no code implementations • 29 Jan 2021 • Étienne Fodor, Michael E. Cates
The study of thermal heat engines was pivotal to establishing the principles of equilibrium thermodynamics, with implications far wider than only engine optimization.
Statistical Mechanics Soft Condensed Matter
2 code implementations • 21 Oct 2020 • Yuting I. Li, Günther Turk, Paul B. Rohrbach, Patrick Pietzonka, Julian Kappler, Rajesh Singh, Jakub Dolezal, Timothy Ekeh, Lukas Kikuchi, Joseph D. Peterson, Hideki Kobayashi, Michael E. Cates, R. Adhikari, Robert L. Jack
Epidemiological forecasts are beset by uncertainties about the underlying epidemiological processes, and the surveillance process through which data are acquired.
Methodology Populations and Evolution
1 code implementation • 19 May 2020 • R. Adhikari, Austen Bolitho, Fernando Caballero, Michael E. Cates, Jakub Dolezal, Timothy Ekeh, Jules Guioth, Robert L. Jack, Julian Kappler, Lukas Kikuchi, Hideki Kobayashi, Yuting I. Li, Joseph D. Peterson, Patrick Pietzonka, Benjamin Remez, Paul B. Rohrbach, Rajesh Singh, Günther Turk
The PyRoss library enables fitting to epidemiological data, as available, using Bayesian parameter inference, so that competing models can be weighed by their evidence.
Populations and Evolution Physics and Society Quantitative Methods
3 code implementations • 13 Apr 2020 • Rajesh Singh, Elsen Tjhung, Michael E. Cates
The swimming of cells, far from any boundary, can arise in the absence of long-range liquid-crystalline order within the cytoplasm, but simple models of this effect are lacking.
Soft Condensed Matter Statistical Mechanics Biological Physics Fluid Dynamics
no code implementations • 1 May 2019 • Patrick Pietzonka, Étienne Fodor, Christoph Lohrmann, Michael E. Cates, Udo Seifert
Generally, one expects that such an asymmetry leads to a persistent, directed current in the passive component, which can be used for the extraction of work.
Statistical Mechanics Soft Condensed Matter
no code implementations • 9 Mar 2017 • Benno Liebchen, Davide Marenduzzo, Michael E. Cates
We introduce a representative minimal model for phoretically interacting active colloids.
Soft Condensed Matter