14th June 2023

9:00 – 9:30 Arrival and Welcome

9:30 - 10:15

From equilibrium sedimentation to non-equilibrium superadiabatic forces in colloidal systems.

Daniel de las Heras (University of Bayreuth)

10:15 - 10:30

Nucleation and growth of an optothermally-generated 2d colloidal crystal.

Vincenzo Ruzzi (Politecnico di Milano)

10:30 - 10:45

Ferroelectric nematics in microchannels: switching and propagation of order.

Giovanni Nava (University of Milan)

10:45 - 11:00

The yielding transition in soft amorphous solids under oscillatory shear: from microscopic rearrangements to macroscopic failure.

Matteo Brizioli (Dept. Biometra, University of Milan)

Coffee break and social time 11:00 - 11:30

11:30 - 12:15

Complex plasma - overview of strong coupling effects in 2- dimensional and 3-dimensional systems.

Hubertus M. Thomas (German Aerospace Center. Institute of Material Physics in Space)

12:15 - 12:30

Forced and free dynamics of fluid vortices using magnetized electron plasmas.

F. Ferrero (University of Milan)

12:30 - 12:45

Machine learning of fracture in glasses.

Silvia Bonfanti (NOMATEN)

12:45 - 13:00

Investigating simple connectivity in non-convex neural networks can help characterize performance.

Clarissa Lauditi (Bocconi University)

Lunch break 13:00 - 14:30

14:30 - 15:15

Everything flows… but how? Searching for the microscopic origin

of yielding.

Stefano Aime (University ESPCI Paris)

15:15 - 15:30

How to use liquid-state to predict jamming of hard spheres - Carmine Anzivino (University of Milan)

15:30 - 15:45

Microbial interaction with micrometer-scale wrinkled surfaces subjected to fluid shear.

Luca Pellegrino (Humanitas)

15:45 - 16:00

Signatures of directed and spontaneous flocking.

Martino Brambati (Università degli Studi dell'Insubria)

Coffee break and social time 16:00 - 16:30

16:30 - 17:15

A fish with legs and alternation strategies for navigating turbulence.

Agnese Seminara (University of Genova)

17:15 - 17:30

Statistical mechanics of deep learning beyond the infinite-width limit.

Rosalba Pacelli (Bocconi University)

17:30 - 17:45

A fitness trade-off explains the early fate of yeast aneuploids with chromosome gains.

Simone Pompei (IFOM) 

17:45 - 18:00

The role of loop-extrusion in chromosome folding dynamics. Edoardo Marchi (University of Milan)

End of the workshop (beer) 18:00-20:00