Organizers:
Nicolas Bremond (ESPCI), Jacques Fattaccioli (ENS Paris), Alberto Fernandez-Nieves (UB - ICREA), David A. Weitz (Harvard)
Soft Matter Science and Beyond: From Inert to Living Matter
(Benasque Science Center, Jun 03 - Jun 07, 2025)
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Tuesday, June 03
| 15:00-20:00 | Bus trip from Barcelona University |
| 15:30-20:00 | Bus trip from Barcelona Airport |
Wednesday, June 04
| 08:30-09:00 | Registration |
| 09:00-09:40 | Flows in Soap Films isabelle cantat |
| 09:40-10:20 | Toward Artificial Life with Competition and Evolution Paul Chaikin |
| 10:20-10:40 | Coffee Break |
| 10:40-11:20 | Dynamics and Mechanics of Shape-shifting Filaments Zvonimir Dogic |
| 11:20-12:00 | Dynamic Covalent Chemistry and Phase Separation for the Design of Stimulable Materials Renaud Nicolay |
| 12:00-16:00 | Lunch and discussions |
| 16:00-16:40 | Mechanical Phase Transitions and the Rheology of Extracellular Matrices Fred MacKintosh |
| 16:40-17:20 | Generative Modeling with Flows and Diffusions Eric VANDEN-EIJNDEN |
| 17:20-17:40 | Coffee Break |
| 17:40-18:10 | Engineering Colloids for Accumulating and Sensing Remi Dreyfus |
| 18:10-18:40 | How Fluid Membranes Mediate Force Transduction in Vesicle Motion Laura Arriaga |
| 18:40-19:10 | Confined Emulsification Nicolas Bremond |
| 19:30-22:00 | Welcome reception |
Thursday, June 05
| 09:00-09:40 | TBA David WEITZ |
| 09:40-10:20 | Brownian Motion Near Soft Interfaces Thomas Salez |
| 10:20-10:40 | Coffee break |
| 10:40-11:20 | Logical Operations Using Droplets Jasna Brujic |
| 11:20-12:00 | Biology Meets Physics: The Morphological Potential Underlying Hydra Regeneration Erez Braun |
| 12:00-16:00 | Lunch and discussions |
| 16:00-16:40 | Emulsions Stabilized by Responsive Microgels Valérie Ravaine |
| 16:40-17:20 | Phase Separation in Driven and Active Model Systems Demian Levis |
| 17:20-17:40 | Coffee break |
| 17:40-18:10 | Evolution of Bacterial Communities Jean Baudry |
| 18:10-18:40 | Fluidic Metamaterials: Collective Phenomena in Nonlinear Flow Networks Miguel Ruiz Garcia |
| 18:40-19:10 | Mechanical Characterization of Uptake during Phagocytosis using Functional Lipid Droplets Jacques FATTACCIOLI |
Friday, June 06
| 09:00-09:40 | Highly Tunable and Active Soft Matter: from Cartilage to Viscosity Metamaterials Itai Cohen |
| 09:40-10:20 | Rheology of Non Brownian Particles Annie COLIN |
| 10:20-10:40 | Coffee break |
| 10:40-11:20 | Self-assembly of Colloidal Diamond Using the Depletion Interaction (no DNA needed) David Pine |
| 11:20-12:00 | Rough and Nonspherical Building Blocks in Colloidal Gels : Effects of Non Central Forces Jan Vermant |
| 12:00-16:00 | Lunch and discussions |
| 16:00-16:40 | Pickering Emulsions Stabilized by Stimuli-responsive Dextran-based Nanoparticles Veronique SCHMITT |
| 16:40-17:20 | Catastrophic Failure in Defect-Sensitive Shells Shmuel Rubinstein |
| 17:20-17:40 | Coffee break |
| 17:40-18:10 | Rheofluidics: Single-drop Oscillatory Rheology with Microfluidics Stefano Aime |
| 18:10-18:40 | Can Darwinian simple physochemical systems based on compartmentalised autocatalytic reactions evolve? Andrew GRIFFITHS |
| 18:40-19:10 | Rethinking the Physics of Wetting Patrick Tabeling |
Saturday, June 07
| 09:00-14:00 | Bus trip to Barcelona |
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