Structural color and transparency are common phenomena in life - these optical properties are found in many species of mammals, birds, insects, and even bacteria. This talk discusses our recent…
Geometry describes how quantum states change locally in parameter space and governs many important physical phenomena, including many-body phases and their responses. The classic example of zero-temperature…
Frank Scheffold (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)
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David Rittenhouse Laboratory, 2N3
Visible light can be used to probe dense, complex media such as colloidal suspensions or compact sediments. In liquid samples, the temporal fluctuations contain information about the local viscoelastic…
How predictable is evolution? This question has inspired biological research for decades, but it remains challenging to address quantitatively. In this talk, I will describe how we adapted methods from…
Equilibrium statistical mechanics tells us how to control the self-assembly of passive materials by tuning the competition between energy and entropy to achieve desired states of organization. Out of…
