Title: Phase field method and its applications to biological microstructures.

Abstract:
Phase field method has become a widely used tool to characterize the
evolution of surfaces in material science, biology, imaging processing,
etc. In this talk the speaker presents how to apply phase field method to
the evolution of biological microstructures. The content includes the
study of the equilibrium shape of lipid vesicles, multicomponent vesicles,
actomyosin driven cell oscillations.