Course
Statistical & Soft Matter Physics
Many-body behaviour from fluctuations to phases.
Active matter
- Can light alone drive and steer tiny swimming particles?
- Why do swimming bacteria drift sideways in a flowing channel?
- Can simple buzzing robots be programmed to clump like a material?
- Can magnetic beads stack themselves upward against gravity?
- Why do swimming micro-disks clump into slow pairs?
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Phase transitions
- How do cholesterol and heat reshape lipid membrane domains?
- Does RNA length change how protein droplets form and hold together?
- How do fleeting lipid clusters differ from true membrane domains?
- Can AI find the conditions that make colloids form quasicrystals?
- Can a laser flash change a metal's Fermi surface topology?
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Non-equilibrium and stochastic thermodynamics
- Can escape times reveal hidden steps in an energy landscape?
- Is the inside of a living cell a glass stirred by metabolism?
- Can swapping lead for tin keep perovskite electrons hot longer?
- Can buried quantum dots make wide-gap nitrides conduct holes?
- How fast should a polymerase's checkpoint steps be?
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