[Slaam] SLAAM Seminar Monday, April 24th, 9am Pacific: Fernando Caballero (UCSB)

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Dear enthusiasts of the SLAAM seminars,


We are excited to announce that the next  Soft Living Active and Adaptive Matter (SLAAM)<https://physics.ucmerced.edu/slaam> seminar will be given by Dr. Fernando Caballero (University of California, Santa Barbara) on Monday, April 24th, at 9am Pacific/11am Central/12 noon Eastern time (US), with the title:

“Phase separation in active liquid crystal mixtures: bulk and interfacial dynamics”



Please join at the link below to attend:

https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/92693607475?pwd=TnI5dDhRRnYvejNZK2xNN0s4M0R5UT09

Zoom Meeting ID: 926 9360 7475   |   Passcode: 223642



Please see more info in the flyer here<https://physics.ucmerced.edu/sites/physics.ucmerced.edu/files/page/documents/fernando_caballero_slaam.pdf> and in the text below:



Abstract: Liquid-liquid phase separation is an ubiquitous phenomenon in biological systems, and has inspired several lines of research in the active and soft matter community in the last few years, hoping it will shed light into processes ranging from the formation of primitive cells to morphogenesis and tissue dynamics. In this latter case, the impact of active liquid crystals on this process is of interest, as it can inform how cytoskeletal structures within the cell can drive this dynamics. I will go over continuum theories used to understand the coupling between active liquid crystals and phase separation, together with experimental systems that have inspired and informed this theoretical work. I will then show what this models can do, what their limitations are, and what interfacial dynamics one can extract from them, in both linear and nonlinear regimes, as nonreciprocal couplings between interface fluctuations and liquid-crystalline degrees of freedom can sustain propagating waves, mixing processes, and other nonequilibrium phenomena.



Speaker bio
Fernando Caballero is a postdoctoral researcher in the Physics Department at University of California, Santa Barbara, studying various aspects of phase separation in active matter, such as effects of active turbulence on criticality and nonequilibrium interface dynamics. He obtained his PhD in theoretical physics at the University of Cambridge in 2020 advised by Michael Cates, studying critical properties of field theories of active matter.


See you there!



Best regards,

Dan Beller

on behalf of the SLAAM organizing team
(Alexandra Tayar, Suraj Shankar, Daniel Beller, Kinjal Dasbiswas)

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Daniel Beller
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Johns Hopkins University
pages.jh.edu/dbeller3
(he/him/his)

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