5 years past and we are hosting another CECAM workshop!

CECAM Workshop

Out-of-equilibrium soft matter: challenges and perspectives

Location : University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK
June 26 –  28, 2024

Organisers:

Javier Diaz
University of Barcelona, Spain

Claire McIlroy
Andrei Zvelindovsky
University of Lincoln, United Kingdom

Wednesday June 26th 2024 – Day 1

• 08:30 to 09:30 – Coffee & pastry

• 09:00 to 09:30 – Registration

Session 1

Chair: Matthew Turner

• 09:30 to 09:40 – Welcome & Introduction

• 09:40 to 10:05 – Ignacio Pagonabarraga – Medium-mediated control of active colloids

• 10:05 to 10:20 – Jonas Elschner – Topologically controlled synthesis of active colloidal bipeds

• 10:20 to 10:50 – Q&A

• 10:50 to 11:20 – Coffee break

• 11:20 to 11:45 – Friederike Schmid – Effective Dynamics of Passive Colloids in Active Baths

• 11:45 to 12:00 – Anna Rossi – Topological cloaked magnetic colloidal transport

• 12:00 to 12:30 – Q&A

• 12:30 to 14:00 – Lunch

Session 2

Chair: Ignacio Pagonabarraga

• 14:00 to 14:25 – Pasquale Digregorio – Defect lines morphology in three dimensional active nematics

• 14:25 to 14:40 – Marco Mazza – Control of a confined nematic microswimmer

• 14:40 to 15:10 – Q&A

• 15:10 to 15:40 – Coffee break

• 15:40 to 16:05 – Peter Olmsted – Entanglement Dynamics in Polymers Melts

• 16:05 to 16:20 – Elena Govorun – Interfacial association of polymers as an interdiffusion-controlled process

• 16:20 to 16:50 – Q&A

• 16:50 to 19:00 – Posters and Reception (sponsored by JSOL)

Thursday June 27th 2024 – Day 2

Session 3

• 08:30 to 09:30 – Coffee & pastry

Chair: Friedericke Schmid

• 09:30 to 09:55 – Matthew Turner – Collective motion, from cells to animals.

• 09:55 to 10:10 – Javier Cristín – Discrete Laplacian thermostat for flocks and swarms: the fully conserved Inertial Spin Model

• 10:10 to 10:40 – Q&A

• 10:40 to 11:10 – Coffee break

• 11:10 to 11:35 – Marco Pinna – Mechanisms of alignment of lamellar-forming block copolymer under shear flow

• 11:35 to 11:50 – Taku Ozawa – Multiscale modeling of soft matter, from electronic states to mesoscopic structures

• 11:50 to 12:05 – Javier Diaz – Activity-driven emulsification of phase-separating binary mixtures

• 12:05 to 12:35 – Q&A

• 12:35 to 14:00 – Lunch

Session 4

Chair: Riochi Yamamoto

• 14:00 to 14:25 – Laura Alvarez – Engingeering run and tumble motion in synthetic cells

• 14:25 to 14:40 – Jan Cammann – Active Spaghetti: Collective Organization in Cyanobacteria

• 14:40 to 14:55 – Bhanu Prasad Bhowmik – Absorbing-state transitions in particulate systems under spatially varying driving

• 14:55 to 15:25 – Q&A

• 15:25 to 15:55 – Coffee break

• 15:55 to 16:20 – Hartmut Löwen – Active colloids and polymers

• 16:20 to 16:35 – Harish Charan – What causes a transition from Static to Dynamic Friction?

• 16:35 to 17:15 – Q&A

• 19:00 to 21:00 – Social dinner

Friday June 28th 2024 – Day 3

Session 5

• 08:30 to 09:30 – Coffee & tea

Chair: Peter Olmsted

• 09:30 to 09:55 – Marcus Mueller – Reaction-driven Diffusiophoresis of Liquid Condensates

• 09:55 to 10:20 – Yaroslav Kudryavtsev – Reorientation of microphase-separated patterns in thin block copolymer films using in-plane electric field

• 10:20 to 10:50 – Q&A

• 10:50 to 11:20 – Coffee break

• 11:20 to 11:45 – Ryoichi Yamamoto – Propulsion of a chiral swimmer in viscoelastic fluids

• 11:45 to 12:00 – Ruma Maity – Chemotactic Navigation of a Pair of Chiral Squirmers

• 12:00 to 12:15 – Bart Vorselaars – Nucleation rates from simulations

• 12:15 to 12:35 – Q&A

• 12:35 to 14:00 – Lunch