Active Matter II

Presentations

• Clustering and absorbing-state transition for active particles driven by nematic turn-towards/turn-away interactions

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 12:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 12:12 PM

  Presenters

  • William Uspal

    • University of Hawai'i at Manoa

  Authors

  • William Uspal

    • University of Hawai'i at Manoa

  • Anson Thambi

    • University of Hawaii, Manoa

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• Nonreciprocal solitons in an active elastic solid

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 12:12 PM – March 17, 2026, 12:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Mario Sandoval

    • Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico City

  Authors

  • Mario Sandoval

    • Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico City

  • Luis Aparicio

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• Activity Jamming

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 12:24 PM – March 17, 2026, 12:36 PM

  Publication: Navneet Singh, Anna R. Barth, Edward Y. X. Ong, Abhishek M. Shetty,
  Bulbul Chakraborty, James P. Sethna, Eric R. Dufresne, and Itai Cohen. Activity driven jamming. (in preparation)

  Presenters

  • Itai Cohen

    • Cornell University

  Authors

  • Itai Cohen

    • Cornell University

  • Navneet Singh

  • Eric Dufresne

    • Cornell University

  • Anna Barth

    • Cornell University

  • Abhishek Shetty

    • Anton Paar USA Inc.

  • Edward Ong

    • Cornell University

  • James Sethna

    • Cornell University

  • Bulbul Chakraborty

    • Brandeis University

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• Bistability and mode cycling in nonreciprocal robotic active solids

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 12:36 PM – March 17, 2026, 12:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Wyatt Joyce

    • UCSD

  Authors

  • Wyatt Joyce

    • UCSD

  • Hongbo Zhao

    • University of California San Diego

  • Tzer Han Tan

    • University of California, San Diego

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• Probing phase transitions in active systems with cluster tomography

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 12:48 PM – March 17, 2026, 1:00 PM

  Publication: Luzzatto, L.V., Casiulis, M., Martiniani, S., and Kovács, I.A., Spatial and temporal cluster tomography of active matter (in preparation).

  Presenters

  • Leone Luzzatto

    • Northwestern University

  Authors

  • Leone Luzzatto

    • Northwestern University

  • Mathias Casiulis

    • New York University (NYU)

  • Stefano Martiniani

    • New York University (NYU)

  • Istvan Kovacs

    • Northwestern University

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• Odd elastic effects in a two-dimensional anisotropic fluid

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

  March 17, 2026, 1:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 1:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Rui Zhang

    • The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)

  Authors

  • Rui Zhang

    • The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)

  • Zeyang Mou

    • The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)

  • Haijie Ren

  • Ding Xu

  • Igor Aranson

    • The Pennsylvania State University

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• Mechanochemical feedback drives complex inertial dynamics in active solids

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 1:12 PM – March 17, 2026, 1:24 PM

  Publication: arXiv:2505.18272

  Presenters

  • Biswarup Ash

    • University of Michigan- Ann Arbor

  Authors

  • Biswarup Ash

    • University of Michigan- Ann Arbor

  • Siddhartha Sarkar

    • Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems

  • Nicholas Boechler

    • University of California, San Diego

  • Yueyang Wu

  • Suraj Shankar

    • University of Michigan

  • Xiaoming Mao

    • University of Michigan

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• Phase-like emergent order and bulk mechanical response in controllable living active solids

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 1:24 PM – March 17, 2026, 1:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Shaoxun Huang

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Shaoxun Huang

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Haiqian Yang

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Sarthak Gupta

    • Rice University

  • Fred MacKintosh

    • RICE UNIVERSITY

  • Ming Guo

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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• Predicting Size and Velocity in Collectively Moving Active Droplets

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 1:36 PM – March 17, 2026, 1:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Alena Lobanova

    • Washington University in St. Louis

  Authors

  • Alena Lobanova

    • Washington University in St. Louis

  • Trevor GrandPre

    • Washington University in St. Louis

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• Flocking in weakly nonreciprocal mixtures

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 1:48 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Publication: Myin, C. and Mahault, B., Flocking in weakly nonreciprocal mixtures, in preparation.

  Presenters

  • Charlotte Myin

    • Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization

  Authors

  • Charlotte Myin

    • Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization

  • Benoit Mahault

    • Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization

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• Insertion space in repulsive active matter

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:12 PM

  Publication: Insertion space in repulsive active matter, Luke K. Davis and Karel Proesmans, arXiv 2509.08131 (2025)

  Presenters

  • Luke Davis

    • University of Edinburgh

  Authors

  • Luke Davis

    • University of Edinburgh

  • Karel Proesmans

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• Applying Fluctuation Dissipation Relations to Active Systems

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:12 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:24 PM

  Publication: Fluctuation dissipation relations for active field theories, M.K. Johnsrud, R. Golestanian, Physical Review Research 7 (3), L032053
  Fluctuation dissipation relations for the nonreciprocal Cahn-Hilliard model, M.K. Johnsrud, R. Golestanian, Physical Review Research 7 (3), L032054

  Presenters

  • Martin Johnsrud

    • Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization

  Authors

  • Martin Johnsrud

    • Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization

  • Ramin Golestanian

    • Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization

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• Current fluctuation theorem for excess entropy of active cyclic systems

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:24 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Shaofan Liu

    • University of Houston

  Authors

  • Shaofan Liu

    • University of Houston

  • Andre Barato

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• Using the force landscape of an active solid to predict plastic deformation

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:36 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Tyler Hain

    • Syracuse University

  Authors

  • Tyler Hain

    • Syracuse University

  • Edan Lerner

    • University of Amsterdam

  • M Lisa Manning

    • Syracuse University

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• Defect Ordering in Confined Chiral Active Liquid Crystals

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:48 PM – March 17, 2026, 3:00 PM

  Publication: Z. Mou, Z. Asilehan, J. Jiang, C. Peng & R. Zhang, "Defect Ordering in Confined Chiral Active Liquid Crystals. " In prep.

  Presenters

  • Zeyang Mou

    • The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)

  Authors

  • Zeyang Mou

    • The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)

  • Zhawure Asilehan

  • Jinghua Jiang

  • Chenhui Peng

  • Rui Zhang

    • The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)

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