Symposium
Place: Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS)
Prandtl Lecture Hall, Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen
June 29, 2023
Arrival, Lunch possible in the Canteen at Fassberg
13:30-13:50 Welcome/Opening Remarks
Ramin Golestanian, Stephan Herminghaus, MPI-DS Göttingen
Session I (Chair: Peter Keim)
13:50-14:10 ‘Mobility and beyond – moving on’
Knut Heidemann, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany
14:10-14:30 ‘The Physics of Living Fluids - Shedding Light on Smart Microbes’
Oliver Bäumchen, University of Bayreuth, Germany
14:30-14:50 ‘Active & Intelligent Matter - Challenges & Frontiers’
Marco Mazza, University of Loughborough, United Kingdom
14:50-15:10 ‘Driven Nonlinear Dynamical Systems- Predicting Fluctuation Responses and Tipping Points’
Marc Timme, Technical University of Dresden, Germany
15:10-15:30 ‘Desert Patterns’
Lucas Goehring, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
15:30-15:50 ‘In the beginning and end was Spinodal Dewetting (Impact of noise on spinodal dewetting of liquid-liquid films)’
Ralf Seemann, Saarland University, Germany
15:50-16:20 Coffee Break
Session II (Chair: Knut Heidemann)
16:20-16:40 ‘Microbial Active Matter: From Emergence to Intelligence’
Anupam Sengupta, University of Luxemburg, Luxemburg
16:40-17:00 ‘Microfluidics inspired by nature: From 'bacteria on a bead' to peristaltic flows’
Thomas Pfohl, University of Freiburg, Germany
17:00-17:20 ‘From Bending to stretching: the astonishing mechanics of biopolymers’
Sarah Köster, University of Göttingen, Germany
17:20-17:40 ‘Fundamental and Applied Aspects of Thin Lubricating Films Coated Slippery Surfaces’
Krishnacharya Khare, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
17:40-18:00 ‘Hydra regeneration, not a mythical monster’
Sravanti Uppaluri, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, India
18:00 Get together and Dinner
19:00-22:00 ‘The Physics of Rhythms and Sounds’
Habib Rahbari, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea / Pink Fluid
June 30, 2023
Session III (Chair: Philip Bittihn)
9:00-9:20 ‘Active Matter at Work’
Holger Stark, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
9:20-9:40 ‘Electrified interfaces: from wetting to bubbling’
Frieder Mugele, University of Twente, The Netherlands
9:40-10:00 ‘Messenger Materials - What if materials could talk to you ?’
Andreas Fery, Leibniz Institute for Polymer Research, Dresden, Germany
10:00-10:20 ‘The Way of Water: How hydrodynamics dictate the adaptive response of microswimmers to external stimuli’
Ranabir Dey, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India
10:20-10:50 Coffee Break
Session IV (Chair: Claudia Brunner)
10:50-11:10 ‘Bubbles, bubbles everywhere: from chromatin organisation to bacterial colonies’
Vasiliy Zaburdaev, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen, Germany
11:10-11:30 ‘Collective Dynamics of Particulate Materials: From digging into to ‘seeing’ through sand’
Kai Huang, Duke Kunshan University, Kunshan, China
11:30-11:50 ‘Breath figures: fractal patterns and universal scaling?’
Jürgen Vollmer, University of Leipzig, Germany
11:50-12:10 ‘Droplet graffiti und beyond’
Corinna Maaß, University of Twente, The Netherlands
12:10-12:30 ‘Beyond active matter: Towards inactive life’
Shashi Thutupalli, National Center for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India
12:30 Closing Remarks
Stephan Herminghaus, Eberhard Bodenschatz, MPI-DS Göttingen
Departure, Lunch possible in Canteen at Fassberg
Attention: Please be aware that all talks are recorded (for internal use only)