Boulder School 2002: Lecture Notes

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Bob Meyer

• Complete Slides
• Lecture 1 - Liquid Crystals - Elasticity, Static Equilibrium, Textures
• Lecture 2 - Optics of thin layers of liquid crystals
• Lecture 3 - Chirality - Lack of Mirror Symmetry
• Lecture 4 - Liquid Crystal Gels - Liquid & Rubber in one material!

Paul Chaikin

• Lecture Notes

Doug Durian

• Lecture 1- Introduction
• Lecture 2 - Structure
• Lecture 3 - Stability
• Lecture 4 - Rheology

Daan Frenkel

• SIMU - Statistical Mechanics for Computer Simulators
• Parts 1 and 2
• Part 3

Randall Kamien

• The Geometry of Soft Materials: A Primer

Ka Yee Lee

• Lecture 1 - Membrane Biophysics
• Lecture 2 - The Membrane System of the Cell
• Lecture 3 - Lipid Protein Interactions at Interfaces

Andrea Liu

• Lecture 1 - Random Phase Approximation: Electrolytes, Polymer Solutions and Polyelectrolytes

Tom Lubensky

• Lecture 1 - Dynamics: correlation and response

David Nelson

• Transparency
• Lecture 1 - Defects in Superfluids, Superconductors and Membranes

Michael Rubinstein

• Unfortunately, these lecture notes are not available because of copyright issues

Sidney Nagel

• Granular Materials: The Plan
• Lecture 1 - Jamming & Forces
• Lecture 2 - Compaction & Sound
• Public Lecture - General remarks about granular materials
• Lecture 4 - Flow and Convection
• Lecture 5 - Flow (continued); Introduction of a second fluid