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Soft matter is a subfield of condensed matter comprising a variety of physical systems that are deformed or structurally altered by thermal or mechanical stress of the magnitude of thermal fluctuations. They include liquids, colloids, polymers, foams, gels, granular materials, liquid crystals, and a number of biological materials. These materials share an important common feature in that predominant physical behaviors occur at an energy scale comparable with room temperature thermal energy. At these temperatures, quantum aspects are generally unimportant. Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, who has been called the "founding father of soft matter," received the Nobel Prize in physics in 1991 for discovering that methods developed for studying order phenomena in simple systems can be generalized to the more complex cases found in soft matter, in particular, to the behaviors of liquid crystals and polymers. He is especially noted for inventing the concept of reptation.
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Bangalore school on statistical Physics - VI PROGRAM URL : http://www.icts.res.in/program/BSSP2015 DATES: Thursday 02 Jul, 2015 - Saturday 18 Jul, 2015 DESCRIPTION :- This advanced level school is second in the series of schools being jointly organized by RRI and ICTS, following the highly successful 1st joint school. The present series is an off-shoot of an earlier series of schools entitled RRI School On Statistical Physics started in 2010 at the Raman Research Institute. The present school will be held at the ICTS campus. This is a pedagogical school, aimed at bridging the gap between masters-level courses and topics in statistical physics at the frontline of current research. It is intended for Ph.D. students, post-doctoral fellows and interested faculty members at the college and ...
In the third episode of the Soft Matters series, Prof. Jim Sethna of Cornell University and I chat about his recent work on the aptly named "sloppy models". Check out Jesse Silverberg's accompanying blog at the Huffington Post for a Science-to-English dictionary explaining some of the science jargon that inevitably crept into our conversation: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jesse-silverberg/soft-matters-with-jim-sethna_b_4175704.html Want to know more about sloppy models? - Check out Jim's sloppy models website here: http://www.lassp.cornell.edu/sethna/Sloppy/index.html - You can also take a look at the abstract to his paper in the journal Science here: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6158/604.abstract?sid=a07744a2-f4b1-4b71-9cce-a215bb3cb7c3 Jim and his students study a lot of t...
Entropy, information and order in soft matter Entropy, information, and order are important concepts in many fields, relevant for materials to machines, for biology to econophysics. Entropy is typically associated with disorder; yet, the counterintuitive notion that a thermodynamic system of hard particles (colloids) might - due solely to entropy - spontaneously assemble from a fluid phase into an ordered crystal was first predicted in the mid-20th century. First demonstrated for rods, and then spheres, the ordering of colloids by entropy maximization upon crowding is now well established. In recent years, surprising discoveries of ordered entropic colloidal crystals of extraordinary structural complexity have been predicted by computer simulation and observed in the laboratory. These find...
Founded in 2004, the Center for Soft Matter Research at New York University is dedicated to scientific inquiry at the interface between physics, chemistry, biology and engineering. From jamming to self-replication to artificial intelligence, CSMR focuses on a broad spectrum of fundamental problems in soft condensed matter and biological physics. APS TV takes you inside CSMR's collaborative laboratories in the bustling Greenwich Village in downtown Manhattan. http://csmr.as.nyu.edu
Top chefs and Harvard researchers explore how everyday cooking and haute cuisine can illuminate basic principles in physics and engineering. Take this course free on edX: https://www.edx.org/course/science-cooking-haute-cuisine-soft-harvardx-spu27-1x#! ABOUT THIS COURSE During each week of this course, chefs reveal the secrets behind some of their most famous culinary creations — often right in their own restaurants. Inspired by such cooking mastery, the Harvard team will then explain the science behind the recipe. Topics will include: How molecules influence flavor The role of heat in cooking Diffusion, revealed by the phenomenon of spherification, the culinary technique pioneered by Ferran Adrià. You will also have the opportunity to become an experimental scientist in your very own ...
When soft matters? When it is about the soft matter. Andras Libal is Associate Professor and Researcher in Computational Physics at Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj Napoca. Mr. Libal succeeded in making a complicated concept accessible to an audience of non-physicists showing us a present and a future filled with incredible ”soft” possibilities. The whole audience comprehended and dreamed together that future. Cand contează softul? Când e vorba despre ”soft matter”. Andras Libal este conferenţiar universitar şi cercetător în domeniul fizicii computaţionale la Universitatea Babes-Bolyai din Cluj. D-ul Libal a reușit să facă un concept complicat accesibil unei audiențe de ne-fizicieni arătându-ne un prezent și un viitor plin de posibilități ”soft” incredibile. O sală întreagă a înțeles...
Research in Physics, Biological and Soft Matter Physics
Explore Research at the University of Florida: Tommy Angelini, a soft matter researcher with the University of Florida department of mechanical and aerospace engineering, discusses the process of 3-D printing soft matter; what it is, how it came to be, and its impact. Soft matter printing has led to biomedical breakthroughs in the printing of human organs.
This is a video of what I learned from a Soft Matter lecture.
Bangalore school on statistical Physics - VI PROGRAM URL : http://www.icts.res.in/program/BSSP2015 DATES: Thursday 02 Jul, 2015 - Saturday 18 Jul, 2015 DESCRIPTION :- This advanced level school is second in the series of schools being jointly organized by RRI and ICTS, following the highly successful 1st joint school. The present series is an off-shoot of an earlier series of schools entitled RRI School On Statistical Physics started in 2010 at the Raman Research Institute. The present school will be held at the ICTS campus. This is a pedagogical school, aimed at bridging the gap between masters-level courses and topics in statistical physics at the frontline of current research. It is intended for Ph.D. students, post-doctoral fellows and interested faculty members at the college and ...
In the third episode of the Soft Matters series, Prof. Jim Sethna of Cornell University and I chat about his recent work on the aptly named "sloppy models". Check out Jesse Silverberg's accompanying blog at the Huffington Post for a Science-to-English dictionary explaining some of the science jargon that inevitably crept into our conversation: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jesse-silverberg/soft-matters-with-jim-sethna_b_4175704.html Want to know more about sloppy models? - Check out Jim's sloppy models website here: http://www.lassp.cornell.edu/sethna/Sloppy/index.html - You can also take a look at the abstract to his paper in the journal Science here: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6158/604.abstract?sid=a07744a2-f4b1-4b71-9cce-a215bb3cb7c3 Jim and his students study a lot of t...
Entropy, information and order in soft matter Entropy, information, and order are important concepts in many fields, relevant for materials to machines, for biology to econophysics. Entropy is typically associated with disorder; yet, the counterintuitive notion that a thermodynamic system of hard particles (colloids) might - due solely to entropy - spontaneously assemble from a fluid phase into an ordered crystal was first predicted in the mid-20th century. First demonstrated for rods, and then spheres, the ordering of colloids by entropy maximization upon crowding is now well established. In recent years, surprising discoveries of ordered entropic colloidal crystals of extraordinary structural complexity have been predicted by computer simulation and observed in the laboratory. These find...
Founded in 2004, the Center for Soft Matter Research at New York University is dedicated to scientific inquiry at the interface between physics, chemistry, biology and engineering. From jamming to self-replication to artificial intelligence, CSMR focuses on a broad spectrum of fundamental problems in soft condensed matter and biological physics. APS TV takes you inside CSMR's collaborative laboratories in the bustling Greenwich Village in downtown Manhattan. http://csmr.as.nyu.edu
Top chefs and Harvard researchers explore how everyday cooking and haute cuisine can illuminate basic principles in physics and engineering. Take this course free on edX: https://www.edx.org/course/science-cooking-haute-cuisine-soft-harvardx-spu27-1x#! ABOUT THIS COURSE During each week of this course, chefs reveal the secrets behind some of their most famous culinary creations — often right in their own restaurants. Inspired by such cooking mastery, the Harvard team will then explain the science behind the recipe. Topics will include: How molecules influence flavor The role of heat in cooking Diffusion, revealed by the phenomenon of spherification, the culinary technique pioneered by Ferran Adrià. You will also have the opportunity to become an experimental scientist in your very own ...
When soft matters? When it is about the soft matter. Andras Libal is Associate Professor and Researcher in Computational Physics at Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj Napoca. Mr. Libal succeeded in making a complicated concept accessible to an audience of non-physicists showing us a present and a future filled with incredible ”soft” possibilities. The whole audience comprehended and dreamed together that future. Cand contează softul? Când e vorba despre ”soft matter”. Andras Libal este conferenţiar universitar şi cercetător în domeniul fizicii computaţionale la Universitatea Babes-Bolyai din Cluj. D-ul Libal a reușit să facă un concept complicat accesibil unei audiențe de ne-fizicieni arătându-ne un prezent și un viitor plin de posibilități ”soft” incredibile. O sală întreagă a înțeles...
Research in Physics, Biological and Soft Matter Physics
Explore Research at the University of Florida: Tommy Angelini, a soft matter researcher with the University of Florida department of mechanical and aerospace engineering, discusses the process of 3-D printing soft matter; what it is, how it came to be, and its impact. Soft matter printing has led to biomedical breakthroughs in the printing of human organs.
This is a video of what I learned from a Soft Matter lecture.
Bangalore school on statistical Physics - VI PROGRAM URL : http://www.icts.res.in/program/BSSP2015 DATES: Thursday 02 Jul, 2015 - Saturday 18 Jul, 2015 DESCRIPTION :- This advanced level school is second in the series of schools being jointly organized by RRI and ICTS, following the highly successful 1st joint school. The present series is an off-shoot of an earlier series of schools entitled RRI School On Statistical Physics started in 2010 at the Raman Research Institute. The present school will be held at the ICTS campus. This is a pedagogical school, aimed at bridging the gap between masters-level courses and topics in statistical physics at the frontline of current research. It is intended for Ph.D. students, post-doctoral fellows and interested faculty members at the college and ...
Entropy, information and order in soft matter Entropy, information, and order are important concepts in many fields, relevant for materials to machines, for biology to econophysics. Entropy is typically associated with disorder; yet, the counterintuitive notion that a thermodynamic system of hard particles (colloids) might - due solely to entropy - spontaneously assemble from a fluid phase into an ordered crystal was first predicted in the mid-20th century. First demonstrated for rods, and then spheres, the ordering of colloids by entropy maximization upon crowding is now well established. In recent years, surprising discoveries of ordered entropic colloidal crystals of extraordinary structural complexity have been predicted by computer simulation and observed in the laboratory. These find...
Presenting: Sriram Ramaswamy Fish vortices, animal herds, bacterial swarms and the elegant arrangements of filaments in a dividing cell are spectacular examples of self-organization in the living world. They pose a challenge to physicists who have long studied the spontaneous appearance of orderly patterns in non-living systems such as magnets, liquid crystals and crystalline solids. Professor Ramaswamy will explain what is exciting about these systems, how they’re studied in experiment, mathematical theory and game-like computer simulations, and how well -- or badly -- we do when theory confronts experiment in the physics of living matter.
Enroll in Science & Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to Soft Matter Science from HarvardX at https://www.edx.org/course/science-cooking-haute-cuisine-soft-harvardx-spu27x-0#.VPCXBbPF-YQ. Top chefs and Harvard researchers explore how everyday cooking and haute cuisine can illuminate basic principles in physics and engineering, and vice versa. The recording of these lectures was supported by the Harvard MRSEC program of the National Science Foundation under award DMR-1420570 MRSEC (http://www.mrsec.harvard.edu/), SEAS (http://www.seas.harvard.edu/), and HarvardX.
Bangalore school on statistical Physics - VI PROGRAM URL : http://www.icts.res.in/program/BSSP2015 DATES: Thursday 02 Jul, 2015 - Saturday 18 Jul, 2015 DESCRIPTION :- This advanced level school is second in the series of schools being jointly organized by RRI and ICTS, following the highly successful 1st joint school. The present series is an off-shoot of an earlier series of schools entitled RRI School On Statistical Physics started in 2010 at the Raman Research Institute. The present school will be held at the ICTS campus. This is a pedagogical school, aimed at bridging the gap between masters-level courses and topics in statistical physics at the frontline of current research. It is intended for Ph.D. students, post-doctoral fellows and interested faculty members at the college and ...
Session six of the 2015 Theo Murphy Australian Frontiers of Science: Materials for the 21st Century: From design to application. Chairs: Dr Francesca Cavalieri and Dr Matthew Hill Topics: Bio-inspired materials: catalysts and functional interfaces - Dr Luke Connal, University of Melbourne Bioengineering extracellular matrix-based biomaterials for enhanced wound repair - Dr Megan Lord, UNSW Australia Atomic view of peptide nanotubes with a pH-responsive diameter: relevance to biology and nanobiomaterials - Dr Celine Valery, RMIT University More information at: https://www.science.org.au/news-and-events/events/materials-21st-century-design-application#sthash.ntS2e7sz.dpuf
Enroll in Science & Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to Soft Matter Science from HarvardX at https://www.edx.org/course/science-cooking-haute-cuisine-soft-harvardx-spu27x-0#.VPCXBbPF-YQ Top chefs and Harvard researchers explore how everyday cooking and haute cuisine can illuminate basic principles in physics and engineering, and vice versa. The recording of these lectures was supported by the Harvard MRSEC program of the National Science Foundation under award DMR-1420570 MRSEC (http://www.mrsec.harvard.edu/), SEAS (http://www.seas.harvard.edu/), and HarvardX.
Bangalore school on statistical Physics - VI PROGRAM URL : http://www.icts.res.in/program/BSSP2015 DATES: Thursday 02 Jul, 2015 - Saturday 18 Jul, 2015 DESCRIPTION :- This advanced level school is second in the series of schools being jointly organized by RRI and ICTS, following the highly successful 1st joint school. The present series is an off-shoot of an earlier series of schools entitled RRI School On Statistical Physics started in 2010 at the Raman Research Institute. The present school will be held at the ICTS campus. This is a pedagogical school, aimed at bridging the gap between masters-level courses and topics in statistical physics at the frontline of current research. It is intended for Ph.D. students, post-doctoral fellows and interested faculty members at the college and ...