Program

9:00 - 9:15  Registration

9:15 - 9:30  Welcome from Chemistry Faculty Dean, Dra. Maria Sarret

I. TOPIC Statistical Mechanics. Chairman:  Dr. José Maria Sancho

9:30 - 10:10   Dr. Igor Sokolov

"Homogenization problems for generalized Langevin subdiffusion: The bath always wins!"

10:10 - 10:50  Dr. Maxi San Miguel

"Reducibility of higher order interactions"

☕ 10:50-11:05 Coffee and cookies

II. TOPIC Active matter. Chairman: Dr. Jaume Casademunt

11:05 - 11:45  Dr. Jean François Joanny 

"Self-organization of microtubules and motors"

11:45 - 12:25  Dra. Julia Yeomans

"Active and elastic turbulence"

III. TOPIC Soft-matter. Chairman: Dr. Jordi Ortin 

12:25 - 13:05  Dr. Ignacio Pagonabarraga

       "Non-equilibrium control of defects, morphologies, and turbulence in active fluids"

13:05-14:30 Lunch break

14:30 - 15:10  Dr. Alberto Fernández Nieves

"Confined Nematics – Defects, Geometry and Topology"

15:10 - 15:50  Dr. Patrick Oswald

"Lehmann and Leslie Effects in Liquid Crystals: A Paradigm Shift"

☕ 15:50 - 16:05 Coffee and cookies

IV. TOPIC Biophysics. Chairman: Dra. Marta Ibanes

16:05 - 16:45  Dr. Javier Buceta

"On Bacteria and Flies"

16:45 - 17:25  Dr. Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo 

"Learning from a multidisciplinary scientist"

9:30 - 11:00  Francesc Sagués over the years (part I)

☕ 11:10 - 11:30 Coffee and cookies

11:30 - 13:00  Francesc Sagués over the years (part II)