Conference on Active Fluids: Bridging Complex Fluids and Biofluids

1343062PI：Ardekani这笔赠款支持研究生、博士后研究人员、初级教师和代表人数不足的参与者参加题为？活性液体：连接复杂液体和生物液体？的会议。2014年1月27日至2月1日，在科罗拉多州阿斯彭的阿斯彭物理中心举行。活性流体的研究是多学科的，包括物理、数学和工程中的许多分支，包括流体力学、硬和软凝聚态物理、聚合物物理和工程、连续介质力学、复杂流体、生物启发工程学、统计物理和高性能计算。这次会议将促进对复杂和非牛顿流体领域感兴趣的研究人员与生物流体领域的研究人员在活跃流体的共同主题下进行思想交流。课程表由非正式的深入讲座和讨论组成，并提供大量口头和海报演示。范围包括但不限于解决以下问题：如何对活性流体进行建模？如何在实验上捕捉典型活动流体的时间和长度范围？如何使这些技术适用于通常需要纳米级和连续级分辨率的活性物质的研究？预计总共将有大约85-100名参与者。会议的更广泛影响包括形成可能导致未来变革性工作的新联系和合作的核心，提高各种关键科学界对在生物流体研究中具有巨大潜力的最新技术的认识，就流体动力学在生物医学应用中的作用提供新的见解，并设想解决环境问题的新方案。

1343062PI: ArdekaniThis grant supports travel of graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, junior faculty, and under-represented participants to attend the conference entitled ?Active Fluids: Bridging Complex Fluids and Biofluids? from January 27- February 1, 2014 at the Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen, Colorado. Research in active fluids is multidisciplinary, encompassing many branches in physics, mathematics, and engineering, including fluid mechanics, hard and soft condensed matter physics, polymer physics and engineering, continuum mechanics, complex fluids, biologically inspired engineering, statistical physics, and high-performance computing. The conference will foster cross-fertilization of ideas among researchers with an interest in the areas of complex and non-Newtonian fluids on one hand, and biological fluids on the other, within the common theme of active fluids. The schedule consists of informal in-depth lectures and discussions, with a large number of contributed oral and poster presentations. The scope includes but is not restricted to addressing questions such as: How to model active fluids? How to experimentally capture the range of time and length scales in prototypical active fluids? How to adapt these techniques to the study of active matter which typically requires resolution at both the nano scale and at the continuum level?Approximately 85-100 participants in total are anticipated. The broader impacts of the Conference include forming a nucleus of new contacts and collaborations that could potentially result in future transformative works, raising awareness in a variety of key scientific communities regarding the state-of-the-art techniques with great potential in biofluidic studies, providing novel insights about the role of fluid dynamics in biomedical applications, and envisioning new scenarios to address environmental concerns.