Mar 22, 2021

Online talk Alexandre Morin

Flocks in the Wind

Date: March 22, 2021 | 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Speaker: Alexandre Morin , Leiden University
Location: via Zoom

How do flocks navigate when it’s windy? By combining model experiments and theory, I investigate the response of flocks, or active ferromagnets, to external fields. I will demonstrate their hysteric response and show how orientational elasticity and confinement act together to protect the direction of collective motion —up to a limit where flocks are forced to fly along the wind.

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