Intelligent Active Matter Conference
2025

Kloster Seeon, near Munich, Germany, July 31 - August 2 2025

The conference 'Intelligent Active Matter' will be held at Kloster Seeon from July 31 to August 2, 2025. It aims to bring together leading scientists in the fields of Active Matter and Nonequilibrium Physics to explore and discuss the pressing challenges in both experimental and theoretical research related to Intelligent Active Matter.

Speakers

Speakers include

Program

Thursday, July 31

  • 11:15 – 11:25
    Welcome – Erwin Frey
  • 11:25 – 12:00
    Raymond Goldstein Phototactic Decision-Making by Algae
  • 12:10 – 14:00
    Lunch
  • 14:00 – 14:35
    L. Mahadevan Navigational Paradigms for Sentient Particles and Fields
  • 14:35 – 15:10
    Julia Yeomans Deformable Active Matter
  • 15:15 – 15:50
    Andreas Bausch Structure Formation in Organoid Systems
  • 15:50 – 16:35
    Coffee Break
  • 16:35 – 18:00
    Poster Session
  • 18:00 – 20:00
    Dinner
  • 20:00 – 20:35
    Hans Jürgen Briegel Modelling (Artificial) Agency. Perspectives from Quantum Physics and Philosophy

Friday, August 1

  • 09:00 – 09:35
    Hartmut Löwen Towards Intelligent Active Particles
  • 09:35 – 10:10
    Peter Littlewood Non-Hermitian Phase Transitions in Driven Dissipative Quantum Systems
  • 10:10 – 10:45
    Coffee Break
  • 10:45 – 11:20
    Frank Cichos Reinforcement Learning with Active Particles in Thermoviscous Flows
  • 11:20 – 11:55
    Ayusman Sen Active Enzymes: From Transport to Collective Behavior
  • 12:10 – 14:00
    Lunch
  • 14:00 – 14:35
    Steffen Rulands Collective Behavior in Neural Networks and Robotic Matter
  • 14:35 – 15:10
    Fernando Peruani Statistical Mechanics of Intelligent Active Matter: Optimal Transport, Synchronization, and Criticality in Bacteria and Sheep Herds
  • 15:15 – 15:50
    Olivier Dauchot Swarm Robotics: A Learning Active Liquid
  • 15:50 – 16:35
    Coffee Break
  • 16:35 – 17:10
    Veronika Magdanz Collaboration Despite Competition: Lessons from Sperm Behaviour
  • 17:10 – 17:45
    Sabine H. L. Klapp Nonreciprocal Field Theories for Active and Decision-Making Systems
  • 18:00 – 20:00
    Dinner

Saturday, August 2

  • 09:00 – 09:35
    Metin Sitti Physically Intelligent Small-Scale Mobile Robots
  • 09:35 – 10:10
    Giorgio Volpe Social Active Colloids
  • 10:10 – 10:45
    Coffee Break
  • 10:45 – 11:20
    Nikta Fakhri Nonreciprocal Living Matter
  • 11:20 – 11:55
    Igor Aronson Swarms with Long-Range Acoustic Signaling
  • 12:10 – 14:00
    Lunch
  • 14:00 – 14:35
    Hugues Chaté Smart Things That Dumb Active Matter Can Do
  • 14:35 – 15:10
    Gerhard Gompper Self-Organization of Swarms of Cognitive Self-Steering Active Particles
  • 15:15 – 15:50
    Coffee Break
  • 15:50 – 16:25
    Erwin Frey Designing Function in Synthetic Cells
  • 16:25
    Closing Words – Erwin Frey

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