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29/3 Lec. 1 - Introduction: What is soft matter and how does it relate to the physics of materials, biomolecules and cells? Intellectual challenges and relation to stat mech.
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31/3 Lec. 2 - States of matter: standard and exotic – gas, liquid, solid (dimensionality effects), fractals, polymers, entropic phase transitions, orientational order and disorder. Stat Mech conceptual questions.
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5/4 Lec. 3 - Statistical mechanics of soft matter; structures are free energy minimizers, fluctuations and when they destroy order, probabilities
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7/4 Lec. 4 – Phase separation examples statistical mechanics; Hubbard Stratonovich transformation
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12/4 Lec. 5– Phase separation dynamics (spinodal decomposition, nucleation and growth)
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14/4 Tutorial: Worked out problems - Statistical properties of Gaussian fluctuations; correlation functions
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No lecture 19/4 Pesach
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No lecture 21/4 Pesach
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26/4 Tutorial: Worked out problems: Langevin dynamics and Fokker Planck equation and their applications
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28/4 Lec. 6 - Interfaces and their fluctuations
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3/5 Lec. 7 - Elasticity of interacting systems, statistical fluctuations and elasticity; applications to soft and biological matter
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No lecture 5/5 Independence Day
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10/5 Tutorial: Worked out problems – Elasticity and interfaces
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12/5 Lec 8 Fluctuating lines and surfaces: line and surface curvature, fluctuations
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17/5 Lec 9 - Polymers – random/excluded volume, polymer collapse, semiflexible polymers
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19/5 Lec. 10 - Polymers field theory - fluctuation effects; persistence length and fluctuations; polymer brush; connection between DNA and polymer physics
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24/5 Lec. 11 – Polymers in the cell: Chromosome territories and fractal packing of chromosomes in nucleus; mesoscale packing of chromosomes
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26/5 Tutorial: Worked out problems –polymers
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31/5 Lec. 12 - Polymeric soft networks; gels, non-linear elasticity, fluctuation induced elasticity, cellular cytoskeleton
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2/6 Lec. 13 – Self-assembly and emergence, micelles; membranes: curvature elasticity of membranes
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7/6 Lec. 14 Fluctuations of membranes – shape fluctuations; renormalization of bending modulus; coupled concentration and shape fluctuations
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9/6 Lec. 15 – Fluctuation induced interactions of membranes
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14/6 Tutorial: Worked out problems –Membranes
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16/6 Lec. 16 - Electrostatics in soft matter; Poisson Boltzmann theory
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21/6 Lec. 17 - Poisson Boltzmann theory: fluctuation and strong coupling effects applications of electrostatics in soft and biological matter
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23/6 Tutorial: Worked out problems – Electrostatics
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28/6 Lec. 18 – Casimir (medium-induced) deformations in soft matter; electrostatics, polymers, solvent, membranes
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30/6 Lec. 19 – Nonequilibrium I: Hydrodynamics in soft and biological matter and lecture on “Life at Low Reynolds number”
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5/7 Lec. 20 – Nonequilibrium II: How cells determine their volume – living vs. “dead” matter
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7/7 Lec. 21 – Nonequilibrium III: Guest Lecture :
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12/7 No lecture
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14/7 Lec. 22 - Review, questions on course and final project
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