3rd Spanish Soft Matter 1 1/2 Day
3rd Spanish Soft Matter 1 1/2 Day

Organizers:

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


Download pdf version of the program here.


Sunday, November 02

15:00 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)

15:30 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, November 03

09:00-09:05 Opening by Alberto Fernandez-Nieves

09:05-09:45 Mechanical properties of active materials
Chantal Valeriani
09:45 Session 1 – Active Systems Across Scales

09:45-10:05 ACTIVE PARTICLES ENCLOSED BY DROPLETS: EMULSIFICATION AND SELF-PROPULSION
Javier Díaz Brañas
10:05-10:25 TRAPPING OF ACTIVE FILAMENTS ON PEANUT-SHAPED SURFACES
Giulia Janzen
10:25-10:45 DEPINNING OF A DRIVEN ACTIVE ROBOT: AN EXACTLY SOLVABLE EXPERIMENTAL SYSTEM
Demian Levis
10:45-10:05 MOBILITY-INDUCED PHASE SEPARATION IN A BINARY MIXTURE OF ACTIVE BROWNIAN PARTICLES
Jose Manuel Romero-Enrique
11:05-11:25 ROLLING, SLIDING AND TRAPPING OF DRIVEN PARTICLES IN SQUARE OBSTACLE LATTICES
Arin Escobar
11:25-11:55 Coffee break
11:55 Session 2 – Flow, Chirality and Mixing

11:55-12:35 COLLOIDAL MAGNUS EFFECT IN A POLYMER SOLUTION
Marco De Corato
12:15-12:35 CONFORMAL PHASE TRANSITION IN ACTIVE SYSTEMS
Lasse Bonn
12:35-12:55 EMERGING PHENOMENA AND SYMMETRY BREAKING IN ACTIVE NEMATICS
Jordi Ignés Mullol
12:55-13:15 MIXING OF A PASSIVE SCALAR BY ACTIVE NEMATIC TURBULENCE
Giacomo Bartolucci
13:15-13:35 STEADY BASE STATES IN 2-D CHIRAL FLOW
Francisco Vega Reyes
13:35-15:00 Break - Free Time
15:00-15:30 Coffee break
15:30 Session 3 – APS Sponsored Session: Soft and Adaptive Materials

15:30-15:50 LIQUID JET IN A FOAM LAYER
Théophile Gaichies
15:50-16:10 TRAPPING AND COMPRESSION OF COLLOIDAL QUASI-PARTICLES
Joel Torres Andrés
16:10-16:30 ARGE DEFORMATIONS AND PATTERN FORMATION IN MACROSCOPIC HYDROGELS INDUCED BY EXTREME THERMODYNAMICS
Adrian Arenas Gullo
16:30-16:50 SWELLING-DESWELLING AND BIREFRINGENCE OF ALGINATE GELS
Guillaume Briand
16:50-17:10 UNRAVELING BIAXIAL NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS: BRIDGING MOLECULAR AND COLLOIDAL SCALES
Alessandro Patti
17:10-19:00 Poster session

19:00 Welcome reception and posters


Tuesday, November 04

09:00-09:40 MOTILITY AND TRANSPORT OF MICROALGAE IN STRUCTURED ENVIRONMENTS
Marco Polin
09:40 Session 4 – Interfaces, Transport and Biological Complexity

09:40-10:00 BACTERIAL FILAMENTATION: FROM MECHANICS TO SIGNALING
Javier Buceta
10:00-10:20 MOLECULAR TRANSPORT IN LIPID MESOPHASES: A CHALLENGE AT MULTIPLE SCALES
Salvatore Assenza
10:20-10:40 ON THE ROLE OF WATER ACTIVITY ON THE FORMATION OF A PROTEIN-RICH COFFEE RING IN AN EVAPORATING MULTICOMPONENT DROP
Javier Martínez Puig
10:40-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-11:50 RECONFIGURABLE PHOTONIC BOUND STATES IN CONTINUUM USING LIQUID CRYSAL WAVEGUIDES
Marlin Baral
11:50-12:10 SELF-PROPULSION OF ENZYMES IN BIO-CONDENSATES: A HYBRID MODELLING APPROACH
ARCHANA GOPAKUMAR REMANIDEVI
12:10-12:50 MICROFLUIDICS AND BIOMECHANICS: BLOOD MICRORHELOGY AND CELL MIGRATION IN CONFINED MICROENVIRONMENTS
Aurora Hernandez-Machado
12:50 Adjurn


Wednesday, November 05

09:00 Bus from Benasque to Barcelona