During the 2023–24 academic year, the CMSA will be hosting a seminar on Active Matter, organized by Farzan Vafa. This seminar will take place bi-weekly on Mondays at 12:30 – 1:30 pm (Eastern Time). The meetings will take place in Room G02 at the CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138, and some meetings will take place virtually on Zoom or be held in hybrid formats.
To learn how to attend, please fill out this form, or contact Farzan Vafa (fvafa@cmsa.fas.harvard.edu).
The schedule will be updated as talks are confirmed.
https://youtu.be/KmWQPMivxXw Speaker: Josef Käs, Leipzig University Title: State Diagram of Cancer Cell Unjamming Predicts Metastatic Risk Abstract: Distant metastasis is probably the most lethal hallmark of cancer. Due to a lack […]
Active Matter Seminar Speaker: Shenshen Wang, UCLA Title: Limit and potential of adaptive immunity Abstract: The adaptive immune system is able to learn from past experiences to better fit an unforeseen future. This […]
Active Matter Seminar Speaker: Sharad Ramanathan, Harvard Title: Attempts at understanding human axial elongation and patterning Abstract: Some of the most dramatic events during human development is the axial elongation of the […]
Active Matter Seminar Speaker: Siavash Monfared, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen Title: Force transmission informs the collective behavior of active cell layers Abstract: Collective cell migration drives numerous physiological processes such as […]
Active Matter Seminar Speaker: Max Prigozhin (Harvard) Title: Dynamic and multicolor electron microscopy Abstract: My lab is developing biophysical methods to achieve multicolor and dynamic biological imaging at the molecular scale. […]
Active Matter Seminar Speaker: Julien Tailleur (MIT) Title: Self-organization of motile cells by quorum-sensing or chemotactic interactions Abstract: Equilibrium statistical mechanics tells us how to control the self-assembly of passive materials […]
Active Matter Seminar Speaker: Amin Doostmohammadi, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen Title: Interacting Active Matter Abstract: I will focus on the interaction between different active matter systems. In particular, I […]
Active Matter Seminar Speaker: Jörn Dunkel, MIT Title: Towards programmable living materials and quantitative models of active matter Abstract: Over the last two decades, major progress has been made in understanding the […]
Active Matter Seminar Speaker: Jonathan Bauermann, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems Title: Active chemical reactions in phase-separating systems Abstract: Motivated by the existence of membrane-less […]
Active Matter Seminar Speaker: Mark Bowick, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UCSB Title: The Role of Orientational Order in Development Abstract: Morphogenesis, the process through which genes generate form, establishes tissue […]
Active Matter Seminar Speaker: Shane McInally, Brandeis Title: Control of actin cable length by decelerated growth and network geometry Abstract: The sizes of many subcellular structures are coordinated with cell size […]
Active Matter Seminar Speaker: Mehran Kardar, MIT Title: Competition at the front of expanding populations Abstract: When competing species grow into new territory, the population is dominated by descendants of successful […]