Soft Condensed Matter Group

Our group includes three faculty members with a range of interests which all could loosely be considered soft condensed matter. The group currently also includes five undergraduates, seven graduate students, three postdoctoral fellows, and one technical staff member. Our interests include soft materials, polymers, nonlinear dynamics, and fluid mechanics. We also talk frequently with the statistical physics theory group.
We try to have a group meeting every week, to help facilitate collaboration and interaction between the theory and experimental work. If you are interested in attending these meetings, email Eric Weeks (weeks@physics.emory.edu) to be put on the email list.

  • Connie B. Roth
    Experiment: polymer blends and films, glass transition, structural relaxation, and nanoscale interactions affecting dynamics at and near interfaces.
  • Phil Segrè
    Experiment: complex liquids, fluid dynamics, multiphase flow, gelation and jamming of colloidal solutions.
  • Eric R. Weeks
    Experiment: microscopy of colloidal glasses, nonlinear dynamics, complex fluids, and granular media.

colloidal gel surfactants neurons foam structure neuronal morphogenesis colloids with microscopic stir bar aggregation cluster
Pictures: (1) colloidal gel; (2) surfactants; (3) neurons; (4) foam structure; (5) neuronal morphogenesis; (6) colloids with microscopic "stir bar"; (7) aggregation cluster