Here the link to the poster.
Category: Prize
Marcel Rey won best oral presentation at ECIS, Chania
In the talk, Marcel presented his recent work on the destabilisation mechanism of temperature-responsive emulsions. He demonstrated that the presence or absence of stimuli-responsive emulsion behaviour is linked to the characteristic microstructure of the stabilising microgel particles. Surprisingly, only emulsions where the microgels are in a double-corona morphology show stimuli-responsive behaviour while emulsions stabilised with microgels in a single-corona morphology remain insensitive to temperature.
DeepTrack won the pitching competition at the Startup Camp 2022. Congrats!
In the event, held on Tuesday, 15 March 2022, 16:00-19:00, the ten teams that had gone through the training at the Startup Camp and developed their company ideas, pitched their companies on stage to a panel of entrepreneur experts, the other nine teams, and all business coaches at Chalmers Ventures. DeepTrack obtained the first place among the ten participants. Congrats!
Here a few pictures from the final pitching event of the Startup Camp.
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A. Callegari and F. Schmidt won the Poster Prize at the 729. WE Heraeus Seminar on Fluctuation-induced Forces
The two complementary posters focused on the experimental and theoretical/numerical aspects of a system constituted by a micron-sized gold flake suspended in a solution of water-lutidine at critical concentration above a gold-coated substrate. The dynamic of such a system is driven by the interplay of Casimir-Lifshitz forces and critical Casimir forces, which, under convenient circumstances, are the keystone to prevent stiction.
The other two Poster Prizes were awarded to Ariane Soret ( University of Luxembourg, with the poster: Forces Induced by Quantum Mesoscopic Coherent Effects) and Fred Hucht (University of Duisburg-Essen, with the poster: The Square-Lattice Ising Model on the Rectangle).
The Poster Prizes recipients’ names were announced during the closing session on 17 February. Each prize consisted in 100 EUR, which in the case of Agnese and Falko will be shared equally between the two. Andrea Gambassi, who made the announcement on the behalf of the organizers, amusingly mentioned the custom of equally sharing the Nobel Prize.
The Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation is a private institution that supports scientific research and education with an emphasis on physics. It was established in 1963 by Dr. Wilhelm Heinrich Heraeus and his wife Else Heraeus. The Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation is Germany’s most important private institution funding physics.
Laura Pérez García wins the paper prize student at OSA OMA Biophotonics 2021
Laura Pérez Garcia won the prize for 2021 OSA Biophotonics Congress: Optics in the Life Sciences Student Paper Prize in the OSA-OMA Biophotonics 2021, with the work titled FORMA and BEFORE: expanding applications of optical tweezers.
Soft Matter Lab’s presentations at OSA-OMA 2021
The Soft Matter Lab is involved in six presentations at the OSA Biophotonic Congress: Optics in the Life Sciences 2021, topical meeting of Optical Manipulation and its Applications.
Moreover, three of the presentations were selected as finalists for the best student paper in the topical meeting of Optical Manipulation and its Applications.
You can find the details below:
12 April
- 15:00 CEST
Clustering of Janus Particles Under the Effect of Optical Forces Driven by Hydrodynamic Fluxes (AM1D.3)
Agnese Callegari, Gothenburg University
15 April
- 15:45 CEST
FORMA and BEFORE: Expanding Applications of Optical Tweezers (ATh1D.5) Finalist
Laura Pérez García, Gothenburg University
16 April
- 12:30 CEST
Dynamics of an Active Nanoparticle in an Optical Trap (AF1D.2) Finalist
Falko Schmidt, Gothenburg University
- 13:15 CEST
Gain-Assisted Plasmonic/Dielectric Nanoshells in Optical Tweezers: Non-Linear Optomechanics and Thermal Effects. (AF1D.5)
Paolo Polimeno, University of Messina
- 16:00 CEST
Machine Learning to Enhance the Calculation of Optical Forces in the Geometrical Optics Approximation (AF2D.3) Finalist
David Bronte Ciriza, CNR-IPCF, Istituto per i Processi Chimico-Fisici
- 16:15 CEST
Calibration of Force Fields Using Recurrent Neural Networks (AF2D.4)
Aykut Argun, University of Gothenburg
Laura Pérez García nominated for a Student Paper Prize at the Biophotonics Congress
Laura Pérez García has been nominated by the Optical Society of America for a Student Paper Prize for Optical Manipulation and its Applications among three other finalists. She will present her work on FORMA and BEFORE: Expanding Applications of Optical Tweezers at the Optical Manipulation and its Applications meeting as part of the 2021 OSA Biophotonics Congress: Optics in Life Sciences.
The final selection will be based on the oral talk and Laura will present her work on the 15th of April at 15:45 (CEST).
Falko Schmidt nominated for a Student Paper Prize at the Biophotonics Congress
Falko Schmidt has been nominated by the Optical Society of America for a Student Paper Prize for Optical Manipulation and its Applications among three other finalists. He will present his work on the Dynamics of an Active Nanoparticle in an Optical Trap at the Optical Manipulation and its Applications meeting as part of the 2021 OSA Biophotonics Congress: Optics in Life Sciences.
Based on the oral presentations of the finalists, the jury will select the winner. Falko Schmidt will present on April 16th at 12:30pm (CEST).
This work is based on the article recently published in Nature Communications.
Non-equilibrium properties of an active nanoparticle in a harmonic potential
Falko Schmidt, Hana Šípová-Jungová, Mikael Käll, Alois Würger & Giovanni Volpe
Nature Communications 12, 1902 (2021)
doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-22187-z
arXiv: 2009.08393
David Bronte Ciriza nominated for a Student Paper Prize at the Biophotonics Congress
David Bronte Ciriza has been nominated by the Optical Society of America for a Student Paper Prize for Optical Manipulation and its Applications among three other finalists. He will present his work on Machine Learning to Enhance the Calculation of Optical Forces in the Geometrical Optics Approximation at the Optical Manipulation and its Applications meeting as part of the 2021 OSA Biophotonics Congress: Optics in Life Sciences.
Based on the oral presentations of the finalists, the jury will select the winner. David Bronte Ciriza will present on April 16th at 5:00pm (CEST).
Giovanni Volpe awarded new ERC Consolidator Grant
The title of his project is “Microscopic Active Particles with Embodied Intelligence”.
Active particles and active matter research tries to understand and replicate the characteristics of living microorganisms in artificial systems. Over billions of years of evolution, living organisms have developed complex strategies to survive and thrive. The artificial active particles are still incapable of autonomous information processing.
Giovanni Volpe’s project aims to address three main challenges in the current research on active matter:
- Make active particles capable of autonomous information processing.
- Optimize the behavioral strategies of individual active particles.
- Optimize the interactions between active particles.
Links
Giovanni Volpe awarded new ERC Consolidator Grant
Official press release (ERC): CoG Recipients 2020
14 forskare verksamma i Sverige får ERC Consolidator grant