Soft and Living Matter: from Fundamental Concepts to New Material Design

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Collection Number24234
Collection TypeProgram
Source RepositoryICTS-TIFR
Description

From the food we eat to the shampoo and lotion we use for personal care or a collection of bacteria swimming in constrained environments, soft materials and complex fluids are ubiquitous in our daily life. Despite occupying a myriad of unrelated systems and settings, they share several overlapping properties and behavior. This diversity renders Soft Matter Physics fantastically interdisciplinary, for it borrows tools from various branches of physics, e.g. Dynamical Systems, Fluid Dynamics, Condensed Matter & Statistical Physics etc. and applies them to systems and problems far afield, including but not limited to, Biology, Earth & Atmospheric Science, Engineering, and Food & Cosmetics industry among many others.The SLM2023 School and Workshop on Soft and Living Matter will attract global experts who will provide pedagogical lectures on a subset of this broad field to students and young researchers. The topics promise to be representative of the breadth of this field, such as Geometry &...