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About University of Colorado, Boulder

University of Colorado at Boulder is an institutional branch member of ICAM-I2CAM since 2007. CU-Boulder has an interdisciplinary research community that is active in soft condensed matter physics, biophysics, optics, atomic and molecular physics, hard condensed matter, bioengineering, chemistry and biochemistry, materials science and engineering, and molecular biology. Research in these areas are carried out in the departments of Physics, Chemistry and Biochemistry, JILA, Biology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical & Biological Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology, and Computer Science. We strongly encourage both senior and junior scientists from other ICAM-I2CAM institutions to contact us about potential collaborations and to visit our web pages for details of research interests.

Local ICAM-I2CAM Coordinator for the CU-Boulder branch is Ivan I. Smalyukh.
Our representative to the ICAM-I2CAM Science Steering Committee is Noel A. Clark.

The local steering committee members are:
Daniel Dessau, Department of Physics
Konrad W. Lehnert, JILA
Won Park, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Daniel K. Schwartz, Chemical & Biological Engineering
Ivan I. Smalyukh, Department of Physics
David M. Walba, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Branch Members:

Senior Scientists:
Francis Tuluri - Liquid Crystals
Daniel Schwartz - interfacial phenomena, self-assembly, monolayers, liquid crystals
Rahul Trivedi - CARS Microscopy, Optical Trapping
Ivan Smalyukh - liquid crystals, DNA, F-actin, CARS microscopy, confocal microscopy, polymers, laser tweezers, optical trapping, defects
Matthew Glaser - Soft matter physics, including liquid crystals, colloids, and biomaterials
Michael Hermele - Theory of strongly correlated systems
Meredith Betterton - Biophysics, molecular motors, systems biology
Victor Gurarie - Statistical mechanics, disordered systems, degenerate atomic gases
Won Park - Photonic nanostructures, metamaterials, biophotonics
Leo Radzihovsky - theoretical condensed matter physics
Kyle McElroy - STM studies of correlated electron materials
Joseph Maclennan - soft condensed matter incl. liquid crystals, colloids and fluids
Noel Clark - Liquid Crystal Group
Myroslav Holovko - Statistical theory of polar and associated liquids, solutions and electrolyte melts, physical chemistry, surface phenome
Dan Dessau - Experimental studies of the electronic structure of correlated electron systems.
Arthi Jayaraman - soft materials, self-assembly, polymer nanocomposites, polymer theory, DNA modeling, molecular simulations
David Walba - Ferroelectric liquid crystals, electro-optics, second order nonlinear optics
Andrij Trokhymchuk - statistical physics, soft matter, colloidal dispersions, effective interactions, modeling

Junior Scientists:
Chris Twombly - Liquid crystals
Dennis Gardner Jr. - liquid crystals
Pegah Naemi - Photonic structures in liquid crystals
Clayton Lapointe - Colloidal interactions and assembly in liquid crystals
Andrij Trokhymchuk - theoretical soft condensed matter physics, computer simulations
Pratibha Ramarao - optical metamaterials, nano-structured materials, nanophotonics
Qingkun Liu - nanophotonics, plasmonic effects, nanostructured materials
Suman Anand - optical trapping and manipulation, light harvesting materials, liquid crystals, defects
Chenhui Zhu - Liquid crystals
Trirup Choudhury - light harvesting, discotic liquid crystals, mesogens, photoconversion
Nandiraju Rao - organic materials for photoconversion and light harvesting, discotic liquid crystals
Taewoo Lee - Characterization of Liquid crystal, nano-structured, and biomolecular materials using Coherent Anti-stokes Raman Scatter
Rajdeep Deb - Light-Controlled and Luminescent Liquid Crystals, Molecular self-organization
Youngwoo Yi - Surface physics and chemistry of self-assembly of soft matter
Tyler Wingfield - Holographic Optical Trapping

Branch Events:

Workshop on Light-Controlled Liquid Crystalline Complex Adaptive Materials, LC2CAM
2008-08-06
Conference Chairs: Noel A. Clark and Ivan I. Smalyukh. Boulder LC2CAM International Workshop enabled rese...

"Toward Self-Replication with Colloids", Physics Colloquium lecture by Prof. Paul Chaikin from NYU
2008-10-01
Abstract: We want to make a non-'biokleptic' system which can self-replicate. The idea is to design colloids ...

"View from LC2CAM: Flowing Crystals glow", Nature Photonics article by Rachel Won
2008-10-01
An article about the LC2CAM workshop in Boulder published in the October 2008 issue of Nature Photonics.

"Workshop on Light-Controlled Liquid Crystals Provides Shining Example", ICAMNews article by Karie Friedman
2008-10-01
ICAMNews article by Karie Friedman about the LC2CAM workshop organized by Noel Clark and Ivan Smalyukh in Bou...

The deadline to apply for the ICAM postdoctoral and senior fellowships is approaching
2008-10-02
December 10, 2008 is the deadline to apply for the ICAM postdoctoral and senior fellowships and to propose an

The deadline to apply for the ICAM postdoctoral and senior fellowships is approaching
2008-11-01
December 10, 2008 is the deadline to apply for the ICAM postdoctoral and senior fellowships as well as to pro

NSF awards Ivan Smalyukh a five-year CAREER Award
2008-12-12
The Division of Materials Research at the National Science Foundation has awarded Ivan Smalyukh a five-year N...

Self-replication with colloids
2009-01-11
Webcast of Paul Chaikin's Colloquium at CU

Saturday Physics Lecture "Laser Tweezers: Moving things without touching" by Ivan Smalyukh
2009-04-18
Saturday Physics Series lecture for general public and high school students by Prof. Ivan I. Smalyukh

PSSM09 Soft Matter Workshop in Lviv, Ukraine
2009-06-21
Liquid crystals and colloidal dispersions are of vital importance for technological applications and practica...