Higgs School on Advances in Computational Active Matter

Session

Afternoon Session

Jun 30, 2025, 2:00 PM

James Clerk Maxwell Building

Conveners

Afternoon Session: LAMMPS and Cellular Potts

• Tyler Shendruk (University of Edinburgh)

Afternoon Session: Vertex and Phase Field Models

• There are no conveners in this block

Afternoon Session: Stokesian Dynamics and Lattice Boltzmann Methods

• There are no conveners in this block

Afternoon Session: Immersed Boundary Methods and Multi-phase Cahn-Hilliard Dynamics

• There are no conveners in this block

Afternoon Session: Hydrodynamic Studies of Microswimmers and Conclusion

• There are no conveners in this block

6. Run-and-tumble particles

Chantal Valeriani

6/30/25, 2:00 PM

Chantal Valeriani

7. Cell-based modelling approaches to animal development

Erika Tsingos

6/30/25, 4:00 PM

Erika Tsingos

11. Modelling active elastic membranes and sheets using triangulated surfaces

Rastko Sknepnek

7/1/25, 2:00 PM

Rastko Sknepnek

12. Pattern formation in phoretic active matter

Benno Liebchen

7/1/25, 4:00 PM

Benno Liebchen

15. Active Stokesian Dynamics

Gwynn Elfring

7/2/25, 2:00 PM

Gwynn Elfring

16. Lattice Boltzmann method: suspensions and fluctuating hydrodynamics

Timm Krueger

7/2/25, 4:00 PM

Timm Krueger

19. Immersed boundary methods: applications to active matter

Enkeleida Lushi

7/3/25, 2:00 PM

Enkeleida Lushi

20. Tissue and cell monolayer modelling via phase fields

Davide Marenduzzo (School of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Edinburgh)

7/3/25, 4:00 PM

Davide Marenduzzo

23. Hydrodynamic Studies of Microswimmers II: Squirmer rods, E. coli bacteria, African trypanosomes, ...

Holger Stark

7/4/25, 2:00 PM

Holger Stark

24. What have we learned?

Ignacio Pagonabarraga

7/4/25, 4:00 PM

Ignacio Pagonabarraga