Summer school

Topics :

• Swimming and motility of micro-organisms
• Collective dynamics of micro-swimmers and active colloids
• Cell crawling and collective cell migration
• Amoeboid swimming
• Active nematics
• Active particles in complex and crowded media

Lecturers : 

• Chase Broedersz (Germany)
• Cécile Cottin-Bizonne (France)
• Peter Friedl (NL)
• Ramin Golestanian (Germany)
• Cristina Marchetti (USA)
• Wilson Poon (UK)
• David Saintillan (USA)
• Thomas Speck (Germany)
• Walter Zimmermann (Germany)

Organizers :

Alexandr Farutin, Cristina Marchetti, Chaouqi Misbah, Philippe Peyla, Salima Rafaï, Petia Vlahovska, Christian Wagner, Walter Zimmermann

• Read more about Active Matter and Complex Media

Interdisciplinary research at the interface between mechanics, physics and biology has been booming over the last ten years. The aim of the school is to enable researchers from these different research communities to familiarize themselves with concepts and quantitative approaches for multiphysical characterization of the mechanical behavior of biological media, from the cellular to the macroscopic scale.

The school's strong point: Each course has a practical component for immediate application.

• Read more about School Mecabio: Quantitative and predictive approaches in biomechanics and mechanobiology for health

Mehran Kardar, Giorgio Parisi and Yi-Cheng Zhang proposed in 1986 an equation describing the scale invariance of various growth phenomena. This field has experienced a second life in recent years with the identification of universal distributions highlighted in very different systems, both at the theoretical (spin chains, lattice gases) and experimental (cold atoms, exciton-polaritons) levels. The goal of this school is to provide a broad and accessible overview of these advances, together with the most recent results on these topics. Registration is open until March 1st, 2024.

Registration Opening
June 29, 2023

Registration Deadline
March 1, 2024

• Read more about School “Kardar–Parisi–Zhang equation: new trends in theories and experiments”