Curriculum Vitae Yaouen Fily Assistant Professor of Physics Wilkes Honors College Florida Atlantic University 5353 Parkside Drive, HC 151 Jupiter, FL 33458, USA yfi[email protected] Research Areas Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics; Active Matter; Geometry; Biophysics; Soft Matter; Complex Fluids; Granular Matter; Disordered Media. Technical Expertise Theory: Statistical Mechanics; Hydrodynamics of Complex Fuids; Elasticity; Differential Geometry. Computation: Brownian Dynamics; Monte Carlo Simulations; Partial Differential Equations; Data Analysis. Education Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics, Université de Tours, France 2009 Master Dynamical systems and statistics of complex matter, Université Paris VI, France 2006 Agrégation de Sciences Physiques, option Physique1 2005 Licence in Physics, Université Paris VI / Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, France 2003 Research Experience Assistant Professor 2017-present At Wilkes Honors College, Florida Atlantic University. Soft active matter in curved environments. Postdoctoral Researcher 2012-2017 At Brandeis University, with Michael Hagan & Aparna Baskaran. Confined active particles, flagellar beating, chiral self-assembly. Postdoctoral Researcher 2009-2012 At Syracuse University, with Cristina Marchetti. Self-propelled particles, viscous fluid dynamics, linear elasticity, cell motion, jamming transition. Graduate Student 2006-2009 At Université de Tours, France, with Jean-Claude Soret & Enrick Olive. “Depinning and high velocity dynamics of vortex lattices in type II superconductors – A numerical study”. Trainee February-March 2006 At Service de Physique Théorique, C.E.A. Saclay, France, with Cécile Monthus. Directed polymers in random media. Trainee May-July 2004 At Service d’Écologie Sociale, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, with Jean-Louis Deneubourg. Modeling of cockroach aggregation. Trainee June-July 2003 At Kastler-Brossel Lab, Université Paris VI, France, with Claude Fabre. Design and study of a resonant optical cavity.

1 Agrégation is a highly selective French exam of teaching ability that covers all core undergraduate physics classes and some chemistry. It is taken after a year-long preparation that involves theory as well as giving practice lectures critiqued by experienced educators.

1/4 Curriculum Vitae Yaouen Fily Teaching Experience Assistant Professor 2017-present At Wilkes Honors College, Florida Atlantic University. Fall 2017: Computational Physics, 3 credits, undergraduate level. Postdoctoral Researcher 2009-2017 At Syracuse University: GRE preparation, 4h, undergraduate level. At Brandeis University: Biological Physics, 2h, graduate level. Moniteur 2006-2009 Université de Tours, France. Introductory physics (mathematical tools, classical mechanics, geometrical optics), 192h (lectures and labs), undergraduate level. Trainee November 2003 - January 2004 Lycée Marie Curie, Sceaux, France. High school Physics & Chemistry. Mentoring Yuncheng Jiang (undergraduate student) Summer 2015 Active particles confined by a deformable boundary. Leonard Grazian (undergraduate student) 2014-2015 Role of dipolar interactions in spontaneous phase separation of active particles. Shamaila Khan (undergraduate student) Summer 2014 Molecular dynamics simulations of self-propelled particles. Ben Burdick (undergraduate student) Summer 2011 Stress mapping in self-propelled particle packings. Jorge Lopez (graduate student) Spring 2011 Binary collisions of self-propelled particles. Nicolas Di Scala (graduate student) Summer 2009 Depinning transition in superconducting vortex lattices. Outreach Levitating train Designed and built experiment to illustrate superconductivity and engage prospective students and the gen- eral public. Presented it at university open house day and French national science fair.2 Computational Introduction to Active Matter Designed computational experiment for researchers from diverse background in the context of a transdisci- plinary workshop.2 A piece of the pie chart Designed software to operate a robotic arm as part of art project “A piece of the pie chart”, a robotic installation by Artist and Syracuse University Professor Annina Ruest that addresses gender disparities at technical institutions. Co-wrote a blog post explaining the functioning of it. Other Activities Reviewer for PRL, PRE, EPL, Soft Matter, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A, Front. Mater., J. Stat. Mech. Co-chair of the APS March Meeting session Active Matter under Confinement. 2017 Co-organizer of the Condensed Matter and Biological Physics seminars at Syracuse University. 2010-2012 Lab council member at LEMA, Université de Tours. 2007-2008 Scholarships Full PhD scholarship from Région Centre (France) 2006-2009 Full scholarship from École Normale Supérieure de Cachan (France) 3 2002-2006

2 Videos available on the youtube channel “yaouen fily”. 3 ENS Cachan is one of a handful of French schools to pay a salary to their students.

2/4 Curriculum Vitae Yaouen Fily Publications Citations: 961. H-index: 10. Source: Google Scholar profile (11/02/2017). In Preparation [1] A. Gopinath, P. Subramanian, Y. Fily, T. M. Schneider, Motor generated buckling instabilities in driven polar filaments. Submitted [2] Y. Fily, Y. Kafri, A. P. Solon, J. Tailleur, A. Turner, Mechanical pressure and momentum conservation in dry active matter, arXiv:1704.06499 (2017). [3] Y. Fily, A. Baskaran, M. F. Hagan, Active Particles on Curved Surfaces, arXiv:1601.00324 (2016). Published [4] Y. Fily, A. Baskaran, M. F. Hagan, Equilibrium mappings in polar-isotropic confined active particles, Eur. Phys. J. E 40, 61 (2017). [5] S. Henkes, D. A. Quint, Y. Fily, J. M. Schwarz, Rigid Cluster Decomposition Reveals Criticality in Frictional Jamming, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 028301 (2016). [6] M. Cristina Marchetti, Y. Fily, Silke Henkes, Adam Patch, David Yllanes, Minimal model of active colloids highlights the role of mechanical interactions in controlling the emergent behavior of active matter, Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science 21, 34 (2016). [7] Y. Fily, A. Baskaran, M. F. Hagan, Dynamics and density distribution of strongly confined noninteracting nonaligning self-propelled particles in a nonconvex boundary, Phys. Rev. E 91, 012125 (2015). [8] A. P. Solon, Y. Fily, A. Baskaran, M. E. Cates, Y. Kafri, M. Kardar, J. Tailleur, Pressure is not a state function for generic active fluids, Nature Physics 11, 673 (2015). [9] Y. Fily, S. Henkes, M. C. Marchetti, Freezing and phase separation of self-propelled disks, Soft Matter 10, 2132 (2014). [10] Y. Fily, A. Baskaran, M. F. Hagan, Dynamics of self-propelled particles under strong confinement, Soft Matter 10, 5609 (2014). [11] Y. Fily, M. C. Marchetti, Athermal Phase Separation of Self-Propelled Particles with No Alignment, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 235702 (2012). [12] Y. Fily, A. Baskaran, M. C. Marchetti, Cooperative self-propulsion of active and passive rotors, Soft Matter 8, 3002 (2012). [13] N. Di Scala, E. Olive, Y. Lansac, Y. Fily, J. C. Soret, The elastic depinning transition of vortex lattices in two dimensions, New Journal of Physics 14, 123027 (2012). [14] S. Henkes, Y. Fily, M. C. Marchetti, Active jamming: Self-propelled soft particles at high density, Phys. Rev. E 84, 040301 (2011). [15] Y. Fily, E. Olive, N. Di Scala, J. C. Soret, Critical behavior of plastic depinning of vortex lattices in two dimensions: Molecular dynamics simulations, Phys. Rev. B 82, 134519 (2010). [16] Y. Fily, E. Olive, J. C. Soret, Driven flux-line lattices in the presence of weak random columnar disor- der: Finite-temperature behavior and dynamical melting of moving Bose glass, Phys. Rev. B 79, 212504 (2009). Proceedings [17] E. Olive, N. Di Scala, Y. Lansac, Y. Fily, J. C. Soret, Transition de dépiégeage élastique de vortex supraconducteurs, ESAIM: Proc. 35, 167 (2012). [18] N. Di Scala, E. Olive, Y. Lansac, Y. Fily, J. C. Soret, Elastic depinning transition for superconductor vortices, Journal of Physics: Conference Series 400, 022015 (2012). [19] E. Olive, Y. Fily, J. C. Soret, Plastic depinning of superconductor vortices, Journal of Physics: Confer- ence Series 150, 052201 (2009). [20] Y. Fily, E. Olive, J. C. Soret, Stability of the moving Bose glass phase at finite temperature, Journal of Physics: Conference Series 150, 052054 (2009). PhD Dissertation [21] Y. Fily, Dépiégeage et dynamique à haute vitesse des réseaux de vortex dans les supraconducteurs de type II : une étude par simulation numérique, Thèse (2009).

3/4 Curriculum Vitae Yaouen Fily Talks Seminars Wilkes Honors College, Flordia Atlantic University, Jupiter FL 2017 Physics Department, University of California Merced, Merced CA 2017 Physics Department, Syracuse University, Syracuse NY 2016 SPHYNX, CEA Saclay, France 2016 Physics Department, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 2016 GREMAN, Tours, France 2015 Liphy, Grenoble, France 2015 University of Dundee, United Kingdom 2015 Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal, Bordeaux, France 2015 Institut de Chimie, Physique et Matériaux, Metz, France 2015 Laboratoire de Physique – ENS Lyon, Lyon, France 2014 Laboratoire Matière et Systèmes complexes, Paris, France 2014 Laboratoire J.A. Dieudonné, Nice, France 2014 Institut Curie, Paris, France 2014 Laboratoire Charles Coulomb, Montpellier, France 2014 Martin Fisher School of Physics, Brandeis University, Waltham MA 2014 Martin Fisher School of Physics, Brandeis University, Waltham MA 2011 Conferences and workshops American Physical Society March Meeting, New Orleans LA 2017 Active Liquids, Leiden, Netherlands 2015 New England Complex Fluid Workshop, Waltham MA 2014 American Physical Society March Meeting, Denver CO 2014 Active Matter Workshop, Waltham MA 2013 Greater Boston Area Statistical Meeting, Waltham MA 2012 American Physical Society March Meeting, Boston MA 2012 New York Complex Matter Workshop, Ithaca NY 2011 New York Complex Matter Workshop, Syracuse NY 2011 American Physical Society March Meeting, Dallas TX 2011 Rutgers Conference, Rutgers NJ 2010 New York Complex Matter Workshop, Ithaca NY 2010 New York Complex Matter Workshop, Rochester NY 2009 11th Journées de la matière condensée, Strasbourg, France 2008 References Michael F. Hagan Martin A. Fisher School of Physics, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02453, USA [email protected] M. Cristina Marchetti Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse NY 13244, USA [email protected] Enrick Olive Faculté des Sciences, Université F. Rabelais, Parc de Grandmont, 37200 Tours, France [email protected] Aparna Baskaran Martin A. Fisher School of Physics, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02453, USA [email protected]

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