Physical Mathematics Seminar

Sept. 15:  Ricard Alert (Princeton)
Active Fluids:  Topological Defects, Turbulence, and Phase Separation

Sept. 22: Alma Dal Co (Harvard)
Spatial Interaction Networks in Microbial Communities

Oct. 13: Farzan Vafa (UCSB)
Defect Dynamics in 2D Active Nematics and Polar Fluids

Oct. 20: Kirsty Wan (University of Exeter)
Motility Control in Biological Microswinners

Oct. 27: Aleksandar Donev (Courant Institute)
Numerical Methods for Inextensible Slender Fibers in Stokes Flow

Nov. 3: Amin Doostmohammadi (Niels Bohr Institute)
Taming Active Matter:  From Dancing Defects to Autonomous Shells

Nov. 10: Michel Fruchart (University of Chicago)
Phase Transitions in Non-Reciprocal Matter

Nov. 17: Sebastian Deffner (UMBC)
Quantum Speed Limits and the Maximal Rate of Information Production
 

Dec. 1: Manu Prakash (Stanford)
Life in flatland: Emergent origins of behavior in non-neuronal systems

Dec. 8: Harold Park (Boston University)
Designing Novel Structures and Functionality for Phononic Topological Insulators