Peter Olmsted

Peter D. Olmsted

Joseph Semmes Ives Chair in Physics --- Theoretical Soft Matter Physics
A.B. (Physics) Cornell University, 1984.
Ph.D. (Physics) University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign , 1991.

Fellow of the American Physical Society (2010)
Fellow of the Institute of Physics (2007)

My research is primarily in complex fluids, including biological "fluids" (membranes, polymers, etc), from the point of view of a condensed matter physicist interested in statistical mechanics. My publications can be found here on Researcher ID or on Google Scholar

I am Director of the Institute for Soft Matter Synthesis and Metrology, which unites Soft Matter interests in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology in a single building and unified set of activities.
I moved to Georgetown University in January 2014.
Softcomp was a successful EU-funded network devoted to much of the interesting science of Soft Matter Composite Materials. It was funded until 2009, and still continues as a self-funded organization. A 2009 summary of Softcomp activities can be found here.
If you're in the American Physical Society then consider joining dSOFT, the Division on Soft Matter .
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Here are some notes on Landau theory of phase transitions.

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Office:	Room 404 Regents Hall, Institute for Soft Matter Synthesis and Metrology
Mail:	Department of Physics, 506 Reiss Science Building
	Georgetown University, 37th and O Streets NW, Washington DC 20057, USA
Phone:	+1-(202) 687-9141 (office) 687-2087 (fax)
E-mail:	peter.olmsted.(at).georgetown.edu