MPI-DS Colloquium: Active matter in two dimensions

MPI-DS Colloquium

  • Date: Jun 4, 2025
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Dr. Leticia Cugliandolo
  • Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Dynamik und Selbstorganisation (MPIDS)
  • Room: Seminar room 0.79 and Zoom Meeting ID: 959 2774 3389 Passcode: 651129
  • Host: MPIDS / LMP
  • Contact: golestanian-office@ds.mpg.de
Active matter is a new kind of soft matter relevant to describe numerous biological problems with manifold realizations in two dimensions. I will discuss several intriguing aspects of its phase behavior including the melting of an active solid (with special emphasis on the role of topological defects) and the mechanisms leading to motility induced phase separation.
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