From Maciej.Lisicki at fuw.edu.pl Mon Oct 2 22:50:01 2023 From: Maciej.Lisicki at fuw.edu.pl (Maciej Lisicki) Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2023 22:50:01 +0200 Subject: [Soft-matter] Warsaw Soft Matter Day on 6 October 2023 Message-ID: <2E951318-EA0F-43F6-A099-2ED7C6A28170@fuw.edu.pl> Dear Soft Matter & Complex Systems Colleagues and Friends, Welcome to the new academic year! Our regular seminars will resume on 13 October, but we shall kick off the current term with the Warsaw Soft Matter Day, organised on 6 October 2023 at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences. On behalf of Michal Bogdan and the organisers, we have the pleasure to invite all members of our community to this free-for-all, one day semi-formal microsymposium to enable us to better learn what our colleagues in different institutes and departments are doing. It will be a friendly and rewarding event and a good way to start the new academic year. The announcement of the meeting and location details are here: https://www.pd2pi.edu.pl/news-events/warsaw-soft-matter-day This is the official form to register interest. https://forms.gle/JZJ2qHxGnJBKWrpR8 And attached is the tentative programme schedule. There still are a few spots available but it is filling fast, so please use the link above to register as soon as possible. Soft Matter & Complex Systems Seminar Organisers Maria Ekiel-Je?ewska Maciej Lisicki Piotr Szymczak Panagiotis Theodorakis Marek Trippenbach ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Warsaw_Soft_Matter_Day_tentative_progamme.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 119439 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Maciej.Lisicki at fuw.edu.pl Mon Oct 9 15:51:14 2023 From: Maciej.Lisicki at fuw.edu.pl (Maciej Lisicki) Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2023 15:51:14 +0200 Subject: [Soft-matter] Soft Matter and Complex Systems Seminar on 13 Oct 2023 Message-ID: <5170B1C7-AC57-465A-8856-0B1887A51A3D@fuw.edu.pl> Dear Soft Matter & Complex Systems Colleagues and Friends, On Friday 13 October 2023 at 9:30 AM at the UW Faculty of Physics (Pasteura 5, Warsaw; room 1.40) we are hosting a seminar during which Tomasz Szawe??o (FUW) will give a talk How dissolution is altered by precipitation: a network model of a porous medium Abstract We consider a porous medium infiltrated by a reactive fluid that triggers coupled dissolution/precipitation reactions at pore surfaces. To study these processes, we model the porous medium as a system of interconnected pipes (Budek, 2012) with the diameter of each segment increasing in proportion to the local reactant consumption. We investigate different evolution regimes, analysing the feedback between dissolution and precipitation and considering different models of reactive area evolution, including passivation processes on mineral surfaces. We benchmark the model against the experimental results of Poonoosamy et al. (2020). Budek, A., et al. (2012), Network models of dissolution of porous media. Phys. Rev. E, 86, 056318. Poonoosamy, J., et al. (2020), Effects of solution supersaturation on barite precipitation in porous media and consequences on permeability: Experiments and modelling. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta., 270: 43-60. We warmly welcome everyone to attend the talk and the Soft Matter Coffee Break after the seminar, held in room 2.63 (2nd floor). Maria Ekiel-Je?ewska Maciej Lisicki Piotr Szymczak Panagiotis Theodorakis Marek Trippenbach -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Maciej.Lisicki at fuw.edu.pl Mon Oct 16 13:44:07 2023 From: Maciej.Lisicki at fuw.edu.pl (Maciej Lisicki) Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2023 13:44:07 +0200 Subject: [Soft-matter] Soft Matter and Complex Systems Seminar on 20 Oct 2023 Message-ID: Dear Soft Matter & Complex Systems Colleagues and Friends, On Friday 20 October 2023 at 9:30 AM at the UW Faculty of Physics (Pasteura 5, Warsaw; room 1.40) we are hosting a seminar during which Anna Macio?ek (IChF PAN, Poland & MPI for Intelligent Systems, Germany) will give a talk Relaxation to steady states of a binary liquid mixture around an optically heated colloid Abstract Relaxation processes are fundamental phenomena in soft and condensed matter physics.The most research attention has been paid to relaxation processes close to equilibrium, which are now well understood.This is not the case for relaxation near nonequilibrium steady states. One of the basic questions here is what determines the time scales for a given system to reach a nonequilibrium steady state and to relax back to equilibrium. This problem is of particular relevance for light absorbing particles that heat up under laser illumination. In response to an emerging temperature gradient, the surrounding medium restructures giving rise to a variety of curious phenomena, which can be of great practical use. I will present our recent experimental and theoretical study on relaxation dynamics in a system which over the last decade has become a paradigm for studying various aspects of active matter, i.e., a Janus silica particle half coated by gold and suspended in a binary liquid mixture. We warmly welcome everyone to attend the talk and the Soft Matter Coffee Break after the seminar, held in room 2.63 (2nd floor). 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This is, in part, due to their unique optoelectronic properties and the wide range of potential applications they offer in numerous fields. Moreover, their properties can be easily tuned by external and configurational factors. Up to now, dozens of 2D materials and structures have been synthesized and characterized. Among them, MXenes, transition metal dichalcogenides and 2D magnets are particularly attractive for computation and memory devices. Fundamental properties of materials can be accurately described and predicted by first principles calculations. They also provide the input parameters for simulation of realistic devices within effective models. I will introduce the basic elements of Density Functional Theory (DFT), in the context of optoelectronic features of 2D materials. I will present how first principles calculations, within DFT, can support interpretation of optical measurements and predict new 2D materials and structures, on the examples of transition metal dichalcogenides, monochalcogenides, thiophosphates, newly discovered MA2Z4 compounds and their heterostructures. I will show how DFT can quantitatively explain their optoeletronic properties under mechanical strain, pressure and external magnetic field. Finally, I will present an outlook of my research on magnetooptical properties of 2D materials. We warmly welcome everyone to attend the talk and the Soft Matter Coffee Break after the seminar, held in room 2.63 (2nd floor). Maria Ekiel-Je?ewska Maciej Lisicki Piotr Szymczak Panagiotis Theodorakis Marek Trippenbach -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Michal.Dzikowski at fuw.edu.pl Thu Oct 26 14:36:37 2023 From: Michal.Dzikowski at fuw.edu.pl (=?UTF-8?Q?Micha=C5=82_Dzikowski?=) Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2023 14:36:37 +0200 Subject: [Soft-matter] Fluid dynamics meets synchrotron X-ray high-speed imaging - workshop at ESRF 21-22 March 2024 In-Reply-To: <87afbb31-986a-6b34-fd2f-00a69deaa024@esrf.fr> References: <87afbb31-986a-6b34-fd2f-00a69deaa024@esrf.fr> Message-ID: <55af08fe-ba38-44e1-bb32-6ee3b87920fa@fuw.edu.pl> Dear Soft Matter & Complex Systems Colleagues and Friends, below you find invitation to free of charge workshop organized by? European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, which I think might be interesting to ome of you. Best regards, Micha? Dzikowski Dear colleagues, We are extremely delighted to announce that the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility is organising an on-site workshop on */Fluid dynamics meets synchrotron X-ray high-speed imaging/* in Grenoble, France on *21-22 March 2024*. The primary goal of this workshop is to highlight the capabilities of synchrotron X-ray imaging to investigate fast fluid dynamic problems and to bring together both scientists who have experience in using such techniques as well as those who would be interested in using them. The workshop will be a unique platform to foster discussions on which areas and specific problems in fluid dynamics might benefit from fast X-ray imaging. The participants will also learn how to apply for access to such a facility and how to prepare and conduct a successful experimental campaign either using environments available at the beamline as well as bringing their own setups. The workshop will cover both: technical aspects of experimental methods - encompassing advanced high-speed imaging, X-ray, and other unique probing of multiphase flows; as well as detailed scientific discussions of the rich physics within the fast flows, with a particular focus on the following topics: * Bubbly flows * Breakup and coalescence processes * Cavitation * Drops and bubbles * Flow in porous media * Interfacial instabilities * Heat and mass transfer in multiphase flows * Particle-laden flows * Phase-change processes * Turbulent multiphase flows * Sprays * Suspensions and non-Newtonian flows * Shock waves Details of the event, the registration link, preliminary program and a list of invited speakers can be found on the workshop website . The deadline for registration is *23rd Febraury 2024.* We will soon open abstract submissions for oral (*deadline 26th January, 2024*) or poster contributions (*deadline February 23, 2024*). The event is sponsored by ESRF's H2020 Streamline, and for a limited number of registered participants, accommodation at the ESRF guest house and food will be covered for the duration of the workshop on a first-come first-served basis. For further information on the workshop and organisation, do not hesitate to contact fluid-dynamics at esrf.fr We apologise to those who received this announcement multiple times and we are eagerly looking forward to seeing you in Grenoble, The organising committee, Outi Supponen, Nathana?l Machicoane, Marie-Jean Thoraval, Alexander Rack, Bratislav Luki? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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