Day 2/ Mastering Active Matter in Two Days: Active Matter Physics Tutorial

Day 2: Aug. 11, Sunday, 14:00-17:00

Some personal perspective on promising trends in active matter physics

Speaker: Hugues Chaté, CEA Saclay, France

Classroom: 物理科技楼412 微格教室

Abstract:

I will use the examples of works to which I participated to start a discussion about interesting directions of research in active matter. Some keywords: topological active matter, smart active matter, in-vitro reconstituted biomimetic systems…

Coffee Break

Questions and discussion:

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 research problems. Questions related to active matter are encouraged, but we also welcome questions about writing an excellent scientific paper. Best questions will be prized with some medal!

Students presentations:

Students are encouraged to present their recent progress in active matter research.

Conclusion of the tutorials

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.