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21906 Statistical Physics and Soft Matter
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(Cross-institutional PhD-course)
Danish title: Statistical Physics and Soft Matter
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Language: English
Credit points: 9 |
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| Type: | Ph.D.-level
Language: English |
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Recommended semester: 7th - 9th semester
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Scope and form: 1 fixed week-day through one semester.
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Examination: Evaluation of report(s) (Pass/fail)
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| Contact person: | Ole G. Mouritsen, Building 206, Tel. +45 4525 2462, email ogm@kemi.dtu.dk |
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Department: Department of Chemistry
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Aim: The course is expected to be relevant for physicists and chemists as well as physically oriented students working within materials science and life sciences. Topics covered include; Free-energy functionals, Landau and mean-field theory, fluctuations, scaling, universality, renormalization-group theory, transfer matrix, master equations, numerical simulation methods, phase transitions and critical phenomena, fluctuating interfaces, interface instabilities, wetting, far-from equilibrium dynamics, conformational complexity, polymers, microemulsions, random surfaces and polymer networks, soft surfaces and interfaces, lipid bilayers and membranes.
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