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
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There are
two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness. –
Franz Kafka
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It is a good morning exercise for a
research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It
keeps him young.
- Konrad Lorenz
PhD studentship for international students: Novel model development
methods in polymer physics
my book chapter “Viscoelasticity and
molecular rheology”
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
Software:
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.
A simplest code for multiple-tau correlator is available
here.
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.
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