Soft Matter Theory

Biology-inspired statistical and computational physics

Research Topics

  • Statistical physics of active matter
  • Kinetic theory of swarms and flocks
  • Soft condensed matter physics
  • Computer simulation of complex liquids
  • Pattern formation far from equilibrium

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Contact

Prof. Dr. Thomas Ihle

Telefon: +49 3834 420-4730
Telefax: +49 3834 420-4701
ihlephysik.uni-greifswaldde

News

  • Mar 19: Benjamin Kohler presents at the DPG conference in Regensburg.
  • Feb 21: New publication: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.L023402 (Kürsten / Mihatsch / Ihle)
  • Feb 20-22: Talk in the 26th Seminar on “Pattern Formation in Chemistry and Biophysics”, Lutherstadt Wittenberg (H-H. Boltz)
  • Jan 31: External guest in the group seminar: Dr. S. Chatterjee (U Saarland), talk will be remote, do reach out for credentials!
  • Jan 24: M. Helbig (Flocking as irreversible Aggregation) successfully presented work done within the group as part of the "Vortragstechnik" seminar series
  • Dec 17: Talk by E. Schneider (Group Otto) as part of the group seminar
  • Dec 4: New publication: Kinetic Theory of Self-Propelled Particles with Nematic Alignment (Entropy, selected as featured article, also cover of the Dec 12 issue; Boltz/Kohler/Ihle)
  • Nov 8: Group meeting talk by B. Kohler
  • Nov 1: Group meeting talk by H-H. Boltz
  • Oct 18: Group meeting restarts, talks by the two bachelor candidates M-R. Schultz and T. Wagner
  • Jun 28: Successful defense of the Master's thesis by J. Mihatsch. Jakob is moving to Magdeburg for his PhD, good luck!
  • Mar 20: Presentation at the DPG meeting
  • Mar 6: Presentation at the APS march meeting (H-H. Boltz)
  • Feb 29: preprint "Hyperuniformity in deterministic anti-aligning active matter" https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19451 (Boltz/Ihle)
  • Feb 2: T. Wagner (on his experiments with Hexbugs) and M-R. Schultz (on agent-based simulations of active systems w/ and w/o non-reciprocal interactions)  successfully presented work done within the group (partially co-supervised by M. Himpel) as part of the "Vortragstechnik" seminar series
  • Jan 19: External guest in the group seminar, Dr Gethmann  from the Friedrich-Löffler-Institute (poster)
  • Jan 5: External guest in the group seminar, Dr. Liprandi from Zoology (Group Wolff) talks about modeling of spider silk (poster)
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