Field theories of Active and Driven matter

from Thursday, 2 May 2019 (09:00) to Friday, 3 May 2019 (18:00)
James Clerk Maxwell Building (Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, Seminar Room)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
2 May 2019
3 May 2019
AM
09:30
Introduction (until 10:00) (Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, Seminar Room)
10:00 John Toner, University of Oregon: Locusts, Chemical waves, and Active Bose-Einstein condensation   (Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, Seminar Room)
11:00 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30 Marzena Szymanska, University College London: Driven-dissipative quantum fluids of light   (Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, Seminar Room)
09:00 Lukas Sieberer, University of Innsbruck: Order by anisotropy in two-dimensional driven-open systems   (Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, Seminar Room)
10:00 Rosalind Allen, University of Edinburgh: Phase transitions in the growth of bacterial biofilms, predicted by simulations   (Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, Seminar Room)
11:00 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30 Julia Yeomans, University of Oxford: Modelling cells and bacteria as active materials   (Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, Seminar Room)
PM
12:30 --- Lunch Break ---
13:30 Mike Cates, University of Cambridge: Active phase separation   (Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, Seminar Room)
14:30
Breakout (until 16:00) (Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, Seminar Room)
16:00 --- Coffee Break ---
16:30 Eric Bertin, Université Grenoble Alpes: Deriving non-linear field equations for ordering transitions in gases of active particles   (Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, Seminar Room)
17:30 Cristina Marchetti, University of California at Santa Barbara: Topology in active and living matter   (Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, Seminar Room)
19:30 --- Conference Dinner ---
12:30 --- Lunch Break ---
14:00 Ben Simons, University of Cambridge: A theory of branching morphogenesis   (Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, Seminar Room)
15:00 Ramin Golestanian, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization: Field theories for collective chemotaxis   (Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, Seminar Room)
16:00 --- Coffee Break ---
16:30 Tanniemola Liverpool, University of Bristol: Non-equilibrium steady states in active matter   (Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, Seminar Room)