Venue: Feynman Lecture Hall
Class Timings: Tuesdays and Thursdays from 09:45 AM - 11:15 AM
First Meeting: 09 January 2025
Course Description: This course will explore various aspects of soft condensed matter both at and away from thermodynamic equilibrium. The focus will be on examples drawn from living matter.Outline: Overview of Soft and Living matter, Statistical dynamics, Response and correlation functions, Phase transitions, Active particles, Polymers, DNA elasticity, Membranes, Hydrodynamic descriptions, Anisotropic matter, Hydrodynamics of active matter, Cellular cytoskeleton, Motility of cells, Cell division, Tissue dynamics
References:
- Paul Chaikin and Tom Lubensky, Principles of Condensed Matter Physics (Cambridge 1995)
- Philip Nelson, Biological Physics: Energy, Information, Life (W H Freeman 2014)
- R Phillips, J Kondev, J Theriot, H Garcia, Physical Biology of the Cell (Garland Science 2013)
- Antonio Siber and Primoz Ziherl, Cellular Patterns (CRC Press 2018)
- Books & reviews on biophysics
Course Evaluation: Homework assignments, mid-semester and end-semester exams
Prerequisite: A first course in Statistical Physics
Note: This course does not have any online component.
- Teacher: Vijay Kumar Krishnamurthy
Credit Score: 4