Biologically Inspired Physics: Swimming, Propulsion, Bio-fluids

Presentations

• Swimming in a vortex street

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 8:00 AM – March 18, 2009, 8:12 AM

  Authors

  • Silas Alben

    • Georgia Tech
    • Georgia Institute of Technology

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• Symmetry and Hydrodynamic Interactions of Linked-Sphere Swimmers

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 8:12 AM – March 18, 2009, 8:24 AM

  Authors

  • Gareth Alexander

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Julia M. Yeomans

    • University of Oxford
    • Oxford University

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• Collective locomotion of non-swimmers

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 8:24 AM – March 18, 2009, 8:36 AM

  Authors

  • Eric Lauga

    • University of California, San Diego (USA)
    • University of California, San Diego

  • Denis Bartolo

    • ESPCI (France)

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• Self-Assembled Magnetic Surface Swimmers: Theoretical Model

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 8:36 AM – March 18, 2009, 8:48 AM

  Authors

  • Igor Aranson

    • Argonne National Laboratory
    • Argonne National Lab

  • Maxim Belkin

    • Illinois Institute of Technology / Argonne National Lab
    • Argonne National Laboratory

  • Alexey Snezhko

    • Argonne National Lab
    • Argonne National Laboratory

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• Accumulation of microswimmers near surface due to steric confinement and rotational Brownian motion

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 8:48 AM – March 18, 2009, 9:00 AM

  Authors

  • Guanglai Li

    • Brown University

  • Jay Tang

    • Brown University

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• Modeling the Behavior of Self-Propelled Microcapsules

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 9:00 AM – March 18, 2009, 9:12 AM

  Authors

  • Amitabh Bhattacharya

    • Dept of Chemical Engg, University of Pittsburgh

  • O. Berk Usta

    • Dept of Chemical Engg, Univ Pittsburgh

  • Anna C. Balazs

    • Chemical Engineering Department, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
    • University of Pittsburgh
    • Dept of Chemical Engg, Univ Pittsburgh
    • Chemical Engineering Department, University of Pittsburgh
    • Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Department, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA

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• Mixing fluid by self-propelled objects

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 9:12 AM – March 18, 2009, 9:24 AM

  Authors

  • Maxim Belkin

    • Illinois Institute of Technology / Argonne National Lab
    • Argonne National Laboratory

  • Alexey Snezhko

    • Argonne National Lab
    • Argonne National Laboratory

  • Igor Aranson

    • Argonne National Laboratory
    • Argonne National Lab

  • Wai -K. Kwok

    • Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, USA
    • Argonne National Lab,*Northern Illinois University
    • Argonne National Laboratory
    • Argonne National Lab
    • Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, USA

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• Enskog-theory for stochastic models with self-propelled and passive particles

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 9:24 AM – March 18, 2009, 9:36 AM

  Authors

  • Alemayehu Gebremariam

    • Department of Physics, North Dakota State University

  • Thomas Ihle

    • Department of Physics, North Dakota State University

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• The ``caterpillar'' simulation model for a biological filament

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 9:36 AM – March 18, 2009, 9:48 AM

  Authors

  • Aimee Bailey

    • Imperial College London

  • Christopher Lowe

    • Universiteit van Amsterdam

  • Adrian Sutton

    • Imperial College London

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• Flow and nutrient transport through porous scaffolds used for the culture of bone cells in perfusion bioreactors

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 9:48 AM – March 18, 2009, 10:00 AM

  Authors

  • D. Papavassiliou

    • The Uninversity of Oklahoma
    • The University of Oklahoma

  • Roman Voronov

    • The University of Oklahoma

  • Vassilios Sikavitsas

    • The University of Oklahoma

  • Samuel VanGordon

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• Instabilities and waves in thin films of living fluids

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 10:00 AM – March 18, 2009, 10:12 AM

  Authors

  • Sumithra Sankararaman

  • Sriram Ramaswamy

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• Tuning inter-virus interactions in natural aquatic environments

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 10:12 AM – March 18, 2009, 10:24 AM

  Authors

  • Nathan Schmidt

    • Dept. of Physics, UIUC
    • Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Andrew K. Udit

    • Deptartment of Chemistry, Scripps Research Institute

  • Leonardo Gutierrez

    • Civil and Bioengineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

  • Thanh H. (Helen) Nguyen

    • Civil and Bioengineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

  • M.G. Finn

    • Department of Chemistry, Scripps Research Institute

  • G.C.L. Wong

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • Depts of Mat. Science Eng. and Physics, and Seitz Materials Research Lab, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    • Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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• Computational studies on characteristic fluid behavior in the stented cerebral aneurysm

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 10:24 AM – March 18, 2009, 10:36 AM

  Authors

  • Miki Hirabayashi

    • University of Geneva

  • Makoto Ohta

    • Hospital University of Geneva

  • Daniel A. R\"ufenacht

    • Hospital University of Geneva

  • Bastien Chopard

    • University of Geneva

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• Run length is the dimension that characterizes path integrals useful for designing passive bacterial pumps

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 10:36 AM – March 18, 2009, 10:48 AM

  Authors

  • David Liao

    • Princeton University
    • Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544

  • Guillaume Lambert

    • Princeton University
    • Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544

  • Peter Galajda

    • TU Delft
    • Delft University of Technology, CJ Delft, The Netherlands

  • Robert H. Austin

    • Princeton University
    • Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544

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• Selective transport through nano-channels: do we understand it?

  ORAL

  March 18, 2009, 10:48 AM – March 18, 2009, 11:00 AM

  Authors

  • Anton Zilman

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • T. Jovanovic-Talisman

  • B. Chait

  • M. Rout

  • S. Di Talia

  • M. Magnasco

    • Rockefeller University

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