Time |
Speaker |
Title |
1/06, 2:00 p.m. |
All |
Organizational Meeting[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
1/07, 2:00pm |
Christoph Schmidt
Univ. Goettingen & KITP |
Active stirring of cells[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
1/08, 10:30am |
Moumita Das
Rochester Inst. & KITP |
Mechanics of composite cytoskeletal and extracellular networks[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
1/09, 10:30am |
Helmut Schiessel
Leiden University & KITP |
Breathing, sliding, proof reading: On how to access packed DNA[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
01/13, 12:15pm |
Cristina Marchetti
Syracuse Univ. & KITP |
Active Matter: What is it?[Podcast][Aud][Cam] KITP Blackboard Lunch |
1/13, 2:00pm |
All Participants |
Organizational Meeting |
1/14, 10:30am |
Arshad Kudrolli
Clark University & KITP |
Vibrated granular layers and bacterial suspensions: An experimental overview[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
1/14, 2:00pm |
Harald Pleiner
MPI & KITP |
Informal Presentation |
1/15, 10:30am |
Aparna Baskaran
Brandeis University & KITP |
Active Fluids: Lessons learnt from minimal models[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
1/16, 10:30am |
Mehran Kardar
MIT & KITP |
Fluctuation-induced forces in and out of equilibrium[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
1/17, 10:30am |
Jure Dobnikar
Univ. Cambridge & KITP |
Modeling bacterial surface motility[Slides][Podcast][Vid][Aud][Cam] |
1/17, 2:00pm |
Silke Henkes
Univ. Aberdeen & KITP |
Active jamming and active glasses[Slides][Podcast][Vid][Aud][Cam] |
1/21, 10:30am |
Dhananjay Tambe
Harvard University & KITP |
Monolayer Stress Microscopy[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
1/21, 2:00pm |
Cassandra Extavour
Harvard University & KITP |
Experimentalist Seeks Collaborators for Examining Active Matter Phenomena in Insect Embryos[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
1/21, 2:45 |
Rastko Sknepnek
University of Dundee & KITP |
What can GPU computing do for numerical simulations?[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
1/22, 10:30am |
Shiladitya Banerjee
James Franck Institute |
Mechanics and geometry of adherent cells and cell layers[Slides][Podcast][Vid][Aud][Cam] |
1/23, 2:00pm |
José Alvarado
MIT & KITP |
Critically connected state of active gels[Slides][Podcast][Vid][Aud][Cam] |
1/24, 10:30am |
Leonid Pismen
Technion & KITP |
Spontaneous polarization and deformation of active layers[Slides][Podcast][Vid][Aud][Cam] |
1/27, 10:30am |
Paul Newton
USC & KITP |
Cancer metastasis modeling at the Scripps PS-OC[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
1/28, 2:00pm |
Jonathan Selinger
Kent State University |
Work in progress: Flow and phase separation of active spinners[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
1/29, 10:30am |
Annette Zippelius
University of Goettingen |
Anomalous velocity distributions in active Brownian suspensions[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
1/29, 11:00am |
Thomas Waigh
University of Manchester |
The statistics of particle tracking: a linchpin in countless biophysical experiments[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
1/30, 2:00pm |
Gautam Menon
CIT |
Chromosome positioning from activity-based segregation[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
2/03, 11:00am |
Hernan Garcia
Princeton |
How, when and where in pattern formation: Spying on embryonic development one molecule at a time[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
2/04, 2:00pm |
Robin Selinger
Kent State & KITP |
From Topology to Morphology: When Defects Drive Shape Evolution in Soft Matter[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
2/05, 10:30am |
Fernando Peruani
Univ. Nice & KITP |
Active particles in heterogeneous media[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
2/06, 2:00pm |
Peter Olmsted
Georgetown Univ. & KITP |
An introduction to shear banding[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
2/07, 10:30am |
Gerard Wong
UCLA |
How bacteria transition from swimming to condensed, self-organized surface-associated communities[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
2/10-14 |
Conference: |
Active Processes in Living and Nonliving Matter |
2/18, 2:00pm |
Otger Campàs
UCSB |
Measuring physical forces within living embryonic tissues[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
2/20, 2:00pm |
Julien Tailleur
Univ. Paris & KITP |
Statistical Physics of Active Particles: from effective temperature to motility-induced phase separation[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
2/24, 10:30am |
Cristian Huepe
Cristian Huepe Labs & KITP |
Elasticity-based mechanism for collective motion in natural and artificial swarms[Slides][Podcast][Vid][Aud][Cam] |
2/25, 2:00pm |
Eric Bertin
ENS & KITP |
Kinetic theory and hydrodynamic equations for dry active matter[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
2/26, 11:00am |
Geoff Willmott
UoA |
Pores, Pipes and Particles: A Nanofluidic Toolbox[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
2/27, 11:00am |
Ulrich Schwarz
Univ. Heidelberg & KITP |
Pushing and pulling: the molecular basis for force generation in cells[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
2/28, 11:00am |
John Molina
Kyoto Univ. & KITP |
Swimmer/Tracer Diffusion in Active Suspensions[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
3/03, 10:30am |
All Participants |
Organizational Meeting[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
3/03, 2:00pm |
Paul Rainey
Massey Univ. & KITP |
Cooperation, conflict and the evolution of Darwinian individuality |
3/04, 2:00pm |
Raymond Kapral
Univ. of Toronto |
Self-Propelled Chemically-Powered Motors[Slides][Podcast][Vid][Aud][Cam] |
3/05, 11:00am |
Antonio DeSimone
SISSA & KITP |
Swimming and crawling at microscopic scales: some lessons from 1D model systems[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
3/06, 2:00pm |
Holger Stark
Tech. Univ. Berlin & KITP |
How hydrodynamics determines the collective motion of microswimmers[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
3/07, 10:30am |
Hartmut Löwen
Univ. Düsseldorf |
Self-propelled colloids: from single to collective behaviour[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
3/10, 10:30am |
Gerhard Gompper
FZ-Juelich & KITP |
Collective Motion of Active Particles With and Without Hydrodynamics[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
3/12, 10:30am |
Ayusman Sen
Penn State |
Self-Powered Catalytic Nano-motors and Pumps[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
3/13, 10:30am |
Mike Cates
Edinburgh Univ. & KITP |
Active Model B[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
3/13, 2:00pm |
Natsuhiko Yoshinaga
Tohoku Univ. & KITP |
Spontaneous motion and deformation of a self-propelled droplet[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
3/17, 2:00pm |
John Toner
Univ. Oregon & KITP |
Swarming in the dirt: Flocking in the presence of quenched disorder[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
3/18, 2:00pm |
Jacques Prost
ESPCI/Inst. Curie & KITP |
Cortex dynamics in cell division[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
3/19, 2:00pm |
Marcus Müller
Univ. Göttingen & KITP |
Correlation between surface topography and slippage[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
3/20, 2:00pm |
Cristina Marchetti
Syracuse Univ. & KITP |
Defect dynamics in active nematics[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
3/21, 10:30am |
Ramin Golestanian
Univ. Oxford & KITP |
Self-organization and Collective Behaviour of Active Colloids[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
3/24, 1:45pm |
All Participants |
Organizational matters & Introductions |
3/24, 2:00pm |
Gleb Oshanin
Univ. P&M Curie & KITP |
Active "microrheology" in confined crowded systems: sub-diffusion, super-diffusion and giant diffusion[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
3/25, 2:00pm |
Enzo Marinari
Univ. Roma & KITP |
A Top-Down Approach to Metabolic Networks Functioning[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
3/26, 10:30am |
Suzanne Fielding
Durham Univ. & KITP |
Hydrodynamics, phase behaviour and rheology of active suspensions[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
3/27, 2:00pm |
Enkeleida Lushi
Brown & KITP |
The role of hydrodynamics in self-organisation of micro-swimmer suspensions[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
3/31, 1:45pm |
All Participants |
Organizational matters & Introductions |
3/31, 2:00pm |
Eberhard Bodenschatz
MPI & KITP |
Chemotaxis and cell migration: oscillatory behavior of the cytoskeleton[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
4/01, 2:00pm |
Julia Yeomans
Oxford & KITP |
Tracer diffusion in a dilute swimmer suspension[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
4/02, 10:30am |
Max Bi
Syracuse & KITP |
Cell Migration in Densely Packed Tissues[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
4/03, 2:00pm |
All Participants |
Discussion led by Ramin Golestanian on: The role of internal phase as a dynamical variable in active matter[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
4/07, 1:45pm |
All Participants |
Organizational matters & Introductions |
4/07, 2:00pm |
Dan Needleman
Harvard & KITP |
Physical aspects of spindle assembly[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
4/08, 2:00pm |
Chase Broedersz
Princeton & KITP |
Organizing the bacterial chromosome for division[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
4/09, 10:30am |
Megan Valentine
UCSB |
Using protein compliance and structure geometry to control stress transmission in biological materials[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
4/10, 2:00pm |
Fred MacKintosh
Vrije Univ. & KITP |
Activity and marginal networks[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
4/11, 10:30am |
Tannie Liverpool
Univ. Bristol & KITP |
Synchronization and liquid crystalline order in soft active matter[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
4/14, 1:45pm |
All Participants |
Organizational matters & Introductions |
4/14, 2:00pm |
Jim Butler
Harvard |
The use of apparent diffusion coefficients to assess the potential for lung regrowth in the adult human[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
4/15, 2:00pm |
Jim Butler
Harvard |
Aerosol transport in lungs: kinematic irreversibility and nondiffusive mixing[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
4/16, 10:30am |
Alain Pumir
ENS & KITP |
A tutorial on Two-dimensional turbulence[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
4/17, 2:00pm |
Len Sander
Univ. of Michigan & KITP |
Cell motility and the mechanics of the extra-cellular matrix[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
4/18, 10:30am |
Anatoly Kolomeisky
Rice & KITP |
Can We Use Simple Models to Understand Complex Phenomena in Cytoskeleton Proteins?[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
4/21, 1:45pm |
All Participants |
TBA |
4/21, 2:00pm |
Suropriya Saha
IISc & KITP |
Collective behaviour of catalytic colloids[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
4/22, 2:00pm |
All |
self-organized discussion group if desired |
4/23, 10:30am |
Nikta Fakhri
Goettingen & KITP |
High resolution mapping of intracellular fluctuations using carbon nanotubes[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
4/24, 2:00pm |
Bulbul Chakraborty
Brandeis University & KITP |
Shear-induced rigidity in athermal systems[Podcast] |
4/25, 10:30am |
Tannie Liverpool
(Bristol) Leader |
Discussion: Synchronization phenomena in active matter
[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
4/28, 1:45pm |
All Participants |
Organizational matters & Introductions |
4/28, 2:00pm |
Pawel Romanczuk
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt & KITP |
Emergent Smectic Patterns in Simple Self-Propelled Particle Models[Slides][Podcast][Vid][Aud][Cam] |
4/29, 2:00pm |
Manu Prakash
Stanford |
Automotive Droplets: From puzzles to Synchronous Droplet Microfluidics |
4/30, 10:30am |
All Participants |
Brain storming session on open questions in active matter |
5/01, 2:00pm |
Michael Hagan
Brandeis Univ. & KITP |
Simulation studies of active matter: self-propelled spheres and extensile active nematics[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
5/02, 10:30am |
Tommy Angelini
Univ of Florida & KITP |
The cell as a pump[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
Field Theories of Living Fluids
05/05, 12:15pm |
Sriram Ramaswamy
Tata Institute & KITP |
Field Theories of Living Fluids[Podcast][Aud][Cam] KITP Blackboard Lunch |
5/05, 1:45pm |
All Participants |
Organizational matters & Introductions |
5/05, 2:00pm |
Philippe Marcq
Curie Inst. & KITP |
Epithelial closure dynamics[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
5/06, 2:00pm |
Zvonimir Dogic
Brandeis Univ. |
Dynamics and rheology of active nematics[Slides][Podcast][Vid][Aud][Cam] |
5/07, 10:30am |
Maria Kilfoil
UMass Amherst & KITP |
Nonthermal fluctuations in the active cell nucleus[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
5/08, 2:00pm |
Jérémie Palacci
NYU |
Out of Equilibriumness of Active Colloids[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
5/09, 10:30am |
James Feng
UBC & KITP |
Dorsal closure in the fruit fly: what controls cell oscillation and tissue contraction?[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
5/12, 1:45pm |
All Participants |
Organizational matters & Introductions |
5/12, 2:00pm |
Eva Kanso
USC & KITP |
Hydrodynamically-triggered transition from swirling to clustering in confined suspensions[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
5/13, 2:00pm |
Eric Dufresne
Yale |
Frustrated Cell Sorting. Effects of confinement and kinetic arrest |
5/14, 10:30am |
Christoph Weber
MPI PKS & KITP |
Defect-mediated Phase Transitions in Active Soft Matter[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
5/15, 2:00pm |
Janna Nawroth
Harvard |
Cilia-driven flow fields for transport and selective capture of bacteria[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
5/16, 11:00am |
Eric Dufresne
Yale |
Informal presentation/discussion on droplet ``durotaxis''[Slides] |