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.
Active Matter Seminar Speaker: Abby Plummer, Boston University Title: Shape morphing with swelling hydrogels and expanding foams Abstract: Materials that increase in size offer intriguing possibilities for shape-morphing applications. Here, […]
Active Matter Seminar Speaker: Jayson Paulose, University of Oregon Title: Control of parametric amplification in space-time modulated mechanical metamaterials Abstract: Active mechanical metamaterials harbor acoustic signal processing functionalities that are impossible […]
Active Matter Seminar Speaker: Kevin Mitchell, University of California, Merced Title: Controlling chaotic advection in 2D active nematics Abstract: Recent years have seen a surge of interest in active materials, in […]