Active Matter III (Swimmers)

Presentations

• The Electr(okinet)ic Slide: Bioinspired Fabrication for Steering Particles in AC Electric Fields by Shape-Morphing and Precise Metal Patches

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 17, 2026, 3:30 PM – March 17, 2026, 4:06 PM

  Publication: 1. Lee, JG; Jeon, SJ; Duarte, AR; Ticknor, M; Minnis, MB; Hayward, RC; Shields IV, CW. "Shape-morphing active particles with invertible effective polarizability for configurable locomotion and steering" Nature Communications 2026 (accepted).
  2. Kreienbrink, KM; Cruse, ZA; Kumari, A; Shields IV, CW. "Precise surface patches on active particles of arbitrary shape through microstenciling" Nature Communications 2025. 16(1): 6062.

  Presenters

  • Wyatt Shields

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

  Authors

  • Wyatt Shields

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

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• Active Brownian dynamics in a configurable viscoelastic medium

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 4:06 PM – March 17, 2026, 4:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Sanatan Halder

    • Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

  Authors

  • Sanatan Halder

    • Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

  • Manas Khan

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• Phase Behavior of Leader–Follower Active Particle Systems Inspired by Contrastive Learning

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 4:18 PM – March 17, 2026, 4:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Tianhao Li

    • New York University

  Authors

  • Tianhao Li

    • New York University

  • Stefano Martiniani

    • New York University (NYU)

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• Extracting Active Fluctuating forces from Fluctuating motions of an active particle in a viscoelastic medium.

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 4:30 PM – March 17, 2026, 4:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Simin Xia

    • Lehigh University

  Authors

  • Simin Xia

    • Lehigh University

  • Jennifer Xu

  • Chong Shen

  • H Daniel Ou-Yang

    • Lehigh University

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• Frustration and flocking in chiral active fluids of sea urchin embryos

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 4:42 PM – March 17, 2026, 4:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Lisa Lin

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Lisa Lin

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Yu-Chen Chao

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Minseok Lee

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Yuchao Chen

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Tom Burkart

  • Nikta Fakhri

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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• Chiral active particles on a sphere

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

  March 17, 2026, 4:54 PM – March 17, 2026, 5:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Suraj Kumar Nayak

    • Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

  Authors

  • Suraj Kumar Nayak

    • Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

  • Sudipto Bagchi

    • Indian Institute of Technology Khargapur

  • Vishwanath Shukla

    • Indian Institute of Technology - Kharagpur

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• How localized gaussian curvature modulates the rachet effect

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 5:06 PM – March 17, 2026, 5:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Lara Braverman

    • Harvard University

  Authors

  • Lara Braverman

    • Harvard University

  • Cheng Long

    • Harvard University

  • Sunghan Ro

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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• Hydrodynamic interactions destroy motility-induced phase separation in active suspensions

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 5:18 PM – March 17, 2026, 5:30 PM

  Publication: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25616

  Presenters

  • (Edmond) Tingtao Zhou

    • California Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • (Edmond) Tingtao Zhou

    • California Institute of Technology

  • John Brady

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• Non-Markovian dynamics of self-propelled active particles

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 5:30 PM – March 17, 2026, 5:42 PM

  Publication: Published June 2024: "Self-phoretic oscillatory motion in a harmonic trap", Physical Review E, 109, 064147 (2024), A. Alexandre, L. Anderson et. al.
  
  Planned for submission November 2025: "Oscillatory motion of a self-phoretic particle in a 1d finite region", PRE, D. Dean and L. Anderson

  Presenters

  • Leah Anderson

    • Université de Bordeaux

  Authors

  • Leah Anderson

    • Université de Bordeaux

  • David Dean

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• Magnetic steering of Quincke active rollers for programmable collective states

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 5:42 PM – March 17, 2026, 5:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Eavan Fitzgerald

    • Institute of Science and Technology Austria

  Authors

  • Eavan Fitzgerald

    • Institute of Science and Technology Austria

  • Cecile Clavaud

  • Scott Waitukaitis

    • Institute of Science and Technology Austria

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