Registration Room: Elm Lecture Theatre

Opening Address - Matthew Turner (Warwick, UK) Room: Elm Lecture Theatre

Shigeyuki Komura (Wenzhou, China) - Emergence of odd elasticity in micromachines Room: Elm Lecture Theatre Session Chair: Rosalba Garcia-Milan

John Molina (Kyoto, Japan) - Bayesian Machine Learning for Inverse Flow Problems in Soft Matter Room: Elm Lecture Theatre

Klaus Kroy (Leipzig, Germany) - Self-Organising Hot Microswimmers Room: Elm Lecture Theatre

Juliane Simmchen (Strathclyde, UK) - Upstream rheotaxis of catalytic Janus spheres Room: Elm Lecture Theatre Session Chair: Kaoru Sugimura

Daisuke Mizuno (Kyushu, Japan) - Non-equilibrium fluctuation and self-organized critical rheology of active cytoplasm Room: Elm Lecture Theatre

Yongxiang Gao (Shenzhen, China) - Odd turbulent flow in a chiral active fluid Room: Elm Lecture Theatre Session Chair: Klaus Kroy

Uwe Thiele (Münster, Germany) - Nonreciprocal demixing - oscillatory states and Maxwell construction Room: Elm Lecture Theatre

Gunnar Pruessner (Imperial College London, UK) - Field theories of active matter systems and their entropy production Room: Elm Lecture Theatre

Kaoru Sugimura (Tokyo, Japan) - Image-based inference for epithelial mechanics Room: Elm Lecture Theatre Session Chair: Prof. Zhihong You

Giulia Laura Celora (UCL, UK) - Migration of living droplets: a novel paradigm for chemotaxis of multicellular communities Room: Elm Lecture Theatre

Oliver Bäumchen (Bayreuth, Germany) - Self-Organization of Photoactive Microbial Matter Room: Elm Lecture Theatre

Poster Session and drinks reception Room: Elm Lecture Theatre

Mike Cates (Cambridge, UK) - A multitude of interfacial tensions in active phase separation Room: Elm Lecture Theatre Session chair: Holger Stark

Suropriya Saha (MPI Göttingen, Germany) - Multifaceted dynamics due to nonreciprocity in active scalar mixtures Room: Elm Lecture Theatre

Olivier Dauchot (ESPCI Paris, France) - When swarm robotics loses control. Room: Elm Lecture Theatre

Sakurako Tanida (Tokyo, Japan) - Crowd Dynamics as Active Matter: Unveiling the Pattern Formation in Elevator Traffic and Pedestrian Movements Room: Elm Lecture Theatre Session chair: Daisuke Mizuno

Kristian Stølevik Olsen (Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Germany) - Chiral active particles with strategic reorientations Room: Elm Lecture Theatre

Christina Kurzthaler (MPI Dresden, Germany) - Active transport in complex environments Room: Elm Lecture Theatre Session chair: Davide Michieletto

Daiki Nishiguchi (Tokyo, Japan) - Reversals and oscillations as a prelude to bacterial turbulence Room: Elm Lecture Theatre

Zhihong You (Xiamen, China) - Manipulating LLPS using patterned flow Room: Elm Lecture Theatre

Jeanine Shea (TU Berlin, Germany) - Collective behavior of cohesive, aligning particles Room: Elm Lecture Theatre Session chair: Yongxiang Gao

Fumiaki Yokoyama (Tokyo, Japan) - Phenotypic Heterogeneity of Extracellular Matrix Production within Bacterial Proliferating Active Matter Room: Elm Lecture Theatre

Ziluo Zhang (Wenzhou, China) - 'Field Theory of Active Brownian Particles with Dry Friction Room: Elm Lecture Theatre

Alexander Mietke (Oxford, UK) - Emergent morphologies of active surfaces Room: Elm Lecture Theatre

Conference Dinner (ticket only) Room: Castlehill Room Amber Restaurant The Scotch Whisky Experience 354 Castlehill The Royal Mile Edinburgh EH1 2NE https://www.scotchwhiskyexperience.co.uk/amber-restaurant/

Robert Insall (UCL, UK) - Chemotaxis, self-steering, and collective migration – how cells generate gradients together to obtain information about their surroundings Room: Elm Lecture Theatre Session chair: Shigeyuki Komura

Marie Tani (Kyoto, Japan - Coiling patterns of soft filaments Room: Elm Lecture Theatre

Luca Cocconi (MPI Göttingen, Germany) - Dissipation-accuracy tradeoffs in autonomous control of smart active matter Room: Elm Lecture Theatre

Fernando Peruani (Paris Cergy, France) - A generic coupling between internal states and activity leads to activation fronts and criticality in active systems Room: Elm Lecture Theatre Session chair: Suropriya Saha

Rastko Sknepnek (Dundee, UK) - Extending the vertex model for tissue dynamics to include effects of activity Room: Elm Lecture Theatre

Yutaka Sumino (Tokyo U-Sci, Japan) - Collective motion of colloids induced by the presence of binary size Room: Elm Lecture Theatre Session chair: Davide Marenduzzo

Jan Cammann (Loughborough, UK) - Active Spaghetti: Collective Organization in Cyanobacteria Room: Elm Lecture Theatre

Yuto Hosaka (MPI Göttingen, Germany) - Nonreciprocal response of microswimmers in fluids with odd viscosity Room: Elm Lecture Theatre

Hiroki Matsukiyo (Kyushu, Japan) - Oscillating edge current in polar active fluid Room: Elm Lecture Theatre Session chair: Ryoichi Yamamoto

Ylann Rouzaire (Barcelona, Spain) - Non-Reciprocal Interactions Reshape Topological Defect Annihilation Room: Elm Lecture Theatre

Davide Michieletto (Edinburgh, UK) - Topologically Active Polymers Room: Elm Lecture Theatre

Closing Statement - Ryoichi Yamamoto (Kyoto, Japan) Room: Elm Lecture Theatre