CSRC Symposium on Active Matter and Related Topics

Organizers: Hugues Chaté & Xiaqing Shi

Sponsored by NSFC Key-Project 11635002

Date:    September 15, 2017

Venue:  A203, CSRC Building

Address: Beijing Computational Science Research Center (CSRC)

               Building No.9, No. 10 Xibeiwang East Road, Haidian District, Beijing 
               北京市海淀区西北旺东路10号院9号楼, 北京计算科学研究中心         

Active matter is a new, fast-growing, field of research with statistical physics at its core, and potential applications in biology, novel materials, and “swarm intelligence” systems. This symposium will provide an opportunity to listen to experts working at the leading of this exciting field, with talks covering many of the systems of interest, from animal groups to bacteria to functionalized colloids.                          

Program

09:30-10:00         Get together, coffee & tea

10:00-10:40         Hugues Chaté, CSRC & CEA-Saclay

                            Weak synchronization and large-scale collective oscillations in dense

                             bacterial suspensions

10:40-11:20         Xinliang Xu, CSRC

                            Active suspensions of E.coli: Individual dynamics and collective behavior 

11:20-12:00         Hepeng Zhang, SJTU

                            Topological defects and collective dynamics in colonies of filamentous

                             bacteria  

12:00-14:00         Lunch

14:00-14:40         Mingchen Yang, IOP/CAS

                            Phototaxis of active colloids by self-thermophoresis

14:40-15:00         Jiwei Zhang, CSRC

                            A reduction method for spiking integrate-and-fire network dynamics ranging

                            from homogeneity to synchrony 

15:00-15:20         Benoît Mahault, CEA-Saclay

                            A new class of dry active matter: Apolar particles aligning ferromagnetically

15:20-15:40        Jure Dobnikar, IOP/CAS

                            Walking colloids and crawling bacteria

15:40-16:00        Break: tea, coffee, refreshments

16:00-16:20        Yang Ding, CSRC

                            Particle manipulation in low Reynolds number fluids by biological

                            and man-made systems

16:20-17:00        Xiaqing Shi, Soochow U & CEA-Saclay

                            From MIPS to Vicsek: A comprehensive phase diagram for

                            self-propelled rods

17:00-17:40        Matthew Turner, Warwick U

                            Collective motion and intelligence

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