Seminar: Optimal Shapes and Complex Structure in Soft Matter Physics
- Dozentinnen/Dozenten
- PD Dr. Gerd Schröder-Turk, Myfanwy Evans, Ph.D., Dr. Adil Mughal
- Angaben
- Hauptseminar
2 SWS, ECTS-Studium, ECTS-Credits: 5, Sprache Englisch, ggf. Ort und Zeit nach Vereinbarung
Zeit und Ort: Mo 15:30 - 17:00, SR 01.683
- Studienfächer / Studienrichtungen
- WPF Ph-BA ab 5
WPF PhM-BA 5
WPF Ph-MA ab 1
WPF PhM-MA ab 1
- Inhalt
- We will explore the formation of complex structure in soft matter systems, relevant to both synthetic and biological systems, in response to minimisation of relatively simple energy functionals that are often very geometric in their nature. The seminar will give an overview of the systems where such approaches apply, including biological membranes, liquid foams, cellular systems, minimal surfaces, biophotonic crystals, etc. Each seminar talk will represent some back ground on the different disciplines, and some hands-on computational projects using the 'Surface Evolver'. Topics include:
Honeycombs: Are the bees honey-combs optimised for material efficiency?
Labyrinth-like membranes: bicontinuous minimal surface self-assembly
Chiral Entangled nets: effective photonic devices
Liquid foams: structure and topology
Liquid foam coarsening: How do bubbles age?
Liquid foams: how stress and forces relate to surface tension
Keratin nets in mammalian skin: how entangled weavings relate to wrinkly skin
Disk-packings of Saddle-shaped interfaces: topological defects
Warped Hele-Shaw cells: when bees are forced to build non-hexagonal cells
- ECTS-Informationen:
- Credits: 5
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Zugeordnete Lehrveranstaltungen
- UE: Übungen zum HS "Optimal Shapes and Complex Structure in Soft Matter Physics" (im CIP-Pool-Vorraum)
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Dozent/in: PD Dr. Gerd Schröder-Turk
Zeit und Ort: Di 16:00 - 18:00, CIP-Pool in der Physik; Do 14:00 - 16:00, CIP-Pool in der Physik
- Verwendung in folgenden UnivIS-Modulen
- Startsemester WS 2013/2014:
- Materialphysikalisches Seminar (PS-MAT)
- Physikalisches Seminar (PS)
- Institution: Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Physik (Prof. Dr. Mecke)
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