Boulder School 2015: Lecture Notes
Boulder School 2015: Lecture Notes
All files are in PDF format. There are also links to video.
| 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 surfaces I | Video | ||
| Efi Efrati | Chirality and frustration I | Video | ||
| July 7 | Tom Lubensky | Elastomers and isostatic lattices II | See Lecture 1 | Video |
| Efi Efrati | Chirality and frustration II | See Lecture 1 | Video | |
| Alex Levine | Filaments, membranes and surfaces II | See Lecture 1 | Video | |
| David Nelson | Public Lecture: The Physics of Thermal Crumpling and Wrinkling | Video | ||
| July 8 | Tom Lubensky | Elastomers and isostatic lattices III | See Lecture 1 | |
| Efi Efrati | Chirality and frustration III | See Lecture 1 | Video | |
| Alex Levine | Filaments, Membranes and Surfaces III | See Lecture 1 | Video | |
| July 9 | Vincenzo Vitelli | Tutorial: Topological mechanics I | ||
| David Nelson | Seminar: Statistical mechanics of free-standing graphene ribbons | PDF | Notes | ||
| July 10 | William Irvine | Fluid hydrodynamics I | ||
| Narayanan Menon | Mechanics of Wrinkling, Folding, and Crumpling I | |||
| Vincenzo Vitelli | Tutorial: Topological Mechanics II | See Lecture 1 | ||
| Week 2: Generalized elasticity and heterogeneity in soft matter | ||||
| July 13 | Eric Dufresne | Surface Tension, Droplets, and Contact Lines I | PDF | Slides | |
| Narayan Menon | Mechanics of Wrinkling, Folding, and Crumpling II | |||
| William Irvine | Fluid Hydrodynamics II | |||
| July 14 | Leo Radzihovsky | Introduction to quenched disorder I | Slides | |
| Eric Dufresne | Surface tension, droplets, and contact lines II | |||
| Oleg Lavrentovich | Liquid crystals I | |||
| July 15 | Leo Radzihovsky | Introduction to quenched disorder II | ||
| Narayanan Menon | Mechanics of Wrinkling, Folding, and Crumpling III | |||
| Oleg Lavrentovich | Liquid crystals II | |||
| July 16 | Eric Dufresne | Surface tension, droplets, and contact lines III | Slides | |
| Leo Radzihovsky | Lecture: “Critical” soft matter: Introduction to quenched disorder III | Slides | ||
| Oleg Lavrentovich | Liquid Crystals III | |||
| July 17 | Noel Clark | Seminar: Chiral liquid crystals, DNS, origin of life | ||
| Ivan Smalyukh | Seminar: Liquid crystals skyrmions, topological colloids | |||
| Week 3: Nonequilibrium, heterogeneous soft matter | ||||
| July 20 | Sid Nagel | Glasses I | ||
| William Irvine | Seminar: Life of vortex knots: conservation of helicity across scales | |||
| Noel Clark | Seminar: Athermal photo-fluidization of glasses | |||
| July 21 | Sid Nagel | Glasses II | ||
| William Irvine | Seminar: Topological mechanics of gyroscopic metamaterials | |||
| July 22 | Pierre Le Doussal | Driven disordered systems I | PDF | Slides | |
| Sid Nagel | Glasses III | See Lectures 1 and 2 | ||
| Leo Radzihovsky | Seminar: “Critical” soft matter: liquid crystals, membranes, & elastomers | Slides | ||
| July 23 | Pierre Le Doussal | Driven disordered systems II | ||
| Mark Bowick | Seminar: Flat faces from floppy vesicles | PDF | Slides | ||
| July 24 | Pierre Le Doussal | Driven disordered systems III | ||
| Cristina Marchetti | Microscopics to hydrodynamics of active matter I | |||
| Lisa Manning | Seminar: Computational glassy dynamics in cell | Slides | ||
| Week 4: Active matter | ||||
| July 27 | John Toner | Hydrodynamics of active matter I | ||
| Cristina Marchetti | Microscopics to hydrodynamics of active matter II | |||
| Zvonimir Dogic | Active liquid crystals I | |||
| July 28 | Jean-Francois Joanny | Cytoskeletons, cells, tissue I | PDF | Slides | |
| John Toner | Hydrodynamics of active matter II | |||
| Cristina Marchetti | Microscopics to hydrodynamics of active matter III | |||
| July 29 | Jean-Francois Joanny | Cytoskeletons, cells, tissue II | See Lecture 1 | |
| John Toner | Hydrodynamics of active matter III | |||
| Jennifer Ross | Seminar: Microtubules organization | |||
| July 30 | Jean-Francois Joanny | Cytoskeletons, cells, tissue III | See Lecture 1 | |
| Zvonimir Dogic | Active liquid crystals II | |||
| Mark Bowick | Shape-Shifting Droplet Networks | |||
| July 31 | Zvonimir Dogic | Active liquid crystals III | ||