Dear Colleagues and Students,<\/p>\n
You are cordially invited to UNAM Nanocolloquium seminars focusing on advancements in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology. The seminars bring us the most recent developments in these exciting fields. This week\u2019s talk will be presented by Dr. Julia Yeomans *<\/p>\n
Title: \u201cDense Active Matter\u201d
\nDate: April 26, 2019 (Friday)
\nRefreshments: 15:40
\nTime: 16:00
\nPlace: UNAM Conference Hall<\/p>\n
ABSTRACT: <\/strong> About the Speaker:<\/strong> * University of Oxford<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear Colleagues and Students, You are cordially invited to UNAM Nanocolloquium seminars focusing on advancements in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology. The seminars bring us the most recent developments in these exciting fields. This week\u2019s talk will be presented by Dr. Julia Yeomans * Title: \u201cDense Active Matter\u201d Date: [\u2026] <\/p>\n
\nActive materials, such as bacteria, molecular motors and self-propelled colloids, are Nature\u2019s engines. They continuously transform chemical energy from their environment to mechanical work. Dense active matter shows mesoscale turbulence, the emergence of chaotic flow structures characterised by high vorticity and self-propelled topological defects.
\nThe ideas of active matter are suggesting new ways of interpreting cell motility and cell division. I shall discuss recent results indicating that active topological defects may help to regulate turnover in epithelial cell layers and contribute to controlling the structure of bacterial colonies.<\/p>\n
\nJulia Yeomans is Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford and Pauline Chan Fellow at St Hilda\u2019s College. She applies techniques from theoretical and computational physics to problems in soft condensed matter and biophysics. Among her current research interests are how cells move and divide and how biofilms form. Julia is a Fellow of the Royal Society and was awarded the EPJE-de Gennes Lecture Prize.<\/p>\n