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
Contact
Prof. Dr. Thomas Ihle
Telefon: +49 3834 420-4730
Telefax: +49 3834 420-4701
ihlephysik.uni-greifswaldde
News
- Oct: The group seminar starts again. The first talks are by Dr. Soheli Mukherjee (Hebrew University Jerusalem) on Large deviation framework for fluctuations in stochastic processes and disordered systems, Pratikshya Jena (IIT BHU, Varanasi) on Pattern Formation and Unconventional Phase Separation in Active Matter systems and Dr. Ashwani Kumar Tripathi (Technion, Haifa) on Hydrodynamics of nanoscale active matter: from self-propelled biomolecules to
magnetically driven nanorobots. These and many talks in our seminar are online, do get in contact if you are interested! - Oct 1: Presentation by H-H. Boltz at Mainz Materials Simulation Days
- Sep 22-26: Poster presentation by H-H. Boltz at SOEAM 25 (MPI PKS Workshop)
- Sep 17: Presentation by H-H. Boltz at CECAM Workshop Statistical physics of living systems
- Jul 7-11: Presentation by H-H. Boltz at Statphys 29 Satellite meeting From flocking birds to migrating cells: recent advances in active matter and statistical physics
- There is an opening for a two-year postdocoral position (extension possible up to six years) within the group. Join us!
- Jun 2 - 6: B. Kohler will be representing the group at Interdisciplinary challenges in the physics of complexity and life 2025 (IntCha25) with a poster
- May 14: new publications: Nonequilibrium Steady States in Active Systems: A Helmholtz–Hodge Perspective (Entropy Boltz, Ihle) and preprint Non-reciprocal anti-aligning active mixtures: deriving the exact Boltzmann collision operator (Mihatsch, Ihle)
- May 5: Presentation by H-H. Boltz at “Conservation laws and non-reciprocity” conference (U Münster)
- May: Max-Robin Schultz rejoins the group as a lab intern
- April: Ben Steinhöfel joined the group as a lab intern
- Mar 19: Benjamin Kohler presents at the DPG conference in Regensburg.
- Feb: Both T. Wagner and M-R. Schultz have successfully completed their Bachelor's studies with theses in the group. Congratulations.
- 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)
older news
- Nov 9: preprint "Comment on "Steady-state distributions and nonsteady dynamics in nonequilibrium systems" https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.04781 (Boltz / Ihle)
- Nov 8: ad-hoc addition to the teaching activities: theoretical microfluidics (GSR, We 14.00 s.t)
- Oct 20, Our group seminar restarts with a talk by J. Mihatsch
- June 8th, Colloquium talk by R. Kürsten
- May 23, invited talk U Magdeburg (T. Ihle)
- Apr 26, Talk at "In search of model structures for non-equilibrium systems" (H-H. Boltz),
- Apr 21 2023: Group Seminar on ""Wachstumsregime und Transportphänomene in Eruka-Säure Monolayern" by Florian Gellert ( AG Helm )
- Apr 14 2023: Group Seminar on Shape-changing active matter (H-H. Boltz)
- New Preprint on Flocking in Binary Mixtures of Anti-aligning Self-propelled Particles (Kürsten, Mihatsch, Ihle) https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.05476
- Congratulations to Jakob Mihatsch for presenting at the DPG Spring meeting 2023 "Phase transitions in multicomponent active matter: a quantitative kinetic theory"
- Two preprints have been published on the active particles with social distancing https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.03354 and https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.03357
- Jan 13 2023: Invited talk "Scattering theory of active particles with social distancing: non-local closure and network noise" by T. Ihle at U Duisburg
- October 2022: Horst-Holger Boltz joins the group as a postdoctoral researcher
- Rüdiger Kürsten joined the Universitat de Barcelona, Departament de Física de la Matèria Condensada, he remains part of the group as an external habil candidate
- Benjamin Kohler starts Bachelor-Thesis in our group
- April 2022: Jakob Mihatsch starts Master-Project and Tom Müller starts Bachelor-Thesis in our group
- Bachelor- and Masterthesis Topics 2021 available!
- Martin Zumaya from UNAM, Mexico-City joins the group as visiting graduate student. Welcome Martin! Nov 20, 2018
- Rüdiger Kürsten attends the summer school in Les Houches on "Active matter and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics", Aug/Sept 2018
- Nikita Sendrowski defends his Master thesis on active Brownian particles, August 27, 2018
- Ruediger Kuersten's paper on the giant Kovacs memory effect selected as "Editor's Suggestion" in Physical Review Letters. Congratulations Ruediger! Nov 2, 2017
- Invited talk at workshop "Multiscale analysis and modelling of collective migration in biological systems'' at ZiF Bielefeld, Oct 12, 2017
- Nikita Sendrowski joins the group as new graduate student. Welcome Nikita! Sept 15, 2017
- Thomas Ihle as guest professor at Instituto de Fisica, UNAM, Mexico City, Sept 11, 2017
- Alexander Unruh finishes Bachelor thesis on "Kinetic Theory of active Particles", July 15, 2017
- Sven Stroteich finishes Bachelor thesis on "Agent-based Simulations of Vicsek-like Models", January 26, 2017
- Thomas Ihle recognized as "Outstanding Referee 2017“ by the American Physical Society. January 20, 2017
- Invited talk at CECAM workshop "Biomimetic and living materials: active matter at high densities" at EPFL Lausanne, December 9, 2016