[Soft-matter] Soft Matter and Stat Phys Seminar 27 Nov 2020

[Maciej Lisicki]

Dear Soft Matter Colleagues and Friends,

On Friday 27 November 2020 at 9:30 AM we are hosting a seminar during which

Alexander Chamolly (ENS Paris)

will give a talk

Making a point — how to understand microswimmers with singularities

Abstract
Solving a complex physical problem numerically is like cooking a stew. You throw a lot of ingredients together and the result might be delicious, but it’s often hard to say what part made the difference. By challenging ourselves to think before we compute and reduce a problem to its essential ingredients, we may achieve much greater insight into why a physical system behaves a certain way. In this talk I will look at swimming bacteria and use minimal fluid dynamical models to explain what drives the bundling of their flagellar filaments, why there exists an optimal length for those, and why the shape of the cell matters for its propulsion. If there is time, I will use the same ideas to also explain how a rolling colloid can trap and transport cargo along an interface.

The seminar will be conducted on Zoom
https://zoom.us/j/92987083349?pwd=YTZLSFVWUnJzdE4xS1drR3dqMVFDdz09 <https://zoom.us/j/92987083349?pwd=YTZLSFVWUnJzdE4xS1drR3dqMVFDdz09>
and will begin at 9:30AM. 

Maria Ekiel-Jeżewska
Maciej Lisicki
Marek Napiórkowski
Piotr Szymczak
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://tempulin.fuw.edu.pl/pipermail/soft-matter/attachments/20201123/af94c640/attachment.html>