Day 1/ Mastering Active Matter in Two Days: Active Matter Physics Tutorial

Day 1: Aug. 10, Saturday, 14:00-17:00

Introduction of active matter physics

Speaker: Hugues Chaté, CEA Saclay, France

Classroom: 物理科技楼412 微格教室

Abstract:

Active matter physics will be presented, with a historical and pedagogical viewpoint. The talk will be mostly focused on models and theory, but experiments will be discussed as well. Attending students are encouraged to interrupt and ask questions, even in Chinese. Remember: there are no stupid questions!  

Coffee Break

Questions and discussion (“Ask me anything”):

Every participant will be assigned to ask at least two questions (but maximum four in the initial round) about the presentation or his/her active matter problems in research. Any questions related to active matter are encouraged. Best questions will be prized with some medal!

About the speaker: Hugues Chaté is a Research Director at CEA-Saclay, France, and the Lead Editor of Physical Review Letters. He obtained is PhD in 1989 from Université Pierre & Marie Curie in Paris. After a short postdoctoral stay at Bell Laboratories, he joined the condensed matter physics department in Saclay. He was the leader of the Advanced Study Group “Statistical Physics of Collective Motion” at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, Germany. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society. In 2016, he took a Chair Professor position at the Beijing Computational Science Research Center. HC’s research covers a wide range of topics ranging from nonlinear dynamics to statistical physics and critical phenomena. He has played a seminal role in the development of the field of active matter, on minimal models and their theoretical understanding of animal collective behavior, bacteria colonies, and in vitro mixtures of biofilaments and motor proteins.