Soft Matter Science and Beyond: From Inert to Living Matter
Soft Matter Science and Beyond: From Inert to Living Matter

Organizers:

Nicolas Bremond (ESPCI), Jacques Fattaccioli (ENS Paris), Alberto Fernandez-Nieves (UB - ICREA), David A. Weitz (Harvard)


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Tuesday, June 03

15:00-20:00 Bus trip from Barcelona University
15:30-20:00 Bus trip from Barcelona Airport

Wednesday, June 04

08:30-09:00 Registration
09:00-09:40 Flows in Soap Films
Isabelle Cantat
09:40-10:20 Toward Artificial Life with Competition and Evolution
Paul Chaikin
10:20-10:40 Coffee Break
10:40-11:20 TBA
Tuomas Knowles
11:20-12:00 Dynamic Covalent Chemistry and Phase Separation for the Design of Stimulable Materials
Renaud Nicolay
12:00-16:00 Lunch and discussions
16:00-16:40 Mechanical Phase Transitions and the Rheology of Extracellular Matrices
Fred MacKintosh
16:40-17:20 Self-assembly of Colloidal Diamond Using the Depletion Interaction (no DNA needed)
David Pine
17:20-17:40 Coffee Break
17:40-18:10 Engineering Colloids for Accumulating and Sensing
Remi Dreyfus
18:10-18:40 How Fluid Membranes Mediate Force Transduction in Vesicle Motion
Laura Arriaga
18:40-19:10 Confined Emulsification
Nicolas Bremond
19:30-22:00 Welcome reception

Thursday, June 05

09:00-09:40 Dynamics and Mechanics of Shape-shifting Filaments
Zvonimir Dogic
09:40-10:20 Brownian Motion Near Soft Interfaces
Thomas Salez
10:20-10:40 Coffee break
10:40-11:20 Logical Operations Using Droplets
Jasna Brujic
11:20-12:00 Phase Separation in Driven and Active Model Systems
Demian Levis
12:00-16:00 Lunch and discussions
16:00-16:40 Emulsions Stabilized by Responsive Microgels
Valérie Ravaine
16:40-17:20 Biology Meets Physics: The Morphological Potential Underlying Hydra Regeneration
Erez Braun
17:20-17:40 Coffee break
17:40-18:10 Evolution of Bacterial Communities
Jean Baudry
18:10-18:40 Fluidic Metamaterials: Collective Phenomena in Nonlinear Flow Networks
Miguel Ruiz Garcia
18:40-19:10 Mechanical Characterization of Uptake during Phagocytosis using Functional Lipid Droplets
Jacques FATTACCIOLI

Friday, June 06

09:00-09:40 Highly Tunable and Active Soft Matter: from Cartilage to Viscosity Metamaterials
Itai Cohen
09:40-10:20 Rheology of Non Brownian Particles
Annie COLIN
10:20-10:40 Coffee break
10:40-11:20 Generative Modeling with Flows and Diffusions
Eric Vanden-Eijnden
11:20-12:00 Rough and Nonspherical Building Blocks in Colloidal Gels : Effects of Non Central Forces
Jan Vermant
12:00-16:00 Lunch and discussions
16:00-16:40 Pickering Emulsions Stabilized by Stimuli-responsive Dextran-based Nanoparticles
Veronique SCHMITT
16:40-17:20 Catastrophic Failure in Defect-Sensitive Shells
Shmuel Rubinstein
17:20-17:40 Coffee break
17:40-18:10 Rheofluidics: Single-drop Oscillatory Rheology with Microfluidics
Stefano Aime
18:10-18:40 Rethinking the Physics of Wetting
Patrick Tabeling

Saturday, June 07

09:00-14:00 Bus trip to Barcelona