Program

Polymer Physics: Structure and Dynamics

• (a) Theoretical/analytic approaches
• (b) Physical and chemical Modeling
• (c) Simulation

Biological Membranes

• (a) Theoretical/analytic approaches
• (b) Physical and chemical Modeling
• (c) Simulation

Introduction to Colloids and Liquid Crystals

• Theory and Simulation

Introduction to Hydrodynamic scale for large Biological Systems:

• Examples are e.g. Cellular processes, Red Blood Cells in Capillary Flow, etc. (Theory and Simulation)

Basic Literature:

1. Introduction to Polymer Physics by M. Doi
2. Soft Matter Physics by M. Doi
3. Biomembrane Frontiers: Nanostructures, Models, and the Design of Life (Handbook of Modern Biophysics) by von Thomas Jue, Subhash H. Risbud, Marjorie L. Longo, Roland Faller (Editors)

Audience: Master students of Mathematics and Physics interested in mathematical theory and computational modeling of Soft Matter Systems.

Requirements: Basic Knowledge of statistical physics and of dynamics, computer programming