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Index | Soft Matter

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Professor Mike Cates, appointed in 2015 as the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, is head of the Soft Matter Research Group in DAMTP. The other permanent academic staff are Dr Ronojoy Adhikari, Prof. Rob Jack (joint appointment with Chemistry Department), and Dr Maria Bruna. At any time the group has a number of self-funded research fellows and/or grant-funded postdocs, plus typically 5-10 PhD students. Soft Matter includes colloids, polymers, emulsions, foams, surfactant solutions, powders, liquid crystals, and similar materials. Many biological systems involve "active" soft matter which, like life itself, is sustained by a continuous supply of energy. Using both analytic and computational methods, the group addresses fundamental problems, such as how the basic principles of statistical mechanics are modified by activity; how to coarse-grain dynamics from particle level to descriptions in terms of continuous fields; applications of differential geometry in soft matter; and use of stoc

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