Focus Session: Physics of Active Materials

Presentations

• Active Currents and Stresses on the cell surface: Clustering, Instabilities and Budding

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 22, 2011, 11:15 AM – March 22, 2011, 11:51 AM

  Authors

  • Madan Rao

    • Raman Research Institute/National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore

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• Pattern formation in Active Polar Fluids

  ORAL

  March 22, 2011, 11:51 AM – March 22, 2011, 12:03 PM

  Authors

  • Arvind Gopinath

    • Fischer School of Physics, Brandeis University
    • Martin A Fisher School of Physics, Brandeis University

  • Michael Hagan

    • Martin A Fisher School of Physics, Brandeis University

  • Aparna Baskaran

    • Brandeis University
    • Martin A Fisher School of Physics, Brandeis University

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• Non-Equilibrium Dynamics of the Metaphase Spindle

  ORAL

  March 22, 2011, 12:03 PM – March 22, 2011, 12:15 PM

  Authors

  • Daniel Needleman

    • Harvard University

  • Jan Brugues

    • Harvard University

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• Modeling active materials based on self-oscillating gels

  ORAL

  March 22, 2011, 12:15 PM – March 22, 2011, 12:27 PM

  Authors

  • Victor V. Yashin

  • Anna Balazs

    • University of Pittsburgh
    • Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh
    • Chemical Engineering Department, University of Pittsburgh
    • Chemical Engineering Department, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15261

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• Homeostatic pressure, tumor growth and fingering of epithelial tissues: Some generic physics arguments

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 22, 2011, 12:27 PM – March 22, 2011, 1:03 PM

  Authors

  • Thomas Risler

    • Institut Curie

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• Hydrodynamics of an Active Smectic

  ORAL

  March 22, 2011, 1:03 PM – March 22, 2011, 1:15 PM

  Authors

  • Tapan Chandra Adhyapak

    • Indian Institute of Science

  • Sriram Ramaswamy

    • Centre for Condensed Matter Theory, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560012, India
    • Indian Institute of Science
    • CCMT, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012

  • John Toner

    • University of Oregon

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• Spontaneous Oscillations in Nonlinear Active Solids

  ORAL

  March 22, 2011, 1:15 PM – March 22, 2011, 1:27 PM

  Authors

  • Shiladitya Banerjee

    • Syracuse University

  • Tanniemola B. Liverpool

    • University of Bristol

  • M. Cristina Marchetti

    • Syracuse Biomaterials Institute and Syracuse University
    • Syracuse University

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• Self-diffusiophoresis in the strongly advecting regime

  ORAL

  March 22, 2011, 1:27 PM – March 22, 2011, 1:39 PM

  Authors

  • Gareth Alexander

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania
    • University of Pennslyvania

  • Andrea Liu

    • University of Pennsylvania
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania

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• Phase transitions and solitons in a rule-based model of active particles

  ORAL

  March 22, 2011, 1:39 PM – March 22, 2011, 1:51 PM

  Authors

  • Thomas Ihle

    • North Dakota State University

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• Collective motion of vibrated polar granular disks

  ORAL

  March 22, 2011, 1:51 PM – March 22, 2011, 2:03 PM

  Authors

  • Olivier Dauchot

    • CEA-Saclay / SPEC

  • Deseigne Julien

    • CEA-Saclay / SPEC

  • Hugues Chate

    • CEA-Saclay / Chate

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