Schedule

Day 0: November 26, 2024

Arrival

18:00 -21:00 Welcome Mixer and Dinner at NumHotel


Day 1: November 27, 2024

Topic: Active Matter, Self-Propulsion, and Active Particles
08:45 – 09:00 Opening
09:00 – 09:30 Martin van Hecke – FOM Institute AMOLF, Amsterdam, Netherlands
                       Sequential information processing in hysteronic mechanical metamaterials
09:30 – 10:00 Matan Mussel – University of Haifa, Israel
                       Computing with lipid membranes
10:00 – 10:30 Gerhard Gompper – Forschungszentrum, Juelich, Germany
                       Collective motion of cognitive self-steering active particles
10:30 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 12:00 Stephen Ebbens – University of Sheffield, UK
                       pH-responsive active matter
12:00 – 12:30 Marc Serra Garcia – AMOLF, Amsterdam, Netherlands
                       Cognitive mechanics: From talking structures to the thermodynamic limits of computation
12:30 – 13:00 Minghan Hu – ETH Zurich, Switzerland
                       Colloidal assemblies for microrobotics
13:00 – 15:00 Lunch break
17:00 – 17:40 Coffee break

17:40 – 18:10 Lucio Isa – ETH Zurich, Switzerland

                       Reconfigurable active particles
18:10 – 18:40 Olivier Pierre-Louis – Université Lyon 1, France
                       Controlling shape of fluctuating nanoscale clusters
20:30 Dinner

Day 2: November 28, 2024

Topic: Decision-Making, Smart Materials, and Neuromorphic Computing
09:00- 09:30 René van Roij – Utrecht University, Netherlands
                       Neuromorphic computing with iontronic memristors
09:30 – 10:00 Helmut Hauser – University of Bristol, UK
                       Smart Bodies for Smart Machines
10:00 – 10:30 Marco Werner – Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e.V., Germany
                       Sequence programmed single-chain nanoparticles
10:30 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 12:00 Juliane Simmchen – University of Strathclyde, UK
                       Active colloids
12:00 – 12:30 Martin Hanczyc – University of Trento, Italy
                       Motion of active droplets
12:30 – 13:00 Cecile Cottin-Bizonne – University Lyon, France
                       Responsive behavior from synthetic active colloids to microorganisms
13:00 – 15:00 Lunch break
17:00 – 17:40 Coffee break
17:40 – 18:10 Alexander Govorov – Ohio University, USA
                       Optical Metamaterials and biosensors
18:10 – 18:40 M. Carmen Miguel – Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
                       Honey bee-like collective decision-making in kilobot swarms
20:30 Dinner

Day 3: November 29, 2024

Topic: Sensors, Biosensing, and Soft Robotics

09:00- 09:30 Wolfgang Parak – Universität Hamburg, Germany

                       Intracellular sensing with nanoparticles
09:30 – 10:00 Sabine Müller – University of Greifswald, Germany
                       Functional nucleic acids as biosensors
10:00 – 10:30 Ramon Alvarez Puebla – Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
                       Plasmonic MOFs for sensing and catalysis
10:30 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 12:00 Metin Sitti – Koç University, Turkey
                       Soft miniature robots & medical soft devices and materials
12:00 – 12:30 Maria Jose Esplandiu – Catalan Institute of Nansocience and Nanotechnology, Barcelona, Spain
                       Self-propelled polymeric micro/nanomotors by ion-exchange
12:30 – 13:00 Miguel A. Correa-Duarte – Universidad de Vigo, Spain
                       Hot Electron Injection in Plasmon-Assisted Catalysis
13:00 – 13:30 Neus Feliu – Fraunhofer IAP-CAN, Germany
                       Bioconjugation for targeting
13:30 – 15:00 Lunch break
17:00 – 17:40 Coffee break
17:40 – 18:10 Discussions
20:30 Dinner