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Adam Abate University of Pennsylvania Advisor: Doug Durian |
I’m an Experimentalist. I work with non-equilibrium systems studying things like the approach to jamming for an air-driven system of ball bearings and also using laser spectroscopy to observe the onset and arrest of avalanche flows in sand. |
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Aphrodite Ahmadi Syracuse University Advisor: M. Cristina Marchetti |
I am a theorist. I work on pattern formation in non-equilibrium systems such as active solutions of cytoskeletal filaments and motor proteins, using tools from Polymer Physics and Hydrodynamics. |
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Elnaz Alipour-Assiabi Brown University Advisor: Thomas Powers |
Theoretical biophysics, liquid membranes. |
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Maksym Artomov MIT Advisor: Jianshu Cao |
I am a theorist who is interested in statistical mechanics of polymers, electrolytes, soft matter and phase transitions and self-assembling phenomena. |
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Aparna Baskaran University of Florida Advisor: James W. Dufty |
I am a theorist. I am interested in Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics, granular fluids. |
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John Beausang University of Pennsylvania Advisor: Philip Nelson |
I am primarily a theorist. I am interested in biological physics, particularly DNA elasticity and Myosin motility. |
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Vladimir Belyi University of Massachusetts Advisor: Thomas Witten |
I’m a theorist working on statistical mechanics of polymer aggregation, virus assembly, pattern formation, and other bio/soft-matter problems. |
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James Bird Harvard University Advisors: David Weitz and Howard Stone |
I am experimentalist. I am interested in the impact, spreading, and drying of drops. |
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Daniel Blair Harvard University Advisor: Arshad Kudriolli |
I’m an experimentalist. I work on a number of different projects in soft condensed matter including colloidal glasses, clogging in porous media and the rheology of biopolymer networks. |
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Paul Chaikin, Lecturer New York University |
I have fun trying to figure out problems in Soft Condensed Matter Physics, by doing theory, simulations, experiments - whatever it takes. |
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Bulbul Chakraborty, Lecturer Brandeis University |
I am a theorist working on the statistical mechanics of glassy systems using a combination of simulations and analytical approaches. |
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David Chandler, Lecturer University of California, Berkeley |
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Connie Chang University of California, Los Angeles Advisor: Thomas G. Mason |
I am an experimentalist interested in the self-assembly of virus proteins at the aqueous-oil interface. |
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Patrick Charbonneau Harvard University Advisor: Prof. David R. Reichman |
Interest: Theory and simulation of glassy and soft-matter systems. |
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Shengfeng Cheng The Johns Hopkins University Advisor: Mark O. Robbins |
I am a theorist who is interested in adhesion, friction, and wetting phenomena. |
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Tamara Chiba Yale University Advisor: Simon Mochrie |
I am an experimentalist interested in single molecule experiments, namely protein folding studied with the atomic force microscope (force measurements and imaging). |
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Aidan Craig University of Cambridge Advisor: Prof. Eugene Terentjev |
Field of interest: Theoretical Biophysics. My work focuses on modifying and applying polymer field-theoretic techniques to deal with biological systems; in particular, I consider analytic treatments of the helix-coil transition, the early stages of protein collapse, and the free-energy landscape of anyloid fibrils. |
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Anthony D. Dinsmore, Scientific Coordinator University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
I am an experimentalist interested in colloids, emulsions and other soft materials. My group uses these systems to study phase transitions (melting and freezing), granular physics, and other fundamental problems of statistical mechanics. We also develop new materials for electronic, optical or other applications by self assembly of small particles. |
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Eric Dufresne, Scientific Coordinator Yale University |
I am an experimentalist working in soft matter and biological physics. |
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Djamel El Masri (or Jamal H. M. Al Masri) CNRS - Université de Montpellier 2 Advisors: Luca Cipelletti and Ludovic Berthier |
Interests: Heterogeneous dynamics of concentrated colloidal hard spheres : experiments and simulations. |
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Wouter Ellenbroek Leiden University Advisor: Wim van Saarloos |
I’m a theorist whose research interest is theory of the jamming transition in disordered granular media, in particular its signature in elastic or geometric properties of jammed packings close to the transition. |
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Mark Elsesser New York University Advisor: David Pine |
I like experiments. My current favorites involve suspensions of monodisperse non-spherical colloids. |
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Allison Ferguson Brandeis University Advisor: Bulbul Chakraborty |
I am a theorist studying simple models of dense driven granular media, and I am particularly interested in investigating the role played by large-scale spatial structures as the system is slowed towards jamming and exploring possible analogies with dynamical heterogeneities in supercooled fluids. |
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Seth Fraden, Lecturer Brandeis University |
I am an experimentalist studying liquid crystal phases of filamentous viruses, nanobiotechnology, granular particles of anisotropic shapes, and developing microfluidic platforms for protein crystallization. |
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Daan Frenkel, Lecturer FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics |
Areas of interest: Computer simulation of soft and bio materials. |
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Henry Fu University of California, Berkeley Advisor: Dung-Hai Lee |
I am a condensed matter physics theorist who has worked on high-temperature superconductivity and superconductivity in low dimensional systems such as nanowires, but who is eager to also start working on more “soft” condensed matter systems. |
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Jennifer Galanis National Institutes of Health Advisor: Ralph Nossal |
I am an experimentalist. My research area is the statistical mechanics and kinetics of liquid crystal ordering. |
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William M. Gelbart, Lecturer University of California, Los Angeles |
With my experimentalist colleague, Chuck Knobler, we study – both in vitro and in vivo – the physical aspects of viral self-assembly and genome delivery. |
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Jerry Gollub, Lecturer Haverford College |
I am an experimentalist working on problems of fluid and nonlinear dynamics, suspensions, microfluidics, and granular materials. |
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Lizette Gonzáles Lee Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Advisor: Jacqueline Quintana Hinojosa |
I am a theorest. My area of interest is the numerical simulation of phase transitions in soft condensed matter. |
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Vernita Gordon University of Edinburgh Advisor: D. A. Weitz |
My research interests are the importance of mesoscale physical interactions to biological systems, with a primary focus on regions at or outside the cell membrane. I am an experimentalist. |
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Zengcai Guo Harvard University Advisor: L. Mahadevan |
I am a theorist, a graduate student in Engineering and Applied Science at Harvard University. I am interested in biological mechanics. |
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Olivia Halt University of Pennsylvania Advisor: Randall Kamien |
I am a theorist interested in the physics of foam, self-assembly, and geometric approaches to soft matter systems. |
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Sara Hashmi Yale University Advisor: Eric Dufresne & Michael Loewenberg |
I am experimentalist. I am intersted in non-Newtonian fluid dynamics along with its biological implications. I currently study the structure and dynamics of suspension flows in microchannels. |
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Tom Haxton University of Pennsylvania Advisor: Andrea Liu |
I am a theorist interested in jamming and nonlinear dynamics. |
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Evan Hohlfeld Harvard University Advisor: L. Mahadevan |
I’m a theorist interested in the passive and active dynamics of porous material, such as phase transformations and growth, especially in polymeric material such as polycrylamide or actin gels. |
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Aurelia Honerkamp-Smith University of Washington Advisor: Sarah L. Keller |
I’m an experimentalist, and my interest is in ciritical behavior and concentration fluctuations in lipid membranes. |
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Phil Huang Brandeis University Advisor: Seth Fraden |
I’m an experimentalist. I am interested in the self-assembly of biological materials (eg. phage, DNA). |
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Katie Humphry Harvard University Advisor: Prof. David A. Weitz |
I am an experimentalist interested in the droplet break-up in two-phase microfluidic flow, and the encapsulation of single cells in drops using microfluidic devices. |
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Timon Idema Lorentz Institute, Leiden University Advisor: Prof. Dr. H. Schiessel |
I am a theorist. My research includes the search for the physical properties of biological membranes. |
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Gregoria Illya Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research Advisor: Dr. Markus Deserno |
I am a theorist working on coarse-grained simulations of biological membranes. |
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Ronit Jan Kletter Ben Gurion University of the Negev Advisor: Oleg Krichevsky |
I’m an experimentalist and am interested in the dynamics of stiff polymers. |
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Elizabeth Janus University of Wisconsin Advisor: Qiang Cui |
I am a theorist interested in devloping coarse-grain models for molecular systems and studying protein/DNA interactions using molecular dynamics simulations. |
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Louise Jawerth Harvard University Advisor: David Weitz |
I am an experimentalist interested in the origins of elasticity in fibrin and other biopolymer networks. |
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Hongyuan Jiang Brown University Advisor: Thomas R. Powers |
My interests are: biomechanics and the physics of soft matter. I’m a theorist. |
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Ercan Kamber Brandeis University Advisor: Jané Kondev |
Theorist |
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Josef Käs, Lecturer University of Leipzig |
I am an Experimentalist. My research interests and some `areas of expertise are as follows: laser physics, optics, scanning probe techniques; biological physics, condensed matter physics of soft matter, polymer physics, medical physics, and nonlinear dynamics. |
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Karen Kasza Harvard University Advisor: David Weitz |
I’m an experimentalist. I am interested in biopolymer physics and cell mechanics. |
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Hiroaki Katsuragi University of Pennsylvania Advisor: Doug Durian |
I am an experimentalist studying granular dynamics. I have studied growing rough surfaces, brittle fragmentation, and pattern formation on gels. |
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Michael Lang University of North Carolina Advisor: Michael Rubinstein |
I am a (wierd) theorist. My fields of interest are: Polymer dynamics, rheology, polymer networks, knot theory, bio-polymers … |
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Clayton Lapointe The Johns Hopkins University Advisor: Robert Leheny |
I am an Experimentalist. I am currently interested in elastically mediated interactions on colloids suspended in nematic liquid crystals and non-linear Stokes drag on colloids in nematics. |
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Sigolène Lecuyer Institut Charles Sadron, CNRS Advisor: Dr Thierry Charitat |
I am an experimentalist interested in fundamental properties of model lipid membranes, such as fluctuations and destabilization, vesicle formation, or lateral diffusion in supported bilayers. |
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Sang-Hyuk Lee New York University Advisor: David G. Grier |
I am an experimentalist working on soft matter system with the main focus on the dynamics of colloidal particles on various potential energy landscape created with holographic optical traps. I am also interested in the biological physics and phase behavior of complex fluids. |
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Jennifer Lewis, Lecturer University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
I am an experimentalist who studies the phase behavior, structure, and assembly of soft materials. |
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Albert Libchaber, Lecturer Rockefeller University |
We study the implications of nonlinear dynamics on the physical world and the effects of information flow and genetic control in biology. Prof. Libchaber is an experimentalist; he’s the head of the Condensed Matter Physics Laboratory at Rockefeller University. |
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Gerald Lim University of Connecticut Health Center Advisor: Greg Huber |
I use theoretical and computational methods to infer the mechanical forces and constraints governing the size and shape of cellular objects, such as the human red blood cell and the nucleus of the fission yeast. |
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Andrea Liu, Lecturer University of Pennsylvania |
I am a theorist working on jamming and biophysical self-assembly using a combination of theory and simulation. |
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L. Mahadevan, Lecturer Harvard University |
Interests: Mechanical Behavior of matter, living and non-living. |
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Lisa Manning University of California, Santa Barbara Advisor: Jean M. Carlson |
I am a theorist. I am interested in “instabilities” in driven systems, such as turbulence in fluids and shear banding in amorphous solids. |
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Thomas G. Mason, Lecturer University of California, Los Angeles |
My interests are structure, dynamics, and rheology of soft complex materials: nanoemulsions, microfluidics, microrheology, shear-induced structures, neutron scattering, biosystems, and novel dispersions. |
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Jeetain Mittal The University of Texas at Austin Advisor: Thomas M. Truskett |
I am a theorist. Areas of interest: Thermodynamic/structural understanding of fluids and supercooled liquid dynamics, effect of confinementon the material properties, dynamic anomalies in core-softened water models. |
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Simon Mochrie, Lecturer Yale University |
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Carl Modes University of Pennsylvania Advisor: Randall Kamien |
I am a theorist currently interested in the physics of hard spheres, packings, and the regime separating the onset of isostaticity from fully jammed or close-packed systems. I am also interested in the general application of geometry in soft condensed matter systems. |
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Michael Murrell Massachusetts Institute of Technology Advisor: Paul Matsudaira / L. Mahadevan |
I am an Experimentalist. I am interested in the mechanics of tissue development and movement with an emphasis on intracellular biopolymer networks. |
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Rupert Nash University of Edinburgh Advisor: Prof. Mike Cates |
I’m a theorist, using Lattice-Boltzmann simulation to study the hydrodynamic interactions of active particle suspensions (such as motile bacteria). |
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Joyce Noah Stanford University Advisor: Hans C. Andersen |
I am a theorist interested in understanding the behavior of liquids, including liquids at interfaces, non-equilibrium phenomena, and complex fluids, using statistical mechanics and computer simulation techniques. |
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Corey O’Hern, Scientific Coordinator Yale University |
I use theoretical and computational methods to study jamming and slow dynamics in a variety of soft matter systems including thermal systems such as dense liquids and colloidal materials and non-thermal granular materials. |
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Prasanta Pal Yale University Advisor: Corey O’Hern |
I’m a theorist. My area of physics interest is theoretical and computational studies of jamming and glass transitions in soft matter. |
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Matthew Pennington University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Advisor: Jens-Christian Meiners |
I study the dynamics of DNA via single-molecule experiments. I’m an experimentalist. |
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Heidi Perry Columbia University Advisor: David Reichman |
I am a theorist studying the dynamics of chemical gelation in comparison to that of colloidal gelation and the glass transition. |
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Phil Pincus, Lecturer University of California, Santa Barbara |
I’m a theorist working on soft condensed matter systems on problems motivated by observations on biomolecules. |
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Marco Polin New York University Advisor: David G. Grier |
I’m an experimentalist. My main interest is the experimental study of many body colloidal interactions. |
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Thomas R. Powers, Scientific Coordinator Brown University |
I study soft condensed matter and biological physics. My current interests include the mechanics of bacterial flagella, low Reynolds number hydrodynamics, and membranes. |
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Leo Radzihovsky, Director University of Colorado |
I am a theorist, interested in soft condensed matter physics, nonequilibrium phenomena, physics of quantum-Hall and related systems, with a theme unifying these diverse subjects being importance of fluctuations, nonlinearities and/or local material heterogeneities. |
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Mark Robbins, Lecturer Johns Hopkins University |
I use computer simulations to link microscopic dynamics to macroscopic behavior in nonequilibrium processes such as friction, adhesion, wetting and fracture. |
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Joseph Rudnick, Lecturer University of California, Los Angeles |
I do theoretical research on a variety of problems in condensed matter physics. Lately, I have become interested in issues in biological physics. |
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Sam Safran, Lecturer Weizmann Institute |
We study the structure, phase behavior and dynamics of systems such as membranes, macromolecules, and biological cells, using the approaches of statistical thermodynamics. Through our interactions with experimental groups, the theory is applied to problems of membrane fusion, morphology and adhesion of cells, and self-assembly of amphiphilic molecules. |
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Homin Shin Syracuse University Advisor: Mark Bowick |
I am a theorist working on the interplay between order and geometry, structure and dynamics of interacting topological defects on curved surfaces, and their applications to complex and biological materials. |
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Yehuda Snir University of Pennsylvania Advisor: Randall Kamien |
I am a theorist interested in the interplay of geometry with biophysics and self-assembly, and am currently looking at a simple depletion interaction model of helix formation in biological systems. |
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Jinsuk Song Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Advisor: Mahn Wan Kim |
I have been doing simulations on self-assembled structure of soft matter and hope to become an experimentalist soon. |
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Daniel R. Spiegel Trinity University |
I am an experimentalist studying nonequilibrium pattern formation in liquid crystals, along with molecular diffusion in soft materials such as liquid crystals and polymer solutions. |
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Ashlee St. John Georgia Institute of Technology Advisor: Dr. L. Andrew Lyon |
I am an experimentalist. I am interested in the phase behavior of colloidal systems, specifically crystallization and jamming of assemblies of soft deformable particles. |
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Emma Terama Helsinki University of Technology Advisor: Prof. Ilpo Vattulainen |
Field: Simulation studies of cell membranes and polarizable colloids (theory). |
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Chantal Valeriani FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics Advisor: Daan Frenkel |
I am a theorist whose research interests are Nucleation phenomena: crystallization and bubble formation, and techniques related to sampling of rare events. |
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Mya Warren University of British Columbia Advisor: Joerg Rottler |
I am a theorist. I am investigating the mechanical properties of polymer glasses using molecular dynamics simulation. |
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Eric Weeks, Lecturer Emory University |
I am an experimentalist studying jamming in soft materials using confocal microscopy. |
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David Weitz, Lecturer Harvard University |
I am an experimentalist. I study the physics of soft condensed matter, materials which are easily deformed by external stresses, electric, magnetic or gravitational fields, or even by thermal fluctuations. |
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Jon Widom, Lecturer Northwestern University |
Research Interests: Molecular basis of gene regulation; molecular biophysics of nucleic acids and protein-nucleic acid complexes. |
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James Wilking University of California, Los Angeles Advisor: Thomas G. Mason |
I am an experimentalist interested in the microstructure, rheology and microrheology (nonlinear rotational) of metastable nanoemulsions. |
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Aron Yoffe University of California, Los Angeles Advisor: William M. Gelbart |
I am a theorist. Research Interests: Developing a phenomenological model that predicts the size and shape of single-stranded viral RNA from its primary sequence; branched polymers; osmosis. |
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Wendy Zhang, Lecturer University of Chicago |
I am a theoretical physicist. I have long been fascinated by the physics of shape changes in every-day life. Some examples are the break-up of a water drop from a leaky faucet or the division of a mother cell into two daughter cells. |
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