Microswimmers – From Single Particle Motion to Collective Behaviour
International Conference, organized by the DFG Priority Programme SPP 1726 – Microswimmers
04 – 07 October 2016
at the Forschungszentrum caesar, Bonn, Germany
Scientific Programme
The scientific programme will consist of invited talks, contributed talks, and poster sessions.
Start of the scientific programme: 04 October 2016, 9 am
End of the scientific programme: 07 October 2016, 2 pm
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Detailed programme
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| Tuesday 04, October | |
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| 8.00-9:00 h | Registration |
| Session 01 | |
| 09:00 | W. Poon (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom) Painting with bacteria |
| 09:30 | V. Kantsler (University of Warwick, United Kingdom) Swimming navigation in-micro |
| 10:00 | O. D. Lavrentovich (Kent State University, USA) Effects of director field on dynamics of bacteria in liquid crystals |
| 10:20 | A. DeSimone (SISSA, Trieste, Italy) Metaboly in Euglenids: A Model and its experimental validation |
| 10:40 | B. Eckhardt (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany) Exploiting a buckling instability to escape from traps |
| 11:00 | Coffee |
| Session 02 | |
| 11:20 | E. Lauga (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom) Symmetry-breaking in flexible active filaments |
| 11:50 | R. Adhikari (The Institute of Mathematical Science, Chennai, India) Tractions laws for active colloids and their application to crystallization |
| 12:20 | D. R. Brumley (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Long-range interactions disrupt synchronized states in chains of fluid-coupled oscillators |
| 12:40 | B. M. Friedrich (MPI für Physik komplexer Systeme, Dresden, Germany) A force-velocity relationship of flagellar oscillations |
| 13:00 | T. Palberg (JGU Mainz, Germany) Ion-exchange-based electroosmotic pumps utilized for microswimming |
| 13:20 | Lunch |
| Session 03 | |
| 14:30 | I. Giardina (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) Information propagation and collective changes of states in biological groups |
| 15:00 | R. Di Leonardo (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) Holographic imaging reveals the mechanism of wall entrapment in swimming bacteria |
| 15:30 | S. Sanchez (Institute for Bioengineering Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain) Enzyme-powered biocompatible besoporous silica micro/nano-bots |
| 15:50 | V. Magdanz (Leibniz-Institut für Festkörper- und Werkstoffforschung, Dresden, Germany) Tubular hybrid microswimmers for the controlled guidance and delivery of spermatozoa |
| 16:10 | M. Pella (TU Dortmund, Germany) Synthesis and investigation of different types of alginate-based artificial microswimmers |
| 16:30 | Coffee |
| Session 04 | |
| 16:50 | A. Würger (Université de Bordeaux, France) Charge-driven self-propulsion of hot Janus particles |
| 17:20 | H. Chaté (CEA - Saclay, France) Weak synchronization and large-scale collective oscillations in dense bacterial suspensions |
| 17:50 | K. Kroy (Universität Leipzig, Germany) Exact symmetries in the velocity fluctuations of a hot Brownian swimmer |
| 18:10-18:30 | S. Santer (Universität Potsdam, Germany) Light driven diffusioosmosis: Manipulation of particle assembly |
| Wednesday 05, October | |
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| Session 05 | |
| 09:00 | R. Kapral (University of Toronto, Canada) Collective dynamics of chemically-powered motors |
| 09:30 | R. Golestanian (Oxford University, Germany) Collective chemotaxis in active matter |
| 10:00 | R. van Roij (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) From one force-free swimmer to an active dispersion: Mechanism, shape, and (osmotic?) pressure |
| 10:20 | M. N. Popescu (MPI for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany) Chemically active particles near responsive interfaces |
| 10:40 | J. de Graaf (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom) Lattice-Boltzmann methods for autophoretic swimmers |
| 11:00 | Coffee |
| Session 06 | |
| 11:20 | P. Peyla (Université Grenoble Alpes, France) Spreading of an active cloud of microswimmers |
| 11:50 | L. G. Wilson (University of York, United Kingdom) 3D holographic imaging of microswimmers |
| 12:20 | K. Ishimoto (Kyoto University, Japan) Multiple mechanical functions of sperm hyperactivation |
| 12:40 | L. Alvarez (caesar, Bonn, Germany) Sperm: The search machine |
| 13:00 | J. Elgeti (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany) Sperm cells swimming in confinement |
| 13:20 | Lunch |
| Session 07 | |
| 14:30 | J. F. Brady (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA) The Force on a body in active matter |
| 15:00 | P. Tierno (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain) Colloidal microworms and microcarpets propelling via a cooperative hydrodynamic conveyor-belt |
| 15:30 | E. Climent (Université Toulouse, France) Vertical migration of motile phytoplankton chains through turbulence |
| 15:50 | T. Voigtmann (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Köln, Germany) Active Brownian-particle glasses: A mode-coupling theory |
| 16:10 | M. Ripoll (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany) Hydrodynamic self-assembly of thermophoretic swimmers |
| 16:30-18:30 | Poster Session I |
| Thursday 06, October | |
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| Session 08 | |
| 09:00 | I. S. Aronson (Argonne National Laboratory, USA) Expulsion of bacteria by a vortical flow |
| 09:30 | D. Ahmed (ETH Zürich, Switzerland) Artificial swimmers in acoustic and magnetic fields |
| 10:00 | P. Fischer (Universität Stuttgart, Germany) Artificial Microswimmers |
| 10:20 | C. Maaß (MPI für Dynamik und Selbstorganisation, Göttingen, Germany) Droplet swimmers in complex geometries: Autochemotaxis and trapping at pillars |
| 10:40 | R. Seemann (Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany) Evolutive self-propelling Janus droplets utilized for programmable DNA cargo delivery |
| 11:00 | Coffee |
| Session 09 | |
| 11:20 | M. C. Marchetti (Syracuse University, USA) Jamming of cell monolayers |
| 11:50 | Y. Kafri (Technion, Haifa, Israel) Pressure in active systems |
| 12:20 | J. Blaschke (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany) Hydrodynamics of microswimmers: Phase Separation and influence of gravity |
| 12:40 | P. Virnau (JGU Mainz, Germany) Phase behavior of active colloidal particles |
| 13:00 | K. Günther (TU Dresden, Germany) Construction and characterization of artificial thermophoretic micro-& nanoswimmers |
| 13:20 | Lunch |
| Session 10 | |
| 14:30 | D. B. Weibel (University of Wisconsin, USA) Bacterial cell mechanics and motility |
| 15:00 | C. W. Wolgemuth (University of Arizona, Tucson, USA) Unexpected parallelisms: From swimming bacteria to wound healing and cancer metastasis |
| 15:30 | K. Drescher (MPI für terrestrische Mikrobiologie, Marburg, Germany) Nematic ordering transitions in bacterial biofilms |
| 15:50 | R. G. Winkler (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany) Bacterial swarmer cells in confinement |
| 16:10 | M. Engstler (Universität Würzburg, Germany) Trypanosome microswimmers in the tsetse fly |
| 16:30-18:30 | Poster Session II |
| 19:30 | Conference Dinner |
| Friday 07, October | |
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| Session 11 | |
| 09:00 | A. R. Bausch (TU München, Germany) Cytoskeletal pattern formation |
| 09:30 | D. Saintillan (UCSD, San Diego, USA) Collective motion in confinement |
| 10:00 | J. Kierfeld (TU Dortmund, Germany) Shapes of sedimenting soft elastic capsules in a viscous fluid |
| 10:20 | A. Mourran (DWI - Leibniz-Institut, Aachen, Germany) Swimming of morphoelastic ribbon helix |
| 10:40 | S. Klumpp (Universität Göttingen, Germany) Magnetism and motility of magnetotactic bacteria |
| 11:00 | Coffee |
| Session 12 | |
| 11:20 | I. Pagonabarraga (Universita of Barcelona, Spain) Collective behavior and pattern formation in actuated magnetic and Janus colloidal suspensions |
| 11:50 | M. Bär (PTB, Braunschweig, Germany) Modelling pattern formation and waves in suspensions of bacterial microswimmers |
| 12:20 | A. M. Menzel (HHU Düsseldorf, Germany) Statistical description and dynamical density functional theory of semidilute microswimmer suspensions |
| 12:40 | C. Bechinger (Universität Stuttgart, Germany) Light controlled active Brownian motion |
| 13:00 | V. Mikulich (TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany) Effect of cilia orientation on transport of micro-particles |
| 13:20-14:30 | Lunch |
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