Note that in the table below, the further in the future something is listed, the more likely it is subject to change.
| Date | topic | reading | extra |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 9 | introduction | Eric's PowerPoint slides | |
| Jan 11 | fluids | Fluids for soft matter (Weeks) Tritton, chapters 5, sections 8.1, 8.2, 9.4 | |
| Jan 13 | fluids |
Tritton, chapter 1 Tritton, chapter 2 Tritton, section 8.3 | |
| Jan 18 | low Re fluids |
Purcell, Am J Phys (1977) | 3-link swimmer
video Another video C elegans worm swimming |
| Jan 20 | diffusion |
Berg, chapters 1+2 | |
| Jan 23 | diffusion |
Berg, chapters 4+5 | |
| Jan 25 | application | mystery article | |
| Jan 27 | microfluidics |
Tabeling, chapter 0 | Lab
on a Chip (journal) Mouse on Mars microfluidics music video (video from my friend Charles Baroud's lab) |
| Jan 30 | microfluidics |
Tabeling, sections 1.1-1.5 | |
| Jan 30 | 4 pm makeup class |
no reading | |
| Feb 1 | microfluidics |
Tabeling, sections 1.6-1.10 | |
| Feb 3 | forces |
Jones, chapters 1 and 2 | |
| Feb 6 | phase transitions |
Jones, secs. 3.1-3.3 | spinodal
decomposition video 1 spinodal decomposition video 2 spinodal decomposition video 3 |
| Feb 8 |
NO CLASS | ||
| Feb 10 | freezing/melting |
Jones, sec. 3.4 | |
| Feb 13 | colloids |
Jones, secs. 4.1-4.3 | Brownian
motion colloidal gel (from depletion forces) solidification front in growing crystal solidification front in growing snowflake |
| Feb 13 | 3 pm makeup class | no assigned reading | Lee JCG 2004 article (controlling solidification fronts) |
| Feb 15 | colloid forces |
Jones, secs. 4.4-4.5 Pusey & van Megen 1986 | colloidal crystal movie |
| Feb 17 | hard sphere physics |
Widom 1967 | |
| Feb 20 |
NO CLASS | ||
| Feb 22 | hard sphere crystals | Gasser 2001 | |
| Feb 24 | exam | ||
| Feb 27 | ethics | Retractions | |
| Mar 1 | liquid crystals | Jones, secs. 7.1-7.4 | |
| Mar 3 | liquid crystals | Jones, secs. 7.5-7.7 | |
| Mar 20 | liquid-gas coexistence | mystery article #2 | abstract writing advice |
| Mar 22 | surfactants | Jones, secs. 9.1-9.2 | |
| Mar 24 | biological soft matter | Jones, chapter 10 | |
| Mar 27 | computational methods | Schreck & O'Hern, 2.1-2.3 | |
| Mar 29 | jamming | Schreck & O'Hern, 2.4 | |
| Mar 30 | 3:45 pm makeup class | no assigned reading | |
| Mar 31 | granular flow | Silbert | |
| Apr 3 | giving talks interfacial viscosity | optional reading: Prasad et al. (2006) | |
| Apr 5 | foams | Hilgenfeldt et al. (2008) | foam drainage microscope movies |
| Apr 7 | colloidal gels | Trappe & Weitz (2001) | Diffusion limited aggregation movie, pic 1, pic 2, pic 3 |
| Apr 10 | microrheology | Mason & Weitz (1995) | web page summary, webinar tutorial by Eric |
| Apr 12 | glasses | Donati et al. (1998) | |
| Apr 14 | foams | Durian 1995, Ono 2002 | Josh & Dylan presenting |
| Apr 17 | glasses | Widmer-Cooper 2004, Hwang 2016 | Yannic & Louis presenting |
| Apr 17 (3 pm) | microfluidics | Utada 2007 | Xiaolei presenting |
| Apr 19 | gels & glasses | Dinsmore 2006, Ikeda 2012 | Anika & Yonglun presenting |
| Apr 21 | active colloids | Marchetti 2016 | video 1, video 2, video 3 |
| Apr 24 | colloidal clusters | Sacanna 2011 | David Pine TEDx talk |
| Apr 24, 3 pm | review | no reading |
