3rd London Workshop
on Active Matter

• Organising committee:

  • Stefano Bo (KCL)

  • Rosalba Garcia Millan (KCL)

• Funding: King's College London NMES Research Culture Fund

• Venue: Franklin-Wilkins Building , Room 5.132 (WATERLOO FWB 5.132)
  King's College London, Waterloo Campus
  150 Stamford Street London, SE1 9NH London

Schedule:

9:45am -10:00am Registration
10:00am - 11:00am Career panel: Q&A with physics graduates working in, around, and out of academia
11:00am - 11:30am Coffee
11:30am - 12:00pm Keynote talk: Julia Yeomans (University of Oxford)
Deformable Active Nematics
12:00pm - 12:30pm Invited talk: Chiu Fan Lee (Imperial College London)
Diversity of critical phenomena in the ordered phase of polar active fluids
12:30pm - 1:30 pm Lunch and coffee
1:30pm - 2:30pm Contributed and Flash Talks

• Boyi Wang (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems)
  Edge currents shape condensates in chiral active matter

• Yukata Sumino (Tokyo University of Science)
  Active cluster motion of binary-sized colloid induced by effective nonreciprocal interaction caused by electrohydrodynamic flow

• Noah Grodzinski (University of Cambridge)
  Spontaneous Ratchets and Transitions in Active Wetting

• Rahil Valani (University of Oxford)
  Hamiltonian formalism for active particles in channel flow

2:30pm - 3:00 pm Coffee break
3:00pm - 3:30pm Invited talk: Thomas Ouldridge (Imperial College London)
Synthetic nucleic acid systems out of equilibrium
3:30pm - 4:30pm Contributed and Flash talks 

• Claudia Contini (Imperial College London)
  Active Synthetic Cells: Programming Life-Like Behaviours in Minimal Systems

• Adarsh Raghu (King's College London)
  Thermodynamic Bounds and Symmetries in first-passage problems for fluctuating currents

• Matt Wong (Imperial College London)
  New universality classes govern the critical and multicritical behavior of an active Ising model

• Sulaimaan Lim (Imperial College London)
  The cell mechanics of geometric tessellations

4:30pm - 5:00pm      Discussion

To see the abstracts of the talks: Book of Abstracts