Hauptseminar Active Matter SS 2017

Overview

Type

Seminar (Talks and Discussion)

Date and Time

weekly during the SS 2017; Wednesday 14:00

Location

Institut für Computerphysik, room 01.079

Credit Points

2 SWS = 6 ECTS for M.Sc. Physik, 3 ECTS for M.Sc. PHYSICS

Teachers

Prof. Dr. Clemens Bechinger (PI2)

Prof. Dr. Siegfried Dietrich (MPI-IS/ITP4)

Prof. Dr. Christian Holm (ICP)

Modules

Hauptseminar (M.Sc. Physik), Seminar in Physics or Advanced Seminar in Physics (M.Sc. PHYSICS)

Language

English

Requirements

We expect the participants to have fundamental knowledge in classical and statistical mechanics, thermodynamics, electrodynamics, and partial differential equations.

There will be organizational meeting that will be mandatory to all participants in February 2017, probably during the first week of the winter break to discuss topics and style and other requirements.

Schedule, speakers and resources

Date	Time	Topic	Speaker	Tutor
Tue, Apr. 11	14:00	Life at Low Reynolds Numbers	tbd	Paolo Malgaretti
Tue, Apr. 18	14:00	Mechanical Microswimmers	tbd	tba (C. Bechinger)
Tue, Apr. 25	14:00	Overview of Low-Reynolds Hydrodynamics	tbd	Paolo Malgaretti / Mihail Popescu
Tue, May 2	14:00	Phoretically-driven Microswimmers	tbd	tba (C. Bechinger)
Tue, May 9	14:00	Boundary Element Method for Phoretic Swimmers	tbd	Will Uspal / Mihail Popescu
Tue, May 16	14:00	Squirmer Model	tbd	Mihail Popescu
Tue, May 23	14:00	Lattice Boltzmann Modeling of Active Particles	tbd	Georg Rempfer
Tue, May 30	14:00	Lattice Boltzmann Modeling of Chemical Swimmers	tbd	Michael Kuron
Tue, Jun. 13	14:00	Active Particles in External Fields	tbd	tba (C. Bechinger)
Tue, Jun. 20	14:00	Finite Element Method Modeling of Active Particles	tbd	Patrick Kreissl
Tue, Jun. 27	14:00	Microswimmers under Confinement	tbd	Will Uspal
Tue, Jul. 4	14:00	Clustering of Microswimmers in a Langevin Dynamics Model	tbd	tba (C. Holm)
Tue, Jul. 11	14:00	Mixtures of Active and Passive Particles	tbd	tba (C. Bechinger)
Tue, Jul. 18	14:00	Microswimmers in Viscoelastic Media	tbd	tba (C. Bechinger)

Getting the credit points

To get the credit points for the seminar, the following criteria should be met:

• All participants must:
  • Make the first appointment with their supervisor 2 months (a minimum of 8 weeks) before giving their talk
  • Have read the literature provided on the website/by the supervisor before this first meeting
  • Hand in a draft of their presentation 1 monthbefore giving their talk
  • Give a trial talk 2 weeks in advance of their public talk and hand in their final draft of the handout
  • Hand in the final version of their handout 1 week in advance
  • Give their talk at the arranged time
  • Be present at all talks
  • Take part in the discussions following the talks
  • Give a five-minute summary of the previous week's talk on one occasion (see below)
• The handout:
  • Consists of 8 to 10 A4 pages (incl. pictures; 11 pt font, single-spaced text)
  • Describes the contents of the talk, written out in full
  • Is written for the other participants
  • Is written in English
• The talk:
  • Consists of material pertaining to the topic
  • Has a length of 45 minutes
  • Is prepared in electronic form
  • Is held in English
• The five-minute summary:
  • Every week, one student is randomly designated to open the next week's session.
  • In the following week, that student will have five minutes to give a brief summary of the previous talk.
  • For this, he/she may reuse up to two slides from the talk they are summarizing or they may create one slide on their own.
  • The use of slides is not mandatory and the format of the summary is completely up to the student.
  • If slides are used, they must be loaded onto the main speaker's laptop before the session starts.
  • At the end of their summary, they will introduce the main speaker of the session, giving their name and topic and (if applicable) saying a sentence or two about how the talk connects to previous talks.
• Participants are graded according to:
  • The quality of the trial talk and final draft of the hand out (50%)
  • The quality of the final presentation (25%)
  • The level of participation in the discussion and the quality of their five-minute summary (25%)