ICTP COLLOQUIUM
Main Lecture
Hall, Leonardo Building, ICTP
Rudolf Peierls Centre for
Theoretical Physics
ACTIVE SOFT MATTER:
FROM MOLECULAR SWIMMERS
TO COLLOIDAL SUPERNOVA
Abstract:
The living cell and many of its components as well as artificially
energized
mimics of motility are examples of active soft matter. An understanding
of the
individual and collective behavior of active particles is one of the
grand
challenges of nonequilibrium statistical physics, and holds the key to
a
physical grasp of the mechanics and statistics of living matter. In
this
colloquium, I will examine how one can use a number of simple ideas to
construct nonqeuilibrium model systems that can self-propel at micro-
and
nano-scale, and study their collective properties.
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