Roster of Participants

Using techniques from fluid dynamics and statistical mechanics, I study some theoretical aspects associated with the swimming of microorganisms in complex media. (Theorist)

Using mesoscopic computational techniques, I am interested in dynamics of complex fluids under equilibrium and far from equilibrium. The systems I am currently involved with are colloidal suspension and gels and stabilized emulsions. (Theorist)

I am interested in the behavior of colloids in liquid crystals, and the nonlinear rheology and microscopic plasticity of soft glassy materials.(experimentalist)

My work is mainly focused on motile microorganisms and active matter in general. I study how active matter reacts to environmental stimuli such as spatial constraints or mechanisms like chemo/phototaxis. I’m also interested in collective behavior and pattern formation.  (Experimentalist)

I am interested in many-body problems in active matter systems, such as phase separation, which I study through analytics and simulations. (Theorist)

I am a theorist working in soft biological matter. My recent work concerns the dynamics of active confluent tissues. On the simulation side, we model wound-healing scenarios to identify migration of a collective front. We are also developing a hydrodynamic theory to make connections with the active states of bulk tissues.

I am an experimentalist in the area of biophysics, neuronal growth cone dynamics and guidance.

I am a theorist and my research interests include the study of percolation theory with a special emphasis on the rigidity percolation in amorphous and jammed networks.

I am interested in the dynamics and aging of disordered systems. Specifically, I study the dynamics and evolution of creases patterns in crumpled thin sheets. (Experimentalist).

I am interested in simulating how self propelled particles can be used to enhance and alter the self assembly of passive particles. (Theorist)

I am an experimentalist in the field of soft matter physics. I am especially interested in the topological defect formation in various liquid crystal systems.

My research interests include the geometry, mechanics, and phase transitions of colloidal membranes. (Theorist)

(Theory) Knots in light and fluids

I am interested in transport and condensation phenomena that occur in nonequilibrium jump processes and that find applications in mass transport models, boson systems, and evolutionary game theory. (Theorist)

I am interested in colloidal and mechanical systems whose behavior is largely dictated by their topology. (Experimentalist)

My research involves the study of elastic instabilities in biological systems. This study began with the development of a minimal model used to describe how the brain develops its distinctive folds and it is continuing with the development of a framework of growth that is applicable to many systems. I am also currently working on a phenomenological model for cancer-cell migration. (Theorist)

I am interested in mechanical topological materials. (Experimentalist)

My interests in physics are soft matter physics mostly involving fluid dynamics and elasticity, but also critical phenomena, differential geometry, collective motion and pretty much everything as long as it is related to physics you can see with your eyes. (Theoretical)

I study systems that possess only a small number of allowed modes of motion because the degrees of freedom only just outnumber the constraints, such as granular materials. (Theorist)

I am interested in systems where elasticity and hydrodynamics play equal role. In general, i am curious of various instabilities that occur at different scales due to non-linearity, be it a continuous or discrete system. (Experimentalist)

I am interested in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and in connections between geometry, statistical mechanics and models in science. (Theorist)

I study the theory of active particles and use it to model biological systems. (Theorist)

I am interested in disordered systems, in particular structural properties of network-forming materials (theorist).

Based on molecular-dynamics simulations, I am interested in bridging microscopic and macroscopic descriptions of various soft-matter systems (e.g. pure water, membranes etc.). I use hydrodynamic and stochastic approaches to study these kind of systems. (Theorist)

Jamming in kinetically constrained models, critical behavior in amorphous phases and granular materials (theorist).

I am a experimentalist, and my research interest is trying to understand mechanical properties of cytoskeleton inside cell using active matter physics.

I’m a theoretical physicist working on mesoscopic membrane models.

I am interested in cell mechanics. I am currently working on building a continuum model for both spreading and confined cell monolayers coupling elastic deformations and cell polarization to myosin based-cell activity. (Theorist)

I study the collective behavior of active granular matter, including the effects of dynamic self-propulsion and particle symmetry. (Experimentalist)

I am investigating how stochastic partial differential equations can be used to define reflection positive measures on fields, in addition to using computational methods to study self-assembly of RNA structures. I am generally interested in applications of stochastic PDE’s in physics, especially in nonequilibrium collective behavior. (Theorist)

I’m interested in non-equilibrium in general, specifically on glass transition, rigidity transition, and other non-equilibrium phase transitions. (Theorist)

I use mean field theory (coherent potential approximation, or CPA), numerical simulations, and exact solutions of the central force isostatic lattices, including the square and the kagome lattices in 2D, which are characterized by coordination number z=2d, and exhibit sub-extensive numbers of zero-frequency floppy modes when the lattice is of finite size, to study a variety of problems such as percolation,  finite temperature inear response theory and fracturing. I’m a theorist.

Topological fluids and soft matter. (Experimentalist)

I am interested in states of condensed matter and phase transitions between them, particularly when fluctuations and correlations are qualitatively important. (Theorist)

The focus of my research group is on self-assembly of soft materials. We study systems that are in equilibrium but are also creating biologically inspired model that operate far from equilibrium. (Experimentalist)

Frustrated elastic systems and handedness in soft matter. (Theorist)

Statistical physics, with applications to non-equilibrium processes and fluctuation-induced forces. (Theorist)

I am a theorist. My field of research is statistical physics and condensed matter physics, mainly the theoretical physics of disordered systems. My recent interests include non-equilibrium dynamics, avalanches and growth phenomena.

I specialize in the theory of soft matter from colloids to liquid crystals. My major research interest at the moment is in topologically protected surface modes in marginally stable (isostatic) periodic crystals. (Theorist)

I use table-top experiments as a venue in which to explore nonequilibrium statistical physics. The physical systems we work on include granular materials, and flexible sheets and fibres, and in the past, supercooled liquids and glasses. (Experimentalist)

condensed matter and quantitative biology (Theorist)

Soft matter, colloids, biophotonics, electro-optics, self-assembly, imaging, topology, polymers (Experimentalist)