Soft Solids and Complex Fluids 2012

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Welcome to the webpage for Soft solids and Complex Fluids, an annual summer school for graduate students  in soft matter and statistical physics hosted by the Physics Department at UMass Amherst.  We are holding this year's school from Sunday June 3rd, to Thursday June 7th, 2012.

Application Deadline: EXTENDED.

There is a growing level of activity in physics departments in fields whose concepts and practices are inspired by the ideas and methods of classical condensed matter and statistical physics. These include liquid crystals, granular matter, solid mechanics, polymeric and colloidal physics and micro-fluidics, as well as biophysics. However, courses in the basic techniques common to these areas do not find a standard place in graduate curricula of most physics departments.  This school helps fill this need.

This year's courses and lecturers will be -

Our target audience consists of graduate students who are early in their career in a research group.  Our lecturers will anticipate that you have a standard background in graduate classical and quantum mechanics, electromagnetism, statistical mechanics and the associated mathematical methods.  If you are a graduate student who meets this description, please do visit our application page to apply.  

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We are grateful for the support of the NSF-funded Materials Science and Engineering Centers at UMass Amherst, Cornell U., U. Chicago, NYU, Harvard, Brandeis and the U. Penn.