Course Term: Trinity
Course Overview:
This is a reading course. Under the guidance of the course organiser, students will give presentations based on key papers in soft condensed matter theory. Some examples of the topics for these presentations are: Active nematics and active gels. Wetting, spreading and contact line dynamics. Hydrodynamics of microswimmers: Stokes equation, scallop theorem, multipole expansion, active suspensions. Fluctuations and response.
External Lecturer(s):
Prof. Julia Yeomans, Prof. Ard Louis and Prof. Ramin Golestanian