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Poster Active Matter Morphological and dynamical properties of semiflexible filaments driven by molecular motors Abhishek Chaudhuri IISER Mohali We consider an explicit model of a semiflexible filament moving in two dimensions on a gliding assay of motor proteins, which attach to and detach from filament segments stochastically, with a detachment rate that increases with the increase of local load force. Attached motor proteins move along the filament to one of its ends with a velocity that varies nonlinearly with the motor protein extension. The resultant force on the filament drives it out of equilibrium. We characteri e the nonequilibrium conformations of the polymer comparing its end!to-end distribution with that of the equilibrium filament. We show that subtle changes in the local load dependence of detachment rate and active velocity of motor proteins lead to dramatic di"erence in the end!to-end distribution. The center of mass of the polymer shows a series of crossovers between ballistic and diffusive motion, controlled by its inertial, orientational and speed relaxation time scales. Poster Active Matter Trajectory of a confined active particle in presence of other passive and active particles Ahana P IIT Madras #nderstanding the hydrodynamic interaction between active and passive particle is crucial in a number of applications, ranging from artificial drug delivery to mixing in microfluidic channels. $iological systems where microswimmers swimming next to passive objects are also very common. Presence of a passive object affects the self- propulsion dynamics of the microswimmers and lead to complex behaviour. 'ere we investigate, how the dynamics of a micro swimmer under confinement, is modified in presence of a passive colloidal particle.(icroswimmers are modelled using squirmer model and lattice $oltzmann simulations are used to construct the trajectories of micro swimmer and colloidal particle. &assive colloid is placed at different location in the domain to study the hydrodynamic interaction between the swimmer and the colloid. )t is *nown that microswimmers can carry passive particles which is even larger than the swimmer it self. )nteraction potential between the swimmer and colloid can result in diverse scenarios. Therefore we also investigate the e"ect of soft sphere potential between the particle in determining the dynamics of the microswimmers. The scenario has been generalised by replacing the passive particle with a second squirmer of different strength. Poster Active Matter Autophoretic propulsion in complex fluids Akash Choudhary IIT Madras +elf-propelling ,anus particles generate concentration gradients along their surface by exploiting the asymmetry in surface activity. This gives rise to a `slip. at the particle surface, which propels the particle without the requirement of external concentration gradients. )n this wor*, we study the influence of viscoelasticity (second!order!fluid model0 and shear! thinning/thic*ening /power!law!fluid model0 on the slip and mobility of an axisymmetric active particle. #sing matched asymptotic expansions, we provide an analytical expression for the modification of slip. #sing reciprocal theorem, we demonstrate the influence of fluid rheology on the particle mobility. Poster Active Matter Clustering dynamics of active particles in an explicit solvent Arabinda era JNCASR Bangalore We adopted a hybrid method to study the dynamics of active particles (colloid0 embedded in a solvent bath. 'ydrodynamics in the solvent has been implemented via multi! particle collision dynamics, which is a coarse!grained method for simulating fluids. Dynamics due to colloid!colloid and colloid!solvent passive interactions, incorporated via variants of the 3ennard!,ones potential, were taken care of through an appropriate molecular dynamics /(20 method. )n this wor*, the self!propulsion in the colloids is introduced via the well!*nown 4icse* model. #sing this model, we obtained important results on the effects of self-propulsion or activity on the clustering and transport properties of the colloids in the presence of hydrodynamics. We observed that the clustering of active colloids is more favorable in the presence of hydrodynamics. Poster Active Matter !stimation of internal po"er distribution in sperm flagella from beat pattern measurements Ash"in #andagiri IIT Bombay +permatozoa use slender elastic appendages *nown as flagella to propel themselves in a viscous fluid. The flagellar beat is driven by the action of AT&!powered dynein motors on microtubule filaments inside the flagellum. We use experimentally measured beat patterns to extract the bending stiffness and internal active power distribution in the flagellum. 'ead! tethered mouse sperm are imaged with high!speed, high! resolution microscopy to capture approximately 40 flagellar beat cycles per sample. An image processing routine developed in (AT3A$ is used to extract flagellar centrelines from the movies. Proper Orthogonal Decomposition /&720 is used to compute the dominant shape modes of the flagellar beat. A single representative beat cycle is constructed by averaging the time!dependent coe8cients of the modes. 9urther, error propagation is used to calculate the local variance in the flagellar beat shapes from the variance in the mode coe8cients. 'ydrodynamic forces and dissipation by the flagellum during the beat are calculated from the local velocity using resistive force theory. The flagellum is then treated as a slender, flexible, inextensible rod immersed in a viscous fluid that is driven by internal forces and moments. Kirchhoff rod theory is applied to formulate local conservation laws and compute the local active power from the hydrodynamic force distribution. 9urther, a global energy balance is used to estimate the bending stiffness of the flagellum. This method is applied to study the role of the ;<)+& family of proteins on the flagellar beat in mouse sperm. (ouse sperm from ;<)+&!*noc*out mutants are compared to wild!type samples. We find that clear differences in the flagellar *inematics can be discerned from the &72 and representative beat cycles of the wild!type and mutant genotypes. The active power calculations are used to further investigate the source of these differences. Poster Active Matter Mimicking Critical Casimir $orces in sessile "ater droplets asudev %oy& IIT Madras ;ritical ;asimir forces arise in binary liquds when the temperature of the environment is locally raised just above the demixing point such that in general the liquids remain mixed while the heated location exhibits demixing. There are density fluctuations in the heated region leading to interesting effects. We mimic this effect by thin layer of sessile water droplet when a tightly focused laser beam heats the bottom substrate raising the temperature of the locality to around the boiling point of water. We show that as a particle trapped on the air!water interface of a sessile droplet is brought very close to the edge, it starts to exhibit rapid motion quite akin to heavy density fluctuations, which is even superdiffusive in nature. These density fluctuations are further accentuated by a possible low pressure region right above the heated region which allows the heated water to vapori e rapidly. The critical casimir forces are an analog of the regular casimir forces where vacuum fluctuations lead to forces between surfaces. Poster Active Matter Re'entrant motility induced phase separation in nematically aligning active polar particles iplab hattacherjee I P Bh!banes"ar We present a numerical study of the phase behavior of repulsively interacting active polar particles that align their active velocities nematically. The amplitude of the active velocity, and the noise in its orientational alignment control the active nature of the system. At high values of orientational noise, the structural fluid undergoes a continuous nematic!isotropic transition in active orientation. This transition is well separated from a color ;lustering transition observed at lower noise strengths. The clustering is characteri ed by the formation of high density hexatic clusters. With increasing activity, the system undergoes a re!entrant fluid! clustering- fluid transition. The melting of hexatic is associated with fragmentation of large local polar clusters and creation of grain boundaries. The collective dynamics within the clustering phase progresses with sliding clusters, jamming and lane formation. Poster Active Matter Topological defects in active nematics C (anthan IIT Madras Active nematics is a promising model fluid towards understanding of active matter, for eg: suspensions of microtubule bundles with *inesin motors, colonies of bacteria li*e E.coli or collective motion of human cells in the case of cancer invasion. Typical to liquid crystals, defects is a generic feature of active nematics as well and it plays a major role in controlling dynamics of the fluid. An interesting example is the role of defects in cell extrusion from a cell monolayer, which is an important phase in cancer invasion. #nli*e in passive nematics, defects in active systems are motile. +o they are generated, travel and get annihilated. <ecent experimental studies in a star!shaped geometry with 2D active systems showed that stress around a @1/2 defect plays major role in cell extrusion.We use continuum approximations to model active nematics and solve for flow field and director field. The stress fields around @A1? defect and !A1? defect for an extensile system and a contractile