Archive for January, 2012

Announcing the COMPLOIDS Summer School “Physics of Complex Colloids”

COMPLOIDS Summer School “Physics of Complex Colloids”, Varenna, July 3-13 2012

The Marie-Curie Initial Training Network COMPLOIDS (http://www.itn-comploids.eu), an academic consortium dedicated to research in colloidal science, is organizing the summer school “Physics of complex colloids”. The aim of the school is to cover the most exciting modern topics in the physics of colloids including colloidal interactions and phase diagrams, hydrodynamics in colloids, simulation techniques, colloidal arrested states of matter, structural investigations of colloids, synthesis, applications, non-equilibrium phenomena, and active Brownian motion. The minicourses discussing each of these topics will be complemented by specialized seminars focused on recent developments. Lecturers and speakers include P. Chaikin, M. Dijkstra, D. Frenkel, M. Fuchs, C. N. Likos, G. Naegele, R. Piazza, W. C. K. Poon, B. Vincent, C. Van den Broeck, E. Trizac, P. Vekilov, A. G. Yodh, and E. Zaccarelli,

 The school will be held at the International School of Physics “Enrico Fermi” in Varenna, Italy, July 3-13 2012. To learn more about the school and to apply, visit http://www.itn-comploids.eu/summerschool or the website of the International School of Physics “Enrico Fermi” (http://www.sif.it/SIF/en/portal/activities/fermi_school/mmxii) or contact the organizers (Clemens Bechinger c.bechinger@physik.uni-stuttgart.de, F. Sciortino francesco.sciortino@uniroma1.it, P. Ziherl primoz.ziherl@ijs.si).

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Soft Matter Issue 5 out now!

The latest issue of Soft Matter is now online. You can read the full issue here.

The outside front cover features an article on Temperature dependent stiffness and visco-elastic behaviour of lipid coated microbubbles using atomic force microscopy by Colin A. Grant, Jonathan E. McKendry and Stephen D. Evans.

Issue 5 contains the following Highlight and Review articles:

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Soft Matter Issue 4 out now!

Soft Matter Issue 4 OFC 2012

The latest issue of Soft Matter is now online. You can read the full issue here.

The outside front cover features an article on Counterion-induced formation of regular actin bundle networks  by Florian Huber, Dan Strehle and Josef Käs.

Issue 4 contains the following Emerging Area, Review and and Tutorial Review articles:

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Video Interview: Jan Vermant talks to Soft Matter

Jan Vermant talks to Russell Johnson about his research on the rheology of complex fluids, and what he thinks are the hot topics in soft matter research.

 Jan Vermant talks to Soft Matter

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Interested to know more? You can read more about Jan Vermant’s research here:

 

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Boulder Summer School: Polymers in Soft and Biological Matter, July 9 – August 3, 2012

Founded by physical chemists like Flory and brought into the mainstream of theoretical physics by visionaries like de Gennes, over the last eighty years polymer physics has grown into a mature, rich, and exciting discipline. Now expanded to include also colloids, liquid crystals, interfaces, etc, polymer and soft matter physics span fundamental statistical mechanics and field theory, most advanced materials, as well as technological and biological frontiers. Nevertheless, a comprehensive exposition to fundamental concepts of polymer and soft matter science is still largely missing, neglected in most physics departments, ignored by many workers in biological realm, and underappreciated even by chemical engineers. The goal of this year’s Boulder summer school is to fill this gap and provide the physics community with a relatively comprehensive course in the fundamentals of polymer and soft matter physics with emphasis on their biological applications.

Scientific Coordinators
Alexander Grosberg, New York University
Michael Rubinstein, University of North Carolina
Eugenia Kumacheva, University of Toronto
Leo Radzihovsky, University of Colorado

Expected lecturers and seminar speakers
Paul Chaikin (New York),  Noel Clark (Boulder),  Alexei Finkelstein (Moscow),  Daan Frenkel (Cambridge),  Alexander Grosberg (New York),  Jean-Francois Joanny (Institute Curie),  Kurt Kremer (Mainz),  Eugenia Kumacheva (Toronto),  Frederick MacKintosh (Amsterdam),  Tom McLeish (Durham),  Philip Pincus (Santa Barbara),  David Pine (New York),  Michael Rubinstein (Chapel Hill),  Samuel Safran (Weizmann Institute),  David Weitz (Harvard),  Ekaterina Zhulina (Pittsburgh)

 
For further information please email: boulder.organizer2012@yale.edu or visit the Boulder summer school website.

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