Physics of Soft Matter: Complex Fluids and Biological Materials

June 26-July 21, 2006, Boulder, Colorado, USA

All lecture notes are in PDF format unless otherwise noted.

Paul Chaikin, New York University

• Colloids I (Power Point Presentation)
• Colloids II (Power Point Presentation)
• Colloids III (Power Point Presentation)

Bulbul Chakraborty, Brandeis University

• Statistical Mechanics and Jamming I
• Statistical Mechanics and Jamming II
• Statistical Mechanics and Jamming III
• Statistical Mechanics and Jamming IV

Seth Fraden, Brandeis University

• Liquid Crystals I (Power Point Presentation)
• Liquid Crystals II (Power Point Presentation)
• Liquid Crystals III (Power Point Presentation)

Daan Frenkel, FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics

• Atomic and Molecular Simulation I
• Atomic and Molecular Simulation II
• Atomic and Molecular Simulation III

Bill Gelbart, University of California at Los Angeles

• Viruses I (Power Point Presentation)
• Viruses II (Power Point Presentation)
• Viruses III (Power Point Presentation)

Jerry Gollub, Haverford College

• Fluid Mechanics I (Power Point Presentation)
• Fluid Mechanics II (Power Point Presentation)
• Fluid Mechanics III (Power Point Presentation)
• Fluid Mechanics IV (Power Point Presentation)

Jennifer A. Lewis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Public Lecture - July 12, 2006)

• Mimicking Nature via Directed Materials Assembly

Andrea Liu, University of Pennsylvania

• Actin Networks I
• Actin Networks II

L. Mahadevan, Harvard University

• Elastomers and Gels I-III

Thomas G. Mason, University of California at Los Angeles

• Rheology and Emulsions I
• Rheology and Emulsions II
• Rheology and Emulsions III

Simon Mochrie, Yale University

• Scattering I-II
• Scattering III

Mark Robbins, Johns Hopkins University

• Multi-Scale Modeling I
• Multi-Scale Modeling II
• Multi-Scale Modeling III

Joseph Rudnick, UCLA

• Random Walks and Diffusion I-III
• Supplemental Notes 1
• Supplemental Notes 2

Sam Safran, Weizmann Institute

• Membranes I-III (titlepage only)

Eric Weeks, Emory University

• Microscopy I
• Microscopy II
• Microscopy III

David Weitz, Harvard University

• Glasses and Gels I-III

John Widom, Northwestern University

• DNA Mechanics I
• DNA Mechanics II
• DNA Mechanics III (Power Point Presentation)
• DNA Mechanics IV (Power Point Presentation)

Wendy Zhang, University of Chicago (Public Lecture - July 5, 2006)

• Capturing Fluid Motion: The Art and Science of Freezing Time

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