Home page of Alexei Likhtman

Professor of Mathematical Physics

Department of Mathematics
University of Reading
Whiteknights, PO Box 217,
Reading, RG6 6AH, UK

tel: 0118 3788995
fax: 0118 9313423
room: maths 211
e-mail: A.Likhtman @ reading.ac.uk

There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness. – Franz Kafka

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My main interest is theory and simulations of entangled polymers. It includes the following topics:

• Coarsegrained molecular dynamics simulations
• Single chain stochastic models (slip-links)
• Tube theories for rheology, dielectric spectroscopy, neutron scattering and diffusion
• First passage problems in polymers

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Publications CV

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In April 2009, together with Jorge Ramirez we released our free Reptate software, which stands for “Rheology of Entangled Polymers: Toolkit for Analysis of Theory & Experiment”. It allows users to easily manipulate rheological data and fit it with modern theories for entangled polymers. Most of my theories are incorporated there.

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On 18 of September 2008 I started a blog called "Dynamics of Entangled Polymers" at go-entangle.blogspot.com, where I hope to have a discussion on fundamental physics of entanglements.

Here is a snapshot of my blog: it reflects pretty well the state of my brain in the second half of 2008.

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Theoretical  Polymer Physics group in March 2009. From left to right: Alexei Likhtman, Bart Vorselaars, Mark Matsen, Jorge Ramirez, Gabriele Migliorini, Tim Palmer, Alex Lukyanov, M.Ponmurugan, Shukor Talib, Tom Beardsley, Jing Cao

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