General Area: Experimental
soft condensed matter physics.
Specific Interests: Microscopy of colloidal
glasses, nonlinear dynamics, complex fluids, and granular
media. In our lab we study the properties and dynamics
of complex fluids,
mainly
using
microscopy. What happens when glasses solidify? What behavior
do we see in materials when they are out of equilibrium?
What happens when we push the limits of applications of
statistical mechanics, by studying simple materials such
as shaving cream foam or sand piles? Website:
http://www.physics.emory.edu/faculty/weeks/