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SUMMARY:Active Matter: a new approach to mechanobiology? - Julia Yeomans (
 University of Oxford)
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CONTACT:Jan Behrends
DESCRIPTION:Active materials such as bacteria\, molecular motors and self-
 propelled colloids are Nature’s engines. They extract energy from their 
 surroundings at a single particle level and use this to do work. Active ma
 tter is becoming an increasingly popular area of research because it provi
 des a testing ground for the ideas of non-equilibrium statistical physics\
 , because of its relevance to the collective behaviour of living creatures
 \, from cells to starlings\, and because of its potential in designing nan
 omachines.\n\nDense active matter shows mesoscale turbulence\, the emergen
 ce of chaotic flow structures characterised by high vorticity and self-pro
 pelled topological defects. I will discuss the physics of defects in activ
 e materials and describe examples where the concepts of active matter are 
 being used to describe biological processes.\n
LOCATION:Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time
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