16th Edition. Video presentations

Ecological Chaos and Microbial Diversity: What Should One Be Surprised By? One of the discoveries enabled by the DNA sequencing revolution is the enormous diversity of microbes, extending down to the finest scales of genetic differences. Remarkably, extensive diversity within a single bacterial species can coexist in the same location and time ... Read more

Self-propelled Topological Defects Active materials such as bacteria, molecular motors and eukaryotic cells continuously transform chemical energy taken from their surroundings to mechanical work. Dense active matter shows mesoscale turbulence, the emergence ... Read more

Features of nanoscale thermodynamics. In recent decades there has been increasing interest in applying the laws of thermodynamics to systems at very small length scales, such as biomolecules, optically manipulated colloidal particles, single electron devices, and trapped ions. ... Read more

Statistical measures for classical integrable systems. The pertinence of a statistical description of the long-term dynamics of a macroscopic system is not ensured in general, and much less so if the system is integrable. Great interest has been recently paid to check whether such an equilibrium-like approach ... Read more