Lecture, Seminar and Exercise Dates
| Lectures | Seminar and Exercises |
| Prof. Dr. Frank Cichos Wednesday: 13:15–14:45, SR 224 Thursday: 09:15–10:45, SR 224 |
Seminar: Diptabrata Paul, PhD Tuesday, 13:15–14:45, SR 221 Exercise: Dr. Markus Anton
Tuesday, 09:15–10:45, SR 221 |
Important Information
- The first exercise will take place on October 17.
- The first exercise sheet will be published on October 12.
- The solutions to the exercise sheets have to be handed in before the lecture on Thursdays in the following week, until 9:15 am (punctual!).
- For every solved problem in the exercises 1 point can be obtained.
- Prerequisite for the admission to the examination are 50 % of the total points.
- Examination: 180 min written (knowledge + problem solving), 2/3 of the mark + seminar talk, 1/3 of the mark
- There will be no lectures on November 8 and 9.
- There will be no exercise class on November 14.
- There will be no lecture on November 30. Please submit your solutions to the exercise sheet until 9:15 pm in the postbox “Molekulare Nanophotonik” in front of room 215.
The lecture will be provided as a video on the internal website. - The exam will take place on February 14, 2024, 12:00–15:00 in the Small Lecture Hall (klHS).
- The retake exam will take place on March 26, 2024, 12:00–15:00, SR 221.
- You can use a self-written formula sheet of 1 page (front page, no back page) during the exam.
- The results of the exam can be found in the internal area.
- Exam review: March 25, 2–4 pm, room 320
- Points Exercise Sheets and Admission to the Exam
- Information about the seminar (PDF)
- Seminar schedule
- Papers for the presentation in the seminar:
Hydrodynamic manipulation of nano-objects by optically induced thermo-osmotic flows
Tunable critical Casimir forces counteract Casimir–Lifshitz attraction
Ionic solids from common colloids
Interfacial activity dynamics of confined active droplets
Metal nanoparticle based all-optical photothermal light modulator
Topological colloids
Active particles bound by information flows
Stochastic localization of microswimmers by Photon Nudging
Scale-dependent tipping points of bacterial colonization resistance
Effects of long DNA folding and small RNA stem–loop in thermophoresis
Elastic behavior of cross-linked and bundled actin networks
Phonons in a one-dimensional microfluidic crystal
Creating stable trapping force and switchable optical torque with tunable phase of light
Light, matter, action: shining light on active matter
Physics of viral dynamics
Machine learning for active matter
DNA origami
Applications and challenges of thermoplasmonics
Digital Fourier microscopy for soft matter dynamics
Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy
Microrheology: a review of the method and applications
Brownian Carnot engine
Fully steerable symmetric thermoplasmonic microswimmers
Colloidal heat engines: a review
Books
- Jacob N. Israelachvili: Intermolecular and Surface Forces: With Applications to Colloidal and Biological Systems (Academic Press) [amazon]
- M. Doi and S.F. Edwards: The Theory of Polymer Dynamics (Oxford Academic Press) [amazon]
- P.G. de Gennes and J. Prost: The Physics of Liquid Crystals (Oxford Academic Press)
- Rob Phillips, Jane Kondev, Julie Theriot: Physical Biology of the Cell (Garland Science) [amazon]
- Jonathon Howard: Mechanics of Motor Proteins and the Cytoskeleton (Sinauer Associates) [amazon]
- Richard A.L. Jones: Soft Condensed Matter (Oxford University Press) [amazon]
- Michael Rubinstein, Ralph H. Colby: Polymer Physics (Oxford University Press) [amazon]
- Hydrodynamics: L.D. Landau and E.M. Lifshitz: Fluid Mechanics (Pergamon Press) [amazon]
- Brownian Motion, Thermal Fluctuations: Masao Doi: Soft Matter Physics (Oxford University Press) [amazon]
Additional Material
- Papers about phoresis: Phoresis in fluids, Colloid transport by interfacial forces
Lecture Materials
The lecture materials are available to logged in users here.
Exercise Sheets
- Exercise Sheet 1 – Submission due: October 19, 2023, before the lecture starts
- Exercise Sheet 2 – Submission due: October 26, 2023, before the lecture starts
- Exercise Sheet 3 – Submission due: November 2, 2023, before the lecture starts
- Exercise Sheet 4 – Submission due: November 16, 2023, before the lecture starts
- Exercise Sheet 5 – Submission due: November 23, 2023, before the lecture starts
- Exercise Sheet 6 – Submission due: November 30, 2023, until 9:15 in the postbox “Molekulare Nanophotonik” in front of room 215.
- Exercise Sheet 7 – Submission due: December 7, 2023, before the lecture starts
- Exercise Sheet 8 – Submission due: December 14, 2023, before the lecture starts
- Exercise Sheet 9 – Submission due: January 4, 2024, before the lecture starts
- Exercise Sheet 10 – Submission due: January 11, 2024, before the lecture starts
- Exercise Sheet 11 – Submission due of tasks 3, 5, 8, 9: January 18, 2024, before the lecture starts, hints where to find the solutions
- Exercise Sheet 12 – Submission due: January 25, 2024, before the lecture starts