ICTP COLLOQUIUM ON 12/01/2012

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*ICTP COLLOQUIUM*

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* 16:30, Thursday, 12 January 2012*

*Main Lecture Hall, Leonardo Building, ICTP*

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* Professor Ramin Golestanian*

*Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics*

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*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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