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Soft Matter: Finding Simplicity in Complexity

Speaker: Mikhail A. Anisimov, University of Maryland
When: April 1, 2008 (Tue), 03:30PM to 04:30PM
Hosted by: H. Eugene Stanley
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This event is part of the Department Colloquia Series. Colloquia are at 3:30 in the Metcalf Science Center (SCI 107) Refreshments will be served at 3:15 in the 1st Floor Lounge

Abstract: Soft-matter materials, such as complex fluids, are often dominated by mesoscopic fluctuations, which make description of very different systems universal and thus relatively simple. In this presentation, I explain how mesoscopic fluctuations affect the nature of phase transitions in soft matter and fundamentally change thermodynamics of curved interfaces.