Topic: particle dynamics

Marking a century of Richardson’s work on turbulent dispersion, this programme compares Lagrangian and Eulerian approaches, stochastic and deterministic models, particle dynamics and continuum descriptions. Topics include multiparticle dispersion, experimental particle tracking, geophysical transport, spontaneous stochasticity, mixing, and machine-learning methods for closure and inference. The programme connects theory, simulation and experiment with environmental and climate prediction. It targets doctoral students, postdocs and established researchers in turbulence and transport; exceptiona

Understanding the properties of active matter is a challenge which is currently driving a rapid growth in soft- and bio-physics. Some of the most important examples of active matter are at the microscale, and include active colloids and suspensions of microorganisms, both as a simple active fluid (single species) and as mixed suspensions of active and passive elements. In this last class of systems, recent experimental and theoretical work has started to provide a window into new phenomena including activity-induced depletion interactions, phase separation, and the possibility to extract net