Name: Scottish Soft Matter Workshop
Start: 2025-02-12T09:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-02-12T21:30:00+00:00
Location: James Clerk Maxwell Building

Scottish Soft Matter Workshop

Wednesday, 12 February 2025 - 09:00

Monday, 10 February 2025
Tuesday, 11 February 2025
Wednesday, 12 February 2025

09:00 Registration

09:00 - 09:50
Room: 4305

09:50 Welcome

09:50 - 10:00
Room: 4305
10:00 Session 1
10:00 - 11:15
Room: 4305
Contributions

10:00 Lynn Paterson - 3D microrheology using Optical Tweezers with Integrated Multiplane Microscopy

10:30 Juliane Simmchen - Beyond spheres - new shapes for active matter

11:00 James Richards - From model suspensions to industrial challenges in chocolate and cement
11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 - 11:45
Room: 4305
11:45 Session 2
11:45 - 13:00
Room: 4305
Contributions

11:45 Luke Davis - Control of continuous and discrete-state active matter

12:15 Ben Goddard - An Introduction to (Dynamic) Density Functional Theory

12:30 Alexander Houston - Spontaneous Oscillations in Heterogeneous Active Nematics

12:45 Grazia De Angelis - Developing new multiscale models leveraging ML to advance the understanding of fluid transport in polymers
13:00 Lunch: Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:30
Room: 4305
14:30 Session 3
14:30 - 15:45
Room: 4305
Contributions

14:30 Marcelo Dias - Exploring Damage in Mechanical Metamaterials

15:00 Rebecca Walker - Structure-property relationships in ferroelectric nematogens

15:30 Joseph Kilbride - Growing droplets in evaporating breath figures due to the Kelvin effect
15:45 Coffee Break

15:45 - 16:15
Room: 4305
16:15 Session 4
16:15 - 17:00
Room: 4305
Contributions

16:15 Ulrich Zachariae - Modelling biological membranes and membrane-integral proteins under realistic voltage conditions

16:45 Sravana Chaithanya Kanala Venkata - Vertex model with internal dissipation enables sustained flows
17:00 Closing remarks and discussion

17:00 - 17:30
Room: 4305

19:30 Dinner

19:30 - 21:30
Room: 4305

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