Chiral particles and Odd fluids
12-14 January 2026, at Eindhoven University of Technology
Meeting program
Please find the full meeting program below, or consult the book of abstracts.
10:00 - 11:00 | Registration and welcome coffee
11:00 - 11:15 | Opening remarks
11:15 - 12:00 | Bernhard Mehlig - Fluid-inertia torques from particle-shape symmetry
12:00 - 12:30 | Mees Flapper - Settling chiral particles in turbulent flow
12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch
14:00 - 14:45 | Xander de Wit - The surprising fate of turbulence in fluids with odd viscosity
14:45 - 15:15 | Sanjay Shukla - Gyroviscosity modifies the laminar-turbulent transition in pipe flow
15:15 - 16:15 | Coffee break & discussions
16:15 - 17:00 | Tom Witten - Meta suspensions: engineering self–organized suspensions via particle shapes and directed forcing
17:00 - 17:30 | Josephine Gissinger - Numerical method for computing resistance tensors of complex-shaped particles in Stokes flow
17.30 - 19:00 | Reception drinks at Zwarte Doos
09:00 - 09.15 | Drop-in
09:15 - 10:00 | Hartmut Löwen - Odd diffusive spheres and chiral active polymers
10:00 - 10:45 | Anke Lindner - Chiral transport in viscous flows: from micro-helices to bacteria
10:45 - 11:15 | Coffee break
11:15 - 12:00 | Michel Fruchart - Chirality across scales in tissue dynamics
12:00 - 12:45 | Greg Voth - Chiral design for laminar and turbulent sedimentation
12:45 - 14:15 | Lunch
14:15 - 14:45 | Chunlai Wu - Tracking the rotation of light magnetic particles in turbulence
14:45 - 15:30 | Ziqi Wang - From localization to stochastic resonance: controlling particle dynamics in turbulence
15:30 - 16:00 | André Freitas - Intermittency suppression in turbulence via forced light particles
16:00 - 16:45 | Coffee break & discussions
16:45 - 17:30 | Luca Biferale - Learning how to stir oblate particles in complex flows
19.00 - 21.00 | Dinner at Kazerne, Eindhoven
09:00 - 09.15 | Drop-in
09:15 - 10:00 | John Sader - Acoustic propulsion of nanoparticles and near-hydrodynamic electron flows
10:00 - 10:45 | Anne Juel - Inertialess sedimentation of rigid and elastic sheets
10:45 - 11:15 | Coffee break
11:15 - 11:45 | Sander Huisman - Chiral particles in turbulent Taylor-Couette flow
11.45 - 13.30 | Lunch
13:30 - 14:15 | Jeremie Bec - Inertia and flexibility in the turbulent transport of elongated particles
14.15 - 14.30 | Coffee break
14.30 - 15.30 | Discussion: future directions in Chiral particles and odd fluids
15.30 - 16.15 | Gautier Verhille - Dynamics of flexible fibers in turbulence
16.15 - 17:00 | Detlef Lohse - Settling dynamics of an oloid
17:00 - 17:10 | Closing remarks