Attractor-Driven Matter - presented by Rahil Valani

Attractor-Driven Matter

Rahil Valani

Rahil Valani
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Active particle Entity that consume energy and convert it into persistent motion Biomolecules Bacteria Janus particle Sperm cells Robots Animals Nanometres Micrometres Millimetres Metres Cichos et al. (Nat. Mac. Intell. 2020) Cells Bacteria Robots Walking droplets 00:02 (min:sec) 0.00 411 in Hrowman mation David Rogers (1950s) Turner et al. (2000) Paramanick et al. (2024) Valani et al. (2019)
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References
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    F. Cichos et al. (2020) Machine learning for active matter. Nature Machine Intelligence
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    David Rogers (1950s)
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    R. N. Valani et al. (2019) Superwalking Droplets. Physical Review Letters
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    Turner et al. (2000
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    S. Paramanick et al. (2024) Uncovering Universal Characteristics of Homing Paths using Foraging Robots. PRX Life
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Summary (AI generated)

Hello everyone. I am Rahil, a Leverhulme-Peierls fellow at the University of Oxford. Today, I will present my research, conducted in collaboration with David Paganin, on attractor-driven matter.

To begin, let me introduce the concept of active particles. An active particle is an entity that consumes energy and converts it into persistent, directed motion. These particles can be either living organisms or synthetic systems that operate out of equilibrium, and they range in size from nanometers to meters.

In this presentation, we will focus on specific examples of active particles. At the microscale, we have cells and bacteria in living systems. Additionally, we will explore synthetic systems, such as mobile robots and droplets that move across liquid surfaces.