5 May 2023
Trevor GrandPre
Center for the Physics of Biological Function
Princeton University
In this talk, I will discuss two research directions in which I have applied statistical physics to active matter. In the first research direction, I’ve developed bounds on the distributions of entropy production, measured active crystal nucleation, and the effects of inertia on motility-induced phase separation. In the second research direction, I’ve developed a model-independent way to compute the population growth rate from single cell lineages of finite length in microbial populations. Both research directions were different in nature but were used with a similar framework within statistical physics that I’ve focused on called large deviation theory.