Final report
Dates and location
21 May — 23 May 2024, London, UK
Chairperson
Eric Keaveny
Co-chairperson
Blaise Delmotte
Conference fees
- Regular registration: 205.00 €
- Invited Speakers: 0.00 €
What other funding was obtained?
- Funding from LadHyX: 2000 euros
- Funding from Imperial College: ????
- Funding from CNRS UMI Abraham de Moivre: ????
What were the participants offered?
The registration fees included:
- An Imperial College tote bag
- A notepad + pen
- 2 daily coffee breaks and 3 lunches.
- A wine reception and gala dinner at 170 Queen's Gate Terrace (a mansion belonging to Imperial College)
Applicants (members)
- Anais Abramian
- Gonçalo Antunes
- Guido Bolognesi
- Matthew Butler
- Bethany Clarke
- Luke Debono
- Marco De Corato
- Blaise Delmotte
- Nikhil Desai
- Camille Duprat
- Stephen Ebbens
- Heiko Herrmann
- Yongyun Hwang
- Anne Juel
- Catherine Kamal
- Eric Keaveny
- Anke Lindner
- Sebastien Michelin
- Tom Montenegro-Johnson
- Alexander Morozov
- Franck Nicoud
- Tim Pedley
- Ory Schnitzer
- Juliane Simmchen
- Hang Su
- Catalin Vlad
- Benjamin Walker
Applicants (non members)
- David Abrahams
- Jaime Agudo-Canalejo
- Irene Anello
- Florencio Balboa Usabiaga
- John Ball
- Martine Ben Amar
- Freya Bull
- Antonio De Simone
- Marcelo Dias
- Maria L. Ekiel-Jezewska
- Sebastian Fürthauer
- Ramin Golestanian
- Simon Gsell
- Isabella Guido
- Yuto Hosaka
- Sara Jabbari Farouji
- Robin Knops
- Christina Kurzthaler
- Heng Li
- Corinna Maass
- RUMA MAITY
- Yevgen Melikhov
- Ilteber Ozdemir
- Gunnar Peng
- Chiara Pezzotti
- Clarissa Schönecker
- Vaseem Akram Shaik
- Kostas Soldatos
- Saverio Spagnolie
- David Stein
- Daniel Tam
- Juan David Torrenegra-Rico
- Rahil Valani
- Kirsty Wan
- Joh Willis
- Lailai Zhu
- Pablo Zurita
Scientific report
Despite the linearity of the Stokes equations, nonlinearity is prevalent at zero Reynolds number due to the presence of interfaces, elastic structures and polymers, chemical concentrations, and electric fields, all of which have ramifications across many industrial and biological processes. In recent years, especially with the development of new experimental techniques for exploring microscale physics, there has been significant interest in understanding and categorising how these sources of nonlinearity interact with the long-ranged, configuration dependent, and non-local flows present at zero Reynolds number. In fact, instabilities that arise as a result of these mechanisms are responsible for important phenomena such as inertia-free mixing and transport in microscale devices, spontaneous force-free motion of colloidal particles and droplets, the generation of intra- and extracellular flow fields in organisms, as well as curious turbulence-like phenomena exhibited by active suspensions.
The focus of this colloquium was on nonlinearities that arise in the absence of inertia due to couplings with elastic structures and primarily elastic filaments, and coupling with chemical fields leading to phenomena such as phoretic motion. We aimed for our colloquium to attract and invite both theoreticians and experimentalists in these exciting and sometimes connected areas. An important dimension of the colloquium was to provide a forum of an exchange of techniques and methodologies (computational dynamical systems, asymptotic analysis, experimental and simulation techniques) between researchers on these different topics, as well as explore the commonalities and differences between the mechanisms of instabilities that are encountered.
Altogether there were 56 participants and 40 presentations. The full programme is available on the Colloquium's website. Most importantly, there was ample time for informal discussions among the participants during coffee breaks, lunches and social activities.
HERE SCIENTIFIC REPORT ABOUT WHAT HAS BEEN DISCUSSED/ADRESSED
We thank Euromech, Imperial College, and the other funding sources, for making the meeting possible and for financial and organizational support.
Number of participants from each country
| Country | Participants |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 31 |
| France | 9 |
| Germany | 5 |
| Netherlands | 4 |
| Italy | 3 |
| Spain | 3 |
| Poland | 2 |
| Austria | 2 |
| United States | 2 |
| Estonia | 1 |
| Canada | 1 |
| Singapore | 1 |
| Total | 64 |