The CM-CDT (Condensed Matter Centre for Doctoral Training) based with the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of St Andrews and the Higgs Centre will be holding a school on Active and Flowing Soft Matter, that should expose students to the recent developments in active fluids.
Recently, it has been discovered that systems comprising particles that can extract energy directly from their environment and transform it into directed motion (active matter) exhibit steady-state non-equilibrium currents, manifested as collective motion.
The school will discuss various manifestations of these phenomena and span topics from non-equilibrium statistical mechanics of self-propelled particles and swimming of microorganisms to topological aspects of active liquid-crystalline systems.
Recently, it has been discovered that systems comprising particles that can extract energy directly from their environment and transform it into directed motion (active matter) exhibit steady-state non-equilibrium currents, manifested as collective motion.
The school will discuss various manifestations of these phenomena and span topics from non-equilibrium statistical mechanics of self-propelled particles and swimming of microorganisms to topological aspects of active liquid-crystalline systems.
Confirmed speakers include:
Rosalind Allen (University of Edinburgh)
Paulo Arratia (University of Pennsylvania) Hugues Chaté (CEA-Saclay, France) Bruno Eckhardt , (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
Hermes Gadelha, (University of York) Raymond Goldstein (University of Cambridge)
Anke Lindner (University of Paris, Diderot) Teuta Piližota (University of Edinburgh) Marco Polin (University of Warwick) Wilson Poon (University of Edinburgh) |
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