Hauptseminar Soft Matter SS 2019

Participants need to register through CAMPUS.

There will be an organizational meeting that will be mandatory to all participants on February 8th at 14:00 in the ICP meeting room to discuss topics and style and other requirements.

Overview

Type

Seminar (Student-prepared talks, followed by discussion)

Date and Time

to be determined

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. Siegfried Dietrich (MPI-IS/ITP4)

Prof. Dr. Christian Holm (ICP)

Organizer

Michael Kuron (ICP)

Modules

Hauptseminar for M.Sc. Physik

Seminar in Physics for M.Sc. PHYSICS

Advanced Seminar in Physics for M.Sc. PHYSICS

Language

English

Description

Soft matter is the field of physics that concerns itself with systems that are deformable by energies on the scale of thermal fluctuations. This includes liquids, polymers, colloids, and much of biological physics. More recently, the sub-field of active matter has emerged, which studies the behavior of microswimmers and other self-propelled particles, including bacteria. While quantum phenomena are typically negligible at soft matter's relevant length scales (~1 µm), Brownian motion is important, while hydrodynamics and electrostatics play a role too. The interplay of these effects can lead to complex effects such as clustering or phase separation. In this seminar, we aim to provide an overview of the field, covering topics from hydrodynamics on small length scales, individual polymers and colloids and their dynamics all the way to the collective behavior of microswimmers and the interaction with their environment. The seminar will include analytical models that capture the essentials of the most important soft matter systems and state-of-the-art numerical methods that can solve the full physical problems.

Requirements

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

Schedule, speakers and resources

Number	Date	Time	Topic	Speaker	Tutor	Handout
{{{8}}}	12 April 2019	14:00	Fluid and colloid dynamics	Paolo Malgaretti		presentation slides (1.79 MB)
{{{8}}}	26 April 2019	14:00	Mesoscale simulation methods	Christian Holm		presentation slides (7.81 MB)
{{{8}}}	3 May 2019	14:00	Simulation of self-propelled particles with and without hydrodynamics	Alexander Reinauer	Kai Szuttor	[1]
{{{8}}}	10 May 2019	14:00	Multipole expansion of flow fields: The squirmer model	Michael Maihöfer	Mihail Popescu	[2]
{{{8}}}	17 May 2019	14:00	Transport of electrolytes across porous materials	Johannes Hauskrecht	Paolo Malgaretti	[3]
{{{8}}}	7 June 2019	14:00	Transport of (poly-)electrolytes and colloids in electric fields	Henrik Jäger	Patrick Kreissl	[4]
{{{8}}}	21 June 2019	14:00	Microswimmers under confinement	Philipp Stärk	Christoph Lohrmann	[5]
{{{8}}}	5 July 2019	14:00	Active Brownian particles	Smruti Manjunath	Mihail Popescu	[6]
{{{8}}}	5 July 2019	14:00	Transport and accumulation of bacteria in porous media	Samuel Tovey	Kartik Jain	[7]
{{{8}}}	12 July 2019	14:00	Modelling and simulation of catalytically-driven particles	Jan Finkbeiner	Michael Kuron	[8]

Registered participants:

• Alexander Reinauer
• Henrik Jäger
• Jan Finkbeiner
• Johannes Hauskrecht
• Michael Maihöfer
• Philipp Stärk
• Samuel Tovey
• Smruti Manjunath