50	Afternoon Tea	No Room Required
15:50 to 16:15	Majid Mosayebi University of Bristol Shaping and forming from the bottom up: biomaterial self-assembly	No Room Required

Wednesday 27th March 2019
08:30 to 09:00	Morning tea	No Room Required
09:00 to 09:40	Boris Shraiman University of California, Santa Barbara 2D Tissue Statics and Dynamics in Fly Embryo (and perhaps beyond).	No Room Required
09:40 to 10:20	Hirofumi Wada A snapping ribbon, cone, and cylinder	No Room Required
10:20 to 11:00	Alexis Arnaudon EPSRC Centre for Mathematics of Precision Healthcare, Imperial College From the structure of proteins to their functions	No Room Required
11:00 to 11:30	Morning tea	No Room Required
11:30 to 12:10	Rhoda Hawkins University of Sheffield Biological cell and nucleus deformation by active matter	No Room Required
12:10 to 12:35	Alison Patteson Syracuse University Physical limits of cell migration	No Room Required
12:35 to 13:35	Lunch buffet	No Room Required
13:35 to 14:00	Kalina Haas On the emergence of puzzle-shaped cells in the leaf epidermis	No Room Required
14:00 to 14:40	Christophe Eloy A class of tree crown shapes driven by gravity and light sensing	No Room Required
14:40 to 15:20	Saverio Spagnolie University of Wisconsin-Madison Active matter invasion of a viscous fluid and a no-flow theorem	No Room Required
15:20 to 15:50	Afternoon Tea	No Room Required
15:50 to 16:30	Krastan Blagoev Johns Hopkins University; National Science Foundation Growth and Cell Death in the Colon and in Hair Follicles	No Room Required
19:30 to 22:00	Formal Dinner at St John's College (Hall)	No Room Required

Thursday 28th March 2019
08:30 to 09:00	Morning tea	No Room Required
09:00 to 09:40	Mimi Koehl University of California, Berkeley Organisms with complex life cycles can assume different forms that affect their performance	No Room Required
09:40 to 10:20	Lisa Fauci Tulane University Spinning helices, heaving panels, and waving tails: the role of flexibility in propulsion	No Room Required
10:20 to 11:00	Maciej Lisicki University of Cambridge Pumping and swimming - two faces of phoretic flows	No Room Required
11:00 to 11:30	Morning tea	No Room Required
11:30 to 12:10	Eva Kanso University of Southern California; New York University Morphological Transitions in Active Microfilaments	No Room Required
12:10 to 12:35	Enkeleida Lushi New Jersey Institute of Technology tba	No Room Required
12:35 to 13:35	Lunch buffet	No Room Required
13:35 to 14:00	Daniel Alejandro Matoz-fernandez University of Dundee Wrinkle formation in developing bacterial biofilms	No Room Required
14:00 to 14:40	Massimo Vergassola University of California, San Diego Waves and flows in the early embryogenesis of Drosophila melanogaster	No Room Required
14:40 to 15:20	Rosemary Dyson University of Birmingham Vesicle transport and cytoplasmic streaming in the pollen tube tip	No Room Required
15:20 to 15:50	Afternoon Tea	No Room Required
15:50 to 16:30	Alexis Peaucelle The “expanding brick”, Examining a new model for plants growth	No Room Required

Friday 29th March 2019
08:30 to 09:00	Morning tea	No Room Required
09:00 to 09:40	Alexandre Kabla University of Cambridge Mechanics of cells and tissues	No Room Required
09:40 to 10:20	Mingming Wu Cornell University Biophysical force regulation in cells and tissues	No Room Required
10:20 to 11:00	Nick Jones Imperial College London Growing stable ecosystems	No Room Required
11:00 to 11:30	Morning tea	No Room Required
11:30 to 12:10	Eric Lauga University of Cambridge The shape and deformation of swimming bacteria	No Room Required
12:10 to 12:35	Nicholas Burnett University of California, Davis Physical and biological factors in the environment affect the form of kelp	No Room Required
12:35 to 13:35	Lunch buffet	No Room Required
13:35 to 14:00	Gemma Cupples University of Birmingham Viscous propulsion in active transversely isotropic media	No Room Required
14:00 to 14:40	Annemiek Cornelissen Gastrovascular morphogenesis in the jellyfish Aurelia Aurita	No Room Required
14:40 to 15:20	Martine Ben Amar CNRS - Ecole Normale Superieure Paris; Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris tba	No Room Required
15:20 to 15:40	Afternoon Tea	No Room Required

GFS follow on: Mathematics of form in active and inactive media

Organisers

Arezki Boudaoud
Andrzej Herczyński Boston College
Eric Lauga University of Cambridge
Maciej Lisicki University of Cambridge

Speakers

Alexis Arnaudon EPSRC Centre for Mathematics of Precision Healthcare, Imperial College
Martine Ben Amar CNRS - Ecole Normale Superieure Paris; Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris
Krastan Blagoev Johns Hopkins University; National Science Foundation
Pierre-Thomas Brun Princeton University
Nicholas Burnett University of California, Davis
John Bush Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Yuli D Chashechkin Institute for Problems in Mechanics of Russian Academy of Sciences
Annemiek Cornelissen
Linda Cummings New Jersey Institute of Technology
Gemma Cupples University of Birmingham
Pierre Degond Imperial College London
Rosemary Dyson University of Birmingham
Christophe Eloy
Lisa Fauci Tulane University
Raymond Goldstein University of Cambridge
Kalina Haas
Rhoda Hawkins University of Sheffield
Annalisa Iuorio Technische Universität Wien
Nick Jones Imperial College London
Alexandre Kabla University of Cambridge
Eva Kanso University of Southern California; New York University
Shilpa Khatri University of California, Merced
Mimi Koehl University of California, Berkeley
John LaGrone Tulane University
Eric Lauga University of Cambridge
Maciej Lisicki University of Cambridge
Enkeleida Lushi New Jersey Institute of Technology
Joel Marthelot Aix-Marseille University
Daniel Alejandro Matoz-fernandez University of Dundee
Keith Moffatt University of Cambridge
Majid Mosayebi University of Bristol
Alison Patteson Syracuse University
Alexis Peaucelle
Thomas Powers Brown University
Neil Ribe CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique); Université Paris Saclay
Boris Shraiman University of California, Santa Barbara
Saverio Spagnolie University of Wisconsin-Madison
Piotr Szymczak Uniwersytet Warszawski
Pedro Sáenz Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alan Cheng Hou Tsang Stanford University
Massimo Vergassola University of California, San Diego
Hirofumi Wada
Mingming Wu Cornell University

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Participants

Alexis Arnaudon EPSRC Centre for Mathematics of Precision Healthcare, Imperial College
Martine Ben Amar CNRS - Ecole Normale Superieure Paris; Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris
Krastan Blagoev Johns Hopkins University; National Science Foundation
Arezki Boudaoud ENS - Lyon
Pierre-Thomas Brun Princeton University
Nicholas Burnett University of California, Davis
Yuli D Chashechkin Institute for Problems in Mechanics of Russian Academy of Sciences
Annemiek Cornelissen
Linda Cummings New Jersey Institute of Technology
Gemma Cupples University of Birmingham
Hélène de Maleprade University of Cambridge
Pierre Degond Imperial College London
Jonathan Desponds UC San Diego
Rosemary Dyson University of Birmingham
Christophe Eloy
Lisa Fauci Tulane University
Antonio Gamez Universidad de Cádiz
Raymond Goldstein University of Cambridge
Kalina Haas
Rhoda Hawkins University of Sheffield
Andrzej Herczyński Boston College
Annalisa Iuorio Technische Universität Wien
Nick Jones Imperial College London
Alexandre Kabla University of Cambridge
Eva Kanso University of Southern California; New York University
Shilpa Khatri University of California, Merced
Ousmane Kodio University of Oxford
Mimi Koehl University of California, Berkeley
John LaGrone Tulane University
Jenny Larsson University of Sheffield
Eric Lauga University of Cambridge
Maciej Lisicki University of Cambridge
Enkeleida Lushi New Jersey Institute of Technology
Joel Marthelot Aix-Marseille University
Daniel Alejandro Matoz-fernandez University of Dundee
Keith Moffatt University of Cambridge
Majid Mosayebi University of Bristol
Alison Patteson Syracuse University
Alexis Peaucelle
Thomas Powers Brown University
Neil Ribe CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique); Université Paris Saclay
Boris Shraiman University of California, Santa Barbara
Saverio Spagnolie University of Wisconsin-Madison
Piotr Szymczak Uniwersytet Warszawski
Pedro Sáenz Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alan Cheng Hou Tsang Stanford University
Massimo Vergassola University of California, San Diego
Hirofumi Wada
Mingming Wu Cornell University