Soft Matter Physics HT07

New course starts Tuesday 4th September 2007, 13:15 in room N6115

Soft Matter Physics is a course given within the masters programs Applied Physics and Physics of Matter, Material and Biological Systems. It is open for students from Chalmers, Göteborg University or graduate students. If you are interested in the physics of matter all around us and how the macroscopic properties can be tuned, this is the place to be. For more information about the course please contact:

Aleksandar Matic            Johan Hedström      
tel: 5176                          tel: 3369                         
room: S2046                    room: S1011                   
matic@fy.chalmers.se       johan.hedstrom@chalmers.se      

Per Jacobsson
tel: 3427
room: S2045
pjacob@fy.chalmers.se

Scope

The aim of this course is to provide a foundation for understanding the properties and behaviour of soft matter. The course provides core competence for students aiming at either a career in science or in R&D-industry. It is also a base for more specialised courses in soft matter physics and chemistry in the masters and graduate programs, e.g. Amorphous materials, Self-assembly structures, Liquid-Crystals or Colloidal Chemistry.

The course focuses on the structure and dynamics of soft matter, universal behaviour, scaling concepts, phase transitions and transport properties. The main covered topics:
- An overview of soft materials (polymers, gels, colloids, etc)
- Concepts of soft matter
- Length and time scales for structure and dynamics of soft matter
- Phase transitions
- Experimental and computational tools

There will be lectures, problem solving classes and guest seminar
holders from research as well as industry.
The examination will be a written exam and a small project.

Centre for Functional Soft Matter Chalmers University of Technology 41296 Göteborg, Sweden