Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual

Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual

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1st Spanish Soft Matter 1 1/2 Day

2023, Oct 29 -- Oct 31

Organizers:
J. Aragones (UAM)
L. Arriaga (UAM)
A. Fernandez-Nieves (UB - ICREA)
M. Ruiz-Garcia (UCM)

Download pdf version of the program here.


Sunday, October 29
  • 15:00h
  • Bus from Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona
      Diagonal 686, Metro: L3 Palau Reial (Note that the bus stops opposite University of Barcelona, Facultat de Fisica I Quimica)
  • 15:30h
  • Bus from Barcelona airport ´El Prat´, Terminal T2A
     on leaving exit, turn left and you will find a police building called 'Mossos d’Escuadra'. Cross the road using the zebra crossing and turn left. The bus will stop there

    Monday, October 30
    • 08:30-09:00
    • Registration
       
    • 09:00-09:45
    • Opening
       Alberto Fernandez-Nieves
        Ordering of 2D fluids: Entropy driven clustering and exotic symmetries
       Enrique Velasco
    • 09:45-11:05
    • Session on Active Matter I
       
        Light management in microalgae: metabolism, motility and communication
       I. Tuval
        Deciphering chemically-controlled dynamics in active matter: A study of motile colloids and elastic shells
       D.A. Matoz Fernandez
        Driven and ratchet transport on self assembled colloidal tracks
       F. Martinez- Pedrero
        Transport of active colloids in structured environments
       A. E. Ortiz
    • 11:30-13:30
    • APS Sponsored Session on Fluid Dynamics and Granular Matter
       
        Force on a sphere suspended in flowing granulate
       R. C. Hidalgo
        Biomicrofluidic analysis of hematological diseases by means of mathematical biomechanical models and statistical analysis
       A. Hernandez-Machado
        Past, Present and Future of Clogging in BoTlenecks
       I Zuriguel
        Let the splat out of the bag: The fluid mechanics of splat painting
       L Champougny
        An interfacial dripping faucet
       J. Rodriguez-Rodriguez
        Computational fluid dynamics predictions of hierarchical vascular networks
       P. Padmanaban
    • 15:30-17:30
    • Session on Networks and Rheology
       
        Cross-linker mobility governs fracture bahavior of catch-bonded networks
       J. Ruiz-Franco
        Star-like polymers as tunable soft nano-objects
       P. Bacova
        Bio-inspired soft matter at the service of interactive biointerfaces and synthetic cells
       C. Rodriguez-Emmenegger
        Rheology of fatty acid Langmuir monolayers during isobaric 2D melting
       P. Sanchez-Puga
        Water solvation in bio-nano complex matter
       G. Franzese
        Finantial markets as soft matter systems
       J. Clara-Rahola
    • 17:30-19:00
    • Poster Session
       
        The uncanny weight of granular columns
       R Planet
        Performing 3DDLS to study the dynamics of dense microgel suspensions
       A .Arenas- Gullo
        Statistical properties of the dynamics o fan air-fluidized chiral particle
       F. Vega Reyes
        Swelling of alginate gel
       G. Briand
        First order alignement transition in an interfaced active nematic
       O. Bantysh
        Motion and control of virtual coloidal parBcles in confined chiral liquid crystals
       J. Torres-Andres
        Aggregation of discoidal particles due to depletion interactions
       C. Calero
        Discovering Dynamic laws from observations: The case of self-propelled, interacting colloids
       M. Barriuso Gutierrez
        Macroscopic active particles driven by light
       S. Levay
        Aqueous two-phase systems within selectively permeable vesicles
       B.Tinao
        Rolling backward: Tuning microroller locomotion in an obstacle lattice
       G. Geva
        Rolling vesicles: From confined rotational flows to Surface-enables motion
       P. Magrinya
        Collective sensing of E. coli under local flows
       R. Campusano
        Self-organized states of solutions of active ring polymers in bulk and under confinement
       J.P. Miranda-Lopez
        Where do virions localize in the residue of a dry sessile respiratory drop?
       C. De la Torre Luque
    • 19:00-22:00
    • Reception and Posters
       

      Tuesday, October 31
      • 09:00-09:36
      • A one-component icosahedral quasicrystal formed by particles with directional bonds
         Eva Noya
      • 09:36-10:36
      • Session on Active Matter II
         
          Active defects in flat and curved surfaces
         J. Nambisan
          Force measurements in active nematics
         I. Velez Ceron
          Nematic colloid transport in microchannels
         R. Herrera
      • 11:30-11:50
      • Session on Active Matter II
         
          Confinement-induced dynamics of microscopic active-passive mixtures
         M. Polin
      • 11:50-12:26
      • Active matter and active materials: Emerging behavior in intrinsically out of equilibrium systems
         Ignacio Pagonabarraga
      • 12:26h
      • Adjurn
         
      • 15:00-00:XX
      • Bus to BCN
         

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        • Ministerio de ciencia, innovación y universidades
        • Gobierno de Aragón
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        • DPH
        • Universidad de Zaragoza
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