Motivated by recent experiments on electrically driven active dipolar colloids, Tanniemola studies collections of self-propelled dipolar particles which spontaneously form a variety of self-propelled aggregates at low packing fractions. He compares explicit Brownian dynamics simulations with theory based on an (active) generalisation of the Rouse model of flexible polymers/membranes. 

About the speaker:

Tanniemola Liverpool is a Professor of Theoretical Physics and a member of the Applied Mathematics Institute at Bristol University's School of Mathematics, where he has been working for the last 18 years. He received his undergraduate and PhD degrees from the University of Cambridge and has worked at several academic institutions in France, Germany and the UK.

His research primarily involves mathematical descriptions of complex fluids (membranes, polymers, gels), and he is increasingly interested in the study of "soft biological matter" (DNA, proteins, the cytoskeleton, gene regulation), and the organising principles behind this highly interesting, active (living) state of matter. 

If you wish to attend this seminar online, please send an email to m.t.pham@uva.nl to receive the zoom-link.