Building a bridge between non-equilibrium statistical physics and biology

Workshop theme

This workshop will bring together researchers from biophysics/mechanobiology experiment, soft active matter theory and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. There will be a mixture of pedagogical overview talks and research talks. The meeting aims to bring together mathematicians and statistical physicists specializing in the fundamental properties of fluctuations and response in nonequilibrium states with theoretical researchers in soft matter working on active matter and biological physics and experimental researchers in biology and biophysics. We expect to enable new collaborations and cross-fertilization of ideas. Quantifying the properties of 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.

Applications for this workshop are now closed

Fees

Registration Only

Registration Package: £ 218
Student Registration Package: £ 168

The Registration Package includes admission to all seminars, lunches and refreshments on the days that lectures take place (Monday - Friday), wine reception and formal dinner, but does not include other meals or accommodation.

Formal Dinner Only

Formal Dinner: £ 60

Participants on the Accommodation Package or Registration Package, including organisers and speakers, are automatically included in this event. For all remaining participants who would like to attend, such as programme participants, the above charge will apply.

Accommodation

Unfortunately we do not have any accommodation to offer so all successful applicants will need to source their own accommodation.

Please see the Hotels Combined website for a list of local hotels and guesthouses.

Meals

Lunch

Lunch timings and location will be confirmed with timetable.

Evening Meal

Participants are free to make their own arrangements for dinner.

Formal Dinner

The Formal Dinner location and date is to be confirmed. Participants on the Accommodation Package or Registration Package, including organisers and speakers, are automatically included in this event.

Timetable

Monday 3rd July 2023
09:15 to 09:50	Morning Coffee and Registration	No Room Required
09:55 to 10:00	Milla Kibble Aalborg Universitet Welcome Talk	Room 1
10:00 to 11:00	Paul Janmey University of Pennsylvania Chair: Ray Goldstein Polymer physics of metabolically active isolated nuclei	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Morning Coffee	No Room Required
11:30 to 12:00	Alexander Mietke University of Bristol Chair: Ray Goldstein Odd dynamics of living chiral crystals	Room 1
12:00 to 12:30	Jinju Chen Newcastle University Chair: Ray Goldstein Biomechanics of cancer cells and bacteria using atomic force microscope and modelling	Room 1
12:30 to 13:00	Pierre Ronceray Aix Marseille Université Chair: Ray Goldstein From trajectories to models: data-driven approaches to decipher the dynamics of living systems	Room 1
13:00 to 14:00	Lunch at Churchill College	No Room Required
14:00 to 14:30	Ananyo Maitra CY Cergy Paris University; Sorbonne Université Chair: Rachel Bennett Chiral active liquid crystals	Room 1
14:30 to 15:00	Hugues Chaté CEA/Saclay Chair: Rachel Bennett Fragility and metastability of polar flocks	Room 1
15:00 to 15:30	Martin Evans University of Edinburgh Chair: Rachel Bennett Stochastic resetting: how to avoid wandering off in the wrong direction	Room 1
15:30 to 16:00	Afternoon Tea	No Room Required
16:00 to 16:30	Karen Alim Technische Universität München Chair: Rachel Bennett Lesson from smart slime: How active flow networks process information for complex behaviour	Room 1
16:30 to 17:00	Nigel Goldenfeld University of California, San Diego Chair: Rachel Bennett Topological scaling laws and the non-equilibrium statistical mechanics of evolution	Room 1
17:00 to 18:00	Welcome Wine Reception at the INI	No Room Required

Tuesday 4th July 2023
09:00 to 10:00	Udo Seifert Universität Stuttgart Chair: James Harden Concepts from stochastic thermodynamics for model-free inference	Room 1
10:00 to 10:30	Louise Jawerth Universiteit Leiden Chair: James Harden Glass-like aging and ordered fiber growth in protein condensation	Room 1
10:30 to 11:00	Ramin Golestanian Max-Planck-Institut für Dynamics and Self-Organisation; University of Oxford Chair: James Harden Self-organization in non-reciprocal active matter	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Group photo, morning coffee and posters	No Room Required
11:30 to 12:00	Benjamin Doyon King's College London Chair: James Harden Hydrodynamics, macroscopic fluctuations and long-range correlations	Room 1
12:00 to 12:30	Denis Bartolo ENS - Lyon Chair: James Harden Active Hydraulics	Room 1
12:30 to 13:00	Sosuke Ito University of Tokyo Chair: James Harden Thermodynamic bound on cross-correlations for biological information processing	Room 1
13:00 to 14:00	Lunch at Churchill College	No Room Required
14:00 to 15:00	M Cristina Marchetti University of California, Santa Barbara Chair: Robijn Bruinsma Active liquid-liquid phase separation and interfaces	Room 1
15:00 to 15:30	Martin Howard John Innes Centre, Norwich Chair: Robijn Bruinsma Diffusion-mediated coarsening can explain meiotic crossover interference	Room 1
15:30 to 16:00	Afternoon Tea and posters	No Room Required
16:00 to 16:30	Timo Betz Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Chair: Robijn Bruinsma Inferring intracellular mechanics from active and passive measurements	Room 1
16:30 to 17:00	Leticia Cugliandolo Sorbonne Université Chair: Robijn Bruinsma Dynamics of Motility-Induced clusters: coarsening beyond Ostwald ripening	Room 1

Wednesday 5th July 2023
09:00 to 10:00	Bernard Derrida Collège de France; École Normale Supérieure Chair: Rita de Almeida Large deviations in non-equilibrium systems	Room 1
10:00 to 10:30	Zvonimir Dogic University of California, Santa Barbara Chair: Rita de Almeida Structure, mechanics and non-equilibrium dynamics of self-organized elastic sheets	Room 1
10:30 to 11:00	Chase Broedersz Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Chair: Rita de Almeida Learning the dynamics and interactions of moving cells	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Morning Coffee	No Room Required
11:30 to 12:00	Mehran Kardar Massachusetts Institute of Technology Chair: Rita de Almeida Competition at the front of expanding populations	Room 1
12:00 to 12:30	Vincenzo Vitelli University of Chicago Chair: Rita de Almeida Patterns and flows: from turbulence to morphogenesis	Room 1
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch at Churchill College at 1pm	No Room Required
19:30 to 22:30	Formal Dinner at Churchill College	No Room Required

Thursday 6th July 2023
09:00 to 10:00	Benoit Ladoux Institut Jacques Monod Chair: Sean Sun Mechanical behaviors of collective cell assemblies during migration and extrusion.	Room 1
10:00 to 10:30	Jean-Francois Joanny Collège de France; Institut Curie Chair: Sean Sun Active turbulence	Room 1
10:30 to 11:00	Guillermina Ramirez San Juan EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Chair: Sean Sun Patterning, waves and synchronization in cilia arrays	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Morning Coffee and posters	No Room Required
11:30 to 12:00	Guillaume Charras University College London Chair: Sean Sun Fracture in living epithelial monolayers	Room 1
12:00 to 12:30	Kazumasa Takeuchi University of Tokyo Chair: Sean Sun Structure and dynamics of dense bacterial populations	Room 1
12:30 to 13:00	Sriram Ramaswamy Indian Institute of Science Chair: Sean Sun Aligned active suspensions: superdiffusion and hydrodynamic condensation	Room 1
13:00 to 14:00	Lunch at Churchill College	No Room Required
14:00 to 14:30	Herbert Levine Northeastern University Chair: Jorn Dunkel The role of frustration in cell-fate network dynamics	Room 1
14:30 to 15:30	Chair: Jorn Dunkel Discussion	Room 1
15:30 to 16:00	Afternoon Tea and posters	No Room Required
16:00 to 16:30	Etienne Fodor Université du Luxembourg Chair: Jorn Dunkel Pulsating active matter	Room 1
16:30 to 17:00	Clément Erignoux INRIA Chair: Jorn Dunkel Modelling active matter by active lattice gases : exact hydrodynamic description and phase transitions	Room 1

Friday 7th July 2023
09:00 to 10:00	Mike Cates University of Cambridge Chair: Rosemary Harris Theories of Active Phase Separation	Room 1
10:00 to 10:30	Satya Majumdar Université Paris Saclay; CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique); Université Paris-Saclay Chair: Rosemary Harris Universal survival probability of a run-and-tumble particle in d-dimensions	Room 1
10:30 to 11:00	Anton Souslov University of Bath Chair: Rosemary Harris Active Solids	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Morning Coffee	No Room Required
11:30 to 12:00	Monica Olvera de la Cruz Northwestern University Chair: Rosemary Harris Active Elastic Membranes	Room 1
12:00 to 12:30	Daniel Haertter Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Chair: Rosemary Harris The secret life of sarcomeres: stochastic heterogeneity of sarcomeres in beating stem-cell derived cardiomyocytes	Room 1
12:30 to 13:00	Margarida Telo da Gama Universidade de Lisboa Chair: Rosemary Harris Active nematics on surfaces: from droplet motility and scission to active wetting	Room 1
13:00 to 14:00	Lunch at Churchill College	No Room Required
14:00 to 14:30	Pierre Illien Sorbonne Université Chair: Evelyn Tang Absolute negative mobility of an active tracer in a crowded environment	Room 1
14:30 to 15:00	Sebastian Streichan University of California, Santa Barbara Chair: Evelyn Tang Design principles of fate, form, function, and forces: From embryogenesis to synthetic morphogenesis	Room 1
15:00 to 15:30	David Nelson Harvard University Chair: Evelyn Tang Defect emission and absorption for liquid crystals on cones	Room 1
15:30 to 16:00	Afternoon Tea	No Room Required

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

Building a bridge between non-equilibrium statistical physics and biology

Organisers

Tanniemola Liverpool University of Bristol
Tomohiro Sasamoto Tokyo Institute of Technology
Christoph Schmidt Duke University

Speakers

Karen Alim Technische Universität München
Denis Bartolo ENS - Lyon
Timo Betz Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Chase Broedersz Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Mike Cates University of Cambridge
Guillaume Charras University College London
Hugues Chaté CEA/Saclay
Jinju Chen Newcastle University
Leticia Cugliandolo Sorbonne Université
Bernard Derrida Collège de France; École Normale Supérieure
Zvonimir Dogic University of California, Santa Barbara
Benjamin Doyon King's College London
Clément Erignoux INRIA
Martin Evans University of Edinburgh
Etienne Fodor Université du Luxembourg
Nigel Goldenfeld University of California, San Diego
Ramin Golestanian Max-Planck-Institut für Dynamics and Self-Organisation; University of Oxford
Daniel Haertter Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Martin Howard John Innes Centre, Norwich
Pierre Illien Sorbonne Université
Sosuke Ito University of Tokyo
Paul Janmey University of Pennsylvania
Louise Jawerth Universiteit Leiden
Jean-Francois Joanny Collège de France; Institut Curie
Mehran Kardar Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Benoit Ladoux Institut Jacques Monod
Herbert Levine Northeastern University
Ananyo Maitra CY Cergy Paris University; Sorbonne Université
Satya Majumdar Université Paris Saclay; CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique); Université Paris-Saclay
M Cristina Marchetti University of California, Santa Barbara
Alexander Mietke University of Bristol; University of Oxford
David Nelson Harvard University
Monica Olvera de la Cruz Northwestern University
Sriram Ramaswamy Indian Institute of Science
Guillermina Ramirez San Juan EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Pierre Ronceray Aix Marseille Université
Udo Seifert Universität Stuttgart
Anton Souslov University of Bath
Sebastian Streichan University of California, Santa Barbara
Kazumasa Takeuchi University of Tokyo
Margarida Telo da Gama Universidade de Lisboa
Vincenzo Vitelli University of Chicago

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Participants

Alia Abbara EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Karen Alim Technische Universität München
Amy Altshuler Tel Aviv University
Timur Aslyamov Université du Luxembourg
Denis Bartolo ENS - Lyon
Rick Bebon Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences
Robin Bebon Universität Stuttgart
Rachel Bennett University of Bristol
Thibault Bertrand Imperial College London
Meredith Betterton University of Colorado Boulder
Timo Betz Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Nishant Birdi Indian Institute of Technology
Chase Broedersz Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Robijn Bruinsma University of California, Los Angeles
Maria Bruna University of Cambridge
Jan Cammann Loughborough University
Mike Cates University of Cambridge
Buddhapriya Chakrabarti University of Sheffield
Xichen Chao University of Bristol
Guillaume Charras University College London
Hugues Chaté CEA/Saclay
Letian Chen Imperial College London
Jinju Chen Newcastle University
Leticia Cugliandolo Sorbonne Université
Luke Davis University College London
Rita de Almeida Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul; Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
Eric De giuli None / Other
Oscar de Wit University of Cambridge
Lloyd Demetrius Harvard University
Bernard Derrida Collège de France; École Normale Supérieure
Rafael Diaz Hernandez Rojas University of Rome La Sapienza
Zvonimir Dogic University of California, Santa Barbara
Benjamin Doyon King's College London
Jinqiao Duan Illinois Institute of Technology
Jorn Dunkel Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Clément Erignoux INRIA
Martin Evans University of Edinburgh
Etienne Fodor Université du Luxembourg
Rosalba Garcia-Millan University of Cambridge
Gregorio García-Valladares Universidad de Sevilla
Hitesh Garg Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai
Birte Geerds Technische Universität Dresden; Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
Emily Gehrels Aix Marseille Université
Arthur Genthon Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Dresden
Cheol-Min Ghim Ulsan national institute of science and technology (UNIST); Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics
Cristian Giardina Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia
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
Omer Granek Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Isabella Guido University of Surrey; Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self Organisation
Daniel Haertter Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
James Harden University of Ottawa
Rosemary Harris University College London
Rhoda Hawkins African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS); University of Sheffield
Silke Henkes Universiteit Leiden
Yuto Hosaka Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self Organisation
Martin Howard John Innes Centre, Norwich
Pierre Illien Sorbonne Université
Sosuke Ito University of Tokyo
Robert Jack University of Cambridge
Farshid Jafarpour Universiteit Utrecht
Paul Janmey University of Pennsylvania
Louise Jawerth Universiteit Leiden
Ashreya Jayaram Universität Stuttgart
Jean-Francois Joanny Collège de France; Institut Curie
Mehran Kardar Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Evgeniy Khain Oakland University
Dohyun Kim Sungkyunkwan University
Andrej Košmrlj Princeton University
Manas Kulkarni International Centre for Theoretical Sciences
Philip Kurian Quantum Biology Laboratory
Luke Kurowski-Ford University of Bristol
Benoit Ladoux Institut Jacques Monod
Eloise Lardet Imperial College London
Cheng-Tai Lee Tel Aviv University
Herbert Levine Northeastern University
Alex Levine University of California, Los Angeles
Benno Liebchen Technische Universität Darmstadt
Samantha Lish University of Oxford; Max-Planck-Institut für Dynamics and Self-Organisation
hongwei liu Université Paris 7 - Denis-Diderot
Tanniemola Liverpool University of Bristol
Sarah A.M. Loos University of Cambridge
Fred MacKintosh Rice University
Ananyo Maitra CY Cergy Paris University; Sorbonne Université
Satya Majumdar Université Paris Saclay; CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique); Université Paris-Saclay
Kirone Mallick CEA/Saclay; École Polytechnique
Alessandro Manacorda Université du Luxembourg
M Cristina Marchetti University of California, Santa Barbara
Ashot Matevosyan Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Dresden
Marco Mazza Loughborough University
Alexander Mietke University of Bristol; University of Oxford
Kristian Muller-Nedebock Stellenbosch University
SULEMANA MUSAH African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)
Arjun Narayanan New York University
Cesare Nardini SPEC, CEA-Saclay
David Nelson Harvard University
Monica Olvera de la Cruz Northwestern University
Arijeet Pal University College London
Antonio Patrón Universidad de Sevilla
Alicia Peñaranda Centro atomico bariloche
Tuan Pham Niels Bohr Institutet, University of Copenhagen
Wilson Poon University of Edinburgh
Ashok Prasad Colorado State University
Asja Radja Bryn Mawr College
Sriram Ramaswamy Indian Institute of Science
Guillermina Ramirez San Juan EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Pierre Ronceray Aix Marseille Université
Miguel Ruiz Garcia Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Elaheh Saadat SISSA
Tomohiro Sasamoto Tokyo Institute of Technology
Christoph Schmidt Duke University
Udo Seifert Universität Stuttgart
Yihong Shi Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self Organisation
Antun Skanata Syracuse University
Artur Soriani Tel Aviv University
Anton Souslov University of Bath
Sebastian Streichan University of California, Santa Barbara
Thomas Suchanek Universität Leipzig
Sean Sun Johns Hopkins University
kabir Suraj African University of Science and Technology; RIKEN
Austin Szuminsky Brown University
Kazumasa Takeuchi University of Tokyo
Tzer Han Tan University of California, San Diego; Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
Evelyn Tang Rice University
Margarida Telo da Gama Universidade de Lisboa
Reda Tiani Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Université Libre de Bruxelles
Hugo Touchette Stellenbosch University
Samuel Tovey Universität Stuttgart
Farzan Vafa Harvard University
Andrej Vilfan Jozef Stefan Institute; Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self Organisation
Stefano Villa Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self Organisation
Vincenzo Vitelli University of Chicago
NGANFO YIFOUE WILLY ANISET University of Dschang
Qing Yao Columbia University; Imperial College London