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SYAN: Symposium Active nematics: From 2D to 3D

SYAN 1: Active nematics: From 2D to 3D

Friday, October 1, 2021, 10:00–12:45, Audimax 1

Active nematics are one of the most studied manifestations of active matter with main examples being mixtures of cytoskeletal filaments and motor proteins, but also force-generating, deforming and reorienting cells in living tissue. While the vast majority of active nematics have been studied in 2D systems, recently several advances towards 3D active nematics were made. Examples are systems that undergo multiple transitions from 3D space-filling to a compressed sheet, active filaments embedded in a passive liquid crystal and organoids in the case of tissue. The symposium will feature the experimental and theoretical challenges in the transition from 2D to 3D active nematic systems and its implications.

	10:00	SYAN 1.1	Invited Talk: Corrugated patterns made from an active nematic sheet — •Anis Senoussi, Shunichi Kashida, Raphaël Voituriez, Jean-Christophe Galas, Ananyo Maitra, and Estevez-Torres André
	10:30	SYAN 1.2	Invited Talk: Wrinkling instability in 3D active nematics — •Isabella Guido
	11:00		15. min break
	11:15	SYAN 1.3	Invited Talk: Three-dimensional active nematic defects and their energetics — •Miha Ravnik
	11:45	SYAN 1.4	Invited Talk: Liquid-crystal organization of liver tissue — •Benjamin M Friedrich, Hernan Morales-Navarrete, Andre Scholich, Hidenori Nonaka, Fabian Segovia Miranda, Steffen Lange, Jens Karschau, Yannis Kalaidzidis, Frank Jülicher, and Marino Zerial
	12:15	SYAN 1.5	Invited Talk: Machine learning active nematic hydrodynamics — •Vincenzo Vitelli