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Description The Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS) and the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) are organizing a spring School on Active Matter and Chemotaxis from 14 to 25 May 2016. The School is intended for graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, faculty members, and others who would like to gain an understanding of the fundamentals of nonequilibrium cooperative phenomena for application to research in their respective fields. The school is centred on Active Matter and Chemotaxis. Active matter deals with self-moving units, their interactions, and their collective dynamics, both in living and synthetic systems, such as catalytic self-propelled colloidal particles, swimming bacteria, muscles, and flocking birds. Chemotaxis is movement of an organism in response to a chemical stimulus. Somatic cells, bacteria, and other single-cell or multicellular organisms direct their movements according to certain chemicals in their environment. Topics will cover both experiment and theory. In addition to about 50 hours of invited lectures and seminars, there will be tutorials and discussions.
PARTICIPATION - Scientists and students from all countries which are members of the United Nations, UNESCO or IAEA may attend the School. Participants should have an adequate working knowledge of English. Although the main purpose of ICTP is to help research workers from developing countries through a programme of training activities within a framework of international cooperation, a limited number of students and post-doctoral scientists from developed countries are also welcome to attend. As a rule, travel and subsistence expenses of the participants should be borne by the home institution. Every effort should be made by candidates to secure support for their fare (or at least half-fare). However, limited funds are available for some participants to be selected by the Organizers, who are nationals of, and working in, a developing country, and who are not more than 45 years old. Such support is available only for those who attend the entire activity.

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IASBS-ICTP School on Active Matter and Chemotaxis | (smr 2880)
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  • Saturday, 14 May 2016
    • 08:00 - 20:00 Saturday, 14 May 2016
      • 08:00 Registration and administrative formalities 1h0'
      • 09:00 School Opening 1h0'
      • 10:00 Coffee break 30'
      • 10:30 Phenomenological and Hydro-dynamics 1h0'
        Speaker: Tom LUBENSKY (University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia)
        Material: Lecture notes Video
      • 11:30 Coffee break 30'
      • 12:00 An example of active matter: active gels 1h0'
        Speaker: Jacques PROST (Institut Curie, Paris)
        Material: Video
      • 13:30 Lunch break 1h0'
      • 15:00 Active Chiral Gels - 1 1h0'
        Speaker: Frank JÜLICHER (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden)
        Material: Video
      • 16:00 Dry Active Matter: Flocks with and without Heads, and without Fluid 1h0'
        Speaker: Sriram RAMASWAMY (TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Hyderabad)
        Material: Video
      • 17:00 Coffee break 30'
      • 17:30 Flow-driven Waves during the Aggregation of Dictyostelium Discoideum 1h0'
        Speaker: Azam GHOLAMI (Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen)
        Material: Video
      • 19:00 Dinner 1h0'
  • Sunday, 15 May 2016
    • 09:00 - 20:00 Sunday, 15 May 2016
      • 09:00  Swimming in External Fields   - 1 1h0'
        Speaker: Holger STARK (Technische Universität Berlin)
        Material: Video
      • 10:00 Coffee break 30'
      • 10:30 Biological relevance of active matter 1h0'
        Speaker: Jacques PROST (Institut Curie, Paris)
        Material: Video
      • 11:30 Coffee break 30'
      • 12:00 Interaction and Possible Long Range Order in Active Matter Experiments 1h0'
        Speaker: Masaki SANO (Tokyo University)
      • 13:30 Lunch break 1h0'
      • 14:30 Practicals (Azam GHOLAMI) & Poster Session 1 3h0'
        Material: Video
      • 17:30 Active Chiral Gels - 2 1h0'
        Speaker: Frank JÜLICHER (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden)
        Material: Video
      • 19:00 Dinner 1h0'
  • Monday, 16 May 2016
    • 09:00 - 20:00 Monday, 16 May 2016
      • 09:00 Swimming in External Fields - 2 1h0'
        Speaker: Holger STARK (Technische Universität Berlin)
        Material: Video
      • 10:00 Coffee break 30'
      • 10:30 Nonliving Realizations of Active Matter, Colloidal and Macroscopic 1h0'
        Speaker: Sriram RAMASWAMY (TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Hyderabad)
        Material: Video
      • 11:30 Coffee break 30'
      • 12:00 Maxwell Lattices, from the Warren Truss to Auexetic Kagome 1h0'
        Speaker: Tom LUBENSKY (University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia)
        Material: Lecture notes Video
      • 13:30 Lunch break 1h0'
      • 14:30 Practicals (Azam GHOLAMI) & Poster Session 2 3h0'
      • 17:30 TBD 1h0'
        Speaker: Julien TAILLEUR (University Paris Diderot)
        Material: Video
      • 19:00 Dinner 1h0'
  • Tuesday, 17 May 2016
    • 09:00 - 20:00 Tuesday, 17 May 2016
      • 09:00  Chemotaxis in Artificial and Bacterial Systems 1h0'
        Speaker: Holger STARK (Technische Universität Berlin)
        Material: Video
      • 10:00 Coffee break 30'
      • 10:30 Interaction and Possible Long Range Order in Active Matter Experiments - 2 1h0'
        Speaker: Masaki SANO (Tokyo University)
      • 11:30 Coffee break 30'
      • 12:00 Chemotaxis of Helical Swimmers 1h0'
        Speaker: Frank JÜLICHER (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden)
        Material: Video
      • 13:30 Lunch break 1h0'
      • 15:00 FREE AFTERNOON 4h0'
      • 19:00 Dinner 1h0'
  • Wednesday, 18 May 2016
    • 09:00 - 20:00 Wednesday, 18 May 2016
      • 09:00 More on Biological Relevance 1h0'
        Speaker: Jacques PROST (Institut Curie, Paris)
        Material: Slides
      • 10:00 Coffee break 30'
      • 10:30 Topological Lattices: Bulk Spectrum, Edge States, Guest Modes, and Weyl Modes 1h0'
        Speaker: Tom LUBENSKY (University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia)
        Material: Lecture notes Video
      • 11:30 Coffee break 30'
      • 12:00 TBD 1h0'
        Speaker: Masaki SANO (Tokyo University)
      • 13:30 Lunch break 1h0'
      • 15:00 From Bacteria to Sheep: Active Fluctuations, Collective Patterns, and Active Particles in Heterogeneous Media - 1 1h0'
        Speaker: Fernando PERUANI (University of Nice - Sophia Antipolis)
      • 16:00 Active Membranes 1h0'
        Speaker: Sriram RAMASWAMY (TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Hyderabad)
        Material: Video
      • 17:00 Coffee break 30'
      • 17:30 TBD 1h0'
        Speaker: Julien TAILLEUR (University Paris Diderot)
        Material: Video
      • 19:00 Dinner 1h0'
  • Thursday, 19 May 2016
    • 09:00 - 20:00 EXCURSION
  • Friday, 20 May 2016
    • 09:00 - 20:00 EXCURSION
  • Saturday, 21 May 2016
    • 09:00 - 20:00 Saturday, 21 May 2016
      • 09:00 From Bacteria to Sheep: Active Fluctuations, Collective Patterns, and Active Particles in Heterogeneous Media - 2 1h0'
        Speaker: Fernando PERUANI (University of Nice - Sophia Antipolis)
      • 10:00 Coffee break 30'
      • 10:30 Non-linear Chemical Dynamics 1h0'
        Speaker: Seth FRADEN (Brandeis University)
        Material: Video
      • 11:30 Coffee break 30'
      • 12:00 Amoeboid Motility and Chemotaxis: From Actin Dynamics to Cell Trajectories - 1 1h0'
        Speaker: Carsten BETA (University of Potsdam)
      • 13:30 Lunch break 1h0'
      • 15:00 Discussion 1h0'
      • 16:00 Optical Traps and Video Analysis as Tools for Rheology of Complex Fluids and Active Systems 1h0'
        Speaker: Pietro CICUTA (University of Cambridge)
        Material: Video
      • 17:00 Coffee break 30'
      • 17:30 TBD 1h0'
        Speaker: Julien TAILLEUR (University Paris Diderot)
        Material: Video
      • 19:00 Dinner 1h0'
  • Sunday, 22 May 2016
    • 09:00 - 20:00 Sunday, 22 May 2016
      • 09:00 From Bacteria to Sheep: Active Fluctuations, Collective Patterns, and Active Particles in Heterogeneous Media - 3 1h0'
        Speaker: Fernando PERUANI (University of Nice - Sophia Antipolis)
      • 10:00 Coffee break 30'
      • 10:30 Active Nematics in Confined Geometries 1h0'
        Speaker: Seth FRADEN (Brandeis University)
        Material: Video
      • 11:30 Coffee break 30'
      • 12:00 Amoeboid Motility and Chemotaxis: From Actin Dynamics to Cell Trajectories - 2 1h0'
        Speaker: Carsten BETA (University of Potsdam)
      • 13:30 Lunch break 1h0'
      • 14:30 Practicals (Seth FRADEN) & Poster Session 3 3h0'
        Material: Video
      • 17:30 Eukaryotic Chemotaxis: From Experiments to Modeling - 1 1h0'
        Speaker: Wouter-Jan RAPPEL (UCSD, San Diego)
      • 19:00 Dinner 1h0'
  • Monday, 23 May 2016
    • 09:00 - 20:00 Monday, 23 May 2016
      • 09:00 Amoeboid Motility and Chemotaxis: From Actin Dynamics to Cell Trajectories - 3 1h0'
        Speaker: Carsten BETA (University of Potsdam)
      • 10:00 Coffee break 30'
      • 10:30 Eukaryotic Chemotaxis: From Experiments to Modeling - 2 1h0'
        Speaker: Wouter-Jan RAPPEL (UCSD, San Diego)
      • 11:30 Coffee break 30'
      • 12:00 Swimming in Complex Fluids 1h0'
        Speaker: Arezoo ARDEKANI (Purdue University)
      • 13:30 Lunch break 1h0'
      • 15:00 Discussion 1h0'
      • 16:00 Driven Colloidal Particles as a Model System for the Study of Hydrodynamic Synchronization 1h0'
        Speaker: Pietro CICUTA (University of Cambridge)
        Material: Video
      • 17:00 Coffee break 30'
      • 17:30 2 x Seminars 1h0'
      • 19:00 Dinner 1h0'
  • Tuesday, 24 May 2016
    • 09:00 - 20:00 Tuesday, 24 May 2016
      • 09:00 Hydrodynamic Interaction of Microorganisms in Complex Fluids 1h0'
        Speaker: Arezoo ARDEKANI (Purdue University)
      • 10:00 Coffee break 30'
      • 10:30 Active Isotropic Gels in Confined Geometries 1h0'
        Speaker: Seth FRADEN (Brandeis University)
        Material: Video
      • 11:30 Coffee break 30'
      • 12:00 Eukaryotic Chemotaxis: From Experiments to Modeling - 3 1h0'
        Speaker: Wouter-Jan RAPPEL (UCSD, San Diego)
      • 13:30 Lunch break 1h0'
      • 14:30 Practicals (Pietro CICUTA) & Poster Session 4 3h0'
        Material: Video
      • 17:30 2 x Seminars 1h0'
      • 19:00 Dinner 1h0'
  • Wednesday, 25 May 2016
    • 09:00 - 20:00 Wednesday, 25 May 2016
      • 09:00 Motile Cilia in Tissues: Challenges from Biology, Physiology, Medicine that Can Be Addressed with Physics 1h0'
        Speaker: Pietro CICUTA (University of Cambridge)
        Material: Video
      • 10:00 Coffee break 30'
      • 10:30 Swimming in Density Stratified Fluids 1h0'
        Speaker: Arezoo ARDEKANI (Purdue University)
      • 11:30 Coffee break 30'
      • 12:00 Contributed talks 1h0'
      • 13:30 Lunch break 1h0'
      • 15:00 Discussion 1h0'
      • 16:00 Contributed talks 1h0'
      • 17:00 Coffee break 30'
      • 17:30 Special Seminar and Closing 1h0'
      • 19:00 Dinner 1h0'
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