2014 summer school on active systems

2014 Summer School on Active Systems

June 22 - July 4, 2014

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* You can download a schedule of Preworkshop

• Non-equilibrium statistical physics
(some fundamentals : rheology, breakdown of FDT, Fluctuation Theorem)
◦ Theory - Hyunggyu Park (KIAS)

  Lecture slide

Fred MacKintosh (Univ. Amsterdam)

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• Active Hydrodynamics - Sriram Ramaswamy (TIFR Center for Interdisciplinary Sciences)

• Molecular Motors &cytoskeletal filaments
◦ Theory - Jean-François Joanny (Institut Curie)

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◦ Experiment - Steven Gross (UC Irvine)

Lecture slide 1, 2, 3

• Cell adhesion, Cell mechanics
◦ Theory - Cristina Marchetti (Syracuse Univ.)

Lecture slide 1

Lecture slide 2

◦ Experiment - Benoit Ladoux (Natl Univ. Singapore)

Lecture slide 1

Lecture slide 2

• Molecular chaperones
◦ Theory - Dave Thirumalai (Univ. Maryland)

Lecture slide 1, 2

◦ Experiment - Amnon Horowitz (Weizmann Instit. Sci.)

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• Swimming in low Reynolds environment
◦ Theory - Julia Yeomans (Univ. Oxford)

  Lecture (tracer)

  Lecture (many swimmers)

  Hydrodynamic Green's functions

  Multipole expansion in hydrodynamics

An Introduction to the Hydrodynamics of Swimming Microorganisms

◦ Experiment - Wilson Poon (Univ. Edingburgh)

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Tutorial 1

Tutorial 2

• Collective behavior of active systems

◦ Experiment - Omar Saleh (UC Santa Barbara),

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Lecture Slide 2
Solution to Flashing Ratchet.

David Weitz (Harvard Univ.),

Lecture Slide 1
Lecture Slide 2


• Microscopic visualization
◦ Mohan Srinivasarao (Georgia Tech)

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• Microrheology of non-linear active materials
◦ H. Daniel Ou-Yang (Lehigh Univ.)

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Lecture Hall is in the GIST College Bldg. A, Rm 115 (31 on the campus map)