Journal club papers

The soft condensed matter journal club meets weekly throughout the entire year. Meeting times are chosen to fit the club members' schedules and thus change from semester to semester. Topics vary widely and are influenced by the current interests of those in the journal club, as can be seen from the below list of past papers. Journal club participants include both theory and experimental students, and anybody is welcome to join.

• Library of other papers
• Potential future papers

2011:

• Friday, August 19, 2011 -- 2 pm
  • "Dripping to jetting transitions in coflowing liquid streams"
    AS Utada, A Fernandez-Nieves, HA Stone, and DA Weitz, PRL 99, 094502 (2007). Suggested by Xin.
• Friday, August 12, 2011 -- 2 pm
  • "Model for the scaling of stresses and fluctuations in flows near jamming"
    BP Tighe, E Woldhuis, JJC Remmers, W van Saarloos, & M van Hecke, PRL 105, 088303 (2010). journal. Suggested by Xia.
• Friday, August 5, 2011 -- 2 pm
  • "Research in macromolecular science: Challenges and opportunities for the next decade"
    CK Ober, SZD Cheng, PT Hammond, M Muthukumar, E Reichmanis, KL Wooley, & TP Lodge, Macromol. 42, 465-471 (2009). suggested by Laura
• Friday, July 29, 2011 -- 2 pm
  • "Demixing in simple fluids induced by electric field gradients"
    Y Tsori, F Tournilhac, & L Leibler, Nature 430, 544-547 (2004). journal. suggested by Annika
• Thursday, July 21, 2011 -- 2 pm
  • "From molecular mechanochemistry to stress-responsive materials"
    AL Black, JM Lenhardt, & SL Craig
    J. Mater. Chem. 21, 1655-1663 (2011). suggested by Ana
• Friday, July 15, 2011 -- 2 pm
  • "Distribution of glass transition temperatures in free-standing, nanoconfined polymer films: A test of de Gennes' sliding motion mechanism"
    S Kim & JM Torkelson, Macromolecules 44, 4546-4553 (2011). suggested by Justin
• Friday, July 8, 2011 -- 2 pm
  • "Understanding foods as soft materials"
    R Mezzenga, P Schurtenberger, A Burbidge, and M Michel
    Nature Materials 4, 729-740 (2005). suggested by Ken
• Friday, July 1, 2011 -- 2 pm
  • "Tailoring organic heterojunction interfaces in bilayer polymer photovoltaic devices"
    A Tada et al., Nature Materials 10, 450-455 (2011). Suggested by Connie.
• Friday, June 24, 2011 -- 2 pm
  • "Quantum nature of the hydrogen bond"
    X-Z Li, B Walker, & A Michaelides, PNAS 108, 6369-6373 (2011). Suggested by Connie.
• Friday, June 17, 2011 -- 2 pm
  • "Hydrogen bonding at the water surface revealed by isotopic dilution spectroscopy"
    IV Stiopkin et al., Nature, 474, 192-195 (2011). Suggested by Connie.
• Friday, June 10, 2011 -- 2 pm
  • "Transient shear banding in a simple yield stress fluid"
    T Divoux, D Tamarii, C Barentin, & S Manneville, PRL 104, 208301 (2010). journal
  • Thibaut Divoux, the first author, will be visiting on June 15-17.
• skip week of May 30, both Connie & Eric out of town
• Friday, May 27, 2011 -- 2 pm
  • "Theory of correlated two-particle activated glassy dynamics: General formulation and heterogeneous structural relaxation in hard sphere fluids"
    DM Sussman & KS Schweizer, JCP 134, 064516 (2011). journal
• Friday, May 20, 2011 -- 2 pm
  • "Letter to the Editor: Wall slip in dispersion rheology"
    R Buscall, J. Rheol. 54, 1117-1183 (2010).
• Monday, April 11, 2011 -- 1 pm
  • We're going to discuss the April 4 paper again.
• Monday, April 4, 2011 -- 1 pm
  • "Entropic barriers, activated hopping, and the glass transition in colloidal suspensions"
    KS Schweizer & EJ Saltzman, JCP 119, 1181-1196 (2003).
• Monday, March 28, 2011 -- recover from MM
• Monday, March 21, 2011 -- APS March Meeting
• Monday, March 14, 2011 -- no meeting, prepare for MM
• Monday, March 7, 2011 -- spring break
• Monday, February 28, 2011 -- 2:00 pm
  • "Chiral Isotropic Liquids from Achiral Molecules"
    LE Hough et al, Science 325, 452 (2009)
    
  • "Universal robotic gripper based on the jamming of granular material"
    E Brown et al
    PNAS 107, 18809-18814 (2010).
• Monday, February 21, 2011 -- 1:00 pm
  • "Vibrational modes identify soft spots in a sheared disordered packing"
    ML Manning & AJ Liu, arXiv:1012.4822v1 (2010)
    
  • "Fractional synchronization of spin-torque nano-oscillators"
    S Urazhdin, P Tabor, V Tiberkevich, & A Slavin
    PRL 105, 104101 (2010).
• Monday, February 14, 2011 -- 1:00 pm
  • "Probing the electromagnetic field of a 15-nanometre hotspot by single molecule imaging"
    H Cang et al
    Nature 469, 385 (2011).
  • "Probing Nanotribological and Electrical Properties of Organic Molecular Films with Atomic Force Microscopy"
    JY Park & YB Qi
    Scanning 32, 257-264 (2010).
• Monday, February 7, 2011 -- 1:00 pm
  • "Percolation of immobile domains in supercooled thin polymeric films"
    ARC Baljon, J Billen, & R Khare
    PRL 93, 255701 (2004).

2010:

• Friday, November 19, 2010 -- 1:30 pm
  • "How cats lap: Water uptake by Felis catus"
    PM Reis, S Jung, JM Aristoff, R Stocker
    Science DOI: 10.1126/science.1195421 (2010).
• Friday, November 12, 2010 -- 1:30 pm
  • "The circular jump is a white hole"
    G Jannes, R Piquet, P Maissa, C Mathis, G Rousseaux
    arXiv:1010.1701v1 [physics.flu-dyn] (2010)
• Friday, November 5, 2010 -- 1:30 pm
  • "Direct experimental evidence of a growing length scale accompanying the glass transition"
    L Berthier et al.
    Science 310, 1797 (2005).
• Friday, October 22, 2010 -- 1:30 pm
  • Length Scales and Dynamics in the Reorientational Relaxation of Tracers in Molecular and Polymeric Glass Formers via Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy"
    L Andreozzi, M Faetti, M Giordano, & F Zulli, J. Phys. Chem. B 114, 12833-12839 (2010). Suggested by Connie.
• Friday, October 15, 2010 -- 1:30 pm
  • "Granular Brownian motor"
    B Cleuren & C Van den Broeck, EPL 77, 50003 (2007).
• Friday, October 1, 2010 -- 1:30 pm
  • "Polymer physics -- the Ugly Duckling story: Will polymer physics ever become a part of "proper" physics?"
    M Rubinstein, J. Poly. Sci B (2010). Suggested by Connie.
• Friday, September 24, 2010 -- 1:30 pm
  • "Direct observation of colloidal aggregation by critical Casimir forces"
    D Bonn, J Otwinowski, S Sacanna, H Guo, G Wegdam, & P Schall, PRL 103, 156101 (2009). Suggested by Jake.
• Friday, September 17, 2010 -- 1:30 pm
  • We have two papers to read:
  • "C-H to O Hydrogen Bonding: The Attractive Interaction in the Blend between Polystyrene and Poly(vinyl methyl ether)"
    MM Green, JL White, P Mirau, MH Scheinfeld, Macromolecules 39, 5971 (2006).
  • "Restoring Thermorheological Simplicity in Miscible Polymer Blends: How Many Hydrogen Bonds Are Required?"
    AN Gaikwad, A Choperena, PC Painter, TP Lodge, Macromolecules 43, 4814-4821 (2010) (DOI:10.1021/ma100508c)
• Friday, September 10, 2010 -- 1:30 pm
  • "Anisotropy of building blocks and their assembly into complex structures"
    SC Glotzer & MJ Solomon, Nat Materials 6, 557-562 (2007). Journal
• Tuesday, August 17, 1:30 pm
  • "Spatial cooperativity in soft glassy flows"
    J Goyon, A Colin, G Ovarlez, A Ajdari, & L Bocquet, Nature 454, 84-87 (2008). Suggested by Dandan.
• Tuesday, July 27, 1:30 pm
  • "Fluctuations in chemical gelation"
    K Ohira, M Sato, & M Kohmoto, PRE 75, 041402 (2007). journal. Suggested by Trent
• Tuesday, July 13, 1:30 pm
  • "The glass transition of glycerol in the volume-temperature plane"
    KZ Win and N Menon, PRE 73, 040501(R) (2006). journal.
  • Note: Last read April 25, 2006 in preprint form.
• Tuesday, June 29, 1:30 pm (2010)
  • "Equivalence of glass transition and colloidal glass transition in the hard-sphere limit"
    N Xu, TK Haxton, AJ Liu, & SR Nagel, PRL 103, 245701 (2009). journal. Suggested by Gary
• Tuesday, June 22, 1:30 pm
  • "Organic glasses with exceptional thermodynamic and kinetic stability"
    SF Swallen et al., Science 315, 353-356 (2007). Suggested by Laura
• Thursday, June 17, 1:30 pm -- note change of day to Thursday, this week only
  • "Dynamical Crossover and Breakdown of the Stokes.Einstein Relation in Confined Water and in Methanol-Diluted Bulk Water"
    F Mallamace, C Branca, C Corsaro, N Leone, J Spoore, HE Stanley, S-H Chen, J. Phys. Chem. B 14, 1870 (2010). Suggested by Kazem.
• Tuesday, June 8, 1:30 pm
  • The packing of granular polymer chains"
    L-N Zou, X Cheng, ML Rivers, HM Jaeger, SR Nagel, Science 326, 408-410 (2009).
  • See also: associated Perspective article. Suggested by Ken and Connie.
• Tuesday, May 25, 1:30 pm (2010)
  • "Effect of Deuterium Substitution on the Physical Properties of Polymer Melts and Blends"
    RP White & JEG Lipson, Macromolecules 43, 4287 (2010). Journal webpage. Suggested by Annika.
• Tuesday, May 18, 2 pm
  • "Model transient networks from strongly hydrogen-bonded polymers"
    KE Feldman, MJ Kade, EW Meijer, CJ Hawker, & EJ Kramer, Macromolecules 42, 9072-9081 (2009). Be sure to also read their strong>CORRECTION. Suggested by Ana.
• Tuesday, April 20, 2010, noon
  • "A feeling for the numbers in biology"
    R Phillips and R Milo, PNAS 106, 21465-21471 (2009). journal.
• Tuesday, April 13, noon (2010)
  • "Dynamic jamming point for shear thickening suspensions"
    E Brown & HM Jaeger, PRL 103, 086001 (2009). journal
• Tuesday, March 30, noon
  • "Soft colloids make strong glasses"
    J Mattsson, HM Wyss, A Fernandez-Nieves, K Miyazaki, Z Hu, DR Reichman, & DA Weitz, Nature 462, 83-86 (2009). journal
  • Related: "Making the paper: David Weitz" (supplemental info)
    Nature 462, 9 (2009). journal
• Tuesday, February 23, noon
  • "Voodoo Science" -- chapter 7, 'Currents of Fear'
    RL Park, Oxford University Press, 2000.
• Tuesday, February 16, noon
  • "Research in Macromolecular Science: Challenges and Opportunities for the Next Decade"
    CK Ober, SZD Cheng, PT Hammond, M Muthukumar, E Reichmanis, KL Wooley, & TP Lodge, Macromolecules 42, 465-471 (2009). Journal
• Tuesday, February 2, 11 am -- note unusual time!
  • "Coherent control of optical information with matter wave dynamics"
    NS Ginsberg, SR Garner & L Vestergaard Hau, Nature 445, 623 (2007). Editor summary. News & Views summary. Journal.
• Tuesday, January 26, noon
  • "Beating Poisson encapsulation statistics using close-packed ordering"
    AR Abate, C-H Chen, JJ Agresti, & DA Weitz, Lab Chip 9, 2628 (2009).
• Tuesday, January 19, noon
  • "A microfluidic apparatus for the study of ice nucleation in supercooled water drops"
    CA Stan, GF Schneider, SS Shevkoplyas, M Hashimoto, M Ibanescu, BJ Wiley, & GM Whitesides, Lab Chip 9, 2293 (2009). Journal.
• Tuesday, January 12, 1 pm
  • "Fragile granular jamming"
    MM Bandi, MK Rivera, F Krzakala, & RE Ecke, arXiv:0910.3008v1.

• Wednesday, December 2, 1 pm
  • "A 'granocentric' model for random packing of jammed emulsions"
    M Clusel, EI Corwin, AON Siemens, and J Brujic, Nature 460, 611-615 (2009).
• Wednesday, November 11, 1 pm
  • "A Low-Temperature Amorphous Phase in a Fragile Glass-Forming Substance"
    I Cohen, A Ha, X Zhao, M Lee, T Fischer, MJ Strouse, and D Kivelson, J. Phys. Chem. 100, 8518-8526 (1996). journal
• Wednesday, October 28, 1 pm
  • "Hard spheres: Crystallization and glass formation"
    PN Pusey, E Zaccarelli, C Valeriani, E Sanz, WCK Poon, ME Cates, arXiv:0908.1663v1 (2009).
• Wednesday, October 21, 1 pm
  • "Free surfaces cause reductions in the glass transition temperature of thin polystyrene films"
    JS Sharp & JA Forrest, PRL 91, 235701 (2003).
• Wednesday, October 7, 1 pm
  • "Chaos and threshold for irreversibility in sheared suspensions"
    DJ Pine, JP Gollub, JF Brady, & AM Leshansky, Nature 438, 997-1000 (2005).
• Wednesday, August 12, 1 pm
  • "Temperature-Modulated Ellipsometry: A New Probe for Glass Transition in Thin Supported Polymer Films"
    MY Efremov, AV Kiyanova, PF Nealy, Macromolecules 41, 5978-5980 (2008). Suggested by Justin.
• Wednesday, July 29, 1 pm
  • "Jamming during the discharge of granular matter from a silo"
    I Zuriguel, A Garcimartin, D Maza, LA Pugnaloni, & JM Pastor, PRE 71, 051303 (2005). Journal. Suggested by Gary.
• Wednesday, July 22, 1 pm
  • "Phase separation of binary polymer mixtures under an electric field"
    H Hori, O Urakawa, O Yano, & Q Tran-Cong-Miyata, Macromolecules 40, 389-394 (2007). Suggested by Annika. Journal.
• Wednesday, July 15, 1 pm
  • "Apparent violation of the fluctuation-dissipation theorem due to dynamic heterogeneity in a model glass-forming liquid"
    T Kawasaki & H Tanaka, PRL 102, 185701 (2009). Suggested by Kazem. Journal link
• Wednesday, July 8, 1 pm
  • "On the possible role of surface elasticity in emulsion stability"
    D Georgieva, V Schmitt, F Leal-Calderon, & D Langevin, Langmuir 25, 5565-5573 (2009). Suggested by Ana.
• Wednesday, July 1, 1 pm
  • "An experimental test of volume-equilibration between granular systems"
    F Lechenault & KE Daniels, arXiv:0905.1829. Suggested by Laura.
• Wednesday, June 24, 1 pm
  • "Frustration on the way to crystallization in glass"
    H Shintani & H Tanaka, Nat. Phys. 2, 200-206 (2006). Suggested by Rei and Dandan.
• Wednesday, June 17, 1 pm
  • "Temperature dependence of normal mode reconstructions of protein dynamics"
    F Piazza, P De Los Rios, & F Cecconi, PRL 102, 218104 (2009). Suggested by Ken.
• Wednesday, June 10, 1 pm
  • "Model polymer nanocomposites provide an understanding of confinement effects in real nanocomposites"
    P Rittigstein, RD Priestly, LJ Broadbelt, & JM Torkelson, Nat. Materials 6, 278-282 (2007). Journal,
  • "Polymer nanocomposities"
    KI Winey & RA Vaia, MRS Bulletin 32, 314-319 (2007).
• Wednesday, June 3, 1 pm
  • "Relation between glass transition temperatures in polymer nanocomposites and polymer thin films"
    JM Kropka, V Pryamitsyn, & V Ganesan
    PRL 101, 075702 (2008).
• Wednesday, May 27, 3 pm
  • "Gels and Glasses in a Single System: Evidence for an Intricate Free-Energy Landscape of Glassy Materials"
    S Jabbari-Farouji, GH Wegdam, & D Bonn, PRL 99, 065701 (2007). Journal webpage
• Wednesday, May 20, 1 pm
  • "Aging of a colloidal 'Wigner' glass"
    D Bonn, H Tanaka, G Wegdam, H Kellay & J Meunier
    EPL 45, 52 (1998).
• Friday, April 24, 10:40 am
  • "Characterization of soft condensed matter & delicate materials using environmental scanning electron microscopy (ESEM)"
    DJ Stokes
    Adv. Eng. Materials 3, 126-131 (2001).
  • "A history of scanning electron microscopy developments: Towards 'wet-STEM' imaging"
    A Bogner, P-H Jouneau, G Thollet, D Basset, & C Gauthier
    Micron 38, 390-401 (2007).
    • For Justin's presentation; first paper is more important.
  • "Microscopic structure and elasticity of weakly aggregated colloidal gels"
    AD Dinsmore, V Prasad, IY Wong, & DA Weitz
    PRL 96, 185502 (2006).
    • For Kazem's presentation.
• Wednesday, April 22, 10:40 am
  • "New fundamental concepts in emulsion rheology"
    TG Mason
    Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science 4, 231-238 (1999).
    • For Dandan's presentation.
  • "Jamming in Systems Composed of Frictionless Ellipse-Shaped Particles"
    M Mailman, CF Schreck, CS O'Hern, & B Chakraborty
    arXiv:0812.1234v2 [cond-mat.soft] (2008).
    • For Ken's presentation.
• Monday, April 20, 10:40 am
  • "Transition path sampling: throwing ropes over mountains in the dark"
    PG Bolhuis, C Dellago, PL Geissler & D Chandler
    J. Phys: Cond. Mat. 12, A147-A152 (2000).
    • For Ana's presentation.
  • "Observation of a single-beam gradient force optical trap for dielectric particles"
    A Ashkin, JM Dziedzic, JE Bjorkholm, & S Chu
    Opt. Lett. 11, 288 (1986).
  • "Laser trapping of microscopic particles for undergraduate experiments"
    R Pastel et al., Am. J. Phys. 68, 993-1001 (2000).
    • For Annika's presentation; first paper is more important.
• Monday, April 13, 10:40 am
  • "Food structure and functionality: A soft matter perspective"
    J Ubbink, A Burbidge, & R Mezzenga
    Soft Matter 4, 1569-1581 (2008). Journal
• Friday, April 10, 10:40 am
  • "Effective temperatures of a driven system near jamming"
    IK Ono, CS O'Hern, DJ Durian, SA Langer, AJ Liu, SR Nagel
    PRL 89, 095703 (2002).
• Wednesday, April 8, 10:40 am
  • "Foam mechanics at the bubble scale"
    DJ Durian
    PRL 75, 4780 (1995).
• Friday, March 27, 10:40 am
  • "Traffic and related self-driven many-particle systems"
    D Helbing, Rev. Mod. Phys. 73, 1067-1141 (2001). Journal.
  • For Friday, read pages 1067-1085 (through the end of Sec. II)
• Monday, February 23, 10:40 am
  • "Percolation, statistical topography, and transport in random media"
    MB Isichenko, Rev. Mod. Phys. 64, 961-1043 (1992). Journal.
  • We decided this was not worth reading, too technical and not enough emphasis on concepts.
• Monday, February 16, 10:40 am
  • "Tunable colloids: control of colloidal phase transitions with tunable interactions"
    A Yethiraj, Soft Matter 3, 1099-1115 (2007). Journal
• Friday, February 13, 10:40 am
  • "Dynamic-light-scattering study of glasses of hard colloidal spheres"
    W van Megen & SM Underwood, PRE 47, 248-261 (1993). Journal
• Wednesday, February 11, 10:40 am
  • "Phase behaviour of concentrated suspensions of nearly hard colloidal spheres"
    PN Pusey & W van Megen, Nature 320, 340-342 (1986). Journal.

• December 8, 2008, 3 pm (note special time!)
  • "Characteristic relaxation times and their invariance to thermodynamic conditions"
    CM Roland, Soft Matter 4, 2316-2322 (2008).
• December 1, 2008, 2 pm
  • "Melting of two-dimensional tunable-diameter colloidal crystals"
    Y Han, NY Ha, AM Alsayed, & AG Yodh, PRE 77, 041406 (2008). journal
• November 17, 2008, 2 pm
  • "Cell-assisted assembly of colloidal crystallites"
    VK Kodali, W Roos, JP Spatz, & JE Curtis, Soft Matter 3, 337-348 (2007). Journal
• November 10, 2008, 2 pm
  • "Gelation of particles with short-range attraction"
    PJ Lu, E Zaccarelli, F Ciulla, AB Schofield, F Sciortino, & DA Weitz, Nature 453, 499-504 (2008). Journal
• November 3, 2008, 2 pm
  • "Collective behavior in a granular jet: Emergence of a liquid with zero surface tension"
    X Cheng, G Varas, D Citron, HM Jaeger, & SR Nagel, PRL 99, 188001 (2007). Journal
• October 27, 2008, 2 pm
  • "Role of chemical structure in fragility of polymers: A qualitative picture"
    K Kunal, CG Robertson, S Pawlus, SF Hahn, & AP Sokolov, Macromolecules ASAP (2008). journal.
• October 6, 2008, 2 pm
  • "Dynamics of drying in 3D porous media"
    L Xu, S Davies, AB Schofield, & DA Weitz, PRL 101, 094502 (2008). Journal.
• September 29, 2008, 2 pm
  • "Wrinkling of a bilayer membrane"
    A Concha, JW McIver III, P Mellado, D Clarke, O Tchernyshyov, & RL Leheny, PRE 75, 016609 (2007).
• September 22, 2008, 2 pm
  • "Viscous liquids and the glass transition: A potential energy barrier picture"
    M. Goldstein, J. Chem. Phys. 51, 3728-3739 (1969). journal.
• September 15, 2008, 2 pm
  • "Little evidence for dynamic divergences in ultraviscous molecular liquids"
    T Hecksher, AI Nielsen, NB Olsen, & JC Dyre, Nat. Phys. 4, 737-741 (2008).
  • News & Views: "Glass dynamics: Diverging views on glass transition"
    GB McKenna, Nat. Phys. 4, 673 (2008).
• August 14, 2008, 11 am
  • "Clusters of charged Janus spheres"
    L Hong, A Cacciuto, E Luijten, & S Granick, Nano Lett. 6, 2510-2514 (2006). Journal.
• August 7, 2008, 11 am
  • "Eliminating the Enhanced Mobility at the Free Surface of Polystyrene..."
    CB Roth, KL McNerny, WF Jager, & JM Torkelson, Macromolecules 40, 2568-2574 (2007). Journal
• July 31, 2008, 11 am
  • "A thermodynamic unification of jamming"
    K Lu, EE Brodsky, & HP Kavehpour, Nature Physics 4, 404-407 (2008). Journal.
• July 17, 2008, 11 am
  • "Translation-rotation paradox for diffusion in glass-forming polymers"
    DB Hall, A Dhinojwala, & JM Torkelson
    PRL 79, 103 (1997). Journal.
• July 3, 2008, 11 am
  • "Direct observation of a local structural mechanism for dynamic arrest"
    CP Royall, SR Williams, T Ohtsuka, & H Tanaka, Nat. Mat. 7, 556-561 (2008). Journal.
  • Supplementary information
  • publicity
• June 26, 2008, 11 am
  • "Slippery diffusion-limited aggregation"
    CR Seager & TG Mason, PRE 75, 011406 (2007). Journal.
• June 19, 2008, 11 am
  • "Glass-formers and viscous liquid slowdown since David Turnbull: Enduring puzzles and new twists"
    CA Angell
    MRS Bull. 33, 544-555 (2008). Journal.
• June 12, 2008, 11 am
  • "Direct measurement of the free energy by optical microscopy"
    RPA Dullens, DGAL Aarts, & WK Kegel
    PNAS 103, 529-531 (2006). Journal.
• June 5, 2008, 11 am
  • Dynamics of particle sedimentation in a vertical channel: Period-doubling bifurcation and chaotic state"
    CK Aidun & EJ Ding, Phys. Fluids 15, 1612-1621 (2003).
• May 29, 2008, 11 am
  • "Phase transition in a static granular system"
    M Schroter, S Nagle, C Radin, & HL Swinney, EPL 78, 44004 (2007). journal
  • Related article: compare plateau in black symbols of Fig. 1 with non-plateau of Fig. 1 of the Schroter et al. paper.
• May 22, 2008, 11 am
  • "Crumpled surface structures"
    DP Holmes, M Ursiny, & AJ Crosby, Soft Matter 4, 82-85 (2008).
• April 23, 4 pm
  • "Bouncing jet: A Newtonian liquid rebounding off a free surface"
    M Thrasher, S Jung, YK Pang, CP Chuu, & HL Swinney, PRE 76, 056319 (2007). Journal.
• April 14, 2 pm
  • Chaotic particle dynamics in viscous flows: The three-particle Stokeslet problem"
    IM Janosi, T Tel, DE Wolf, & JAC Gallas, PRE 56, 2858-2868 (1997).
• April 7, 3 pm
  • "Dynamical heterogeneity and jamming in glass-forming liquids"
    N Lacevic & SC Glotzer
    J. Phys. Chem. B 108, 19623 (2004). Journal webpage.
• March 26, 4:30 pm
  • "Velocity fluctuations of initially stratified sedimenting spheres"
    S-Y Tee, PJ Mucha, MP Brenner, & DA Weitz
    Phys. Fluids 19, 113304 (2007). Journal.
• February 20, 4:30 pm
  • "On the relationship between structure and dynamics in a supercooled liquid"
    A Widmer-Cooper, P Harrowell, H Fynewever
    J. Phys.: Cond. Mat. 17, S4025 (2005). Journal.
• February 13, 4:30 pm
  • "How reproducible are dynamic heterogeneities in a supercooled liquid?"
    A Widmer-Cooper, P Harrowell, H Fynewever
    PRL 93, 135701 (2004). Journal.
• February 6, 4:30 pm
  • "Crystallization of a quasi-2D granular fluid"
    PM Reis, RA Ingale, & MD Shattuck
    PRL 96, 258001 (2006). Journal.

• December 10, 4 pm
  • "Velocity correlations in dense granular gases
    DL Blair & A Kudrolli
    PRE 64, 050301 (2001). Journal.
• December 3, 4 pm
  • "Control of the Liquid-Liquid Transition in a Molecular Liquid by Spatial Confinement"
    R Kurita & H Tanaka, PRL 98, 235701 (2007). Journal.
• November 26, 4 pm
  • "From micro- to nanofabrication with soft materials"
    SR Quake & A Scherer, Science 290, 1536 (2000). Journal.
• November 19, 4 pm
  • "Relation between rotational and translational dynamic heterogeneties in water"
    MG Mazza, N Giovambattista, W Starr, & HE Stanley, PRL 96, 057803 (2006). Journal.
  • Related paper (optional): "Connection of translational and rotational dynamical heterogeneities with the breakdown of the Stokes-Einstein and Stokes-Einstein-Debye relations in water"
    MG Mazza, N Giovambattista, HE Stanley, & FW Starr, Phys Rev E 76, 031203 (2007). Journal.
• November 12, 4 pm
  • No meeting this week.
• November 5, 4 pm
  • "Bridging length scales in colloidal liquids and interfaces from near-critical divergence to single particles"
    CP Royall, DGAL Aarts, & H Tanaka, Nature Physics 3, 636-640 (2007).
  • Journal webpage
• October 29, 4 pm
  • "Making polymeric micro- and nanoparticles of complex shapes"
    Julie A. Champion, Yogesh K. Katare, and Samir Mitragotri, PNAS | vol. 104 | no. 29 | 11901-11904 (July 17, 2007)
  • Journal.
• October 22, 4 pm
  • "Universal Nature of Particle Displacements close to Glass and Jamming Transitions"
    P Chaudhuri, L Berthier, & W Kob, PRL 99, 060604 (2007).
  • Journal webpage
• October 15, 4 pm
  • "Direct observation of nondiffusive motion of a Brownian particle"
    B Luki, S Jeney, C Tischer, AJ Kulik, L Forro, & E-L Florin, PRL 95, 160601 (2005).
  • Journal webpage
• October 10, 4 pm
  Two papers:
  • "News and Views: Jets from a singular surface"
    MP Brenner, Nature 403, 377 (2000).
  • "The dynamics of finite time singularities: curvature collapse and jet erruption on a fluid surface"
    BW Zeff, B Kleber, J Feinberg, and DP Lathrop, Nature 403, 401 (2000).
  • journal webpage -- News & Views webpage
• October 1, 4 pm
  Two papers:
  • "Comment on 'Jamming at zero temperature and zero applied stess: The epitome of disorder'"
    A Donev, S Torquato, FH Stillinger, & R Connelly, PRE 70, 043301 (2004). Journal.
  • "Reply"
    CS O'Hern, LE Silbert, AJ Liu, SR Nagel, PRE 70, 043302 (2004). Journal.
• September 24, 4 pm
  • "Jamming at zero temperature and zero applied stess: The epitome of disorder"
    CS O'Hern, LE Silbert, AJ Liu, SR Nagel, PRE 68, 011306 (2003).
  • Journal
  • Long paper: read at least through page 9
• September 17, 4 pm
  • "Is random close packing of spheres well defined?"
    S Torquato, TM Truskett, & PG Debenedetti, PRL 84, 2064-2067 (2000).
  • Part 1 of "What is random close packing" -- a short debate
• September 12, 2007, 4 pm
  • "Microscopic structure and elasticity of weakly aggregated colloidal gels"
    AD Dinsmore, V Prasad, IY Wong, and DA Weitz, PRL 96, 185502 (2006).
• August 2007
  • Take a break while everybody works on rotation reports, qualifier reports, etc.
• July 30, 2 pm
  • "Experimental investigation of the sedimentation of a dilute fiber suspension"
    B Herzhaft, E Guazzelli, MB Mackaplow, & ESG Shaqfeh, PRL 77, 290 (1996).
• July 23, 2 pm
  • "The 'macromolecular tourist': Universal temperature dependence of thermal diffusion in aqueous colloidal suspensions"
    S Iacopini, R Rusconi, & R Piazza, Eur Phys J E 19, 59-67 (2006).
• July 16, 2 pm
  • "Critical scaling in linear response of frictionless granular packings near jamming"
    WG Ellenbroek, E Somfai, M van Hecke, & W van Saarloos, PRL 97, 258001 (2006).
• July 9, 2 pm
  • "Breaking the diffraction barrier in fluorescence microscopy by optical shelving"
    S Bretschneider, C Eggeling, & SW Hell, PRL 98, 218103 (2007).
• July 2, 3 pm (** NOTE TIME **)
  • "Holographic microscopy of holographically trapped three-dimensional structures
    S-H Lee & DG Grier
    Optics Express 15, 1505 (2007).
  • Movie of colloids rotated in 3D by holographic tweezers
• June 25, 2007, 2 pm
  • "Entropic attraction and repulsion in binary colloids probed with a line optical tweezer"
    JC Crocker, JA Matteo, AD Dinsmore, & AG Yodh, PRL 82, 4352-4355 (1999).
• June 18, 2 pm
  • "Super-hydrophobic urfaces made from Teflon
    P van der Wal & U Steiner, Soft Matter 3, 426 (2007).
• June 11, 2 pm
  • "Self-organization of bouncing oil drops: Two-dimensional lattices and spinning clusters"
    SI Liber, MC Hendershott, A Pattanaporkratana, & JE Maclennan, PRE 75, 056308 (2007).
• June 4, 2 pm
  • "Density fluctuations in vibrated granular materials"
    ER Nowak, JB Knight, E Ben-Naim, HM Jaeger, & SR Nagel
    PRE 57, 1971 (1998).
• May 25, 2007, 2 pm
  • "The structure of liquids"
    JD Bernal
    Proc. Roy. Soc. London A 280, 299-322 (1964).
• April 24, 2:30 pm (2007)
  • "Refraction of shear zones in granular materials"
    T Unger
    PRL 98, 018301 (2007).
• April 17, 2:30 pm
  • "Entropy and temperature of a static granular assembly"
    S Henkes, CS O'Hern, B Chakraborty
    cond-mat/0701489.
• April 10, 2:30 pm
  • "Finite lifetime of turbulence in shear flows"
    B Hof, J Westerweel, TM Schneider, & B Eckhardt
    Nature 443, 59 (2006).
• March 28, 2 pm
  • "Phase diagram of patchy colloids: Towards empty liquids"
    E Bianchi, Largo, Tartaglia, Zaccarelli, & Sciortino
    PRL 97, 168301 (2006).
• March 21, 2007, 2 pm
  • "Jamming transition in granular systems"
    TS Majmudar, M Sperl, S Luding, RP Behringer
    PRL 98, 058001 (2007).
• February 14, 2007, 2 pm
  • "Polarization dependent Bragg diffraction..."
    A Fernandez-Nieves, DR Link, DA Weitz
    APL 88, 121911 (2006).
• February 9, 2007, 2:15 pm -- two papers to read
  • "Elastic instabilities of polymer solutions in cross-channel flow"
    PE Arratia, CC Thomas, J Diorio, JP Gollub
    PRL 96, 144502 (2006).
  • "Weak chaos and fractional dynamics in an optically driven colloidal ring"
    Y Roichman, G Zaslavsky, DG Grier
    cond-mat/0605686
• January 31, 5 pm
  • "Laser trapping in anisotropic fluids and polarization-controlled particle dynamics"
    II Smalyukh et al.
    PNAS 103, 18048-18053 (2006).
• January 25, 4 pm
  • "Synchrotron X-ray diffraction study of microtubules buckling and bundling..."
    DJ Needleman et al.
    PRL 93, 198104 (2004).
• January 16, 2 pm
  • "Hole growth as a microrheological probe..."
    CB Roth and JR Dutcher
    J. Poly. Sci. 44, 3011-3021 (2006).

• December 6, 2006, 2 pm
  • "Cooperativity in sandpiles: statistics of bridge geometries"
    A Mehta, GC Barker, JM Luck
    J. Stat. Mech P10014 (2004).
• November 30, 4 pm
  • The first article is a "News and Views" summary of the 2nd article. It also discusses the paper we read on June 14, 2006.
  • "A tale of tails"
    M van Hecke
    Nature 435, 1041 (2005).
  • "Structural signature of jamming in granular madia"
    EI Corwin, HM Jaeger, SR Nagel
    Nature 435, 1075 (2005).
• November 8, 3 pm
  • "Self-concentration and large-scale coherence in bacterial dynamics"
    C Dombrowski et al
    PRL 93, 098103 (2004).
• November 1, 3 pm
  • "Fluctuations in viscous fingering"
    MG Moore et al.
    PRE 65, 030601(R) (2002).
• October 25, 2006, 3 pm
  Brownian motion of an ellipsoid"
  Y Han et al
  Science 314, 626 (2006).
• October 20, 2006, 2 pm
  • "Life at low Reynolds number"
    EM Purcell
    Am. J. Phys. 45, 3-11 (1997).
• October 5, 2006, 5 pm
  • "The distribution of glass-transition temperatures in nanoscopically confined glass formers"
    CJ Ellison and JM Torkelson
    Nature Materials 2, 695 (2003).
• September 28, 2006, 4 pm
  • "Jamming of granular flow in a two-dimensional hopper"
    K To, P-Y Lai, & HK Pak
    PRL 86, 71 (2001).
• August 16, 2006, 3 pm
  • "Mechanical probing of liquid foam ageing"
    I Cantat and O Pitois
    J. Phys.: Cond. Mat. 17, S3455 (2005).
• August 9, 2006, 3 pm
  • "Free energy reconstruction from nonequilibrium single-molecule pulling experiments"
    G Hummer and A Szabo
    PNAS 98, 3658 (2001).
  • Commentary: "How does a system respond when driven away from thermal equilibrium?"
    C Jarzynski, PNAS 98, 3636 (2001).
    The commentary is related to the main article.
• August 2, 3 pm
  • "Spatially heterogeneous dynamics and dynamic facilitation..."
    M Vogel and SC Glotzer
    PRL 92, 255901 (2004).
• July 26, 3 pm
  • "Effect of rare events on out-of-equilibrium relaxation"
    P Ribiere et al.
    PRL 95, 268001 (2005).
• July 19, 3 pm
  • "Gravity-induced aging in glasses of colloidal hard spheres"
    NB Simeonova & WK Kegel
    PRL 93, 035701 (2004).
• July 12, 2006, 3 pm
  • "Crystallization of hard-sphere colloids in microgravity"
    J Zhu, M Li, R Rogers, W Meyer, RH Ottewill, STS-73, WB Russel, PM Chaikin
    Nature 387, 883 (1997).
• July 5, 2006, 2 pm
  • "Concepts for nanoscale resolution in fluorescence microscopy"
    SW Hell, M Dyba, S Jakobs
    Curr. Op. Neurobiology 14, 599 (2004).
• June 28, 2006, 3 pm
  • "Measurement of forces inside a 3D pile of frictionless droplets"
    J Zhou, S Long, Q Wang, AD Dinsmore
    Science 312, 1631 (2006).
• June 21, 2006, 3 pm
  • "Granular avalanches in fluids"
    S Courrech du Pont et al.
    PRL 90, 044301 (2003).
• June 14, 2006, 3 pm
  • "Contact force measurements and stress-induced anisotropy in granular materials"
    TS Majmudar & RP Behringer
    Nature 435, 1079 (2005).
• June 7, 2006
  • "Mechanism for clogging of micro-channels"
    HM Wyss, DL Blair, JF Morris, HA Stone, & DA Weitz
    preprint (2006).
  • Published version is PRE 74, 061402 (2006).
• May 31, 2006
  • "Direct visual observation of thermal capillary waves"
    DGAL Aarts, M Schmidt, HNW Lekkerkerker
    Science 304, 847 (2004).
• April 25
  • "The glass transition of glycerol in the volume-temperature plane"
    KZ Win and N Menon
    cond-mat/0508648; accepted for publication in PRE-rapid.
• April 18
  • "Dissecting insect flight"
    ZJ Wang
    Annu. Rev. Fluid. Mech. 37, 183 (2005).
  • Suggestion: read first three sections
• April 11
  • "Drag and relaxation in a bentonite clay suspension"
    NP Chafe & JR de Bruyn
    J. Non-Newt. Fluid Mech. 131, 44 (2005).
• April 4
  • "Investigating the microenvironments of inhomogeneous soft materials with multiple particle tracking"
    MT Valentine et al., PRE 64, 061506 (2001).
• March 28
  • "Some recent developments in spin glasses"
    AP Young
    Pramana 53, 1 (1999 ?).
• March 21
  • "Time and length scales in supercooled fluids"
    L Berthier
    PRE 69, 020201(R) (2004).
• February 28
  • "Persistent holes in a fluid"
    FS Merkt, RD Deegan, DI Goldman, EC Rericha, HL Swinney
    PRL 92, 184501 (2004).
  • See the movie!
• February 21
  • "Gravity flow instability of viscoplastic materials: The ketchup drip"
    P Coussot and F Gaulard
    PRE 72, 031409 (2005).
• February 14
  • "From 'discrete' to 'continuum' flow in foams"
    S Rodts, JC Baudez, P Coussot
    EPL 69, 636 (2005)
• February 7, 2006
  • "Multiscaling at point J: Jamming is a critical phenomenon"
    JA Drocco, MB Hastings, CJ Olson Reichhardt, C Reichhardt
    PRL 95, 088001 (2005).

• December 8
  • "An effective gravitational temperature for sedimentation"
    PN Segre, F Liu, P Umbanhowar, & DA Weitz
    Nature 409, 594-597 (2001).
• December 1, 2005
  • "Glass transition in a fluidized bed of hard spheres"
    DI Goldman & HL Swinney
    preprint, cond-mat/0511322 (submitted 2005).
  • paper published in PRL, 2006
• November 17
  • "Colloidal jamming at interfaces: A route to fluid-bicontinuous gels"
    K Stratford et al.
    Science 309, 2198 (2005).
• November 10
  • "Onset of buckling in drying droplets of colloidal suspensions"
    N Tsapis et al
    PRL 94, 018302 (2005).
• November 1
  • "How the Venus flytrap snaps"
    Y Forterre, JM Skotheim, J Durnais, L Mahadevan
    Nature 433, 421 (2005).
• August 18
  • "Improved extremal optimization for the Ising spin glass"
    AA Middleton
    PRE 69, 055701(R) (2004).
• August 11, 2005
  • "Jamming, two-fluid behavior, and 'self-filtration' in concentrated particulate suspensions"
    MD Haw
    PRL 92, 185506 (2004).
• August 4
  • "Intermittency, aging and extremal fluctuations"
    P Sibani and HJ Jensen
    Europhys. Lett. 69, 563 (2005).
• July 28
  • "Time-resolved correlation: a new tool for studying temporally heterogeneous dynamics"
    L Cipelletti, H Bissig, V Trappe, P Ballesta & S Mazoyer
    J Phys: Cond Mat 15, S257 (2003).
• July 21
  • "Model for heat conduction in nanofluids"
    DH Kumar et al
    PRL 93, 144301 (2004).
  • Comment on above article (S Bastea, PRL 019401 (2005))
  • Author response (SK Bas et al, PRL 019402 (2005))
• July 14
  • "Laser-induced hydrodynamic instability of fluid interfaces"
    A Casner & JP Delville
    PRL 90, 144503 (2003).
• July 7
  • "Impact on soft sand: Void collapse and jet formation"
    D Lohse et al.
    PRL 93, 198003 (2004).
  • See related bonus article.
• June 30
  • "Drop splashing on a dry smooth surface"
    L Xu, WW Zhang, SR Nagel
    PRL 94, 184505 (2005)
• June 23
  • "Dynamic buckling and fragmentation in brittle rods"
    JR Gladden, NZ Handzy, A Belmonte, E Villermaux
    PRL 94, 035503 (2005)
• June 16
  • "Deformation of small compressed droplets"
    MD Lacasse, GS Grest, D Levine
    Phys Rev E 54, 5436 (1996)
• June 9
  • "Scaling and universality of critical fluctuations in granular gases"
    JJ Brey, MI Garcia de Soria, P Maynar, MJ Ruiz-Montero
    PRL 94, 098001 (2005)
• June 2
  • "Visualization of Dislocation Dynamics in Colloidal Crystals"
    P Schall, I Cohen, DA Weitz, F Spaepen
    Science 305 1944-1948 (2004)
• Spring 2005
  • We took a break this spring, as many students were taking Stefan Boettcher's special topics course on spin glasses.

• December 8
  • next bit from Duran's book
  • from: J Duran, "Sands, Powders and Grains," Chapter 3, Springer, New York (2000).
• December 1
  • Book chapter: granular materials
  • from: J Duran, "Sands, Powders and Grains," Chapter 3, Springer, New York (2000).
• November 17
  • "Directed force chain networks & stress response in static granular materials"
    JES Socolar, DG Schaeffer, & P Claudin
    Eur. Phys. J. E 7, 353 (2002).
• November 3
  • "Yielding and rearrangements in disordered emulsions"
    P Hebraud, F Lequeux, JP Munch, & DJ Pine
    PRL 78, 4657 (1997).
• October 27
  • "Rejection-free geometric cluster algorithm for complex fluids"
    J Liu and E Liujten
    PRL 92, 035504 (2004).
• October 20
  • "Rearrangements in hard-sphere glasses under oscillatory shear strain"
    G Petekidis, A Moussaid, & PN Pusey
    PRE 66, 051402 (2002).
• October 13
  • "Microscopic origin of light scattering in tissue"
    AK Popp, MT Valentine, PD Kaplan, & DA Weitz
    App. Optics 42, 2871 (2003).
• October 6
  • Finish the Sept 29 paper
• September 29, 2004
  • "Jamming at zero temperature and zero applied stress: The epitome of disorder"
    CS O'Hern, LE Silbert, AJ Liu, SR Nagel
    PRE 68, 011306 (2003).
  • Read through page 9 (including section II-F)
• August 13, 2004
  • "Dynamics of shear-transformation zones in amorphous plasticity...
    JS Langer & L Pechenik
    PRE 68, 061507 (2003).
  • A followup paper to the 7/23 paper
• August 6
  • "Testing the thermodynamic approach to granular matter..."
    HA Makse & J Kurchan
    Nature 415, 614 (2002).
  • "News & Views: Taking the temperature"
    B Behringer
    Nature 415, 594 (2002).
• July 30
  • "Observing brownian motion in vibration-fluidized granular matter"
    G D'Anna, P Mayor, A Barrat, V Loreto, & F Nori
    Nature 424, 909 (2003).
  • "News & Views: Think outside the sandbox"
    M Buchanan
    Nature 425, 556 (2003).
• July 23, 2004
  • "Dynamics of viscoplastic deformation in amorphous solids"
    ML Falk & JS Langer
    Phys. Rev. E 57, 7192 (1998).
• July 16
  • "Absence of thermodynamic phase transition in a model glass former"
    L Santen & W Krauth
    Nature 405, 550 (2000).
  • "Hard knock for thermodynamics"
    S Torquato
    Nature 405, 521 (2000).
  • Both of these are two pages. The second article is commentary on the first article.
• July 9
  • "Entropic barriers, activated hopping and the glass transition in colloidal suspensions"
    KS Schweizer & EJ Saltzman
    J. Chem. Phys. 119, 1181 (2003).
• July 2, 2004
  • "The relaxation dynamics of a simple glass former confined in a pore"
    P Scheidler, W Kob and K Binder
    Europhys. Lett. 52, 277 (2000).
• June 25
  • Read paper from April 6
• June 18
  • Read Sections VI-XI of June 11 paper
• June 11
  • "A theory of cooperative diffusion in dense granular flows"
    MZ Bazant
    preprint: cond-mat/0307379 v2
    Read Sections I-V (first 12.5 pages)
• June 4
  • "Supercooled liquids and the glass transition"
    PG Debenedetti and FH Stillinger
    Nature 410, 259 (2001).
• April 14
  • "Diffusion and mixing in gravity-driven dense granular flows"
    J Choi, A Kudrolli, RR Rosales, and MZ Bazant
    to be published in PRL (2004).
• April 6
  • "Coarse-grained microscopic model of glass formers"
    JP Garrahan and D Chandler
    PNAS 100, 9710 (2003).
• March 30
  • "Local rheological probes for complex fluids: Application to Laponite suspensions"
    C Wilhelm et al
    PRE 66, 021502 (2002).
• March 3
  • "Diffusing-wave-spectroscopy measurements of viscoelasticity of complex fluids"
    TG Mason, H Gang, DA Weitz, J. Opt. Soc. Am. 14, 139 (1997)
• February 25
  • "Permeable capsules composed of colloidal particles"
    AD Dinsmore et al., Science 298, 1006 (2002).
• February 18
  • Report on the NASA Soft & Complex Condensed Matter Workshop
    Discusses what is the future of soft condensed matter

• Fall 2003
  • We read through the textbook "Soft Condensed Matter" by Richard A. L. Jones
• Friday, August 15
  • "Nature of the divergence in low shear viscosity of colloidal hard-sphere dispersions"
    Z Cheng, J Zhu, PM Chaikin, SE Phan, WB Russel
    Phys. Rev. E 65, 041405 (2002).
• Friday, August 8, 2003
  • "Jamming and Rheology: An Introduction"
    AJ Liu & SR Nagel
    From: Jamming & Rheology, 2001.
    • We originally read this paper Feb 8, 2002
• Friday, August 1, 2003
  • "General Discussion"
    Faraday Discuss., 123, 75-97 (2003).
    • Discusses paper we read for July 18
    • See pages 75-76, and pages 91-94 (starting with Prof. Nicolai's comment on page 91)
• Thursday, July 24, 2003
  • "Universal features of the fluid to solid transition for attractive colloidal particles"
    V Prasad, V Trappe, AD Dinsmore, PN Segre, L Cipelletti, & DA Weitz
    Faraday Discuss. 123, 1-12 (2003).
  • This paper is a followup to the paper for Friday, March 29, 2002 below
• Friday, July 18, 2003
  • Reading from Gould & Tobochnik on percolation -- in your mailbox
• Friday, July 11, 2003
  • "The glass paradigm for colloidal glasses, gels, and other arrested states driven by attractive interactions"
    KA Dawson
    Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Sci., 7, 218-227 (2002).
• Wednesday, February 5
  • "Self-oscillations of a cusped bubble rising through a micellar solution"
    A Belmonte
    Rheol. Acta. 39, 554-559 (2000).
• Tuesday, January 28 - 1 pm
  • "Slow dynamics in glasses, gels and foams" L Cipelletti and L Ramos
    Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Sci. 7, 228-234 (2002).

2002:

• Tuesday, November 12, 2002
  • "Granular shear flow dynamics and forces: Experiment and continuum theory"
    L Bocquet, W Losert, D Schalk, TC Lubensky, and JP Gollub
    PRE 65, 011307 (2002).
• Tuesday, November 5, 2002
  • "Particle dynamics in sheared granular matter"
    W Losert, L Bocquet, TC Lubensky, JP Gollub
    PRL 85, 1428 (2000).
• Thursday, October 31, 2002 -- costumes optional
  • "Suppression of crystal nucleation in polydisperse colloids due to increase of the surface free energy"
    S Auer and D Frenkel
    Nature 413, 711 (2001).
  • Bonus paper: "Prediction of absolute crystal-nucleation rate in hard sphere colloids"
    S Auer and D Frenkel
    Nature 409, 1020 (2001)
  • Only read the 2nd paper if you're interested, the first paper is more important.
• Thursday, October 17, 2002
  • "Insights into phase transition kinetics from colloid science"
    VJ Anderson and HNW Lekkerkerker
    Nature 416, 811 (2002).
• Friday, August 9, 2002
  • "Dynamics of granular segregation patterns in a long drum mixer"
    K Choo, MW Baker, TCA Molteno, SW Morris
    PRE 58, 6115 (1998).
  • See also their website here and here
• Monday, August 5, 2002
  • "Spatial correlations of particle displacements in a glass-forming liquid"
    PH Poole, C Donati, SC Glotzer
    Physica A 261, 51 (1998).
  • added 8/20/02:
    "Growing spatial correlations of particle displacements in a simulated liquid on cooling toward the glass transition"
    C Donati, SC Glotzer, PH Poole
    PRL 82, 5064 (1999).
• Friday, July 26, 2002
  • Fluctuations, response and aging dynamics in a simple glass-forming liquid out of equilibrium
    W Kob and JL Barrat
    Eur. Phys. J. B 13, 319 (2000).
• Friday, July 19, 2002
  • "Shocks in supersonic sand"
    EC Rericha, C Bizon, MD Shattuck, HL Swinney
    PRL 88, 014302 (2002).
  • A somewhat-related simulation paper if anybody is curious -- strictly optional reading
• Friday, July 12, 2002
  • re-discussion of July 5 papers
• Friday, July 5, 2002
  • "Direct observation of dynamical heterogeneities in colloidal hard sphere suspensions"
    WK Kegel and A van Blaaderen
    Science 287, 290 (2000).
  • "Three-dimensional direct imaging of structural relaxation near the colloidal glass transition"
    ER Weeks, JC Crocker, AC Levitt, A Schofield, DA Weitz
    Science 287, 627 (2000).
• Friday, June 28, 2002
  • "Pair interaction of charged colloidal spheres near a charged wall"
    SH Behrens and DG Grier
    PRE 64, 050401 (R) (2001).
• Friday, June 21, 2002
  • READ SECTIONS IV & V of previous paper
• Friday, June 14, 2002
  • "Supercooled liquids and glasses"
    MD Ediger, CA Angell, SR Nagel
    J. Phys. Chem. 100, 13200-13212 (1996). READ SECTIONS I - III
• Friday, June 7, 2002
  • "Effective temperatures of a driven system near jamming"
    IK Ono, CS O'Hern, SA Langer, AJ Liu, SR Nagel
    preprint (2001).
  • published version: IK Ono et al, PRL 89, 095703 (2002).
• Friday, May 31, 2002
  • "Entropic attraction and repulsion in binary colloids probed with a line optical tweezer"
    JC Crocker, JA Matteo, AD Dinsmore, AG Yodh
    PRL 82, 4352-4355 (1999).
• Thursday, May 23, 2002
  • Granular matter: a tentative view
    PG de Gennes
    Rev. Mod. Phys. 71, S374 (1999).
• Friday, May 17, 2002
  • Granular solids, liquids, and gases
    HM Jaeger, SR Nagel, and RP Behringer
    Rev. Mod. Phys. 68, 1259 (1996).
• Friday, April 26, 2002
  • Stress fluctuations in a 2D Couette experiment: A continuous transition
    D Howell, RP Behringer, C Veje
    Phys Rev Lett 82, 5241 (1999).
• Friday, April 12, 2002
  • Scaling of the microrheology of semidilute F-Actin solutions
    T Gisler and DA Weitz
    Phys Rev Lett 82, 1606 (1999).
• Friday, March 29, 2002
  • Jamming phase diagram for attractive particles
    V Trappe, V Prasad, L Cipelletti, PN Segre, DA Weitz
    Nature 411, 722 (2001).
• Friday, March 22, 2002
  • Glasslike kinetic arrest at the colloidal-gelation transition
    PN Segre, V Prasad, AB Schofield, and DA Weitz
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 6042 (2001).
• Friday, February 22, 2002
  • "Foam mechanics at the bubble scale"
    DJ Durian
    PRL 75, 4780 (1995).
  • "Nonlinear bubble dynamics in a slowly driven foam"
    AD Gopal and DJ Durian
    PRL 75, 2610 (1995).
    
• Friday, February 8, 2002
  • "Jamming is just not cool anymore"
    Andrea J. Liu and Sidney R. Nagel
    Nature 396, 21-22 (1998).
    This paper summarizes a PRL article, which perhaps we should read later. It's a somewhat dense PRL.
  • "Jamming and rheology: An introduction"
    Andrea J. Liu and Sidney R. Nagel
    Copies have been distributed
• Friday, February 1, 2002
  • "Footprints in Sand: The Response of a Granular Material to Local Perturbations"
    J. Geng et al (Bob Behringer's group)
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 035506 (2001).
  • "Jamming and fluctuations in granular drag"
    I. Albert et al (Peter Schiffer's group)
    Phys Rev Lett 84, 5122 (2000).
  • These are both short papers. The first one is more important to read, although the 2nd one is nice as well.
• Friday, January 25, 2002
  • "Asymptotic laws for tagged-particle motion in glassy systems"
    M. Fuchs, W. Gotze, and M. R. Mayr
    Phys. Rev. E 58, 3384-3399 (1998)
  • "Glass transition in colloidal hard spheres: Measurement and mode-coupling-theory analysis of the coherent intermediate scattering function"
    W. van Megen and S. M. Underwood
    Phys. Rev. E 49, 4206-4220 (1994).

Possible future papers:

• "Structure and distribution of arches in shaken hard sphere deposits"
  LA Pugnaloni & GC Barker
  Physica A 337, 428-442 (2004).
  • This is a followup to the 12-6-06 article
• Liquid transport due to light scattering
  RD Schroll et al.
  cond-mat/0606073v2 -- light scattering can drive a large-scale flow in fluid near critical point
• "Testing mode-coupling theory for a supercooled binary Lennard-Jones mixture. Part I"
  W Kob & HC Andersen
  PRE 51, 4626 (1995).
  • The Part II paper:
    "Testing mode-coupling theory for a supercooled binary Lennard-Jones mixture. Part II"
• "Rheology and Contact Lifetimes in Dense Granular Flows"
  LE Silbert, GS Grest, R Brewster, & AJ Levine, PRL 99, 068002 (2007). Journal webpage
• "Thermodynamically stable Pickering emulsions"
  S Sacanna, WK Kegel, & AP Philipse
  PRL 98, 158301 (2007). Journal webpage
• "Dynamical fluctuation effects in glassy colloidal suspensions"
  KS Schweizer, Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science 12, 297-306 (2007).
• perhaps an article on the FIONA technique by Paul Selvin, but most of them deal with molecular motors. FIONA = fluorescent imaging with one nanometer accuracy. The article that looks most appropriate is A Yildiz & PR Selvin, Acc. Chem. Res. 38, 574-582 (2005).
• "Correlation between dynamic heterogeneity and medium-range order in two-dimensional glass-forming liquids"
  T Kawasaki, T Araki, & H Tanaka, PRL 99, 215701 (2007). journal,
• "Photochemical switching between colloidal photonic crystals at the nematic-air interface"
  B Lev, SB Chernyshuk, T Yamamoto, J Yamamoto, and H Yokoyama, PRE 78, 020701(R) (2008).
• "Equilibrium and nonequilibrium states in microfluidic double emulsions"
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• "Glass formation and thermodynamics of supercooled monatomic liquids"
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• "Conjugated-polymer blends for optoelectronics"
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