The biophysics of plant morphogenesis   Arezki Boudaoud from Ecole Polytechnique   The seminar will take place in  person in the Gulliver library and by zoom at the link below:…

Dr. Simion Beldean from Babes Bolei University (Cluj Napoca, Romania),  currently present in the CBI/LSABM, will present his research work, focused on the use of GCxGC for the analysis of…

From Superfluids to Mott Insulators with Dipolar Excitons By François Dubin, INSP Paris Semiconductor excitons are composite bosons made by the Coulomb attraction between electrons and holes. Enforcing a spatial separation between…

Controlling interactions in real space across the lengthscales: love, hate and criticality Paddy Royall   Polymers, liquid crystals, surfactants, and colloidal dispersions form the four historic pillars of soft matter.…

Responsive microgels: from individual systems to their collective properties Jérôme Crassous, Institute of Physical Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University,52074 Aachen, Germany Abstract: Although poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) microgels have been widely used as…

Instabilities and geometry of growing tissues Doron Grossman, Collège de France   The vertex model is a discrete often used to described cellular media, where elastic energy depends on the…

Instabilities and geometry of growing tissues   Doron Grossman (Collège de France)   Abstract: The vertex model is a discrete often used to described cellular media, where elastic energy depends…

Bad metal behavior from slow collective excitations  By Simone Fratini, Institut Néel, Grenoble   Scattering of charge carriers by slow degrees of freedom can drive an electronic system away from…