, Grad Pheno Journal Club (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM)

Amara McCune, An Effective Cosmological Collider (3:00 PM - 4:15 PM)

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Mauro Pieroni, Testing fundamental physics with gravitational waves (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM)

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Daniel Kapec, Soft Particles and the Geometry of the Space of Celestial CFTs (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM)

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Zare (3:30 PM - 5:30 PM)

, Grad Pheno Journal Club (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM)

, No Astro Seminar (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM)

Matt Reece, Axions in quantum field theory and quantum gravity (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM)

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, Cosmic Happy Hour (8:00 PM - 9:00 PM)

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Ned Wingreen, Capillary Attraction Underlies Bacterial Collective Dynamics (4:00 PM - 5:30 PM)

-- Abstract: “Water is the driving force of all nature.” — Leonardo da Vinci Collective motion of active matter occurs in many living systems, such as bacterial communities, epithelial cell populations, bird flocks, and fish schools. A remarkable example can be found in the soil-dwelling bacterium Myxococcus xanthus. Key to the life cycle of M. xanthus cells is the formation of collective groups: they feed on prey in swarms and aggregate upon starvation. However, the physical mechanisms that keep M. xanthus cells together remains unclear. I’ll present a computational model to explore the role that capillary forces play in bacterial collective dynamics. The modeling results, combined with experiments, show that water menisci forming around bacteria mediate strong capillary attraction between cells. The model accounts for a variety of previously observed phases of collective dynamics as the result of a competition between cell-cell capillary attraction and cell motility. Finally, I’ll discuss the large-scale self-organization of bacterial populations and highlight the importance of capillary force in this process. Together, these results suggest that cell-cell capillary attraction provides a generic mechanism underpinning bacterial collective dynamics.

, Grad Pheno Journal Club (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM)

Magdalena Siwek, Orbital Evolution of Binaries in Circumbinary Disks (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM)

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, HEP Journal Club (12:30 PM - 1:30 PM)

David B Kaplan, Topological materials and relativistic fermions (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM)

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Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument: overview and early results (12:30 PM - 1:15 PM)

Kathryn Moler, Unquantized Vortices in Superconductors (4:00 PM - 5:15 PM)

Zare (3:30 PM - 5:30 PM)

, Grad Pheno Journal Club (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM)

Sultan Hassan, Extracting All Information From Future Surveys (2:00 PM - 3:15 PM)

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Maya Fishbach, Astrophysical Lessons from LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA's Black Holes (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM)

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Soubhik Koumar, Hotspots on the Cosmic Microwave Background: Origin and Searches (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM)

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Ekapob Kulchoakrungsun, Investigating Gravitational Effects on Large and Small-Scale Structures of the Universe (1:00 PM - 3:00 PM)

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Fred MacKintosh, Mechanical Phase Transitions and Elastic Anomalies in Fibrous Networks (4:00 PM - 5:15 PM)

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Zare (3:30 PM - 5:30 PM)

Simeon Hellerman, Conformal field theory at large fermion charge (4:00 PM - 5:30 PM)

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