CFTC seminar: Glassy physics: from liquids to living cells. Center For Theoretical and Computational Physics 2021-04-22 | Seminar by Liesbeth Janssen of Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, on a novel first-principles theory of glass formation, referred to as Generalized Mode-Coupling Theory, which can be applied not only to ordinary glass-forming materials, but also to more complex systems such as dense collectives of living cells. Delivered at the Centre for Theoretical and Computational Physics (CFTC) of Lisbon University, Portugal, on 22 April 2021.
Women at CFTC - Carolina Ribeiro Center For Theoretical and Computational Physics 2024-03-09 | 🌟 Let's shine a light on the diverse talents of women in physics to celebrate International Women's Day! 🌟Meet Carolina Ribeiro, an MSc student working on active matter. Beyond her academic pursuits, Carolina coordinates CFTC's Communication and Social Media.Let's celebrate Carolina and the dynamic contributions of women like her, shaping the future of science!#WomenInScience #CFTC #ScienceCommunication 🌐📱
Women at CFTC - Matilde Túbal Center For Theoretical and Computational Physics 2024-03-08 | 🌟 Join us in acknowledging the impactful work of women in physics and at CFTC, this International Women's Day! 🌟Meet Matilde Tubal, an MSc student who is doing her thesis at CFTC and INL. Matilde's innovative work centers on utilizing magnetic nanotubes to effectively remove microplastics from water sources.Let's celebrate Matilde and the invaluable contributions of women like her, making a difference in the world of science! #WomenInScience #CFTC 🌍💧
Women at CFTC - Maria Gonçalves Center For Theoretical and Computational Physics 2024-03-08 | This International Women's Day, we recognize the significant contributions of women in physics at CFTC. 🌟Introducing Maria Gonçalves, a PhD student specializing in Particle Physics. Maria's dedication and expertise are instrumental in advancing our understanding of the universe. Let's acknowledge Maria and the invaluable presence of women in physics. #WomenInPhysics #CFTC 🚀🔬
CFTC seminar: Tuning the physicochemical properties of lipid nanoparticles for efficient delivery... Center For Theoretical and Computational Physics 2022-05-26 | Seminar by Cecília Leal of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, on lipid membrane polymorphism and how it can be exploited to generate a new class of materials for the delivery of cargo to cells. Delivered at the Centre for Theoretical and Computational Physics (CFTC) of Lisbon University, Portugal, on 24 May 2022.
CFTC seminar: Lipid and polymer-based nanoparticles for gene delivery: using colloidal science... Center For Theoretical and Computational Physics 2022-05-26 | Seminar by Bruno Silva of the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Braga, Portugal, on using colloidal science and microfluidics to control the size and structure of lipid and polymer-based nanoparticles for gene delivery. Delivered at the Centre for Theoretical and Computational Physics (CFTC) of Lisbon University, Portugal, on 16 December 2021.
CFTC seminar: Slip, ypsotaxis, and synchronization of catalytically self-propelled particles. Center For Theoretical and Computational Physics 2022-04-20 | Seminar by Daniela Kraft of Leiden University, The Netherlands, on spheres half coated with platinum that propel themselves autonomously in the presence of hydrogen peroxide, as a realisation of synthetic microswimmers. These are found to exhibit complex behaviours near surfaces or in confinement.. Delivered at the Centre for Theoretical and Computational Physics (CFTC) of Lisbon University, Portugal, on 29 April 2021.
CFTC seminar: Flowing Liquids Through Nanostructured Fluid-Bicontinuous Gels Center For Theoretical and Computational Physics 2022-03-25 | Seminar by Martin Haase of Utrecht University, The Netherlands, on how to control interfacial self-assembly in bijels and flow liquids through them, with potential applications such as microreaction media, fuel-cell components, and separation membranes. Delivered at the Centre for Theoretical and Computational Physics (CFTC) of Lisbon University, Portugal, on 24 March 2022.
CFTC seminar: Taming Active Matter: from ordered topological defects to autonomous shells Center For Theoretical and Computational Physics 2021-12-09 | Seminar by Amin Doostmohammadi of the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, on the spontaneous emergence of collective flows in active fluids and how to control them. Delivered at the Centre for Theoretical and Computational Physics (CFTC) of Lisbon University, Portugal, on 9 December 2021.
CFTC seminar: Self-Assembly of Colloidal Nanomaterials towards Multi-Functional Supraparticles Center For Theoretical and Computational Physics 2021-12-02 | Seminar by Minghan Hu of ETH Zuerich, Switzerland, on superparamagnetic nanoparticles and polymeric nanocapsules, used as building blocks to produce multi-functional supraparticles through evaporation guided assembly. Delivered at the Centre for Theoretical and Computational Physics (CFTC) of Lisbon University, Portugal, on 2 December 2021.
CFTC seminar: Probing liquid crystal properties with ordinal methods and simple machine learning Center For Theoretical and Computational Physics 2021-11-16 | Seminar by Haroldo Ribeiro of Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Brazil, on the use of machine learning methods to estimate the properties of liquid crystals and their phase transitions directly from their optical textures. Delivered at the Centre for Theoretical and Computational Physics (CFTC) of Lisbon University, Portugal, on 16 November 2021.
CFTC seminar: Colloids on curved surfaces: nucleation, migration and frustration Center For Theoretical and Computational Physics 2021-11-05 | Seminar by Mark Miller of Durham University, UK, on simulating the phase behaviour of colloidal particles on spherical, toroidal and conical surfaces. Delivered at the Centre for Theoretical and Computational Physics (CFTC) of Lisbon University, Portugal, on 4 November 2021.
CFTC seminar: Properties of the spin-momentum locked state Center For Theoretical and Computational Physics 2021-10-26 | Seminar by Mauro Dória of Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on the existence of a local magnetic field as a direct consequence of spin-momentum locking in condensed-matter systems. Delivered at the Centre for Theoretical and Computational Physics (CFTC) of Lisbon University, Portugal, on 26 October 2021.
CFTC seminar: Machine learning and Inverse design of soft materials Center For Theoretical and Computational Physics 2021-09-27 | Seminar by Marjolein Dijkstra of Utrecht University, The Netherlands, on using machine learning to predict the emerging properties of soft materials from a microscopic description, as well as to reverse engineer materials with desired properties. Delivered at the Centre for Theoretical and Computational Physics (CFTC) of Lisbon University, Portugal, on 13 May 2021.
CFTC seminar: Virtual lab tour of the Flexible Structures Laboratory at EPFL Center For Theoretical and Computational Physics 2021-06-24 | Seminar by Pedro Reis of Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, comprising a virtual tour of the Flexible Structures Laboratory (fleXLab), with emphasis on recent results for the mechanics of rods and knots.. Delivered (jointly with Paul Grandgeorge and Paul Johanns) at the Centre for Theoretical and Computational Physics (CFTC) of Lisbon University, Portugal, on 24 June 2021.
CFTC seminar: Wetting of yield-stress fluids Center For Theoretical and Computational Physics 2021-06-17 | Seminar by Catherine Barentin of Université de Lyon 1, France, on the wetting properties of yield stress fluids investigated by performing capillary experiments, with results that are strikingly different from those for simple fluids. Delivered at the Centre for Theoretical and Computational Physics (CFTC) of Lisbon University, Portugal, on 17 June 2021.
CFTC seminar: The physics of cement cohesion Center For Theoretical and Computational Physics 2021-06-01 | Seminar by Emanuela del Gado of Georgetown University, US, on 3D numerical simulations of cement cohesion using a simple but molecular description of ions and water, combined with an analytical theory that goes beyond the traditional continuum approximations. Delivered at the Centre for Theoretical and Computational Physics (CFTC) of Lisbon University, Portugal, on 1 June 2021.
CFTC seminar: Motility-induced phase separation Center For Theoretical and Computational Physics 2021-05-20 | Seminar by Alexandre Solon of Sorbonne University, Paris, France, on the simplest phase separation taking place in active systems, which in a first approximation can be understood in terms of effective thermodynamic functions, yet exhibits a radically different behaviour at large scales. Delivered at the Centre for Theoretical and Computational Physics (CFTC) of Lisbon University, Portugal, on 20 May 2021.
Matéria Condensada Mole: Física, Química ou Culinária? Center For Theoretical and Computational Physics 2021-05-05 | A matéria mole tem aplicações importantes como espumas, adesivos, detergentes, cosméticos, tintas, aditivos alimentares, lubrificantes, borracha, etc. Além disso, vários materiais biológicos (sangue, músculo, leite, iogurte, gelatina) são feitos de matéria mole. Finalmente, os cristais líquidos têm propriedades óticas e uma resposta a campos elétricos que os tornam essenciais nos écrans dos dispositivos eletrónicos (LCDs).A descrição destes materiais é um ramo da Física, da Química ou da Culinária? A Física da Matéria Condensada (FMC) descreve os fenómenos à ‘nossa’ escala, onde o balanço entre a ordem e a desordem determina a estrutura e as propriedades de todas as fases da matéria, incluindo a matéria viva! A Matéria Condensada Mole (MCM) é uma área da FMC em grande desenvolvimento. Nesta palestra serão identificados os aspetos da MCM que a tornam um dos grandes desafios atuais na Física (e de forma diferente na Química e na Culinária).Oradora: Margarida Telo da gama (Ciências ULisboa / CFTC)
CFTC seminar: Spontaneous Topography in Liquid Crystal Films Center For Theoretical and Computational Physics 2021-05-04 | Seminar by Tim Atherton of Tufts University, USA, on how spatially-varying order in a thin liquid crystal film, induced by chemical or topographic patterning on a substrate, can lead to spontaneous topography on an opposing free interface. Delivered at the Centre for Theoretical and Computational Physics (CFTC) of Lisbon University, Portugal, on 4 May 2021.
CFTC seminar: A touch of non-linearity: mesoscale swimmers and active matter in fluids Center For Theoretical and Computational Physics 2021-04-13 | Seminar by Daphne Klotsa of the University of North Carolina at Chepel Hill, USA, on simulation stidies of a simple model swimmer used to understand the transition from Stokes to intermediate Reynolds number flows, Delivered at the Centre for Theoretical and Computational Physics (CFTC) of Lisbon University, Portugal, on 13 April 2021.
CFTC seminar: The uncertain fate of a colloid inside a vanishing droplet Center For Theoretical and Computational Physics 2021-03-25 | Seminar by Alvaro Marin of the University f Twente, The Netherlands, ,on experimental and simulation studies of the motion of colloidal particles inside an evaporating liquid droplet, going beyond the coffee ring effect. Delivered at the Centre for Theoretical and Computational Physics (CFTC) of Lisbon University, Portugal, on 25 March 2021.
CFTC seminar: Chemically powered micro- and nanomotors: From single particle to swarming behaviour Center For Theoretical and Computational Physics 2021-03-18 | Seminar by Samuel Sanchez of the Institute of Bioengineering of Catalonia, Spain, on (bio)engineering out of equilibrium systems that resemble living microswimmers. Delivered at the Centre for Theoretical and Computational Physics (CFTC) of Lisbon University, Portugal, on 18 March 2021.
CFTC seminar: Nematics in Confined Geometries - Complex Patterns and their Applications Center For Theoretical and Computational Physics 2021-03-14 | Seminar by Apala Majumdar of Strathclyde University, UK, on new results on the defect sets and multistability of nematics confined in regular two-dimensional polygons. Delivered at the Centre for Theoretical and Computational Physics (CFTC) of Lisbon University, Portugal, on 4 March 2021.
CFTC seminar: Democratising live-cell super-resolution microscopy enabled by open technology Center For Theoretical and Computational Physics 2021-03-11 | Seminar by Ricardo Henriques of Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal, on super-resolution microscopy and associated computational tools for the study of nanoscale biological processes.. Delivered at the Centre for Theoretical and Computational Physics (CFTC) of Lisbon University, Portugal, on 11 March 2021.
CFTC seminar: Why can we skate on ice? Center For Theoretical and Computational Physics 2021-02-25 | Seminar by Daniel Bonn of Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on experiments to elucidate the slipperiness of ice surfaces. Delivered at the Centre for Theoretical and Computational Physics (CFTC) of Lisbon University, Portugal, on 25 February 2021.
CFTC seminar: Sedimentation of colloidal plate-rod mixtures revisited Center For Theoretical and Computational Physics 2021-02-18 | Seminar by Daniel de las Heras of Universitaet Bayreuth, Germany, on the theoretical description of sedimentation in colloidal mixtures of rods and plates, with intriguing stacking behaviours. Delivered at the Centre for Theoretical and Computational Physics (CFTC) of Lisbon University, Portugal, on 18 February 2021.
CFTC seminar: Ordering of oblate hard particles between penetrable walls Center For Theoretical and Computational Physics 2021-02-11 | Seminar by Paulo Teixeira of ISEL and CFTC-UL, Portugal, on a theoretical and simulation study of confined discotic liquid cystals. Delivered at the Centre for Theoretical and Computational Physics (CFTC) of Lisbon University, Portugal, on 11 February 2021.
CFTC seminar: Colloidal nanocrystal gels from thermodynamic principles Center For Theoretical and Computational Physics 2021-02-02 | Seminar by Thomas Truskett of the University,of Texas at Austin, USA, on theory, experiments and simulations of nanocrystal gels. Delivered at the Centre for Theoretical and Computational Physics (CFTC) of Lisbon University, Portugal, on 2 FEbruary 2021.
CFTC seminar: Computational studies of the L-L transition in supercooled water: old and new results. Center For Theoretical and Computational Physics 2021-01-28 | Seminar by Francesco Sciortino of Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy, on simulations of metastable liquid-liquid transitions in water as a possible explanation of its unusual behaviours. Delivered at the Centre for Theoretical and Computational Physics (CFTC) of Lisbon University, Portugal, on 28 January 2021.
CFTC seminar: Modelling ternary fluid flows with free energy lattice Boltzmann method Center For Theoretical and Computational Physics 2021-01-21 | Seminar by Halim Kusumaatmaja of Durham University, UK, on lattice-Boltzmann simulations of liquid drops moving across liquid-infused surfaces, colliding liquid drops, and droplets in microfluidic channels. Delivered at the Centre for Theoretical and Computational Physics (CFTC) of Lisbon University, Portugal, on 21 January 2021.
CFTC seminar: Droplet microfluidics: from soft-granular materials to tissue engineering Center For Theoretical and Computational Physics 2021-01-15 | Seminar by Jan Guzowski of the Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, on the fabrication and characterisation of microdroplets and microdroplet aggregates for microfluidic applications. Delivered at the Centre for Theoretical and Computational Physics (CFTC) of Lisbon University, Portugal, on 14 January 2021.
CFTC seminar: Light driven Ag/AgCl-based Janus particles and their microenvironment Center For Theoretical and Computational Physics 2020-12-17 | Seminar by Larysa Baraban of the Technical University of Dresden, Germany, on the synthesis and behaviour of light-driven Janus particles, especially at surfaces. Delivered at the Centre for Theoretical and Computational Physics (CFTC) of Lisbon University, Portugal, on 17 December 2020.
CFTC seminar: Spectral content of a single random trajectory Center For Theoretical and Computational Physics 2020-12-10 | Seminar by Gleb Oshanin of Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France,, on the theoretical, numerical and experimental analyses of spectral densities of finite-length individual random trajectories of diffusing particles. Delivered at the Centre for Theoretical and Computational Physics (CFTC) of Lisbon University, Portugal, on 10 December 2020.
CFTC seminar: Simulating bubble formation in nanopores Center For Theoretical and Computational Physics 2020-12-03 | Seminar by Alberto Giacomello of Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy, on computer simulations of gas nanobubble formation in confined geometries. Delivered at the Centre for Theoretical and Computational Physics (CFTC) of Lisbon University, Portugal, on 3 December 2020.
CFTC seminar: Ferroelectric Splay Nematic Phase Center For Theoretical and Computational Physics 2020-11-26 | Seminar by Alenka Mertelj of the Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia, on the experimental discovery of a nematic liquid crystal phase with ferroelectric order. Delivered at the Centre for Theoretical and Computational Physics (CFTC) of Lisbon University, Portugal, on 26 November 2020.
CFTC seminar: Emergent (and disappearing) Symmetries in Soft Matter Systems Center For Theoretical and Computational Physics 2020-11-19 | Seminar by Douglas Cleaverri of Sheffield Hallam University, UK, on simulations of self-assembly in soft matter. Delivered at the Centre for Theoretical and Computational Physics (CFTC) of Lisbon University, Portugal, on 19 November 2020.
CFTC seminar: Topological carnival Center For Theoretical and Computational Physics 2020-11-11 | Seminar by Ivan Smalyukh from the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA, on Topological carnival: electrically-powered motions of soliton crystallites in chiral liquid crystals. Delivered at the Centre for Theoretical and Computational Physics (CFTC) of Lisbon University, Portugal, on 10 November 2020.
CFTC seminar: Black holes and the 2020 Nobel Physics Prize Center For Theoretical and Computational Physics 2020-11-05 | Seminar by Carlos Herdeiro of Aveiro University, Portugal, on the 2020 Physics Nobel Prize. Delivered at the Centre for Theoretical and Computational Physics (CFTC) of Lisbon University, Portugal, on 5 November 2020.
CFTC seminar: Protein assemblies as a new regime of matter Center For Theoretical and Computational Physics 2020-10-29 | Seminar by Pablo Sartori of Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal, on modelling the self-assembly of protein complexes. Delivered at the Centre for Theoretical and Computational Physics (CFTC) of Lisbon University, Portugal, on 29 October 2020.
CFTC seminar: Shaping colloidal bananas to reveal biaxial, splay-bend nematic, and smectic phases Center For Theoretical and Computational Physics 2020-10-26 | Seminar by Roel Dullens of Oxford University, UK, on the controlled synthesis and characterisation of colloidal rods that display very rich liquid crystalline behaviour. Delivered at the Centre for Theoretical and Computational Physics (CFTC) of Lisbon University, Portugal, on 22 October 2020.
Round table - A theoretical physicist at industry Center For Theoretical and Computational Physics 2020-07-31 | O webinar de hoje (sexta feira, às 15h) é sobre o papel dos #FísicosTeóricos fora da academia. Vamos discutir como é que uma formação avançada em #Física abre portas no mercado de trabalho.Estarão à conversa 5 Físicos formados no CFTC: Ana Fialho, Teresa Scholz, Frank Raischel, Maria Carolina Figueirinhas Pereira e João Pires da Cruz (moderador).
Happily Hunting Higgses! (Pedro Ferreira) Center For Theoretical and Computational Physics 2020-07-30 | This is the eleventh webinar of this series of webinars for the CFTC internships program. Today we will have Pedro Ferreira. Pedro is a Professor at ISEL and a researcher here at CFTC. Pedro has been working on the theory of Higgs boson for some time now, so he is the ideal person to tell the story of the hunt for the Higgs boson and the contribution from theory.
The active interfaces of swarming bacteria (Rodrigo Coelho) Center For Theoretical and Computational Physics 2020-07-24 | This is the seventh webinar of this series of webinars for the CFTC internships program. Today we will have Rodrigo Coelho. Rodrigo did is PhD in the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, with a 1 year internship at IBM. Then he went to work in industry as a development engineer before joining CFTC. Rodrigo brought an expertise in fluid dynamics to CFTC, more specifically in Lattice Boltzmann simulations.He will show us today how the interfaces of swarms of bacteria behave.
Kirigami for lazy people (Nuno Araújo) Center For Theoretical and Computational Physics 2020-07-23 | This is the sixth seminar of this series of seminars for the CFTC internships program. Today we will have the second webinar of Nuno Araújo. Nuno will show how to use the ancient technique of kirigami to solve folding at the microscale.
Designing chemically active micromotors (Mykola Tasinkevych) Center For Theoretical and Computational Physics 2020-07-21 | This is the fourth seminar of this series of seminars for the CFTC internships program. Today we will have Mykola Tasinkevich. Mykola is an Associated Researcher here at CFTC and professor at FCUL. He was an Associated Researcher at the Max Planck Institute in Germany for more than ten years, and was an Associated researcher at Northwester University in the US before joining the CFTC.Mykola will talk to us about How to design chemically active micromotors.
How to grow an organ… in the computer (Cristóvão Dias) Center For Theoretical and Computational Physics 2020-07-21 | The speaker of the fifth webinar is Cristóvão Dias.Cristóvão joined CFTC 6 years ago and, since then, he has been studying the dynamics of self-organization at the microscale. Using colloidal particles as a prototype for the building blocks, he has been trying to understand how gels are formed spontaneously at the microscale and how the physical properties of these gels depend on the number of connections that a particle can establish with their neighbors. More recently, Cristóvão has been exploring how these ideas and methods can be extended to develop a new class of self-assembled scaffolds for the growth of human tissues, and eventually organs, either in the lab or inside the body.
How to find dark matter? (Rui Santos) Center For Theoretical and Computational Physics 2020-07-17 | This is the third seminar of this series of seminars for the CFTC internships program. Today we will have Prof. Rui Santos. Rui is professor at ISEL and invited professor at FCUL, he won the 2018 scientific prize of the Instituto Politecnico de Lisboa, and has an impressive list of more than 600 collaborators worldwide.Rui will talk to us about Dark Matter and the challenges of the field.
The quest for connectivity at different scales (Nuno Araújo) Center For Theoretical and Computational Physics 2020-07-16 | This is the second seminar of this series of seminars for the CFTC internships program. Today we will have Prof. Nuno Araújo. Nuno is the scientific coordinator of CFTC, he passed the barrier of 100 publications for some time now, he won the 2018 Universidade de Lisboa prize, and has been in the news everywhere for his recent work on the role of mobility in the propagation of the Coronavirus.Nuno will talk about the percolation problem, and how it can be applied to problems at different scales.
What it’s like to be a theoretical physicist ? (Margarida Telo da Gama) Center For Theoretical and Computational Physics 2020-07-14 | This video belongs to a series of 10 webinars about many different topics to provide an overview of the research work that is being developed at our research unit. From dark matter to fluid mechanics, you will have the opportunity to learn about the state of the art research in particle physics, non-linear optics, and condensed matter physics. To close, on the 31st we will have a round table with our alumni, to discuss how relevant was the training with us for their professional life in industry.sites.google.com/view/projetos-cftc-2020/programaFor the first webinar, we invited the founder of CFTC, Prof. Margarida Telo da Gama. Margarida is a Professor of Physics at the Faculty of Science from the University of Lisbon. Margarida has more than 40 years of experience in Research in Theoretical Physics and that over these 4 decades she built a school of theoretical physics in Portugal, which contributed to the development of soft condensed matter physics at the international level. In her journey she had the opportunity to interact with many scientists that were key in the field, learning a lot about what it is to be a physicist and she will tell us some of those stories.
