Journal club papers

The soft condensed matter journal club meets weekly throughout the entire year. Meeting times are chosen to fit the club members' schedules and thus change from semester to semester. Topics vary widely and are influenced by the current interests of those in the journal club, as can be seen from the below list of past papers. Journal club participants include both theory and experimental students, and anybody is welcome to join. Meetings are typically held in MSC E200 (the round lounge).

• Library of other papers
• Potential future papers

2009:

• Wednesday, November 11, 1 pm
  • "A Low-Temperature Amorphous Phase in a Fragile Glass-Forming Substance"
    I Cohen, A Ha, X Zhao, M Lee, T Fischer, MJ Strouse, and D Kivelson, J. Phys. Chem. 100, 8518-8526 (1996). journal
• Wednesday, October 28, 1 pm
  • "Hard spheres: Crystallization and glass formation"
    PN Pusey, E Zaccarelli, C Valeriani, E Sanz, WCK Poon, ME Cates, arXiv:0908.1663v1 (2009).
• Wednesday, October 21, 1 pm
  • "Free surfaces cause reductions in the glass transition temperature of thin polystyrene films"
    JS Sharp & JA Forrest, PRL 91, 235701 (2003).
• Wednesday, October 7, 1 pm
  • "Chaos and threshold for irreversibility in sheared suspensions"
    DJ Pine, JP Gollub, JF Brady, & AM Leshansky, Nature 438, 997-1000 (2005).
• Wednesday, August 12, 1 pm
  • "Temperature-Modulated Ellipsometry: A New Probe for Glass Transition in Thin Supported Polymer Films"
    MY Efremov, AV Kiyanova, PF Nealy, Macromolecules 41, 5978-5980 (2008). Suggested by Justin.
• Wednesday, July 29, 1 pm
  • "Jamming during the discharge of granular matter from a silo"
    I Zuriguel, A Garcimartin, D Maza, LA Pugnaloni, & JM Pastor, PRE 71, 051303 (2005). Journal. Suggested by Gary.
  • Wednesday, July 22, 1 pm
    • "Phase separation of binary polymer mixtures under an electric field"
      H Hori, O Urakawa, O Yano, & Q Tran-Cong-Miyata, Macromolecules 40, 389-394 (2007). Suggested by Annika. Journal.
  • Wednesday, July 15, 1 pm
    • "Apparent violation of the fluctuation-dissipation theorem due to dynamic heterogeneity in a model glass-forming liquid"
      T Kawasaki & H Tanaka, PRL 102, 185701 (2009). Suggested by Kazem. Journal link
  • Wednesday, July 8, 1 pm
    • "On the possible role of surface elasticity in emulsion stability"
      D Georgieva, V Schmitt, F Leal-Calderon, & D Langevin, Langmuir 25, 5565-5573 (2009). Suggested by Ana.
  • Wednesday, July 1, 1 pm
    • "An experimental test of volume-equilibration between granular systems"
      F Lechenault & KE Daniels, arXiv:0905.1829. Suggested by Laura.
  • Wednesday, June 24, 1 pm
    • "Frustration on the way to crystallization in glass"
      H Shintani & H Tanaka, Nat. Phys. 2, 200-206 (2006). Suggested by Rei and Dandan.
  • Wednesday, June 17, 1 pm
    • "Temperature dependence of normal mode reconstructions of protein dynamics"
      F Piazza, P De Los Rios, & F Cecconi, PRL 102, 218104 (2009). Suggested by Ken.
  • Wednesday, June 10, 1 pm
    • "Model polymer nanocomposites provide an understanding of confinement effects in real nanocomposites"
      P Rittigstein, RD Priestly, LJ Broadbelt, & JM Torkelson, Nat. Materials 6, 278-282 (2007). Journal.
    • "Polymer nanocomposities"
      KI Winey & RA Vaia, MRS Bulletin 32, 314-319 (2007).
  • Wednesday, June 3, 1 pm
    • "Relation between glass transition temperatures in polymer nanocomposites and polymer thin films"
      JM Kropka, V Pryamitsyn, & V Ganesan
      PRL 101, 075702 (2008).
  • Wednesday, May 27, 3 pm
    • "Gels and Glasses in a Single System: Evidence for an Intricate Free-Energy Landscape of Glassy Materials"
      S Jabbari-Farouji, GH Wegdam, & D Bonn, PRL 99, 065701 (2007). Journal webpage
  • Wednesday, May 20, 1 pm
    • "Aging of a colloidal 'Wigner' glass"
      D Bonn, H Tanaka, G Wegdam, H Kellay & J Meunier
      EPL 45, 52 (1998).
  • Friday, April 24, 10:40 am
    • "Characterization of soft condensed matter & delicate materials using environmental scanning electron microscopy (ESEM)"
      DJ Stokes
      Adv. Eng. Materials 3, 126-131 (2001).
    • "A history of scanning electron microscopy developments: Towards 'wet-STEM' imaging"
      A Bogner, P-H Jouneau, G Thollet, D Basset, & C Gauthier
      Micron 38, 390-401 (2007).
      • For Justin's presentation; first paper is more important.
    • "Microscopic structure and elasticity of weakly aggregated colloidal gels"
      AD Dinsmore, V Prasad, IY Wong, & DA Weitz
      PRL 96, 185502 (2006).
      • For Kazem's presentation.
  • Wednesday, April 22, 10:40 am
    • "New fundamental concepts in emulsion rheology"
      TG Mason
      Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science 4, 231-238 (1999). citeulike.
      • For Dandan's presentation.
    • "Jamming in Systems Composed of Frictionless Ellipse-Shaped Particles"
      M Mailman, CF Schreck, CS O'Hern, & B Chakraborty
      arXiv:0812.1234v2 [cond-mat.soft] (2008).
      • For Ken's presentation.
  • Monday, April 20, 10:40 am
    • "Transition path sampling: throwing ropes over mountains in the dark"
      PG Bolhuis, C Dellago, PL Geissler & D Chandler
      J. Phys: Cond. Mat. 12, A147-A152 (2000).
      • For Ana's presentation.
    • "Observation of a single-beam gradient force optical trap for dielectric particles"
      A Ashkin, JM Dziedzic, JE Bjorkholm, & S Chu
      Opt. Lett. 11, 288 (1986).
    • "Laser trapping of microscopic particles for undergraduate experiments"
      R Pastel et al., Am. J. Phys. 68, 993-1001 (2000).
      • For Annika's presentation; first paper is more important.
  • Monday, April 13, 10:40 am
    • "Food structure and functionality: A soft matter perspective"
      J Ubbink, A Burbidge, & R Mezzenga
      Soft Matter 4, 1569-1581 (2008). Journal, citeulike.
  • Friday, April 10, 10:40 am
    • "Effective temperatures of a driven system near jamming"
      IK Ono, CS O'Hern, DJ Durian, SA Langer, AJ Liu, SR Nagel
      PRL 89, 095703 (2002). citeulike
  • Wednesday, April 8, 10:40 am
    • "Foam mechanics at the bubble scale"
      DJ Durian
      PRL 75, 4780 (1995). citeulike.
  • Friday, March 27, 10:40 am
    • "Traffic and related self-driven many-particle systems"
      D Helbing, Rev. Mod. Phys. 73, 1067-1141 (2001). Journal, citeulike.
    • For Friday, read pages 1067-1085 (through the end of Sec. II)
  • Monday, February 23, 10:40 am
    • "Percolation, statistical topography, and transport in random media"
      MB Isichenko, Rev. Mod. Phys. 64, 961-1043 (1992). Journal.
    • We decided this was not worth reading, too technical and not enough emphasis on concepts.
  • Monday, February 16, 10:40 am
    • "Tunable colloids: control of colloidal phase transitions with tunable interactions"
      A Yethiraj, Soft Matter 3, 1099-1115 (2007). Journal, citeulike.
  • Friday, February 13, 10:40 am
    • "Dynamic-light-scattering study of glasses of hard colloidal spheres"
      W van Megen & SM Underwood, PRE 47, 248-261 (1993). Journal, citeulike.
  • Wednesday, February 11, 10:40 am
    • "Phase behaviour of concentrated suspensions of nearly hard colloidal spheres"
      PN Pusey & W van Megen, Nature 320, 340-342 (1986). Journal, citeulike.

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  2008:
  • December 8, 2008, 3 pm (note special time!)
    • "Characteristic relaxation times and their invariance to thermodynamic conditions"
      CM Roland, Soft Matter 4, 2316-2322 (2008).
  • December 1, 2008, 2 pm
    • "Melting of two-dimensional tunable-diameter colloidal crystals"
      Y Han, NY Ha, AM Alsayed, & AG Yodh, PRE 77, 041406 (2008). journal, citeulike.
  • November 17, 2008, 2 pm
    • "Cell-assisted assembly of colloidal crystallites"
      VK Kodali, W Roos, JP Spatz, & JE Curtis, Soft Matter 3, 337-348 (2007). Journal
  • November 10, 2008, 2 pm
    • "Gelation of particles with short-range attraction"
      PJ Lu, E Zaccarelli, F Ciulla, AB Schofield, F Sciortino, & DA Weitz, Nature 453, 499-504 (2008). Journal
  • November 3, 2008, 2 pm
    • "Collective behavior in a granular jet: Emergence of a liquid with zero surface tension"
      X Cheng, G Varas, D Citron, HM Jaeger, & SR Nagel, PRL 99, 188001 (2007). Journal
  • October 27, 2008, 2 pm
    • "Role of chemical structure in fragility of polymers: A qualitative picture"
      K Kunal, CG Robertson, S Pawlus, SF Hahn, & AP Sokolov, Macromolecules ASAP (2008). journal.
  • October 6, 2008, 2 pm
    • "Dynamics of drying in 3D porous media"
      L Xu, S Davies, AB Schofield, & DA Weitz, PRL 101, 094502 (2008). Journal.
  • September 29, 2008, 2 pm
    • "Wrinkling of a bilayer membrane"
      A Concha, JW McIver III, P Mellado, D Clarke, O Tchernyshyov, & RL Leheny, PRE 75, 016609 (2007).
  • September 22, 2008, 2 pm
    • "Viscous liquids and the glass transition: A potential energy barrier picture"
      M. Goldstein, J. Chem. Phys. 51, 3728-3739 (1969). citeulike, journal.
  • September 15, 2008, 2 pm
    • "Little evidence for dynamic divergences in ultraviscous molecular liquids"
      T Hecksher, AI Nielsen, NB Olsen, & JC Dyre, Nat. Phys. 4, 737-741 (2008).
    • News & Views: "Glass dynamics: Diverging views on glass transition"
      GB McKenna, Nat. Phys. 4, 673 (2008).
  • August 14, 2008, 11 am
    • "Clusters of charged Janus spheres"
      L Hong, A Cacciuto, E Luijten, & S Granick, Nano Lett. 6, 2510-2514 (2006). Journal.
  • August 7, 2008, 11 am
    • "Eliminating the Enhanced Mobility at the Free Surface of Polystyrene..."
      CB Roth, KL McNerny, WF Jager, & JM Torkelson, Macromolecules 40, 2568-2574 (2007). Journal, citeulike.
  • July 31, 2008, 11 am
    • "A thermodynamic unification of jamming"
      K Lu, EE Brodsky, & HP Kavehpour, Nature Physics 4, 404-407 (2008). Journal.
  • July 17, 2008, 11 am
    • "Translation-rotation paradox for diffusion in glass-forming polymers"
      DB Hall, A Dhinojwala, & JM Torkelson
      PRL 79, 103 (1997). Journal, citeulike.
  • July 3, 2008, 11 am
    • "Direct observation of a local structural mechanism for dynamic arrest"
      CP Royall, SR Williams, T Ohtsuka, & H Tanaka, Nat. Mat. 7, 556-561 (2008). Journal, citeulike.
    • Supplementary information
    • publicity
  • June 26, 2008, 11 am
    • "Slippery diffusion-limited aggregation"
      CR Seager & TG Mason, PRE 75, 011406 (2007). Journal.
  • June 19, 2008, 11 am
    • "Glass-formers and viscous liquid slowdown since David Turnbull: Enduring puzzles and new twists"
      CA Angell
      MRS Bull. 33, 544-555 (2008). Journal.
  • June 12, 2008, 11 am
    • "Direct measurement of the free energy by optical microscopy"
      RPA Dullens, DGAL Aarts, & WK Kegel
      PNAS 103, 529-531 (2006). Journal, citeulike.
  • June 5, 2008, 11 am
    • Dynamics of particle sedimentation in a vertical channel: Period-doubling bifurcation and chaotic state"
      CK Aidun & EJ Ding, Phys. Fluids 15, 1612-1621 (2003).
  • May 29, 2008, 11 am
    • "Phase transition in a static granular system"
      M Schroter, S Nagle, C Radin, & HL Swinney, EPL 78, 44004 (2007). journal, citeulike
    • Related article: compare plateau in black symbols of Fig. 1 with non-plateau of Fig. 1 of the Schroter et al. paper.
  • May 22, 2008, 11 am
    • "Crumpled surface structures"
      DP Holmes, M Ursiny, & AJ Crosby, Soft Matter 4, 82-85 (2008).
  • April 23, 4 pm
    • "Bouncing jet: A Newtonian liquid rebounding off a free surface"
      M Thrasher, S Jung, YK Pang, CP Chuu, & HL Swinney, PRE 76, 056319 (2007). Journal.
  • April 14, 2 pm
    • Chaotic particle dynamics in viscous flows: The three-particle Stokeslet problem"
      IM Janosi, T Tel, DE Wolf, & JAC Gallas, PRE 56, 2858-2868 (1997).
  • April 7, 3 pm
    • "Dynamical heterogeneity and jamming in glass-forming liquids"
      N Lacevic & SC Glotzer
      J. Phys. Chem. B 108, 19623 (2004). Journal webpage, citeulike.
  • March 26, 4:30 pm
    • "Velocity fluctuations of initially stratified sedimenting spheres"
      S-Y Tee, PJ Mucha, MP Brenner, & DA Weitz
      Phys. Fluids 19, 113304 (2007). Journal, citeulike.
  • February 20, 4:30 pm
    • "On the relationship between structure and dynamics in a supercooled liquid"
      A Widmer-Cooper, P Harrowell, H Fynewever
      J. Phys.: Cond. Mat. 17, S4025 (2005). Journal, citeulike.
  • February 13, 4:30 pm
    • "How reproducible are dynamic heterogeneities in a supercooled liquid?"
      A Widmer-Cooper, P Harrowell, H Fynewever
      PRL 93, 135701 (2004). Journal, citeulike.
  • February 6, 4:30 pm
    • "Crystallization of a quasi-2D granular fluid"
      PM Reis, RA Ingale, & MD Shattuck
      PRL 96, 258001 (2006). Journal, citeulike.

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  2007:
  • December 10, 4 pm
    • "Velocity correlations in dense granular gases
      DL Blair & A Kudrolli
      PRE 64, 050301 (2001). Journal.
  • December 3, 4 pm
    • "Control of the Liquid-Liquid Transition in a Molecular Liquid by Spatial Confinement"
      R Kurita & H Tanaka, PRL 98, 235701 (2007). Journal, citeulike
  • November 26, 4 pm
    • "From micro- to nanofabrication with soft materials"
      SR Quake & A Scherer, Science 290, 1536 (2000). Journal, citeulike
  • November 19, 4 pm
    • "Relation between rotational and translational dynamic heterogeneties in water"
      MG Mazza, N Giovambattista, W Starr, & HE Stanley, PRL 96, 057803 (2006). Journal, citeulike
    • Related paper (optional): "Connection of translational and rotational dynamical heterogeneities with the breakdown of the Stokes-Einstein and Stokes-Einstein-Debye relations in water"
      MG Mazza, N Giovambattista, HE Stanley, & FW Starr, Phys Rev E 76, 031203 (2007). Journal, citeulike
  • November 12, 4 pm
    • No meeting this week.
  • November 5, 4 pm
    • "Bridging length scales in colloidal liquids and interfaces from near-critical divergence to single particles"
      CP Royall, DGAL Aarts, & H Tanaka, Nature Physics 3, 636-640 (2007).
    • Journal webpage
  • October 29, 4 pm
    • "Making polymeric micro- and nanoparticles of complex shapes"
      Julie A. Champion, Yogesh K. Katare, and Samir Mitragotri, PNAS | vol. 104 | no. 29 | 11901-11904 (July 17, 2007)
    • Journal, citeulike
  • October 22, 4 pm
    • "Universal Nature of Particle Displacements close to Glass and Jamming Transitions"
      P Chaudhuri, L Berthier, & W Kob, PRL 99, 060604 (2007).
    • Journal webpage
  • October 15, 4 pm
    • "Direct observation of nondiffusive motion of a Brownian particle"
      B Luki, S Jeney, C Tischer, AJ Kulik, L Forro, & E-L Florin, PRL 95, 160601 (2005).
    • Journal webpage
  • October 10, 4 pm
    Two papers:
    • "News and Views: Jets from a singular surface"
      MP Brenner, Nature 403, 377 (2000).
    • "The dynamics of finite time singularities: curvature collapse and jet erruption on a fluid surface"
      BW Zeff, B Kleber, J Feinberg, and DP Lathrop, Nature 403, 401 (2000).
    • journal webpage -- News & Views webpage
  • October 1, 4 pm
    Two papers:
    • "Comment on 'Jamming at zero temperature and zero applied stess: The epitome of disorder'"
      A Donev, S Torquato, FH Stillinger, & R Connelly, PRE 70, 043301 (2004). Journal, citeulike
    • "Reply"
      CS O'Hern, LE Silbert, AJ Liu, SR Nagel, PRE 70, 043302 (2004). Journal, citeulike
  • September 24, 4 pm
    • "Jamming at zero temperature and zero applied stess: The epitome of disorder"
      CS O'Hern, LE Silbert, AJ Liu, SR Nagel, PRE 68, 011306 (2003).
    • Journal citeulike
    • Long paper: read at least through page 9
  • September 17, 4 pm
    • "Is random close packing of spheres well defined?"
      S Torquato, TM Truskett, & PG Debenedetti, PRL 84, 2064-2067 (2000). citeulike
    • Part 1 of "What is random close packing" -- a short debate
  • September 12, 2007, 4 pm
    • "Microscopic structure and elasticity of weakly aggregated colloidal gels"
      AD Dinsmore, V Prasad, IY Wong, and DA Weitz, PRL 96, 185502 (2006). citeulike
  • August 2007
    • Take a break while everybody works on rotation reports, qualifier reports, etc.
  • July 30, 2 pm
    • "Experimental investigation of the sedimentation of a dilute fiber suspension"
      B Herzhaft, E Guazzelli, MB Mackaplow, & ESG Shaqfeh, PRL 77, 290 (1996).
  • July 23, 2 pm
    • "The 'macromolecular tourist': Universal temperature dependence of thermal diffusion in aqueous colloidal suspensions"
      S Iacopini, R Rusconi, & R Piazza, Eur Phys J E 19, 59-67 (2006).
  • July 16, 2 pm
    • "Critical scaling in linear response of frictionless granular packings near jamming"
      WG Ellenbroek, E Somfai, M van Hecke, & W van Saarloos, PRL 97, 258001 (2006). citeulike
  • July 9, 2 pm
    • "Breaking the diffraction barrier in fluorescence microscopy by optical shelving"
      S Bretschneider, C Eggeling, & SW Hell, PRL 98, 218103 (2007).
  • July 2, 3 pm (** NOTE TIME **)
    • "Holographic microscopy of holographically trapped three-dimensional structures
      S-H Lee & DG Grier
      Optics Express 15, 1505 (2007). citeulike
    • Movie of colloids rotated in 3D by holographic tweezers
  • June 25, 2007, 2 pm
    • "Entropic attraction and repulsion in binary colloids probed with a line optical tweezer"
      JC Crocker, JA Matteo, AD Dinsmore, & AG Yodh, PRL 82, 4352-4355 (1999). citeulike
  • June 18, 2 pm
    • "Super-hydrophobic urfaces made from Teflon
      P van der Wal & U Steiner, Soft Matter 3, 426 (2007).
  • June 11, 2 pm
    • "Self-organization of bouncing oil drops: Two-dimensional lattices and spinning clusters"
      SI Liber, MC Hendershott, A Pattanaporkratana, & JE Maclennan, PRE 75, 056308 (2007).
  • June 4, 2 pm
    • "Density fluctuations in vibrated granular materials"
      ER Nowak, JB Knight, E Ben-Naim, HM Jaeger, & SR Nagel
      PRE 57, 1971 (1998). citeulike
  • May 25, 2007, 2 pm
    • "The structure of liquids"
      JD Bernal
      Proc. Roy. Soc. London A 280, 299-322 (1964). citeulike
  • April 24, 2:30 pm
    • "Refraction of shear zones in granular materials"
      T Unger
      PRL 98, 018301 (2007).
  • April 17, 2:30 pm
    • "Entropy and temperature of a static granular assembly"
      S Henkes, CS O'Hern, B Chakraborty
      cond-mat/0701489.
  • April 10, 2:30 pm
    • "Finite lifetime of turbulence in shear flows"
      B Hof, J Westerweel, TM Schneider, & B Eckhardt
      Nature 443, 59 (2006).
  • March 28, 2 pm
    • "Phase diagram of patchy colloids: Towards empty liquids"
      E Bianchi, Largo, Tartaglia, Zaccarelli, & Sciortino
      PRL 97, 168301 (2006).
  • March 21, 2007, 2 pm
    • "Jamming transition in granular systems"
      TS Majmudar, M Sperl, S Luding, RP Behringer
      PRL 98, 058001 (2007). citeulike
  • February 14, 2007, 2 pm
    • "Polarization dependent Bragg diffraction..."
      A Fernandez-Nieves, DR Link, DA Weitz
      APL 88, 121911 (2006).
  • February 9, 2007, 2:15 pm -- two papers to read
    • "Elastic instabilities of polymer solutions in cross-channel flow"
      PE Arratia, CC Thomas, J Diorio, JP Gollub
      PRL 96, 144502 (2006).
    • "Weak chaos and fractional dynamics in an optically driven colloidal ring"
      Y Roichman, G Zaslavsky, DG Grier
      cond-mat/0605686
  • January 31, 5 pm
    • "Laser trapping in anisotropic fluids and polarization-controlled particle dynamics"
      II Smalyukh et al.
      PNAS 103, 18048-18053 (2006).
  • January 25, 4 pm
    • "Synchrotron X-ray diffraction study of microtubules buckling and bundling..."
      DJ Needleman et al.
      PRL 93, 198104 (2004).
  • January 16, 2 pm
    • "Hole growth as a microrheological probe..."
      CB Roth and JR Dutcher
      J. Poly. Sci. 44, 3011-3021 (2006).

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  2006:
  • December 6, 2006, 2 pm
    • "Cooperativity in sandpiles: statistics of bridge geometries"
      A Mehta, GC Barker, JM Luck
      J. Stat. Mech P10014 (2004).
  • November 30, 4 pm
    • The first article is a "News and Views" summary of the 2nd article. It also discusses the paper we read on June 14, 2006.
    • "A tale of tails"
      M van Hecke
      Nature 435, 1041 (2005).
    • "Structural signature of jamming in granular madia"
      EI Corwin, HM Jaeger, SR Nagel
      Nature 435, 1075 (2005).
  • November 8, 3 pm
    • "Self-concentration and large-scale coherence in bacterial dynamics"
      C Dombrowski et al
      PRL 93, 098103 (2004).
  • November 1, 3 pm
    • "Fluctuations in viscous fingering"
      MG Moore et al.
      PRE 65, 030601(R) (2002).
  • October 25, 2006, 3 pm
    Brownian motion of an ellipsoid"
    Y Han et al
    Science 314, 626 (2006).
  • October 20, 2006, 2 pm
    • "Life at low Reynolds number"
      EM Purcell
      Am. J. Phys. 45, 3-11 (1997). citeulike
  • October 5, 2006, 5 pm
    • "The distribution of glass-transition temperatures in nanoscopically confined glass formers"
      CJ Ellison and JM Torkelson
      Nature Materials 2, 695 (2003).
  • September 28, 2006, 4 pm
    • "Jamming of granular flow in a two-dimensional hopper"
      K To, P-Y Lai, & HK Pak
      PRL 86, 71 (2001). citeulike
  • August 16, 2006, 3 pm
    • "Mechanical probing of liquid foam ageing"
      I Cantat and O Pitois
      J. Phys.: Cond. Mat. 17, S3455 (2005).
  • August 9, 2006, 3 pm
    • "Free energy reconstruction from nonequilibrium single-molecule pulling experiments"
      G Hummer and A Szabo
      PNAS 98, 3658 (2001).
    • Commentary: "How does a system respond when driven away from thermal equilibrium?"
      C Jarzynski, PNAS 98, 3636 (2001).
      The commentary is related to the main article.
  • August 2, 3 pm
    • "Spatially heterogeneous dynamics and dynamic facilitation..."
      M Vogel and SC Glotzer
      PRL 92, 255901 (2004). citeulike
  • July 26, 3 pm
    • "Effect of rare events on out-of-equilibrium relaxation"
      P Ribiere et al.
      PRL 95, 268001 (2005).
  • July 19, 3 pm
    • "Gravity-induced aging in glasses of colloidal hard spheres"
      NB Simeonova & WK Kegel
      PRL 93, 035701 (2004).
  • July 12, 2006, 3 pm
    • "Crystallization of hard-sphere colloids in microgravity"
      J Zhu, M Li, R Rogers, W Meyer, RH Ottewill, STS-73, WB Russel, PM Chaikin
      Nature 387, 883 (1997). citeulike
  • July 5, 2006, 2 pm
    • "Concepts for nanoscale resolution in fluorescence microscopy"
      SW Hell, M Dyba, S Jakobs
      Curr. Op. Neurobiology 14, 599 (2004).
  • June 28, 2006, 3 pm
    • "Measurement of forces inside a 3D pile of frictionless droplets"
      J Zhou, S Long, Q Wang, AD Dinsmore
      Science 312, 1631 (2006).
    • Supplemental material for Zhou et al. paper.
  • June 21, 2006, 3 pm
    • "Granular avalanches in fluids"
      S Courrech du Pont et al.
      PRL 90, 044301 (2003).
  • June 14, 2006, 3 pm
    • "Contact force measurements and stress-induced anisotropy in granular materials"
      TS Majmudar & RP Behringer
      Nature 435, 1079 (2005). citeulike
  • June 7, 2006
    • "Mechanism for clogging of micro-channels"
      HM Wyss, DL Blair, JF Morris, HA Stone, & DA Weitz
      preprint (2006).
    • Published version -- PRE 74, 061402 (2006). citeulike
    • See related web page
  • May 31, 2006
    • "Direct visual observation of thermal capillary waves"
      DGAL Aarts, M Schmidt, HNW Lekkerkerker
      Science 304, 847 (2004). citeulike.
  • April 25
    • "The glass transition of glycerol in the volume-temperature plane"
      KZ Win and N Menon
      cond-mat/0508648; accepted for publication in PRE-rapid.
  • April 18
    • "Dissecting insect flight"
      ZJ Wang
      Annu. Rev. Fluid. Mech. 37, 183 (2005).
    • Suggestion: read first three sections
  • April 11
    • "Drag and relaxation in a bentonite clay suspension"
      NP Chafe & JR de Bruyn
      J. Non-Newt. Fluid Mech. 131, 44 (2005).
  • April 4
    • "Investigating the microenvironments of inhomogeneous soft materials with multiple particle tracking"
      MT Valentine et al., PRE 64, 061506 (2001).
  • March 28
    • "Some recent developments in spin glasses"
      AP Young
      Pramana 53, 1 (1999 ?).
  • March 21
    • "Time and length scales in supercooled fluids"
      L Berthier
      PRE 69, 020201(R) (2004). citeulike
  • February 28
    • "Persistent holes in a fluid"
      FS Merkt, RD Deegan, DI Goldman, EC Rericha, HL Swinney
      PRL 92, 184501 (2004).
    • See the movie!
  • February 21
    • "Gravity flow instability of viscoplastic materials: The ketchup drip"
      P Coussot and F Gaulard
      PRE 72, 031409 (2005).
  • February 14
    • "From 'discrete' to 'continuum' flow in foams"
      S Rodts, JC Baudez, P Coussot
      EPL 69, 636 (2005)
  • February 7, 2006
    • "Multiscaling at point J: Jamming is a critical phenomenon"
      JA Drocco, MB Hastings, CJ Olson Reichhardt, C Reichhardt
      PRL 95, 088001 (2005). citeulike

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  2005:
  • December 8
    • "An effective gravitational temperature for sedimentation"
      PN Segre, F Liu, P Umbanhowar, & DA Weitz
      Nature 409, 594-597 (2001).
  • December 1, 2005
    • "Glass transition in a fluidized bed of hard spheres"
      DI Goldman & HL Swinney
      preprint, cond-mat/0511322 (submitted 2005).
    • Published paper (2006), citeulike.
  • November 17
    • "Colloidal jamming at interfaces: A route to fluid-bicontinuous gels"
      K Stratford et al.
      Science 309, 2198 (2005).
  • November 10
    • "Onset of buckling in drying droplets of colloidal suspensions"
      N Tsapis et al
      PRL 94, 018302 (2005).
  • November 1
    • "How the Venus flytrap snaps"
      Y Forterre, JM Skotheim, J Durnais, L Mahadevan
      Nature 433, 421 (2005).
  • August 18
    • "Improved extremal optimization for the Ising spin glass"
      AA Middleton
      PRE 69, 055701(R) (2004).
  • August 11, 2005
    • "Jamming, two-fluid behavior, and 'self-filtration' in concentrated particulate suspensions"
      MD Haw
      PRL 92, 185506 (2004). citeulike
  • August 4
    • "Intermittency, aging and extremal fluctuations"
      P Sibani and HJ Jensen
      Europhys. Lett. 69, 563 (2005).
  • July 28
    • "Time-resolved correlation: a new tool for studying temporally heterogeneous dynamics"
      L Cipelletti, H Bissig, V Trappe, P Ballesta & S Mazoyer
      J Phys: Cond Mat 15, S257 (2003).
  • July 21
    • "Model for heat conduction in nanofluids"
      DH Kumar et al
      PRL 93, 144301 (2004).
    • Comment on above article (S Bastea, PRL 019401 (2005))
    • Author response (SK Bas et al, PRL 019402 (2005))
  • July 14
    • "Laser-induced hydrodynamic instability of fluid interfaces"
      A Casner & JP Delville
      PRL 90, 144503 (2003).
  • July 7
    • "Impact on soft sand: Void collapse and jet formation"
      D Lohse et al.
      PRL 93, 198003 (2004).
    • See related bonus article.
  • June 30
    • "Drop splashing on a dry smooth surface"
      L Xu, WW Zhang, SR Nagel
      PRL 94, 184505 (2005)
  • June 23
    • "Dynamic buckling and fragmentation in brittle rods"
      JR Gladden, NZ Handzy, A Belmonte, E Villermaux
      PRL 94, 035503 (2005)
  • June 16
    • "Deformation of small compressed droplets"
      MD Lacasse, GS Grest, D Levine
      Phys Rev E 54, 5436 (1996)
  • June 9
    • "Scaling and universality of critical fluctuations in granular gases"
      JJ Brey, MI Garcia de Soria, P Maynar, MJ Ruiz-Montero
      PRL 94, 098001 (2005)
  • June 2
    • "Visualization of Dislocation Dynamics in Colloidal Crystals"
      P Schall, I Cohen, DA Weitz, F Spaepen
      Science 305 1944-1948 (2004)
  • Spring 2005
    • We took a break this spring, as many students were taking Stefan Boettcher's special topics course on spin glasses.

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  2004:
  • December 8
    • next bit from Duran's book
    • from: J Duran, "Sands, Powders and Grains," Chapter 3, Springer, New York (2000).
  • December 1
    • Book chapter: granular materials
    • from: J Duran, "Sands, Powders and Grains," Chapter 3, Springer, New York (2000).
  • November 17
    • "Directed force chain networks & stress response in static granular materials"
      JES Socolar, DG Schaeffer, & P Claudin
      Eur. Phys. J. E 7, 353 (2002).
  • November 3
    • "Yielding and rearrangements in disordered emulsions"
      P Hebraud, F Lequeux, JP Munch, & DJ Pine
      PRL 78, 4657 (1997).
  • October 27
    • "Rejection-free geometric cluster algorithm for complex fluids"
      J Liu and E Liujten
      PRL 92, 035504 (2004).
  • October 20
    • "Rearrangements in hard-sphere glasses under oscillatory shear strain"
      G Petekidis, A Moussaid, & PN Pusey
      PRE 66, 051402 (2002).
  • October 13
    • "Microscopic origin of light scattering in tissue"
      AK Popp, MT Valentine, PD Kaplan, & DA Weitz
      App. Optics 42, 2871 (2003).
  • October 6
    • Finish the Sept 29 paper
  • September 29, 2004
    • "Jamming at zero temperature and zero applied stress: The epitome of disorder"
      CS O'Hern, LE Silbert, AJ Liu, SR Nagel
      PRE 68, 011306 (2003). citeulike
    • Read through page 9 (including section II-F)
  • August 13, 2004
    • "Dynamics of shear-transformation zones in amorphous plasticity...
      JS Langer & L Pechenik
      PRE 68, 061507 (2003). citeulike
    • A followup paper to the 7/23 paper
  • August 6
    • "Testing the thermodynamic approach to granular matter..."
      HA Makse & J Kurchan
      Nature 415, 614 (2002).
    • "News & Views: Taking the temperature"
      B Behringer
      Nature 415, 594 (2002).
  • July 30
    • "Observing brownian motion in vibration-fluidized granular matter"
      G D'Anna, P Mayor, A Barrat, V Loreto, & F Nori
      Nature 424, 909 (2003).
    • "News & Views: Think outside the sandbox"
      M Buchanan
      Nature 425, 556 (2003).
  • July 23, 2004
    • "Dynamics of viscoplastic deformation in amorphous solids"
      ML Falk & JS Langer
      Phys. Rev. E 57, 7192 (1998). citeulike.
  • July 16
    • "Absence of thermodynamic phase transition in a model glass former"
      L Santen & W Krauth
      Nature 405, 550 (2000).
    • "Hard knock for thermodynamics"
      S Torquato
      Nature 405, 521 (2000).
    • Both of these are two pages. The second article is commentary on the first article.
  • July 9
    • "Entropic barriers, activated hopping and the glass transition in colloidal suspensions"
      KS Schweizer & EJ Saltzman
      J. Chem. Phys. 119, 1181 (2003).
  • July 2, 2004
    • "The relaxation dynamics of a simple glass former confined in a pore"
      P Scheidler, W Kob and K Binder
      Europhys. Lett. 52, 277 (2000). citeulike.
  • June 25
    • Read paper from April 6
  • June 18
    • Read Sections VI-XI of June 11 paper
  • June 11
    • "A theory of cooperative diffusion in dense granular flows"
      MZ Bazant
      preprint: cond-mat/0307379 v2
      Read Sections I-V (first 12.5 pages)
  • June 4
    • "Supercooled liquids and the glass transition"
      PG Debenedetti and FH Stillinger
      Nature 410, 259 (2001).
  • April 14
    • "Diffusion and mixing in gravity-driven dense granular flows"
      J Choi, A Kudrolli, RR Rosales, and MZ Bazant
      to be published in PRL (2004).
  • April 6
    • "Coarse-grained microscopic model of glass formers"
      JP Garrahan and D Chandler
      PNAS 100, 9710 (2003).
  • March 30
    • "Local rheological probes for complex fluids: Application to Laponite suspensions"
      C Wilhelm et al
      PRE 66, 021502 (2002).
  • March 3
    • "Diffusing-wave-spectroscopy measurements of viscoelasticity of complex fluids"
      TG Mason, H Gang, DA Weitz, J. Opt. Soc. Am. 14, 139 (1997)
  • February 25
    • "Permeable capsules composed of colloidal particles"
      AD Dinsmore et al., Science 298, 1006 (2002).
  • February 18
    • Report on the NASA Soft & Complex Condensed Matter Workshop
      Discusses what is the future of soft condensed matter

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  2003:
  • Fall 2003
    • We read through the textbook "Soft Condensed Matter" by Richard A. L. Jones
  • Friday, August 15
    • "Nature of the divergence in low shear viscosity of colloidal hard-sphere dispersions"
      Z Cheng, J Zhu, PM Chaikin, SE Phan, WB Russel
      Phys. Rev. E 65, 041405 (2002). citeulike
  • Friday, August 8, 2003
    • "Jamming and Rheology: An Introduction"
      AJ Liu & SR Nagel
      From: Jamming & Rheology, 2001.
      • We originally read this paper Feb 8, 2002
  • Friday, August 1, 2003
    • "General Discussion"
      Faraday Discuss., 123, 75-97 (2003).
      • Discusses paper we read for July 18
      • See pages 75-76, and pages 91-94 (starting with Prof. Nicolai's comment on page 91)
  • Thursday, July 24, 2003
    • "Universal features of the fluid to solid transition for attractive colloidal particles"
      V Prasad, V Trappe, AD Dinsmore, PN Segre, L Cipelletti, & DA Weitz
      Faraday Discuss. 123, 1-12 (2003).
    • This paper is a followup to the paper for Friday, March 29, 2002 below
  • Friday, July 18, 2003
    • Reading from Gould & Tobochnik on percolation -- in your mailbox
  • Friday, July 11, 2003
    • "The glass paradigm for colloidal glasses, gels, and other arrested states driven by attractive interactions"
      KA Dawson
      Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Sci., 7, 218-227 (2002). citeulike
  • Wednesday, February 5
    • "Self-oscillations of a cusped bubble rising through a micellar solution"
      A Belmonte
      Rheol. Acta. 39, 554-559 (2000).
  • Tuesday, January 28 - 1 pm
    • "Slow dynamics in glasses, gels and foams"
      L Cipelletti and L Ramos
      Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Sci. 7, 228-234 (2002).

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  2002:

  • Tuesday, November 12, 2002
    • "Granular shear flow dynamics and forces: Experiment and continuum theory"
      L Bocquet, W Losert, D Schalk, TC Lubensky, and JP Gollub
      PRE 65, 011307 (2002).
  • Tuesday, November 5, 2002
    • "Particle dynamics in sheared granular matter"
      W Losert, L Bocquet, TC Lubensky, JP Gollub
      PRL 85, 1428 (2000).
  • Thursday, October 31, 2002 -- costumes optional
    • "Suppression of crystal nucleation in polydisperse colloids due to increase of the surface free energy"
      S Auer and D Frenkel
      Nature 413, 711 (2001). citeulike.
    • Bonus paper: "Prediction of absolute crystal-nucleation rate in hard sphere colloids"
      S Auer and D Frenkel
      Nature 409, 1020 (2001)
    • Only read the 2nd paper if you're interested, the first paper is more important.
  • Thursday, October 17, 2002
    • "Insights into phase transition kinetics from colloid science"
      VJ Anderson and HNW Lekkerkerker
      Nature 416, 811 (2002).
  • Friday, August 9, 2002
    • "Dynamics of granular segregation patterns in a long drum mixer"
      K Choo, MW Baker, TCA Molteno, SW Morris
      PRE 58, 6115 (1998).
    • See also their website here and here
  • Monday, August 5, 2002
    • "Spatial correlations of particle displacements in a glass-forming liquid"
      PH Poole, C Donati, SC Glotzer
      Physica A 261, 51 (1998).
    • added 8/20/02:
      "Growing spatial correlations of particle displacements in a simulated liquid on cooling toward the glass transition"
      C Donati, SC Glotzer, PH Poole
      PRL 82, 5064 (1999).
  • Friday, July 26, 2002
    • Fluctuations, response and aging dynamics in a simple glass-forming liquid out of equilibrium
      W Kob and JL Barrat
      Eur. Phys. J. B 13, 319 (2000).
  • Friday, July 19, 2002
    • "Shocks in supersonic sand"
      EC Rericha, C Bizon, MD Shattuck, HL Swinney
      PRL 88, 014302 (2002). citeulike
    • A somewhat-related simulation paper if anybody is curious -- strictly optional reading
  • Friday, July 12, 2002
    • re-discussion of July 5 papers
  • Friday, July 5, 2002
    • "Direct observation of dynamical heterogeneities in colloidal hard sphere suspensions"
      WK Kegel and A van Blaaderen
      Science 287, 290 (2000). citeulike.
    • "Three-dimensional direct imaging of structural relaxation near the colloidal glass transition"
      ER Weeks, JC Crocker, AC Levitt, A Schofield, DA Weitz
      Science 287, 627 (2000). citeulike.
  • Friday, June 28, 2002
    • "Pair interaction of charged colloidal spheres near a charged wall"
      SH Behrens and DG Grier
      PRE 64, 050401 (R) (2001).
  • Friday, June 21, 2002
    • READ SECTIONS IV & V of previous paper
  • Friday, June 14, 2002
    • "Supercooled liquids and glasses"
      MD Ediger, CA Angell, SR Nagel
      J. Phys. Chem. 100, 13200-13212 (1996). citeulike
      READ SECTIONS I - III
  • Friday, June 7, 2002
    • "Effective temperatures of a driven system near jamming"
      IK Ono, CS O'Hern, SA Langer, AJ Liu, SR Nagel
      preprint (2001).
    • published version:
      IK Ono et al, PRL 89, 095703 (2002). citeulike
  • Friday, May 31, 2002
    • "Entropic attraction and repulsion in binary colloids probed with a line optical tweezer"
      JC Crocker, JA Matteo, AD Dinsmore, AG Yodh
      PRL 82, 4352-4355 (1999). citeulike
  • Thursday, May 23, 2002
    • Granular matter: a tentative view
      PG de Gennes
      Rev. Mod. Phys. 71, S374 (1999).
  • Friday, May 17, 2002
    • Granular solids, liquids, and gases
      HM Jaeger, SR Nagel, and RP Behringer
      Rev. Mod. Phys. 68, 1259 (1996). citeulike
  • Friday, April 26, 2002
    • Stress fluctuations in a 2D Couette experiment: A continuous transition
      D Howell, RP Behringer, C Veje
      Phys Rev Lett 82, 5241 (1999).
  • Friday, April 12, 2002
    • Scaling of the microrheology of semidilute F-Actin solutions
      T Gisler and DA Weitz
      Phys Rev Lett 82, 1606 (1999).
  • Friday, March 29, 2002
    • Jamming phase diagram for attractive particles
      V Trappe, V Prasad, L Cipelletti, PN Segre, DA Weitz
      Nature 411, 722 (2001). citeulike.
  • Friday, March 22, 2002
    • Glasslike kinetic arrest at the colloidal-gelation transition
      PN Segre, V Prasad, AB Schofield, and DA Weitz
      Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 6042 (2001).
  • Friday, February 22, 2002
    • "Foam mechanics at the bubble scale"
      DJ Durian
      PRL 75, 4780 (1995). citeulike.
    • "Nonlinear bubble dynamics in a slowly driven foam"
      AD Gopal and DJ Durian
      PRL 75, 2610 (1995).
      
  • Friday, February 8, 2002
    • "Jamming is just not cool anymore"
      Andrea J. Liu and Sidney R. Nagel
      Nature 396, 21-22 (1998). citeulike
      This paper summarizes a PRL article, which perhaps we should read later. It's a somewhat dense PRL.
    • "Jamming and rheology: An introduction"
      Andrea J. Liu and Sidney R. Nagel
      Copies have been distributed
  • Friday, February 1, 2002
    • "Footprints in Sand: The Response of a Granular Material to Local Perturbations"
      J. Geng et al (Bob Behringer's group)
      Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 035506 (2001). citeulike
    • "Jamming and fluctuations in granular drag"
      I. Albert et al (Peter Schiffer's group)
      Phys Rev Lett 84, 5122 (2000). citeulike
    • These are both short papers. The first one is more important to read, although the 2nd one is nice as well.
  • Friday, January 25, 2002
    • "Asymptotic laws for tagged-particle motion in glassy systems"
      M. Fuchs, W. Götze, and M. R. Mayr
      Phys. Rev. E 58, 3384-3399 (1998)
    • "Glass transition in colloidal hard spheres: Measurement and mode-coupling-theory analysis of the coherent intermediate scattering function"
      W. van Megen and S. M. Underwood
      Phys. Rev. E 49, 4206-4220 (1994). citeulike

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  Possible future papers:

  • "Structure and distribution of arches in shaken hard sphere deposits"
    LA Pugnaloni & GC Barker
    Physica A 337, 428-442 (2004).
    • This is a followup to the 12-6-06 article
  • Liquid transport due to light scattering
    RD Schroll et al.
    cond-mat/0606073v2 -- light scattering can drive a large-scale flow in fluid near critical point
  • "Direct experimental evidence of a growing length scale accompanying the glass transition"
    L Berthier et al.
    Science 310, 1797 (2005).
  • "Testing mode-coupling theory for a supercooled binary Lennard-Jones mixture. Part I"
    W Kob & HC Andersen
    PRE 51, 4626 (1995).
    • The Part II paper:
      "Testing mode-coupling theory for a supercooled binary Lennard-Jones mixture. Part II"
  • "Rheology and Contact Lifetimes in Dense Granular Flows"
    LE Silbert, GS Grest, R Brewster, & AJ Levine, PRL 99, 068002 (2007). Journal webpage
  • "Thermodynamically stable Pickering emulsions"
    S Sacanna, WK Kegel, & AP Philipse
    PRL 98, 158301 (2007). Journal webpage
  • "Dynamical fluctuation effects in glassy colloidal suspensions"
    KS Schweizer, Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science 12, 297-306 (2007).
  • perhaps an article on the FIONA technique by Paul Selvin, but most of them deal with molecular motors. FIONA = fluorescent imaging with one nanometer accuracy. The article that looks most appropriate is A Yildiz & PR Selvin, Acc. Chem. Res. 38, 574-582 (2005).
  • "Correlation between dynamic heterogeneity and medium-range order in two-dimensional glass-forming liquids"
    T Kawasaki, T Araki, & H Tanaka, PRL 99, 215701 (2007). journal, citeulike.
  • "Photochemical switching between colloidal photonic crystals at the nematic-air interface"
    B Lev, SB Chernyshuk, T Yamamoto, J Yamamoto, and H Yokoyama, PRE 78, 020701(R) (2008).
  • "Equilibrium and nonequilibrium states in microfluidic double emulsions"
    N Pannacci, H Bruus, D Bartolo, I Etchart, T Lockhart, Y Hennequin, H Willaime, & P Tabeling, PRL 101, 164502 (2008).
  • "Measurement of growing dynamical length scales and prediction of the jamming transition in a granular material"
    AS Keys, AR Abate, SC Glotzer, DJ Durian, Nature Physics 3, 260-264 (2007).
  • "Asymmetric caging in soft colloidal mixtures"
    C Mayer, E Zaccarelli, E Stiakakis, CN Likos, F Sciortino, A Munam, M Gauthier, N Hadjichristidis, H Iatrou, P Tartaglia, H Lowen, & D Vlassopoulos
    Nature Materials 7, 780-784 (2008).
  • "Nonaxisymmetric shapes of a magnetically levitated and spinning water droplet"
    RJA Hill & L Eaves, PRL 101, 234501 (2008). Journal
  • "High-speed tracking of rupture and clustering in freely falling granular streams"
    JR Royer, DJ Evans, L Oyarte, Q Guo, E Kapit, ME Mobius, SR Waitukaitis, & HM Jaeger, Nature 459, 1110-1113 (2009).
  • The packing of granular polymer chains"
    L-N Zou, X Cheng, ML Rivers, HM Jaeger, SR Nagel, Science 326, 408-410 (2009).
  • "Multiple time scales hidden in heterogeneous dynamics of glass-forming liquids"
    K Kim & S Saito, PRE 79, 060501(R) (2009).
  • UPenn Soft Matter Journal Club webpage, maintained by Tom Haxton