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Les Houches - WE Heraeus Workshop

09 Mar - 13 Mar 2026

Where:

Ecole de Physique - Les Houches, France

Scientific organizers:

Dr. Jean-François Rupprecht, CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université, France ∗ Dr. Giovanni Cappello, CNRS, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Physique, St. Martin d’Hères ∗ Dr. Patricia Bassereau, CNRS, Institut Curie, Paris, France ∗ Prof. Dr. Frank Julicher, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden

The workshop will cover the fields of active & living matter and their applications to fundamental problems in biology. It will outline a set of common tools and concepts to understand:

  • Collective flows - including microswimmers, flocking behavior, active gels
  • Biological materials - including molecular motors and the cytoskeleton, proteinmembrane interactions, dynamics of living tissues in cancer and development