From Maciej.Lisicki at fuw.edu.pl Tue Jan 9 23:09:57 2024 From: Maciej.Lisicki at fuw.edu.pl (Maciej Lisicki) Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2024 23:09:57 +0100 Subject: [Soft-matter] Soft Matter & Complex Systems Seminar on 12 Jan 2024 Message-ID: <8458FA19-BC2A-4D81-A8AC-D1525465803D@fuw.edu.pl> Dear Soft Matter & Complex Systems Colleagues and Friends, On Friday 12 January 2024 at 9:30 AM at the UW Faculty of Physics (Pasteura 5, Warsaw; room 1.40) we are hosting a seminar during which Mateusz Wlaz?o (Centre of New Technologies, UW) who will give a talk Symmetry-breaking effects in pressure and temperature-induced metal-insulator transition in yttrium nickelate Abstract Focusing on the long-range ordered antiferromagnetic and paramagnetic YNiO3 phases, we show the interplay between spin and structural motifs under pressure and their impact on electronic properties. Within density functional theory, we successfully describe the two insulating phases of YNiO3, a perovskite oxide traditionally classified as a strongly correlated material. We attribute the role of specific symmetry-breaking motifs in phase transitions concurrent with band gap opening and closing. This way we demonstrate how DFT can be used to gain a fundamental understanding of phase transitions in quantum materials, and what minimum level of theory is needed to describe such types of complex materials correctly. 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 Tue Jan 16 09:47:06 2024 From: Maciej.Lisicki at fuw.edu.pl (Maciej Lisicki) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2024 09:47:06 +0100 Subject: [Soft-matter] Soft Matter & Complex Systems Seminar on 19 Jan 2024 Message-ID: <326EC9FA-909A-4965-B514-F585F198A71E@fuw.edu.pl> Dear Soft Matter & Complex Systems Colleagues and Friends, On Friday 19 January 2024 at 9:30 AM at the UW Faculty of Physics (Pasteura 5, Warsaw; room 1.40) we are hosting a seminar during which Luis Carnevale (IF PAN) who will give a talk MDPD simulations of the Rayleigh-Plateau instability on surfactant-laden liquid threads Abstract Formation of droplets is a fundamental process used in many industrial applications, such as inkjet printing and drug manufacturing. These droplets are often formed from the break-up of a liquid thread driven by a surface tension dependent instability, namely the Rayleigh-Plateau instability. We can reduce the surface tension by adding surfactants, which are molecules that adsorb on the interface of liquids, and thus, change the break-up dynamics. At certain systems with ultra-low surface tension or very small length scales, thermal fluctuations on the interface are capable of creating the instability that leads to the formation of droplets and satellite droplets. In our study, we employ simulations of a coarse-grained model known as many-body dissipative particle dynamics (MDPD) to determine the characteristic wavelength of such instabilities on liquid nanothreads with various surfactant concentrations, above and below its critical aggregation concentration. Also, we have identified the different break-up regimes, their time-scales and local concentration distributions that develop due to surfactant advection . We anticipate that our study contributes to the understanding of a fundamental process in nature and paves the way for further developments in this area for relevant applications. 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 Jan 22 14:08:13 2024 From: Maciej.Lisicki at fuw.edu.pl (Maciej Lisicki) Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2024 14:08:13 +0100 Subject: [Soft-matter] Soft Matter and Complex Systems Seminar on 26 Jan 2024 Message-ID: <38D7E2D7-35B7-4C13-8DAA-21FEBC9B5F7A@fuw.edu.pl> Dear Soft Matter & Complex Systems Colleagues and Friends, On Friday 26 January 2024 at 9:30 AM at the UW Faculty of Physics (Pasteura 5, Warsaw; room 1.40) we are hosting a series of student talks: Laura Meissner (FUW) Liquid-liquid phase separation in eukaryotic cells = = = Franciszek Myck (FUW) Under pressure - the physics of brewing a perfect espresso = = = Wojciech Niedzi??ka (FUW) Sod shock tube problem - a playground for shock capturing schemes = = = Michalina Szpak (FUW) Viscous oil on a rotating table We will continue with student talks at the first seminar in summer term in March. 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