Boulder School 2015: Lecture Notes

All files are in PDF format. There will also be links to video. Vitelli lecture notes are also in Keynote which is a MAC only product.

Week 1: Elasticity, chirality and frustration in soft matter
July 6 Tom Lubensky Elastomers and isostatic lattices I PDF | Figures Video
  Alex Levine Filaments, membranes and sufaces I PDF Video
  Efi Efrati Chirality and frustration I PDF Video
July 7 Tom Lubensky Elastomers and isostatic lattices II PDF Video
  Efi Efrati Chirality and frustration II PDF Video
  Alex Levine Filaments, membranes and surfaces II PDF Video
  David Nelson Public Lecture: The Physics of Thermal Crumpling and Wrinkling
Poster
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July 8 Tom Lubensky Elastomers and isostatic lattices III PDF  
  Efi Efrati Chirality and frustration III PDF Video
  Alex Levine Filaments, Membranes and Surfaces III PDF Video
July 9 Vincenzo Vitelli Tutorial: Topological mechanics I PDF | Keynote  
  David Nelson Seminar: Statistical mechanics of free-standing graphene ribbons
Lecture Notes
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July 10 William Irvine Fluid hydrodynamics I PDF  
  Narayanan Menon Mechanics of Wrinkling, Folding, and Crumpling I PDF  
  Vincenzo Vitelli Tutorial: Topological Mechanics II PDF  
Week 2: Generalized elasticity and heterogeneity in soft matter
July 13 Eric Dufresne Surface Tension, Droplets, and Contact Lines I
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  Narayan Menon Mechanics of Wrinkling, Folding, and Crumpling II PDF  
  William Irvine Fluid Hydrodynamics II PDF  
July 14

Leo Radzihovsky

Introduction to quenched disorder I
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  Eric Dufresne Surface tension, droplets, and contact lines II
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  Oleg Lavrentovich Liquid crystals I PDF  
July 15 Leo Radzihovsky Introduction to quenched disorder II
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  Narayanan Menon Mechanics of Wrinkling, Folding, and Crumpling III PDF  
  Oleg Lavrentovich Liquid crystals II PDF  
July 16 Eric Dufresne Surface tension, droplets, and contact lines III PDF  
  Leo Radzihovsky

Lecture: “Critical” soft matter: Introduction to quenched disorder III

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  Oleg Lavrentovich Liquid Crystals III PDF  
July 17 Noel Clark Seminar: Chiral liquid crystals, DNS, origin of life PDF  
  Ivan Smalyukh Seminar: Liquid crystals skyrmions, topological colloids PDF  
Week 3: Nonequilibrium, heterogeneous soft matter
July 20 Sid Nagel Glasses I PDF  
  William Irvine Seminar: Life of vortex knots: conservation of helicity across scales PDF  
  Noel Clark Seminar: Athermal photo-fluidization of glasses PDF  
July 21 Sid Nagel Glasses II PDF  
  William Irvine Seminar: Topological mechanics of gyroscopic metamaterials PDF  
July 22 Pierre Le Doussal

Driven disordered systems I

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  Sid Nagel Glasses III PDF  
  Leo Radzihovsky Seminar: “Critical” soft matter: liquid crystals, membranes, & elastomers
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July 23 Pierre Le Doussal Driven disordered systems II
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  Mark Bowick Seminar: Flat faces from floppy vesicles
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July 24 Pierre Le Doussal Driven disordered systems III
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  Cristina Marchetti Microscopics to hydrodynamics of active matter I
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  Lisa Manning Seminar: Computational glassy dynamics in cell PDF  
Week 4: Active matter
July 27 John Toner Hydrodynamics of active matter I PDF  
  Cristina Marchetti Microscopics to hydrodynamics of active matter II PDF  
  Zvonimir Dogic Active liquid crystals I PDF  
July 28 Jean-Francois Joanny Cytoskeletons, cells, tissue I
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  John Toner Hydrodynamics of active matter II PDF  
  Cristina Marchetti Microscopics to hydrodynanmics of active matter III PDF  
July 29 Jean-Francois Joanny Cytoskeletons, cells, tissue II PDF  
  John Toner Hydrodynamics of active matter III PDF  
  Jennifer Ross Seminar: Microtubules organization PDF  
July 30 Jean-Francois Joanny Cytoskeletons, cells, tissue III PDF  
  Zvonimir Dogic Active liquid crystals II PDF  
  Mark Bowick Shape-Shifting Droplet Networks PDF  
July 31 Zvonimir Dogic Active liquid crystals III PDF