Seminars

PMMH’s weekly seminar is held every Friday at 11 am (map)

Contact :
Stéphane Perrard
Etienne Reyssat
Virgile Thiévenaz
responsables-seminaires (arobase) pmmh.espci.fr

PMMH
BARRE CASSAN
BAT A 1ER ETAGE CASE 18
7 QUAI SAINT BERNARD
75005 PARIS
France

Tel : (33) 1 40 79 45 22


Séminaire PMMH – Christina Kurzthaler (MPI Dresden)

Vendredi 7 novembre de 11h00 à 12h00 - Salle réunion PMMH 1

Microbes in motion : from surface interactions to porous media

Swimming microorganisms represent fascinating exemplars of non-equilibrium systems and display a range of unusual physical phenomena. These active agents often operate in complex environments, characterized by confining boundaries and flows, that can strongly modify their swimming dynamics. In this talk, I will first discuss the hydrodynamic interactions of microswimmers with a nearby deformable boundary, like a biological membrane. Using a far-field description for the flows and a perturbation theory for small deformations, we find that elastohydrodynamic couplings can generate behaviors that are fundamentally different to swimming near rigid walls. In the second part, I will discuss the impact of flows on active transport through a disordered, porous channel. While in the absence of flow agents accumulate at boundaries, shear also generates extended trapping phases of microswimmers in areas of the flow backbone, leading to prominent power-law tails in the exit-time distributions. Both examples highlight intricate hydrodynamic couplings in active systems and their potential consequences for the accumulation of microbial communities and the onset of biofilm formation.

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Information for the speakers

The audience is composed of people with rather heterogeneous backgrounds including specialists in solids, fluids, granular flows, statistical physics... so the idea is to keep your talk understandable by people not necessarily working in your field... The seminar time slot runs from 11am to noon so the best is to make the talk last around 45 minutes to leave some time for discussion.

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Contact

Directeur : Ramiro GODOY DIANA
Codirecteur : Laurent DUCHEMIN
Administratrice : Frédérique AUGER (01 40 79 45 22)
Gestionnaire : Claudette BAREZ (01 40 79 58 53)
Courriel : dir (arobase) pmmh.espci.fr
Téléphone : 01 40 79 45 22
Adresse : PMMH UMR 7636 CNRS, ESPCI Paris-PSL, Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Cité
7 Quai Saint Bernard, Barre Cassan Bât A 1er étage Case 18, 75005 Paris