2nd London Workshop
on Active Matter

• Organising committee:

  • Jaime Agudo-Canalejo (UCL)

  • Thibault Bertrand (Imperial)

• Funding: BioP group at UCL Department of Physics and Astronomy

• Venue: Room W3.01
  UCL Institute of Education (IOE)
  20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL

Schedule:

9:15am - 09:45am Registration and coffee

09:45am - 10:30am Invited talk: Lennart Dabelow (Queen Mary University London)
Thermodynamic nature of irreversibility in active matter

10:30am - 12:00pm Contributed flash talks I (see list below)

12:00pm - 12:45pm Invited talk: Maria Bruna (University of Oxford)
Funny things ant colonies and other active particle systems do

12:45pm - 1:45 pm Lunch and coffee 

1:45pm - 2:30pm Invited talk: Yuval Elani (Imperial College London)
Bio-membrane engineering for the construction of synthetic cells exhibiting life-like behaviours 

2:30pm - 4:00pm Contributed flash talks II (see list below)

4:00pm - 5:00pm Focused discussions

5:00pm onwards Everyone welcome to join for refreshments at the Marlborough Arms

Contributed flash talks I (10:30am - 12:00pm)

1. Ivan Palaia (KCL)
   Unconventional colloidal aggregation in chiral bacterial baths

2. Rahil Valani (U. of Oxford)
   Active wave-particle entities

3. Yeyang Sun (Imperial)
   From polymer chemistry to active matter: engineering polymeric synthetic cells with controlled contractility, fusion and trapping

4. Emir Sezik (Imperial)
   Dynamic couplings partially suppress glass transition in non-equilibrium p-spin model

5. Hugh Z Ford (UCL)
   Active droplet morphogenesis

6. Clara Neather (UCL)
   Modelling pattern formation in diatoms

Contributed flash talks II (2:30pm - 4:00pm)

1. Rosalba Garcia Millan (KCL)
   Optimal closed-loop control of active particles

2. Subhadip Ghosh (UCL)
   Running and Localized Pulsation on Active Liposome: A Minimal Model

3. Eloise Lardet (Imperial)
   Flocking Beyond One Species: Novel Phase Coexistence in a Generalized Two-Species Vicsek Model

4. Alvaro Lanza (KCL)
   Estimating Entropy from Coarse-grained Single-molecule Statistics in Langevin Systems

5. Jacob Knight (Imperial)
   Entropy Production of Active Particles with Hidden States

6. Steven Redford (UCL)
   Untangling and quantifying the multi-scale origins of steady states in cytoskeletal active nematics