Active Soft Matter: From Granular Rods to Flocks to Living Cells

Presentations

• Collective dynamics of rigid and deformable self-propelled particles

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 19, 2009, 2:30 PM – March 19, 2009, 3:06 PM

  Authors

  • Arshad Kudrolli

    • Department of Physics, Clark University, Worcester, MA 01610
    • Physics Department, Clark University
    • Clark University
    • Department of Physics, Clark University, Worcester, MA 01610.

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• Three dimensional reconstruction of starling flocks: an empirical investigation of collective animal behavior

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 19, 2009, 3:06 PM – March 19, 2009, 3:42 PM

  Authors

  • Irene Giardina

    • CNR-INFM

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• Self Propelled Particles: from microdynamics to hydrodynamics

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 19, 2009, 3:42 PM – March 19, 2009, 4:18 PM

  Authors

  • Aparna Baskaran

    • Syracuse University

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• Active biopolymer gels: from cells to tissues

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 19, 2009, 4:18 PM – March 19, 2009, 4:54 PM

  Authors

  • Gijsje Koenderink

    • FOM Institute AMOLF

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• Beller Lectureship Talk: Active response of biological cells to mechanical stress

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 19, 2009, 4:54 PM – March 19, 2009, 5:30 PM

  Authors

  • Samuel Safran

    • Dept. Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel 76100
    • Department of Materials and Interfaces,Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel

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