Michael Schindler Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie Théorique. UMR CNRS Gulliver 7083. ESPCI, 10 rue Vauquelin. 75231 Paris cedex 05. France. Room F3.14 (Entry F, 3rd floor) Tel: +33 (0)1 40 79 58 41 Fax: +33 (0)1 40 79 47 31 E-Mail: (first name).(family name) (at) espci.fr Please use my public key for mail encryption.

Research interests

Publications

• Spontaneously flowing crystal of self-propelled particles
  Guillaume Briand, Michael Schindler and Olivier Dauchot
  Physical Review Letters 120 (2018) 208001 [PDF] [Preprint] [Videos]

• Coupling spin to velocity: collective motion of Hamiltonian polar particles
  Sigbjørn Løland Bore, Michael Schindler, Khanh-Dang Nguyen Thu Lam, Eric Bertin and Olivier Dauchot
  J. Stat. Mech. 3 (2016) 033305 [PDF] [Preprint]

• The range and nature of effective interactions in hard-sphere solids
  Michael Schindler and A. C. Maggs
  Soft Matter 12 (2016) 2612 [PDF] [Preprint]

• Cavity averages for hard spheres in the presence of polydispersity and incomplete data
  Michael Schindler and A. C. Maggs
  Eur. Phys. J. E 38 (2015) 97 [PDF] [Preprint] [Source code]

• Self-propelled hard disks: implicit alignment and transition to collective motion
  Khanh-Dang Nguyen Thu Lam, Michael Schindler, Olivier Dauchot
  New J. Phys. 17 (2015) 113056 [PDF] [Preprint]

• Polar active liquids: a universal classification rooted in nonconservation of momentum
  Khanh-Dang Nguyen Thu Lam, Michael Schindler, Olivier Dauchot
  J. Stat. Mech. 10 (2015) P10017 [PDF] [Preprint]

• Sampling eigenmodes in colloidal solids
  A. C. Maggs and M. Schindler
  Europhys. Lett. 109 (2015) 48005 [PDF] [Preprint]

• Phonons in two-dimensional soft colloidal crystals
  Ke Chen, Tim Still, Sam Schoenholz, Kevin B. Aptowicz, Michael Schindler, A. C. Maggs, Andrea J. Liu, and A. G. Yodh
  Phys. Rev. E 88 (2013) 022315 [PDF] [Supplement] [Preprint]

• Truncated correlations in video microscopy of colloidal solids
  M. Schindler and A. C. Maggs
  Soft Matter 8 (2012) 3864-3874 [PDF] [Preprint]

• Anisotropic elasticity in confocal studies of colloidal crystals
  M. Schindler and A. C. Maggs
  Eur. Phys. J. E 34 (2011) 115 [PDF] [Preprint]

• Elastic theory of a confocal slice
  C. A. Lemarchand, A. C. Maggs, and M. Schindler
  Europhys. Lett. 97 (2012) 48007 [Erratum: EPL 99 (2012) 49904] [PDF] [Preprint]

• Capillary-based static self-assembly in higher organisms
  J. Voise, M. Schindler, J. Casas, and E. Raphael
  J. R. Soc. Interface 8 (2011) 1357-1366

• A numerical test of stress correlations in fluctuating hydrodynamics
  M. Schindler
  Chemical Physics 375 (2010) 327-336 [PDF] [Preprint]

• Self-consistent theory of capillary-gravity-wave generation by small moving objects
  A. D. Chepelianskii, M. Schindler, F. Chevy, E. Raphael
  Phys. Rev. E 81 (2010) 016306 [PDF] [Preprint]

• Extracting the hydrodynamic resistance of droplets from their behavior in microchannel networks
  V. Labrot, M. Schindler, P. Guillot, A. Colin, and M. Joanicot
  Biomicrofluidics 3 (2009) 012804 [PDF] [Preprint]

• Modeling phase behavior for quantifying micro-pervaporation experiments
  M. Schindler and A. Ajdari
  Eur. Phys. J. E 28 (2009) 27 [PDF] [Preprint]

• Droplet traffic in microfluidic networks: A simple model for understanding and designing
  M. Schindler and A. Ajdari
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 100 (2008) 044501 [PDF] [Preprint]

• Neuron firing in driven nonlinear integrate and fire models
  M. Kostur, M. Schindler, P. Talkner, and P. Hänggi
  Math. Biosciences 207 (2007) 302 [PDF]

• Accumulating particles at the boundaries of a laminar flow
  M. Schindler, P. Talkner, M. Kostur, and P. Hänggi
  Physica A 385 (2007) 46 [PDF] [Preprint]

• Computing stationary free-surface shapes in microfluidics
  M. Schindler, P. Talkner, and P. Hänggi
  Phys. Fluids 18 (2006) 103303 [PDF] [Preprint]

• Chiral separation in microflows
  M. Kostur, M. Schindler, P. Talkner, and P. Hänggi
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 96 (2006) 014502 [PDF] [Preprint]

• Statistics of transition times, phase diffusion and synchronization in periodically driven bistable systems
  P. Talkner, L. Machura, M. Schindler, P. Hänggi, and J. Luczka
  New J. Phys. 7 (2005) 14 [PDF] [Preprint]

• Escape rates in periodically driven Markov processes
  M. Schindler, P. Talkner, and P. Hänggi
  Physica A 351 (2005) 40 [PDF] [Preprint]

• Flow profiling of a surface-acoustic-wave nanopump
  Z. Guttenberg, A. Rathgeber, S. Keller, J. O. Rädler, A. Wixforth, M. Kostur, M. Schindler, and P. Talkner
  Phys. Rev. E 70 (2004) 056311 [PDF] [Preprint]

• Firing Time Statistics for Driven Neuron Models: Analytic Expressions versus Numerics
  M. Schindler, P. Talkner, and P. Hänggi
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 93 (2004) 048102 [PDF] [Preprint]

PhD thesis

• Free-Surface Microflows and Particle Transport
  PhD thesis (Universität Augsburg, 29. May 2006)
  URN: urn:nbn:de:bvb:384-opus-3578
  URL: http://www.opus-bayern.de/uni-augsburg/volltexte/2006/357/
  ISBN: 3-89963-391-1 (Dr. Hut Verlag, München)
  [PDF (3.7M)]

Diploma thesis

• Modelle zur Entkopplung von Lern- und Systemdynamik bei on-line Dichteschätzung
  Diplomarbeit (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 2001)
  [PDF (2.5M)]

Invited talks

• Accumulation of Particles in Asymmetric Microflows
  ESF-STOCHDYN Conference
  100 Years Of Brownian Motion (see announcement poster)
  Erice-Sicily: 26 July - 1 August 2005

Software projects

• Cavities in hard-sphere configurations
• PyX: Python package for the creation of encapsulated PostScript figures.