NOTE:
The Soft Matter Lab at Yale is closing and will re-emerge as the
Laboratory of Soft and Living Materials at ETH in 2016.
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Journal Club
Here's
a handy
archive
of the paper's we've
discussed in journal club.
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Handy Websites
Boulder Summer School for Condensed Matter and Materials Physics:
Prof. Dufresne co-organized a month-long school for advanced
graduate students and post-docs on "The Physics of Soft Matter: Complex
Fluids and Biological Materials" in 2006. There are
lots of
great lecture notes online.
Particle
tracking code in matlab: Daniel
Blair (Harvard) and Eric Dufresne
have recently developed a suite of matlab codes for locating and
tracking particles, based on the on popular IDL code by David Grier
(NYU) and John Crocker (UPenn).
New
England Complex
Fluids Workshop - quarterly
meeting, handy website
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Facilities
In our lab
Optical
microscopy
Optical Tweezers
Rheology
In other labs at
Yale
Clean
room
Multi-angle dynamic light scattering
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Lab Safety
Raphael Sarfati is the lab safety officer. Vincent Germain, our
former saftety officer, prepared this brief
guide
for people doing experiments in our
lab. You can find more handy safety information at the
following
sites:
Contact Raphael
if you have any questions.
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Finding Us
We are located in Mason Labs at 9 Hillhouse Ave in New Haven.
Our
laboratory is on the main floor, room 124. Prof. Dufresne's
office is on the mezzanine level between the first and second floors,
room M5. Our laboratory is a five minute cab ride from Union Station
where you can catch Amtrak or Metro-North trains to New York, Boston
and lots of other places on the East Coast. For driving
directions, click
here.
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