Preliminary Schedule: Download PDF Version

Core “Primer Lectures”:

Paul Chaikin (NYU)
Organization in soft matter systems.
Particle Packing and Particle Shape, Reversibility and Irreversibility in Low Reynolds Number Particle,
Flow Order and control of topological defects in soft matter in 2D

Philip Pincus (UCSB)
Fundamental Interactions for Soft Condensed Matter:
Steric Interactions, Fluctuation Forces, Hydrogen Bonding

Dave Weitz (Harvard)
Elasticity and Flow in soft and biological materials
Colloidal crystals, glasses and gels; Mircofluidics for soft matter; Rheology of biomolecular networks

Ludwik Leibler
Polymer and supramolecular assemblies: research and development:
Blends, copolymers, and nanostructured polymer materials; Supramolecular chemistry: from associating liquids to self-healing rubbers; Glass transition, impact resistance and related problems.

Marcia Barbosa (UFRGS)
Density Functional Approach for Charged Systems

Yan Levin (UFRGS)
Introduction to Statistical Mechanics of Charged Systems

Specialty Lectures:

Constantino Tsallis (CBPF)
Nonadditive Entropy and Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics - Concept and Applications

Jürgen Fritz Stilck (UFF)
UFF Collapse Transition for Polymers

Ronald Dickman, (UFMG)
Phase Transitions far From Equilibrium: Models and Experiments in Soft Matter

Nathan Besser Viana, (UFRJ)
Soft matter: from liquid crystals to cells