Name: Field theories of Active and Driven matter
Start: 2019-05-02T09:00:00+00:00
End: 2019-05-03T18:00:00+00:00
Location: James Clerk Maxwell Building

Field theories of Active and Driven matter

from Thursday 2 May 2019 (09:00) to Friday 3 May 2019 (18:00)

Monday 29 April 2019
Tuesday 30 April 2019
Wednesday 1 May 2019
Thursday 2 May 2019

09:30 Introduction
Introduction
09:30 - 10:00
Room: Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, Seminar Room

10:00 John Toner, University of Oregon: Locusts, Chemical waves, and Active Bose-Einstein condensation
John Toner, University of Oregon: Locusts, Chemical waves, and Active Bose-Einstein condensation
10:00 - 11:00
Room: Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, Seminar Room

11:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, Seminar Room

11:30 Marzena Szymanska, University College London: Driven-dissipative quantum fluids of light
Marzena Szymanska, University College London: Driven-dissipative quantum fluids of light
11:30 - 12:30
Room: Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, Seminar Room

12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, Seminar Room

13:30 Mike Cates, University of Cambridge: Active phase separation
Mike Cates, University of Cambridge: Active phase separation
13:30 - 14:30
Room: Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, Seminar Room

14:30

14:30 - 16:00
Room: Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, Seminar Room

16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, Seminar Room

16:30 Eric Bertin, Université Grenoble Alpes: Deriving non-linear field equations for ordering transitions in gases of active particles
Eric Bertin, Université Grenoble Alpes: Deriving non-linear field equations for ordering transitions in gases of active particles
16:30 - 17:30
Room: Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, Seminar Room

17:30 Cristina Marchetti, University of California at Santa Barbara: Topology in active and living matter
Cristina Marchetti, University of California at Santa Barbara: Topology in active and living matter
17:30 - 18:30
Room: Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, Seminar Room

19:30 Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
19:30 - 22:30
Room: St Trinnean's
Friday 3 May 2019

09:00 Lukas Sieberer, University of Innsbruck: Order by anisotropy in two-dimensional driven-open systems
Lukas Sieberer, University of Innsbruck: Order by anisotropy in two-dimensional driven-open systems
09:00 - 10:00
Room: 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
Rosalind Allen, University of Edinburgh: Phase transitions in the growth of bacterial biofilms, predicted by simulations
10:00 - 11:00
Room: Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, Seminar Room

11:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, Seminar Room

11:30 Julia Yeomans, University of Oxford: Modelling cells and bacteria as active materials
Julia Yeomans, University of Oxford: Modelling cells and bacteria as active materials
11:30 - 12:30
Room: Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, Seminar Room

12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, Seminar Room

14:00 Ben Simons, University of Cambridge: A theory of branching morphogenesis
Ben Simons, University of Cambridge: A theory of branching morphogenesis
14:00 - 15:00
Room: Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, Seminar Room

15:00 Ramin Golestanian, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization: Field theories for collective chemotaxis
Ramin Golestanian, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization: Field theories for collective chemotaxis
15:00 - 16:00
Room: Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, Seminar Room

16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, Seminar Room

16:30 Tanniemola Liverpool, University of Bristol: Non-equilibrium steady states in active matter
Tanniemola Liverpool, University of Bristol: Non-equilibrium steady states in active matter
16:30 - 17:30
Room: Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, Seminar Room

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