Conference on Active Fluids: Bridging Complex Fluids and Biofluids

1343062PI: ardekani本基金资助研究生、博士后研究人员、初级教师和代表性不足的参与者参加“？活性流体：连接复杂流体和生物流体？于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，涵盖了物理学、数学和工程学的许多分支，包括流体力学、软硬凝聚态物理、聚合物物理和工程、连续介质力学、复杂流体、生物启发工程、统计物理和高性能计算。会议将促进研究人员之间的思想交流，一方面对复杂和非牛顿流体领域感兴趣，另一方面对生物流体感兴趣，在活动流体的共同主题内。日程安排包括非正式的深入讲座和讨论，以及大量的口头和海报报告。范围包括但不限于解决以下问题：如何模拟活性流体？如何在实验中捕获原型活性流体的时间和长度尺度范围？如何使这些技术适应于通常需要纳米尺度和连续体水平分辨率的活性物质的研究？预计总共约有85至100名与会者。会议的更广泛影响包括形成一个新的接触和合作的核心，这可能会导致未来的变革性工作，提高各种关键科学界对生物流体研究中具有巨大潜力的最新技术的认识，提供关于流体动力学在生物医学应用中的作用的新见解，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.