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Workshop on Driven States in Soft and Biological Matter | (smr 1746)
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  • Tuesday, 18 April 2006
    • 08:30 - 09:30 Registration
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
      • 08:30 Registration 1h0'
    • 09:30 - 09:40 OPENING REMARKS
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 09:30 OPENING REMARKS 10'
        Speaker: Silvio FRANZ (ICTP, Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics Section, Trieste, Italy)
    • 09:40 - 09:45 Remarks by Workshop Directors
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 09:40 Remarks by Workshop Directors 5'
    • 09:45 - 10:30 Cytoskeleton-adhesion crosstalk in cell motility and force sensing
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 09:45 Cytoskeleton-adhesion crosstalk in cell motility and force sensing 45'
        Speaker: A. BERSHADSKY (Weizmann Inst. of Science, Molecular Cell Biology, Rehovot, Israel)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 10:30 Break 30'
    • 11:00 - 11:45 Collective dynamics of polar and apolar self-propelled particles
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 11:00 Collective dynamics of polar and apolar self-propelled particles 45'
        Speaker: H. CHATE (CEA Saclay, DSM-DRECAM, Gif sur Yvette, France)
    • 11:45 - 12:30 Understanding the rules of crawling motility in a simple cell system
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 11:45 Understanding the rules of crawling motility in a simple cell system 45'
        Speaker: A.B. VERKHOVSKY (EPFL, Lab. of Cell Biophysics & Biomechanics, Lausanne, Switzerland)
    • 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
    • 14:30 - 15:15 Active thermodynamics of cell membranes: local shapes and global morphology
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 14:30 Active thermodynamics of cell membranes: local shapes and global morphology 45'
        Speaker: Nir GOV (Weizmann Institute of Science, Chemical Physics, Rehovot, Israel)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:15 - 15:45 Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 15:15 Break 30'
    • 15:45 - 16:45 Discussion
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 15:45 Discussion 1h0'
    • 18:00 - 19:30 Reception - Adriatico Guest House Terrace
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 18:00 Reception - Adriatico Guest House Terrace 1h30'
  • Wednesday, 19 April 2006
    • 09:00 - 09:45 Instabilities and chaotic behaviour in shear banding complex fluids
      • 09:00 Instabilities and chaotic behaviour in shear banding complex fluids 45'
        Speaker: P.D. OLMSTED (Univ. Leeds, Physics Dept., Leeds, U.K.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 09:45 - 10:30 Living liquid crystals formed by human amoeboid cells
      • 09:45 Living liquid crystals formed by human amoeboid cells 45'
        Speaker: H. GRULER (Univ. Ulm, Biophysics, Ulm, Germany)
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Break
      • 10:30 Break 30'
    • 11:00 - 12:00 DISCUSSION
      • 11:00 DISCUSSION 1h0'
    • 12:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      • 12:00 Lunch Break 2h0'
    • 14:00 - 14:45 Modelling suspensions of swimming micro-organisms
      • 14:00 Modelling suspensions of swimming micro-organisms 45'
        Speaker: T.J. PEDLEY (Univ. Cambridge, Mathematical Sciences, D.A.M.T.P., Cambridge, U.K.)
    • 14:45 - 15:30 Actin gels under stress in cells and biomimetic systems
      • 14:45 Actin gels under stress in cells and biomimetic systems 45'
        Speaker: C. SYKES (Institut Curie, Physico-Chimie, CNRS-UMR-168, Paris, France)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:30 - 16:00 Break
      • 15:30 Break 30'
    • 16:00 - 16:45 DISCUSSION
      • 16:00 DISCUSSION 45'
  • Thursday, 20 April 2006
    • 09:00 - 09:45 Using confocal microscopy to investigate yielding in colloidal crystals
      • 09:00 Using confocal microscopy to investigate yielding in colloidal crystals 45'
        Speaker: I. COHEN (Cornell Univ., Physics, Ithaca, NY, U.S.A.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 09:45 - 10:30 A cochlear travelling wave driven by oscillatory hair cells
      • 09:45 A cochlear travelling wave driven by oscillatory hair cells 45'
        Speaker: T. DUKE (Univ. Cambridge, Cavendish Lab., C.M. Group, Cambridge, U.K.)
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Break
      • 10:30 Break 30'
    • 11:00 - 12:00 DISCUSSION
      • 11:00 DISCUSSION 1h0'
    • 12:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      • 12:00 Lunch Break 2h0'
    • 14:00 - 14:45 Route to Rheochaos: Recent experiment
      • 14:00 Route to Rheochaos: Recent experiment 45'
        Speaker: A.K. SOOD (Indian Institute of Science, Physics, Bangalore, India)
    • 14:45 - 15:30 Active segregation of lipid tethered proteins in the membranes of living cells
      • 14:45 Active segregation of lipid tethered proteins in the membranes of living cells 45'
        Speaker: S.S. MAYOR (NCBS, TIFR, Bangalore, India)
    • 15:30 - 16:00 Break
      • 15:30 Break 30'
    • 16:00 - 16:45 DISCUSSION / POSTERS
      • 16:00 DISCUSSION / POSTERS 45'
  • Friday, 21 April 2006
    • 09:00 - 09:45 Collective phenomena and generic principles in cytoskeletal viscoelasticity
      • 09:00 Collective phenomena and generic principles in cytoskeletal viscoelasticity 45'
        Speaker: E. FREY (Ludwig-Maximilians Univ., Nanoscience, Munich, Germany)
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    • 09:45 - 10:30 Driven collective behavior during mitosis and cytokinesis
      • 09:45 Driven collective behavior during mitosis and cytokinesis 45'
        Speaker: J. SPUDICH (Stanford Univ., School of Medicine, Dept. Biochemistry, Stanford, U.S.A.)
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Break
      • 10:30 Break 30'
    • 11:00 - 11:45 New methods to study cell migration
      • 11:00 New methods to study cell migration 45'
        Speaker: K. JACOBSON (Univ. North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Cell & Development Biology, Chapel Hill, U.S.A.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      • 12:00 Lunch Break 2h0'
    • 14:00 - 14:45 Soft hydraulics: Physics and physiology
      • 14:00 Soft hydraulics: Physics and physiology 45'
        Speaker: L. MAHADEVAN (Harvard Univ, Engg. & Applied Sciences, Physics, Cambridge, U.K.)
    • 14:45 - 15:30 Interphase microtubule organization in fission yeast
      • 14:45 Interphase microtubule organization in fission yeast 45'
        Speaker: F. NEDELEC (European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany)
    • 15:30 - 16:00 Break
      • 15:30 Break 30'
    • 16:00 - 17:00 DISCUSSION / POSTERS
      • 16:00 DISCUSSION / POSTERS 1h0'
  • Monday, 24 April 2006
    • 09:00 - 09:45 Cellular sensing of force and geometry: Local force-dependent unfolding of 130Cas acts globally through oncogenes
      • 09:00 Cellular sensing of force and geometry: Local force-dependent unfolding of 130Cas acts globally through oncogenes 45'
        Speaker: M.P. SHEETZ (Columbia Univ., Biological Sciences, New York, U.S.A.)
    • 09:45 - 10:30 Collective behavior in addressable excitable media
      • 09:45 Collective behavior in addressable excitable media 45'
        Speaker: K.C. SHOWALTER (West Virginia Univ, C.Eugene Bennett Dept. Chemistry, Morgantown, U.S.A.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Break
      • 10:30 Break 30'
    • 11:00 - 11:45 Ordered states and instabilities in active polymer solutions
      • 11:00 Ordered states and instabilities in active polymer solutions 45'
        Speaker: M.C. MARCHETTI (Syracuse Univ., Physics, Syracuse, NY, U.S.A.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      • 12:00 Lunch Break 2h0'
    • 14:00 - 14:45 POSTERS
      • 14:00 POSTERS 45'
    • 14:45 - 15:30 Adhesive control of cell polarity
      • 14:45 Adhesive control of cell polarity 45'
        Speaker: M. BORNENS (Institute Curie, Biology of Cell Cycle & Cell Motility, Paris, France)
    • 15:30 - 16:00 Break
      • 15:30 Break 30'
    • 16:00 - 16:45 DISCUSSION / POSTERS
      • 16:00 DISCUSSION / POSTERS 45'
  • Tuesday, 25 April 2006
    • 09:00 - 09:45 Active and nonlinear microrheology of complex materials
      • 09:00 Active and nonlinear microrheology of complex materials 45'
        Speaker: T. SQUIRES (Univ. California at Santa Barbara, Chemical Engg., Santa Barbara, U.S.A.)
    • 09:45 - 10:30 Flows and instabilities in active gels: applications to cytoskeleton dynamics
      • 09:45 Flows and instabilities in active gels: applications to cytoskeleton dynamics 45'
        Speaker: R. VOITURIEZ (Univ. Paris VI, LPTMC, Paris, France)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Break
      • 10:30 Break 30'
    • 11:00 - 12:00 DISCUSSION
      • 11:00 DISCUSSION 1h0'
    • 12:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      • 12:00 Lunch Break 2h0'
    • 14:00 - 14:45 Hydrodynamic interactions and Brownian forces in colloidal suspensions: Coarse-graining oveer time and length-scales
      • 14:00 Hydrodynamic interactions and Brownian forces in colloidal suspensions: Coarse-graining oveer time and length-scales 45'
        Speaker: A. A. LOUIS (Univ. Cambridge, Chemistry, Cambridge, U.K.)
    • 14:45 - 15:30 Muscle oscillations and a simple swimmer
      • 14:45 Muscle oscillations and a simple swimmer 45'
        Speaker: K. KRUSE (MPI - Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany)
    • 15:30 - 16:00 Break
      • 15:30 Break 30'
    • 16:00 - 16:45 DISCUSSION / POSTERS
      • 16:00 DISCUSSION / POSTERS 45'
    • 18:30 - 20:00 Reception
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 18:30 Reception 1h30'
  • Wednesday, 26 April 2006
    • 09:00 - 09:45 Active and passive cytoskeletal networks: prestress, active stiffening, and non-equilibrium dynamics
      • 09:00 Active and passive cytoskeletal networks: prestress, active stiffening, and non-equilibrium dynamics 45'
        Speaker: F.C. MacKINTOSH (Vrije Univ., Physics & Astronomy, Amsterdam, Netherlands)
    • 09:45 - 10:30 Rheology of active filaments
      • 09:45 Rheology of active filaments 45'
        Speaker: T.B. LIVERPOOL (Univ. Leeds, Applied Mathematics, Leeds, U.K.)
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Break
      • 10:30 Break 30'
    • 11:00 - 11:45 Dynamic and pattern formation in a rotating suspension
      • 11:00 Dynamic and pattern formation in a rotating suspension 45'
        Speaker: A.J.C. LADD (Univ. Florida, Chemical Engg., Gainesville, FL, U.S.A.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      • 12:00 Lunch Break 2h0'
    • 14:00 - 14:45 Microfluidic-evaporators for dynamically controlled concentration and induction of dense phases
      • 14:00 Microfluidic-evaporators for dynamically controlled concentration and induction of dense phases 45'
        Speaker: A. AJDARI (ESPCI, Lab. Physico-Chimie Theorique, Paris, France)
    • 14:45 - 15:30 POSTERS
      • 14:45 POSTERS 45'
    • 15:30 - 16:00 Break
      • 15:30 Break 30'
    • 16:00 - 16:45 DISCUSSION
      • 16:00 DISCUSSION 45'
  • Thursday, 27 April 2006
    • 09:00 - 09:45 Cellular nanotubes: hydrodynamic extrusion
      • 09:00 Cellular nanotubes: hydrodynamic extrusion 45'
        Speaker: F. BROCHARD-WYART (Institut Curie, Physique et Chimie, Paris, France)
    • 09:45 - 10:30 Intracellular molecular machines formed by polymeric films and active nanoelements
      • 09:45 Intracellular molecular machines formed by polymeric films and active nanoelements 45'
        Speaker: J.A. KAES (Univ. Leipzig, Experimental Physics I, Leipzig, Germany)
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Break
      • 10:30 Break 30'
    • 11:00 - 11:45 Some thoughts on friction
      • 11:00 Some thoughts on friction 45'
        Speaker: P.G. de GENNES (Institut Curie, Physique et Chimie, Paris, France)
    • 12:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      • 12:00 Lunch Break 2h0'
    • 14:00 - 14:45 Designing molecular swimmers
      • 14:00 Designing molecular swimmers 45'
        Speaker: R. GOLESTANIAN (Sheffield Univ., Physics & Astronomy, Sheffield, U.K.)
    • 14:45 - 15:30 Nonequilibrium steady states in sheared binary fluids
      • 14:45 Nonequilibrium steady states in sheared binary fluids 45'
        Speaker: M.E. CATES (Univ. Edinburgh, Physics, Edinburgh, U.K.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:30 - 16:00 Break
      • 15:30 Break 30'
    • 16:00 - 16:45 DISCUSSION / POSTERS
      • 16:00 DISCUSSION / POSTERS 45'
  • Friday, 28 April 2006
    • 09:00 - 09:45 Large-scale pattern formation in active particles systems: from interacting microtubules to swimming bacteria
      • 09:00 Large-scale pattern formation in active particles systems: from interacting microtubules to swimming bacteria 45'
        Speaker: I. ARONSON (Argonne National Laboratory, Materials Science, Argonne, IL, U.S.A.)
    • 09:45 - 10:30 Self-organized regular motion of a droplet
      • 09:45 Self-organized regular motion of a droplet 45'
        Speaker: K. YOSHIKAWA (Kyoto Univ., Physics, Kyoto, Japan)
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Break
      • 10:30 Break 30'
    • 11:00 - 11:45 Wave-particle duality at a macroscopic scale?
      • 11:00 Wave-particle duality at a macroscopic scale? 45'
        Speaker: Y. COUDER (ENS, Lab. Physique Statistique, Paris, France)
    • 11:45 - 12:30 CLOSING REMARKS
      • 11:45 CLOSING REMARKS 45'
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