Programme

The meeting is planned to begin at 09:00 on 6 January and finish at 16:00 on 7 January. This should provide sufficient time to reach trains that depart from Edinburgh Waverley Station after 17:00, or flights from Edinburgh airport from 18:30. Please note that the programme is subject to change.

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Thursday 7 January

09:00	Informal discussion
09:30	(keynote) The emergent collective behavior of bacteria under stress Robert Austin, Princeton University, USA
10:15	(keynote) Quantifying the determinants of evolutionary dynamics leading to drug resistance Tobias Bollenbach, The Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Austria
11:00	Refreshment break
	Focus Session: Collective dynamics of motile organisms Chair: Professor Davide Marenduzzo
11:30	Particle entrainment dominates the interaction of microalgae with micron-sized objects Marco Polin, University of Warwick, UK
12:00	Fluid-mediated collective phenomena in suspensions of microswimmers Joakim Stenhammar, Lund University, Sweden
12:15	Microswimmers in oscillatory shear flows: a tale of unexpected resonances Ottavio Croze, University of Cambridge, UK
12:30	Polar and nematic swarms on curved surfaces Silke Henkes, University of Aberdeen, UK
12:45	Periodic motion of a circularly confined active nematic Michael Juniper, Brandeis University, UK
13:00	Lunch
14:00	(keynote) Active droplets and cell motility Rhoda Hawkins, University of Sheffield, UK
14:45	(keynote) Physics of epithelial tissues Jean-François Joanny, Institut Curie, France
15:30	Refreshment break
16:00	Close of conference, departure

Key dates

Abstract submission deadline (extended):
14 October 2015
Early registration deadline:
11 November 2015
Registration deadline:
10 December 2015

Programme

Thursday 7 January

Focus Session: Collective dynamics of motile organisms

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