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16 papers
Deforming polar active matter in a scalar field gradient
Muhamet Ibrahimi, Matthias Merkel
Active matter with local polar or nematic order is subject to the well-known Simha-Ramaswamy instability. It is so far unclear how, despite this instability, biological tissues can…
Tissue fluidization by cell-shape-controlled active stresses
Shao-Zhen Lin, Matthias Merkel, Jean-François Rupprecht
Biological cells can actively tune their intracellular architecture according to their overall shape. Here we explore the rheological implication of such coupling in a minimal mode…
Generalized Pell-Fermat equations and Pascal triangle
Daniel Gandolfo, Michel Rouleux
Using Pascal triangle, we give a simple generalization to the so-called STRAND Puzzle solved by Srinivasa Ramanujan. Thus we are interested in computing the median, first and third…
Phase separation dynamics in deformable droplets
Simon Gsell, Matthias Merkel
Phase separation can drive spatial organization of multicomponent mixtures. For instance in developing animal embryos, effective phase separation descriptions have been used to acc…
A direct comparison of high-speed methods for the numerical Abel transform
Daniel D. Hickstein, Stephen T. Gibson, Roman Yurchak +2
The Abel transform is a mathematical operation that transforms a cylindrically symmetric three-dimensional (3D) object into its two-dimensional (2D) projection. The inverse Abel tr…
Building connections: How scientists meet each other during a conference
Mathieu Génois, Maria Zens, Clemens Lechner +2
We present the results of two studies on how individuals interact with each other during a international, interdisciplinary scientific conference. We first show that contact activi…