New statistical physics in living matter: non equilibrium states under adaptive control

Programme theme

It is with great sadness that we report the death of Alex Levine who was an Organiser of this programme and played a key role in its development. As a mark of respect, and in recognition of his substantial contribution, we have chosen to keep his name listed as one of the Organisers.

Buddho, Silke, Tannie and Tomohiro.

Understanding biological physics in detail requires one to not only explore the complex, multiscale structures of biological materials but also to understand their emergent properties that arise out of their being in a nonequilibrium steady state. The cytoskeleton, for example, is a complex assemblage of filaments, their bundles, and various proteins which interact with them. But the mechanics and biological utility of this structure are not determined merely by their structural elements, but by their nonequilibrium state, characterized by endogenous motor activity and the polymerization and depolymerization of the constituent filaments. Consequently, recent developments in the areas of nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and thermodynamics are of critical importance to the physical foundations of living matter, but these ideas remain incomplete and, in most cases, have not penetrated into the biological physics and biology communities.

The proposed programme aims to bring together researchers in mathematics and statistical physics specializing in the fundamental properties of fluctuations and response in nonequilibrium states with researchers in biological physics. We expect the work to enable new collaborations and cross-fertilization of ideas. In short, we expect that understanding the living world will provide challenges that will stimulate new fundamental thinking in statistical physics while current research in this field will help to structure our ever-expanding knowledge of living matter as a nonequilibrium dynamical system. One example of how the living world can introduce new ideas into statistical physics is found in the studies of a large class of nonequilibrium steady-states that are under some form of homeostatic control. In these systems, the energy input maintaining the nonequilibrium state itself depends on the current (or recent) state of the system. While there has been great progress in understanding the statistical physics of driven systems, this new feature of feedback-based control, which is endemic to biology, has received comparatively little attention.

We believe that the time is ripe for a programme to bring together biologists and biophysicists at the cutting edge of these investigations with physicists and mathematicians studying nonequilibrium statistical physics. The potential for collaborative breakthrough is strong: not only are more abstract mathematical ideas from statistical physics necessary to interpret these data, but also these experiments will point out new areas for theoretical research in a variety of tightly regulated nonequilibrium systems.

The Institute kindly requests that any papers published as a result of this programme’s activities are credited as such. Please acknowledge the support of the Institute in your paper using the following text:

The author(s) would like to thank the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, for support and hospitality during the programme New statistical physics in living matter: non equilibrium states under adaptive control, where work on this paper was undertaken. This work was supported by EPSRC grant EP/R014604/1.

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SPL programme: interview with the team of organisers

Workshops

SPLW01

SPLW04

Non-equilibrium physics of self-assembly: from viruses to nano-containers

13 November 2023 to 17 November 2023

SPLW05

Non-equilibrium explorations on the physics of life : remembering the biological physics of Tom McLeish

8 December 2023 to 8 December 2023

Seminars

Monday 10th July 2023
11:00 to 12:00	Hugo Touchette Stellenbosch University Large deviations and their applications in physics 1	Room 2
15:00 to 16:00	Jorn Dunkel Massachusetts Institute of Technology Topological statistics of living and non-living matter	Room 2

Tuesday 11th July 2023
09:30 to 10:30	Andrej Košmrlj Princeton University Designing the Morphology of Separated Phases in Multicomponent Liquid Mixtures	Room 2
11:00 to 12:00	Herbert Levine Northeastern University Interactions of cells with extracellular matrix	Room 2
15:00 to 16:00	Kirone Mallick CEA/Saclay; École Polytechnique Macroscopic Fluctuations in Interacting Particle Systems	Room 2

Wednesday 12th July 2023
11:00 to 12:00	Hugo Touchette Stellenbosch University Large deviations and their applications in physics 2	Room 2
15:00 to 16:00	Isabella Guido University of Surrey; Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self Organisation Self-organisation of bioinspired active systems	Room 2

Thursday 13th July 2023
11:00 to 12:00	Christoph Schmidt Duke University Slender filament microrheology: Using shape fluctuations to characterize equilibrium and non-equilibrium materials	Room 2
15:00 to 16:00	Hugo Touchette Stellenbosch University Large deviations and their applications in physics 3	Room 2

Friday 14th July 2023
11:00 to 12:00	Marco Mazza Loughborough University Swimming cells: a dance of geometry and motion	Room 2

Monday 17th July 2023
11:00 to 12:00	Abhishek Dhar International Centre for Theoretical Sciences Fluctuating hydrodynamics of spin chains 1	Room 2
15:00 to 16:00	Martin Evans University of Edinburgh Interacting Persistent Random Walkers	Room 2

Tuesday 18th July 2023
11:00 to 12:00	Rachel Bennett University of Bristol An analytical framework for metachronal coordination in cilia	Room 2

Wednesday 19th July 2023
11:00 to 12:00	Abhishek Dhar International Centre for Theoretical Sciences Fluctuating hydrodynamics of spin chains 2	Room 2
15:00 to 16:00	Abhishek Dhar International Centre for Theoretical Sciences Fluctuating hydrodynamics of spin chains 3	Room 2

Thursday 20th July 2023
10:30 to 11:30	Ryoichi Yamamoto Kyoto University DNS of active particles in complex environments	Discussion Room

Monday 24th July 2023
11:00 to 12:00	Karsten Kruse Université de Genève Physical descriptions of active biological matter 1	Room 2

Tuesday 25th July 2023
10:00 to 11:00	Karsten Kruse Université de Genève Physical descriptions of active biological matter 2	Room 2
11:00 to 12:00	Rhoda Hawkins African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) Phagocytosis: modelling immune cells eating bugs	Room 2

Thursday 27th July 2023
11:00 to 12:00	Karsten Kruse Université de Genève Physical descriptions of active biological matter 3	Room 2
15:00 to 16:00	Anupam Kundu International Centre for Theoretical Sciences Integrability, chaos and thermalization in a collection of hard rods	Room 2

Monday 31st July 2023
10:00 to 11:00	Cristian Giardina Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia Solvable models of energy transport: from micro to macro	Room 2
11:00 to 12:00	Evelyn Tang Rice University Non-reciprocity permits novel dynamics in stochastic topological systems	Room 2
15:00 to 16:00	Moumita Das Rochester Institute of Technology Circadian materialscape: Timed material self-assembly orchestrated by bacterial clock proteins	Room 2

Tuesday 1st August 2023
10:00 to 11:00	Matthew Turner University of Warwick; Kyoto University Control theory for collective behaviour in the presence of a disease	Room 2
11:00 to 12:00	Manas Kulkarni International Centre for Theoretical Sciences Collective behaviour of a family of power law models	Room 2

Thursday 3rd August 2023
11:00 to 12:00	Andela Saric IST Austria; University College London Mortal active filaments & cell division	Room 2
15:00 to 16:00	Rosemary Harris Queen Mary University of London; University College London Current fluctuations in reset and run-and-tumble processes	Room 2

Tuesday 8th August 2023
10:00 to 11:00	José Alvarado University of Texas at Austin Connecting active “hardware” to biological “software	Room 2

Wednesday 9th August 2023
14:30 to 15:30	MMV/SPL/USM synergies and open discussion	Room 1

Thursday 10th August 2023
11:00 to 12:00	Jonathan Selinger Kent State University Reformulation of elasticity theory for liquid crystals and liquid membranes	Room 2
15:00 to 16:00	Wilson Poon University of Edinburgh Track building and locomotion in Labyrinthula zosterae: A case of stigmergy++?	Room 2

Tuesday 15th August 2023
10:00 to 11:00	Robin Selinger Kent State University Modeling shape transformations in liquid crystal elastomers: a machine learning approach to inverse design	Room 2

Thursday 17th August 2023
11:00 to 12:00	Elsen Tjhung The Open University Is the tendency for all living systems to do work universal?	Room 2

Friday 18th August 2023
11:00 to 12:00	Robert Jack University of Cambridge Large deviations of time-averaged quantities : physical examples and numerical methods	Room 2

Tuesday 22nd August 2023
10:00 to 11:00	Chiu Fan Lee Imperial College London Polar Fluctuations Lead to Extensile Nematic Behaviour in Confluent Tissues	Room 2

Thursday 24th August 2023
11:00 to 12:00	Rita de Almeida Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul; Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte CompuCell3D simulation model for 3D-cells migrating on flat substrates.	Room 2
15:00 to 16:00	Rastko Sknepnek University of Dundee Modelling effects of activity on the collective cell behaviour of epithelial tissues	Room 2

Tuesday 29th August 2023
15:00 to 16:00	Silke Henkes Universiteit Leiden Tissue models with and without active feedback	Room 2

Thursday 31st August 2023
11:00 to 12:00	Sara Jabbari-farouji Universiteit van Amsterdam Active polymers in complex environments	Discussion Room
15:00 to 16:00	Farzan Vafa Harvard University Liquid crystals, topological defects, and morphogenesis	Discussion Room

Friday 1st September 2023
11:00 to 12:00	Wilson Poon University of Edinburgh The physics of death	Discussion Room

Monday 11th September 2023
15:00 to 16:00	Ricard Alert Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Dresden Durotaxis and frictiotaxis	Room 2

Tuesday 12th September 2023
09:30 to 11:00	Equality, Diversity and Inclusion roundtable event	Room 2
15:00 to 16:00	Natsuhiko Yoshinaga Tohoku University Estimation of continuum models for (active) soft materials and data-driven coarse-graining	Room 2

Thursday 14th September 2023
15:00 to 16:00	Timon Idema Delft University of Technology From balls and springs to colonies and tissues’	Room 2

Friday 15th September 2023
15:00 to 16:00	Mark Bowick University of California, Santa Barbara The Role of Orientational Order in Development	Room 2

Tuesday 19th September 2023
15:00 to 16:00	Douglas Durian University of Pennsylvania A brain inspired electronic learning machine	Room 2

Thursday 21st September 2023
11:00 to 12:00	Nir Gov Weizmann Institute of Science Emergent oscillations during cellular directional decision-making on junctions	Room 2

Wednesday 4th October 2023
15:00 to 16:00	Kirsty Wan University of Exeter From sea cells to sea shells	Room 2

Thursday 5th October 2023
15:00 to 16:00	Kristian Muller-Nedebock Stellenbosch University Confined networks of stiff filaments	Room 2

Monday 16th October 2023
13:00 to 14:00	Laura Machesky CRUK Beaton Institute, University of Glasgow; University of Cambridge; The Francis Crick Institute Mechanosensing in the pancreatic cancer microenvironment	Room 2
14:30 to 15:30	Martin Howard John Innes Centre, Norwich Integrating analog and digital modes of gene expression	Room 2
16:00 to 17:00	Jean-Francois Joanny Collège de France; Institut Curie Growth and mechanics of tissues: Rothschild Lecture	Room 1

Tuesday 17th October 2023
11:00 to 12:00	Bernard Derrida Collège de France; École Normale Supérieure Large deviations of the density and of the current in non-equilibrium systems: Lecture 1	Room 2
13:00 to 14:00	Stefan Schoenfelder University of Cambridge Cis-regulatory control of pluripotent stem cell fates	Room 2
14:30 to 15:30	Angelo Rosa SISSA Physics of entangled polymers: from chromosome territories to melts of rings	Room 2

Wednesday 18th October 2023
13:00 to 14:00	Srinjan Basu University of Cambridge 3D single-molecule imaging of nuclear proteins and chromatin in pluripotent cells	Room 2
14:30 to 15:30	Yaojun Zhang Johns Hopkins University Mechanical Frustration of Phase Separation in the Cell Nucleus by Chromatin	Room 2

Thursday 19th October 2023
11:00 to 12:00	Bernard Derrida Collège de France; École Normale Supérieure Large deviations of the density and of the current in non-equilibrium systems: Lecture 2	Room 2
13:00 to 14:00	Sarah Bray University of Cambridge Transcriptional decoding of Developmental Signals	Room 2
14:30 to 15:30	Stanley Strawbridge University of Cambridge Pushy Guests: Donor ES cells impede host epiblast specification in 8-cell stage chimeras by spatial crowding and FGF4 signaling	Room 2

Friday 20th October 2023
11:00 to 12:00	Bernard Derrida Collège de France; École Normale Supérieure Large deviations of the density and of the current in non-equilibrium systems: Lecture 3	Room 2
13:00 to 14:00	Pradeepa Madapura Queen Mary University of London Role of H4K16AC in regulation of vertebrate genome	Room 2
14:30 to 15:30	Steffen Rulands Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Linear genomes and histone marks	Room 2

Monday 23rd October 2023
11:00 to 12:00	Raymond Goldstein University of Cambridge Algal Phototaxis and the Evolution of Multicellularity	Room 1

Thursday 26th October 2023
15:00 to 16:00	Thierry Bodineau IHES On lattice gas models associated with reaction-diffusion equations	Room 2

Monday 30th October 2023
15:00 to 16:00	John Bechhoefer Simon Fraser University Control theory for physicists 1	Room 2

Tuesday 31st October 2023
15:00 to 16:00	John Bechhoefer Simon Fraser University Control theory for physicists 2	Room 2

Wednesday 1st November 2023
14:00 to 15:00	Halim Kusumaatmaja University of Durham Wetting of Lipid Membranes by Biomolecular Condensates	Room 2
16:00 to 17:00	Andrea Liu University of Pennsylvania How physical systems can learn by themselves: Kirk Lecture	Room 1

Thursday 2nd November 2023
15:00 to 16:00	John Bechhoefer Simon Fraser University Control theory for physicists 3	Room 2

Friday 3rd November 2023
15:00 to 16:00	Luke Davis University College London Active matter under control: Insights from Response Theory	Room 2

Tuesday 7th November 2023
15:00 to 16:00	Michael Hagan Brandeis University Combining data-driven and physics-based approaches to predict, understand, and control active matter dynamics	Room 2

Thursday 9th November 2023
15:00 to 16:00	Ryo Hanai Kyoto University; Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics Non-reciprocal frustration physics	Room 2

Friday 10th November 2023
15:15 to 16:15	Helen Wilson University College London Rheology and Stability	Room 2

Friday 17th November 2023
14:00 to 15:00	Ben Simons University of Cambridge Branching morphogenesis (talk held in small lecture theatre at the cavendish not the INI)	External

Monday 20th November 2023
15:00 to 16:00	Swapnil Jaideo Kole Indian Institute of Science A tale of swirling layers and twisting columns	Room 2

Tuesday 21st November 2023
11:00 to 12:00	Chandan Dasgupta Indian Institute of Science; International Centre for Theoretical Sciences Glassy Dynamics and Jamming in Dense Persistent Active Matter	Room 2

Wednesday 22nd November 2023
13:00 to 14:00	Jure Dobnikar Chinese Academy of Sciences Multivalent binding and selectivity in molecular targeting, recognition and activation	Room 2

Thursday 23rd November 2023
14:00 to 15:00	Aidan Brown University of Edinburgh Buckling instabilities in chaining bacterial colonies (talk held in Department of Engineering not the INI)	External

Friday 24th November 2023
15:00 to 16:00	Jordan Shivers University of Chicago Dynamics and instabilities in growing fluid membranes	Room 2

Monday 27th November 2023
15:00 to 16:00	Ben Simons University of Cambridge Spermatogenesis: a paradigm of stem cell regulation	Room 2

Tuesday 28th November 2023
11:00 to 12:00	Paddy Royall ESPCI ParisTech Spatial organisation in 3d active matter: from colloids to fish	Room 2

Wednesday 29th November 2023
11:00 to 12:00	Ignacio Pagonabarraga Universitat de Barcelona Activity-induced interactions and collective response in model active matter	Room 2

Thursday 30th November 2023
15:00 to 16:00	John Russo Sapienza Università di Roma SATisfaction guaranteed: inverse self-assembly as a colouring problem	Room 2

Friday 1st December 2023
11:00 to 12:00	Bhavin Khatri Imperial College London; The Francis Crick Institute A counter to the adaptationist narrative: the importance of "entropy" and population size in evolution	Room 2

Monday 4th December 2023
11:00 to 12:00	Mehran Kardar Massachusetts Institute of Technology Intersections of the adaptive immune response and statistical physics	Room 2

Tuesday 5th December 2023
15:00 to 16:00	Jake Turley University of Bristol; National University of Singapore Deep learning analysis of wound healing in flies	Room 2

Wednesday 6th December 2023
11:00 to 12:00	Mykola Tasinkevych Nottingham Trent University Reconfigurable soft active matter: From liquid crystal skyrmions to nanoswimmers and ultrasound-powered microspinners	Room 2

Thursday 7th December 2023
15:00 to 16:00	Eric Lauga University of Cambridge Active biological flows inside cells	Room 2

Monday 11th December 2023
15:00 to 16:00	Huan Lei Michigan State University A machine-learning based model of non-Newtonian hydrodynamics with molecular fidelity	Room 2

Tuesday 12th December 2023
15:00 to 16:00	Vivek Shenoy University of Pennsylvania How do forces transmitted from a cell's environment affect DNA organization?	Room 2

Wednesday 13th December 2023
11:00 to 12:00	Jose Onuchic Rice University Modeling the Genome: A view by a physicist	Room 2

Thursday 14th December 2023
11:00 to 12:00	Pietro Cicuta University of Cambridge Control of the emergent collective dynamics in motile cilia from the local beating properties	Room 2

Friday 15th December 2023
14:30 to 15:00	Ivar Svalheim Haugerud Universität Augsburg Selecting chemical processes and sequences at the molecular origins of life	Room 2
15:00 to 16:00	Tim Sluckin University of Southampton Some landmarks in the ancient history of physical and quantitative biology	Room 2

Left panel : cross-linked microtubule bundles.<br />
Central panel : tension chains in a vertex model of epithelial cells<br />
Right panel : epithelial tissue of a drosophila pupa wing

Organisers

Buddhapriya Chakrabarti University of Sheffield
Silke Henkes Universiteit Leiden
Alex Levine University of California, Los Angeles
Tanniemola Liverpool University of Bristol
Fred MacKintosh Rice University
Tomohiro Sasamoto Tokyo Institute of Technology
Christoph Schmidt Duke University

Speakers

Ricard Alert Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Dresden
José Alvarado University of Texas at Austin
Srinjan Basu University of Cambridge
John Bechhoefer Simon Fraser University
Rachel Bennett University of Bristol
Thierry Bodineau IHES
Mark Bowick University of California, Santa Barbara
Sarah Bray University of Cambridge
Aidan Brown University of Edinburgh
Pietro Cicuta University of Cambridge
Moumita Das Rochester Institute of Technology
Chandan Dasgupta Indian Institute of Science; International Centre for Theoretical Sciences
Luke Davis University College London
Rita de Almeida Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul; Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
Bernard Derrida Collège de France; École Normale Supérieure
Abhishek Dhar International Centre for Theoretical Sciences
Jure Dobnikar Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jorn Dunkel Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Douglas Durian University of Pennsylvania
Martin Evans University of Edinburgh
Cristian Giardina Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Raymond Goldstein University of Cambridge
Nir Gov Weizmann Institute of Science
Isabella Guido University of Surrey; Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self Organisation
Michael Hagan Brandeis University
Ryo Hanai Kyoto University; Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics
Rosemary Harris University College London
Ivar Svalheim Haugerud Universität Augsburg
Rhoda Hawkins African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS); University of Sheffield
Silke Henkes Universiteit Leiden
Martin Howard John Innes Centre, Norwich
Timon Idema Delft University of Technology
Sara Jabbari-farouji Universiteit van Amsterdam
Robert Jack University of Cambridge
Jean-Francois Joanny Collège de France; Institut Curie
Mehran Kardar Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bhavin Khatri Imperial College London; The Francis Crick Institute
Swapnil Jaideo Kole Indian Institute of Science
Andrej Košmrlj Princeton University
Karsten Kruse Université de Genève
Manas Kulkarni International Centre for Theoretical Sciences
Anupam Kundu International Centre for Theoretical Sciences
Halim Kusumaatmaja University of Durham
Eric Lauga University of Cambridge
Chiu Fan Lee Imperial College London
Huan Lei Michigan State University
Herbert Levine Northeastern University
Andrea Liu University of Pennsylvania
Laura Machesky University of Cambridge; The Francis Crick Institute; CRUK Beaton Institute, University of Glasgow
Pradeepa Madapura Queen Mary University of London
Kirone Mallick CEA/Saclay; École Polytechnique
Marco Mazza Loughborough University
Kristian Muller-Nedebock Stellenbosch University
Jose Onuchic Rice University
Ignacio Pagonabarraga Universitat de Barcelona
Wilson Poon University of Edinburgh
Angelo Rosa SISSA
Paddy Royall ESPCI ParisTech
Steffen Rulands Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
John Russo Sapienza Università di Roma
Andela Saric IST Austria; University College London
Christoph Schmidt Duke University
Stefan Schoenfelder University of Cambridge
Jonathan Selinger Kent State University
Robin Selinger Kent State University
Vivek Shenoy University of Pennsylvania
Jordan Shivers University of Chicago
Ben Simons University of Cambridge
Rastko Sknepnek University of Dundee
Tim Sluckin University of Southampton
Stanley Strawbridge University of Cambridge
Evelyn Tang Rice University
Mykola Tasinkevych Nottingham Trent University
Elsen Tjhung The Open University
Hugo Touchette Stellenbosch University
Jake Turley University of Bristol; National University of Singapore
Matthew Turner University of Warwick; Kyoto University
Farzan Vafa Harvard University
Kirsty Wan University of Exeter
Helen Wilson University College London
Ryoichi Yamamoto Kyoto University
Natsuhiko Yoshinaga Tohoku University
Yaojun Zhang Johns Hopkins University

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Participants

Simon Alberti Technische Universität Dresden
Ricard Alert Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Dresden
Karen Alim Technische Universität München
José Alvarado University of Texas at Austin
John Bechhoefer Simon Fraser University
Rachel Bennett University of Bristol
Meredith Betterton University of Colorado Boulder
Dapeng Bi Northeastern University
Stefano Bo King's College London
Thierry Bodineau IHES
Mark Bowick University of California, Santa Barbara
Fridtjof Brauns University of California, Santa Barbara
Chase Broedersz Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Aidan Brown University of Edinburgh
Robijn Bruinsma University of California, Los Angeles
Maria Bruna University of Cambridge
Mike Cates University of Cambridge
Buddhapriya Chakrabarti University of Sheffield
Guillaume Charras University College London
Hugues Chaté CEA/Saclay
Jinju Chen Newcastle University
Isaac Chenchiah University of Bristol
Rosana Collepardo Guevara University of Cambridge
Leticia Cugliandolo Sorbonne Université
Moumita Das Rochester Institute of Technology
Chandan Dasgupta Indian Institute of Science; International Centre for Theoretical Sciences
Luke Davis University College London
Rita de Almeida Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul; Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
Bernard Derrida Collège de France; École Normale Supérieure
Abhishek Dhar International Centre for Theoretical Sciences
Jure Dobnikar Chinese Academy of Sciences
Benjamin Doyon King's College London
Jorn Dunkel Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Douglas Durian University of Pennsylvania
Jeff Eldredge University of California, Los Angeles
Clément Erignoux INRIA
Martin Evans University of Edinburgh
Cristian Giardina Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Luca Giomi Universiteit Leiden
Nigel Goldenfeld University of California, San Diego
Raymond Goldstein University of Cambridge
Ramin Golestanian Max-Planck-Institut für Dynamics and Self-Organisation; University of Oxford
Isabella Guido University of Surrey; Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self Organisation
Orlando Guzman Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
Michael Hagan Brandeis University
Ryo Hanai Kyoto University; Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics
Edouard Hannezo Institute of Science and Technology (IST Austria)
James Harden University of Ottawa
Rosemary Harris University College London
Ivar Svalheim Haugerud Universität Augsburg
Rhoda Hawkins African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS); University of Sheffield
Silke Henkes Universiteit Leiden
Martin Howard John Innes Centre, Norwich
Yahaya Ibrahim Umaru Musa Yar'adua University
Timon Idema Delft University of Technology
Takashi Imamura Chiba University
Sosuke Ito University of Tokyo
Sara Jabbari-farouji Universiteit van Amsterdam
Robert Jack University of Cambridge
Andrea Jimenez-Dalmaroni Cardiff University
Jean-Francois Joanny Collège de France; Institut Curie
Katerina Kaouri University of Oxford
Mehran Kardar Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Anatole Kenfack African University of Science and Technology
Bhavin Khatri Imperial College London; The Francis Crick Institute
Swapnil Jaideo Kole Indian Institute of Science
Alexei Kornyshev Imperial College London
Andrej Košmrlj Princeton University
Karsten Kruse Université de Genève
Manas Kulkarni International Centre for Theoretical Sciences
Anupam Kundu International Centre for Theoretical Sciences
Jorge Kurchan École Normale Supérieure
Halim Kusumaatmaja University of Durham
Chiu Fan Lee Imperial College London
Huan Lei Michigan State University
Herbert Levine Northeastern University
Alex Levine University of California, Los Angeles
Andrea Liu University of Pennsylvania
Tanniemola Liverpool University of Bristol
Fred MacKintosh Rice University
Anotida Madzvamuse University of British Columbia; University of Pretoria
Ananyo Maitra CY Cergy Paris University; Sorbonne Université
Satya Majumdar Université Paris Saclay; Université Paris-Saclay
Kirone Mallick CEA/Saclay; École Polytechnique
Marco Mazza Loughborough University
Roeland Merks Universiteit Leiden
Thomas Michaels ETH Zürich
Alexander Mietke University of Bristol
Kristian Muller-Nedebock Stellenbosch University
Cesare Nardini SPEC, CEA-Saclay
David Nelson Harvard University
Monica Olvera de la Cruz Northwestern University
Jose Onuchic Rice University
Ignacio Pagonabarraga Universitat de Barcelona
Philip Pearce University College London
Wilson Poon University of Edinburgh
Dmitri Pushkin University of York
Sriram Ramaswamy Indian Institute of Science
Madan Rao National Centre for Biological Sciences
Angelo Rosa SISSA
Paddy Royall ESPCI ParisTech
Steffen Rulands Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
John Russo Sapienza Università di Roma
Guillame Salbreux University of Geneva
Masaki Sano Shanghai Jiao Tong University; University of Tokyo
Andela Saric IST Austria; University College London
Tomohiro Sasamoto Tokyo Institute of Technology
Helmut Schiessel Technische Universität Dresden
Christoph Schmidt Duke University
Jeremy Schmit Kansas State University
Jennifer Schwarz Syracuse University
Udo Seifert Universität Stuttgart
Jonathan Selinger Kent State University
Robin Selinger Kent State University
Vivek Shenoy University of Pennsylvania
Jordan Shivers University of Chicago
Boris Shraiman University of California, Santa Barbara
Pascal Silberzan Institut Curie; CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique)
Ben Simons University of Cambridge
Rastko Sknepnek University of Dundee
Tim Sluckin University of Southampton
Anton Souslov University of Bath
Sean Sun Johns Hopkins University
Kazumasa Takeuchi University of Tokyo
Evelyn Tang Rice University
Mykola Tasinkevych Nottingham Trent University
Margarida Telo da Gama Universidade de Lisboa
Eugene Terentjev University of Cambridge
Kristian Thijssen Niels Bohr Institutet, University of Copenhagen
Dave Thirumalai University of Texas at Austin
Elsen Tjhung The Open University
Gyula Toth Loughborough University
Hugo Touchette Stellenbosch University
Jake Turley University of Bristol; National University of Singapore
Matthew Turner University of Warwick; Kyoto University
Farzan Vafa Harvard University
Kirsty Wan University of Exeter
Shenshen Wang University of California, Los Angeles
Christoph Weber Universität Augsburg
Helen Wilson University College London
Ryoichi Yamamoto Kyoto University
Julia Yeomans University of Oxford
Natsuhiko Yoshinaga Tohoku University
Roya Zandi University of California, Riverside
Yaojun Zhang Johns Hopkins University

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New statistical physics in living matter: non equilibrium states under adaptive control

Programme theme

SPL programme: interview with the team of organisers

Workshops

Building a bridge between non-equilibrium statistical physics and biology

Active mechanics, from single cells to cell layers, tissues and development

Biological condensates: cellular mechanisms governed by phase transitions

Walls Across Kingdoms: Mechanics, Growth and Function of Cell Walls

Non-equilibrium physics of self-assembly: from viruses to nano-containers

Non-equilibrium explorations on the physics of life : remembering the biological physics of Tom McLeish

Seminars

Organisers

Speakers

Participants

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New statistical physics in living matter: non equilibrium states under adaptive control

Programme theme

SPL programme: interview with the team of organisers

Workshops

Building a bridge between non-equilibrium statistical physics and biology

Active mechanics, from single cells to cell layers, tissues and development

Biological condensates: cellular mechanisms governed by phase transitions

Walls Across Kingdoms: Mechanics, Growth and Function of Cell Walls

Non-equilibrium physics of self-assembly: from viruses to nano-containers

Non-equilibrium explorations on the physics of life : remembering the biological physics of Tom McLeish

Seminars

Organisers

Speakers

Participants

Supported By

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