We are pleased to announce that the International Active Matter Workshop 2025 will be held on January 24 and 25, 2025.

There are three invited lectures. In addition, there is an opportunity for participants to give contributed oral presentations and poster presentations on all fields of active matter.

The workshop is planned to be held in an on-site format at Meiji University (Nakano campus). 

The deadline for the abstract submission for contributed oral and poster presentations is Dec. 24, 2024. 

The deadline for registration for participants without presentation is Jan. 17, 2025. 

See below for the details of registration and abstract submission.

All the presentations will be given in English.

Meiji University, Nakano campus. See the access from the following link.

https://www.meiji.ac.jp/cip/english/about/campus/nakano.html 

January 24 (Fri) - 25 (Sat), 2025

• Kaoru Sugimura (The University of Tokyo)

"Mechanical control of epithelial morphogenesis"

The program is available from the following link. We don't distribute printed version at the workshop, so if you need one please prepare it by yourself.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yxAteZKlKj1AcB7_DWHQEq-4lOJp-qzN/view?usp=drive_link

We accept abstracts for contributed oral presentations (approx. 20 min each).

If you wish to give a contributed oral presentation, first finish the registration by 2024/12/24 (Tue) from the registration. 

Then, submit the abstract by 2024/12/24 (Tue) via email to the organizers (active2025@googlegroups.com). 

Please find the template below and prepare a pdf file with your name in the file name as "abstract_LastName_FirstName.pdf".

If the number of submissions exceeds the number of slots for contributed oral presentations, the speakers will be selected based on the abstracts. The submissions not selected as contributed oral presentations will be considered as contributed poster presentations.

We accept abstracts for contributed poster presentations.

If you wish to give a contributed poster presentation, first finish the registration by 2024/12/24 (Tue) from the registration. 

Then, submit the abstract by 2024/12/24 (Tue) via email to the organizers (active2025@googlegroups.com). 

Please find the template below and prepare a pdf file with your name in the file name as "abstract_LastName_FirstName.pdf".

If the number of submissions exceeds the number of slots for contributed poster presentations, the presentors will be selected based on the abstracts.

1. The size of the poster board is 960 mm in width and 1800 mm in hight.

2. The recommended size of your poster is ISO A0 (841 mm × 1189 mm).

To attend the workshop, registration is required also for participants without presentation. 

To attend the workshop with a presentation, please finish the registration and abstract submission by 2024/12/24 (Tue) for both oral and poster presentation (See above).

To attend the workshop without presentation, please finish the registration by 2025/1/17 (Fri)  from the link below.

Please feel free to contact the organising committee if you have any questions. 

• Registration page: https://forms.gle/NghRxhxFLcFzKVEH6 

• Abstract template: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15awp9mvPG3nz-_wan1d07APPTUSdJQ13/view?usp=sharing

MEXT Joint Usage/Research Center Meiji University "Center for Mathematical Modeling and Applications" (CMMA)

JSPS Core-to-Core Program "Advanced core-to-core network for the physics of self-organizing active matter"

URL: https://sites.google.com/kyoto-u.ac.jp/c2c/

Hiroyuki Ebata (Kyushu Univ.)

Hiroyuki Kitahata (Chiba Univ.)

John Molina (Kyoto University)

Nobuhiko J. Suematsu (Meiji Univ.)

Mitsusuke Tarama (Kyushu Univ.)

Ryoichi Yamamoto (Kyoto University)

E-mail: active2025@googlegroups.com

• Active Matter Workshop 2024

• Active Matter Workshop 2023

• Active Matter Workshop 2022

• Active Matter Workshop 2021

• Active Matter Workshop 2020

• Active Matter Workshop 2019

• Active Matter Workshop 2018

• Active Matter Workshop 2017

• Active Matter Workshop 2016

• Japanese Active Matter Society