From Piotr.Szymczak at fuw.edu.pl Tue Jun 4 10:05:32 2024 From: Piotr.Szymczak at fuw.edu.pl (Piotr Szymczak) Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2024 10:05:32 +0200 Subject: [Soft-matter] No Soft Matter and Complex Systems Seminar on 7 June Message-ID: <549a26ddf691e4005d0a3b43b4cdb451@fuw.edu.pl> Dear Soft Matter & Complex Systems Colleagues and Friends, There will be no seminar on Friday 7 June. The next seminar (last in this semester) will take place on 14 June 2024 at 9:30 AM, with more details in the next email. Maria Ekiel-Je?ewska Maciej Lisicki Piotr Szymczak Panagiotis Theodorakis Marek Trippenbach _______________________________________________ Soft-matter mailing list Soft-matter at fuw.edu.pl http://tempulin.fuw.edu.pl/mailman/listinfo/soft-matter From Piotr.Szymczak at fuw.edu.pl Mon Jun 10 08:16:24 2024 From: Piotr.Szymczak at fuw.edu.pl (Piotr Szymczak) Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2024 08:16:24 +0200 Subject: [Soft-matter] Soft Matter & Complex Systems Seminar on 14 June 2024 Message-ID: Dear Soft Matter & Complex Systems Colleagues and Friends, On Friday 14 June 2024 at 9:30 AM at the UW Faculty of Physics (Pasteura 5, Warsaw; room 1.40) we are hosting four short student presentations: 1) Jerzy Denisiewicz Diffusion of reciprocal swimmers Abstract: Although scallop theorem states that in low Reynolds numbers swimming requires movements that are not time-reversible, in fluctuating fluid such a motion may cause large increase of diffusion coefficient. Consequently, time-reversible movements may be useful for some organisms despite low Reynold number. --- The presentation will be based mainly on Eric Lauga article ?Enhanced Diffusion by Reciprocal Swimming? 2) Norbert Nie?cior Hele-Shaw cell ? a student experiment Abstract: Hele-Shaw cell is a device for studying fluid flow in narrow gaps between two parallel plates. I will describe in detail the experimental setup designed with other students, using which we've performed the experiment. In the experiment, we observed Saffman-Taylor instability also called viscous fingering. Getting these patterns was the goal of our experiment and proves that our experimental setup we've designed worked. I will present results of the experiment show patterns we've got. Additionally, I will discuss potential research of the results of our experiment and mention existing research regarding Hele-Shaw cell and Saffman-Taylor instabilities. 3) B?a?ej Rozwoda Mapping of two-dimensional Laplacian growths Abstract: Laplacian growths are both simple to formulate and describing multiple phenomena found in the nature. In the talk I will shortly summarize Raphael Blumenfeld's results on description of those systems with Hamiltonian dynamics, including important step of conformal transformation. 4) Jan Turczynowicz Marine snow growth process: study on the advective-diffusive encounter rate Abstract: The main focus of the presentation is study of how the size of a small particles, such as bacteria, affect the encounter rate between them and some bigger sinking object, e.g. marine snow. I will start with giving a short summary of past research in this subject and show that considering the non-zero size of the particles is crucial in a study of cases when the advection is stronger than the diffusion. This is done by studying the asymptotics of known solutions when Peclet number is large. Our aim is to add consideration of radius of a particles into the advective-diffusive encounter rate to allow for a transition from the diffusion dominated to the advection dominated regime. Numerical results we have obtained so far show good potential and are allowing for a nonzero flux when Peclet number goes to infinity. 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 _______________________________________________ Soft-matter mailing list Soft-matter at fuw.edu.pl http://tempulin.fuw.edu.pl/mailman/listinfo/soft-matter From Michal.Dzikowski at fuw.edu.pl Fri Jun 21 10:54:49 2024 From: Michal.Dzikowski at fuw.edu.pl (=?UTF-8?Q?Micha=C5=82_Dzikowski?=) Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2024 10:54:49 +0200 Subject: [Soft-matter] Extra Seminar on Tuesday, 2 July 2024 at 10:00 AM In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <0231050f-af7b-4e01-98bd-17db3b56edce@fuw.edu.pl> Dear Soft Matter & Complex Systems Colleagues and Friends, while Soft Matter Seminars are on summer break, I would like you to invite to seminar of our quest from the University of Queensland. On Tuesday, 2 July 2024 at 10:00 AM? at the UW Faculty of Physics; room B0.14,?Pasteura 5 we are hosting a seminar during which *Travis R. Mitchell * will give a talk *From Energy to Medicine: Multiphase Flow Insights with Lattice Boltzmann Methods* we warmly welcome everyone to attend the talk. Best regards, Micha? Dzikowski -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: abstract.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 38558 bytes Desc: not available URL: From ituval at imedea.uib-csic.es Tue Jun 18 09:02:58 2024 From: ituval at imedea.uib-csic.es (idan tuval) Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2024 09:02:58 +0200 Subject: [Soft-matter] PDRA opportunity - light-mediated communication in the plankton Message-ID: <1e9b24df-76a5-4b27-88da-2e61f4cc070b@imedea.uib-csic.es> Dear Friends and Colleagues, I would be grateful if you could flag the following PDRA opening in my group to potential candidates. Best regards, Idan Tuval ?????????? ?????????? Following a recent HFSP award I am currently looking for a Postdoc to join my group (https://imedea.uib-csic.es/infibio/) on an exciting interdisciplinary project looking at the biophysics of light-mediated communication in the plankton. This is a 4-groups project with three other teams in France (Christophe Coudret ), UK (Glen Wheeler ) and Australia (JB Raina ). The position will initially be for 2y with the possibility of extending it by 1 more year. The work is based at the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEDEA, UIB-CSIC, Mallorca, Spain), where the PDRA will join a dynamic interdisciplinary environment. The ideal candidate will have a strong background on experimental microbial biophysics (e.g. light microscopy, microfluidics, image analysis, particle tracking) and the ability to build new setups and improve existing ones. They will be strongly motivated and independent.? Previous experience in numerical simulations and mathematical modelling will be a plus. Application deadline: Sep 15th 2024 Starting date: negociable after Nov 1st 2024 Feel free to get in touch for an informal chat (ituval at imedea.uib-csic.es). Best regards, I. -- -- Idan Tuval Deputy director IMEDEA Human Frontier Science Program Fellow Tenured Researcher INFIBIO, Physico-Biological Interactions in the Ocean Research group http://imedea.uib-csic.es/infibio/ Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies, IMEDEA (UIB-CSIC) Miquel Marqu?s 21 07190 Esporles, Balearic Islands, Spain +34 971 611910 (office: D12) +34 971 611761 (fax) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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